MD Ch. 75 Job, 26:5 through 7

[Dave Monroe]

   "'They peer'd into my Eyes and Ears, they look'd in
my Mouth, the put me upon a Balance and wegh'd me. 
They conferr'd.  "Are you quite sure, now," the
Personage ask'd me at last, "that you wish to bet
ev'rything upon the Body?-- this Body?-- moreover, to
rely helplessly upon the Daily Harvest your Sensorium
brings in,-- keeping in mind that both will decline,
the one in Health as the other in Variety, growing
less and less trustworthy till at last they are no
more?  Eeh.  Well, what whould thoo've said?'
   "'So, did you-- '
   "'We left it in abeyance.  Ariiv'd back at the
Observatory, it seem'd but minutes, this time, in
Transit, I sought my Bible, which I let fall open, and
read, in Job, 26:5 through 7, "Dead things are formed
from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
   "'"Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath
no covering.
   "'"He stretcheth out the north over the empty
place, and hengeth the earth upon nothing."'" (M&D,
Ch. 75, p. 742)


"the Daily Harvest your Sensorium brings in"

Main Entry: sen·so·ri·um 
Pronunciation: sen-'sOr-E-&m, -'sor-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ri·ums or sen·so·ria 
/-E-&/
Etymology: Late Latin, sense organ, from Latin sentire
Date: 1647
: the parts of the brain or the mind concerned with
the reception and interpretation of sensory stimuli;
broadly : the entire sensory apparatus

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

See, e.g. ...

Ackerman, Diane.  A Natural History of the Senses.
   New York: Random House, 1990.

Fried, Michael. Absorption and Theatricality:
   Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot.
   Berkeley: U of California P, 1980.

Lowe, Donald M.  History of Bourgeois Perception.
   Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1982.

Morgan, Michael J. Molyneux's Question: Vision,
   Touch, and the Philosophy of Perception.
   New York: Cambridge UP, 1977.

Porter, Roy. "Barely Touching: A Social Perspective
   on Mind and Body." The Languages of Psyche: Mind
   and Body in Enlightenment Thought.  Ed. G.S.
   Rousseau.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1990.

Rousseau, G. S. "Nerves, Spirits, and Fibres:
   Toward Defining the Origins of Sensibility."
   Studies in the Eighteenth Century III. Ed. R.F.
   Brissenden and J. C. Eade. Toronto: U of Toronto
   P, 1973.

Some primary sources ...

http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Philosophy/Locke/echu/

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE6/Berk.html

http://www.typhlophile.com/denis-diderot/

And a helluva bibliography ...

http://www.artic.edu/~molin/SENSE.BIB.htm


"Job, 26:5 through 7"

1 But Job answered and said,
 
2 How hast thou helped him that is without power? how
savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
 
3 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom?
and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it
is?
 
4 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit
came from thee?
 
5 Dead things are formed from under the waters, and
the inhabitants thereof
 
6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no
covering.
 
7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place,
and hangeth the earth upon nothing....

http://www.htmlbible.com/kjv30/B18C026.htm

Question is, what's the conection betwixt the
Sensorium and Job here?  Let me know ...

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