his sense is the eye, the
highest and chief of the others; of this sense alone we will treat, and
we will leave the others in order not to unduly lengthen our matter.

[Sidenote: Automatic Movements]

71.

Nature has ordained for man the ministering {29} muscles which exercise
the sinews, and by means of which the limbs can be moved according to
the will and desire of the brain, like to officers distributed by a
ruler over many provinces and towns, who represent their ruler in these
places, and obey his will. And this officer, who will in a single
instance have most faithfully obeyed the orders he received from his
master by word of mouth, will afterwards, in a similar way, of his own
accord fulfil the wishes of his master.

An example of this can be frequently seen in the fingers, which learn
to perform on an instrument the things which the intellect commands,
and the lesson once learnt they will perform it without the aid of the
intellect. And do not the muscles which cause the legs to move perform
their duty without man being conscious of it?

72.

You will see palsied and shivering persons move, and their trembling
limbs, such as their head and hands, quiver, without the permission of
the soul, and the soul, though it expend all its might, cannot prevent
these limbs from trembling. The same thing occurs in epilepsy or when
limbs are partially truncated, as in the case of tails of lizards.

[Sidenote: Intellect]

73.

It happens that our intellect is that which prompts the hand to create
the features of figures in {30} divine aspects until it finds
satisfaction; and since the intellect is one of the tones of our soul,
by means of the soul it composes the form of the body where it dwells,
according to its volition. And when it has to reproduce a human body,
it takes pleasure in repeating the body which it originally created;
whence it follows that they who fall in love are prone to become
enamoured of what resembles them.

[Sidenote: Of the Senses]

74.

There are the four powers: memory, intellect, sensuality and lust. The
first two are intellectual, the others sensual. Of the five senses,
sight, hearing, smell are with difficulty prevented; touch and taste
not at all. Taste follows smell in the case of dogs and other greedy
animals.

75.

Why does the eye perceive things more clearly in dreams than with the
imagination when one is awake?

[Sidenote: Time]

76.

Although t