[Ap.XXVII] ((Ap27:1) The advantage which we derive from things external
to us, besides the experience and knowledge which we acquire
from observing them, and from recombining their elements
in different forms, is principally the preservation of the
body; from this point of view, those things are most useful
which can so feed and nourish the body, that all its parts
may rightly fulfil their functions. (Ap27:2) For, in proportion
as the body is capable of being affected in a greater variety
of ways, and of affecting external bodies in a great number
of ways, so much the more is the mind capable of thinking
([xxxviii] , [xxxix] ). (3) But there seem to be very few
things of this kind in nature; wherefore for the due
nourishment of the body we must use many foods of diverse
nature. (Ap27:4) For the human body is composed of very many
parts of different nature, which stand in continual need of
varied nourishment, so that the whole body may be equally
capable of doing everything that can follow from its own
nature, and consequently that the mind also may be equally
capable of forming many perceptions.
[Ap.XXVIII] (1) Now for providing these nourishments the strength of
each individual would hardly suffice, if men did not lend
one another mutual aid.
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