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To understand their importance, imagine if you could not perceive
the smells and tastes of what you eat and drink. You would be unable to
enjoy the scent and flavor of a strawberry, for example, and would even
be unaware of what a strawberry is really like.
You have been using your senses of smell and taste ever since you
first came into the world, and can now perceive tens of thousands of
scents and flavors with no difficulty. That is because you possess magnif-
icent systems that make this possible. Your senses of smell and taste work
faultlessly and tirelessly on your behalf, throughout your entire lifetime.
What is more, you have paid nothing for them, have received no special-
ized training and make no effort at all in order to make use of them.
Of course, these facts we are discussing call for prolonged reflec-
tion. In the light of them, all men and women of reason and good con-
science need to ask themselves the following question: How did the smell
and taste mechanisms they pos-
sess come into being?
