STUDY X. 341 



ideas, which 1 have not been permitted to arrange 

 in their natural order, provided I am enabled to 

 tranfmit the germ of them into a head fuperior to 

 my ov/n. 



I firft endeavoured to find out confonances be- 

 tween the northern and Tout hern halves of the 

 Globe. But Co far from difcovering refemblances 

 between them, I perceived nothing but oppofi- 

 tions ; the northern being, if I may fo exprefs my- 

 felf, a terreftrial Hemifphere only, and the fouthein 

 a maritime ; and fo different from each other, that 

 the Winter of the one is the Summer of the other ; 

 and that the feas of the firft Hemifphere feem to 

 be oppofed to the lands, and to the iflands, which 

 are fcattered over the fécond. This contraft pre- 

 sented to me another analogy with an organized 

 body : for, as we fhall fee in the following ar- 

 ticles, every organized body has two halves in 

 contraft, as there are two in confonance. 



I found in it then, under this new afpeft, fome- 

 thing like an analogy with an animal, the head of 

 which (hould have been to the North, from the 

 attraction of the magnet, peculiar to our Pole, 

 which feems there to fix 3./enJorium, as in the head 

 of an animal : the heart under the Line, from the 

 conftant heat which prevails in the Torrid Zone, 

 and which feems to determine this as the region of 



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