Excerpt from The Elements of Physics: A Text-Book for High Schools and Academies

I do not believe that there exists in external bodies anything for exciting tastes, smells, and sounds, but motion, swift or slow and if tongues, noses, and ears were removed, I am of the opinion that motion would remain, but there would be an end of tastes, smells, and sounds. Galileo.

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