"We see and feel these limbs, and this flesh of ours; we are acquainted at least with the outside of this animal machine, and sometimes call it <em>ourselves</em>, though philosophy and reason would rather say, it is our house or tabernacle, because we possess it, or dwell in it: it is our <em>engine</em>, because we move and manage it at pleasure. But what is this <em>Self</em>, which dwells in this tabernacle, which possesses this house, which moves and manages this engine and these limbs?"
XLIII. Ignorance of Ourselves [from Reliquiae Juveniles. Miscellaneous Thoughts, in Prose and Verse, on Natural, Moral, and Divine Subjects]
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Text from <u>Reliquiae Juveniles: Miscellaneous Thoughts in Prose and Verse</u>, New edition, Corrected (London: J. Buckland and T. Longman, 1789), 119-20. &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=l9ECAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt; (Compare 155-6 in 1734 edition.)