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Chapter16
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From TheUnion of Souland Body
NicolasMale branch e
One need not imagine , as do most philosophers , that the mind es material when
united with the body , and that the body es mind when it unites with the mind .
The soul is not spread through all parts of the body , in order to give life and movement
to it , as the imagination might have it ; and the body does not e capable of
sensation through its union with the mind , as our false and misleading senses seem to
convince us. Each substance remains what it is, and as the soul is incapable of extension
and movement , so the body is incapable of sensation and inclinations . The only alliance
of mind and body known to us consists in a natural and mutual of the
' ' correspondence
soul s thoughts with the brain traces, and of the soul s emotions with the movements of
the animal spirits .
As soon as the soul receives some new ideas, new traces are imprinted in the brain :
and as soon as objects produce new traces, the soul receives new ide