ABSTRACT
The conductility and dispersion of sensibility in the sensorium, by means of the nerve-fibres, is so real, that in persons who have suffered amputation, when any irritation attacks the stump and engages the sensitive nerves, it immediately awakes and develops in the sensorium the old impressions in a posthumous form. Moral sensibility finds also in the intervention of intellectual activity a new power, which excites it, makes it active, and maintains it in a perpetual state of erethism. The thousands of cerebral cells of the sensorium commune that have been unexpectedly awakened acquiesce in it in their own manner. Moral Sensibility. When the peripheral impressions are dispersed in the plexuses of the sensorium, and the cerebral cell is called into play, a new series of phenomena is developed. This depends on the spontaneous reactions of the elements of the sensorium which are in agitation, and which vibrate in unison, and become erethised in consequence of the arrival of an external impression.
