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 1  VI, 19|      whole body, yet, when a foot, an arm, or any other part
 2  VI, 21|      when I feel pain in the foot, the science of physics
 3  VI, 21|    nerves dispersed over the foot, which, extending like cords
 4  VI, 21|   they are contracted in the foot, contract at the same time
 5  VI, 21|  pain, as if existing in the foot; but as these nerves must
 6  VI, 21|     their extremities in the foot are not affected, but only
 7  VI, 21|    by a hurt received in the foot, and hence the mind will
 8  VI, 21| necessarily feel pain in the foot, just as if it had been
 9  VI, 22|       when the nerves of the foot are violently or more than
10  VI, 22|   pain, as if it were in the foot, by which the mind is admonished
11  VI, 22| dangerous and hurtful to the foot. It is true that God could
12  VI, 22|     intermediate between the foot and the brain, or, finally,
13  VI, 23|    which excites, not in the foot, but in some one of the
14  VI, 23| nerves that stretch from the foot to the brain, or even in
15  VI, 23|  ordinarily created when the foot is ill affected, pain will
16  VI, 23|     felt, as it were, in the foot, and the sense will thus
17  VI, 23|      a cause which hurts the foot than by one acting in a
18  VI, 23|     mind to feel pain in the foot rather than in any other