...this occasion we may enquire, what part of the human body is the seat of animation, or the soul? To which we answer, that evidently it resides most conspicuously...considered is, what kind of children, when born into the world, are to be deemed endued with life, or have a prospect of living; for a fetus cannot live...

...instruments of action, are derived from it as a fountain. But it cannot be supposed that the >vhole of the brain is the immediate seat of the soul ; it is probably confined to what is called the seusoriura commune, o\ a small part from whence the nerves, destined to sense and voluntary motions,...