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The venerable philosopher of Chelsea, musing, with sorrowful experiences to stimulate inquisitiveness, after wondering if any people are to be found barbarous enough not to have this distinction of hands, sums up with the evasion: "Why that particular hand was chosen is a question not to be settled; not worth asking except as a kind of riddle. " It seems, however, to be regarded by intelligent inquirers as a riddle that ought to be, and that can be solved, though they have wandered into very diverse courses in search of a solution.
It has been affirmed, for example, that while the right hand is more sensitive to touch, and, as it were, the special seat of the sense of feeling, -- as with the right-handed it may well be from constant employment in all operations involving such a test, -- the left hand is stated to be the more sensitive to any change of temperature.