Excerpt from An Introductory Discourse on the Phenomena of Vitality, or Laws of Mobility and Motion in Animal Bodies: Delivered in the Hall of the Exchange Coffee House, 1817, by the Request of Dr. Ingalls, Professor of Anatomy and Surgery

Sensation and thought are the last subjects, to which I would solicit your attention, and only for a moment. Why organized matter feels and thinks; or why different mechanism differently feels, no one presumes to explain; but this we know that matter feels only from impulse, and thin/cs only of what it feels.

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