Chapter 1: Activate or Evacuate to Educate?: Roles of a Sensorium in Debates Over Onto-Epistemology

with his hands he [man] writes laws, erects temples and statues, constructs vessels, makes flutes, harps, knives, pincers, and all instruments needed in the arts. It is by them, that he transmits his meditations to posterity, just as, at the present moment, he can converse with Plato, Aristotle, and Hippocrates. The hands, therefore, were most suitable to man, as an intelligent being; for, he is not the most intelligent being because he has two hands as Anaxagoras maintains; but, he is provided with hands because he is the most intelligent; as Aristotle had already, with reason, advanced. It is not the hands, which have taught men the arts; but it is his understanding. (Gall, 1835, p. 124)