68 LAWS AND DEVELOPMENTS. 



in whatsoever direction it may act, there are several modifica- 

 tions of the dynamic agents in which force originates. These, 

 requiring, as they do, a separate chapter for their proper eluci- 

 dation, shall only receive such allusions in this place as will 

 be necessary to the explication of the laws by which force 

 acts in producing motion, aggregation, segregation, reciprocal 

 transference, and structural stability. 



It has before been repeatedly remarked, that the universe 

 without corresponds to the universe within man, and that 

 therefore all principles and developments of the outer universe 

 may be conceived of by the fully unfolded human faculties. 

 This is because man is, physically and spiritually, an epitome 

 of all previous Divine unfoldings, and therefore is a microcosm 

 or little universe of himself. Though it is proposed to con- 

 sider the discreet degrees of creation in their natural order of 

 unfolding, tracing each octave fts it passes upward and merges 

 into a higher and corresponding one, until the whole merge 

 (loosely" speaking) into man ; yet, for the purpose of illustrat- 

 ing the forces and laws of the physical universe by the same 

 forces and laws which, in an ultimately sublimated degree, ap- 

 ply to man, we will here so far anticipate the appropriate 

 subject of the second part of this work, as to exhibit the fol- 

 lowing self-evident truths respecting the human economy. 



In man (the microcosm or little universe) there is, 1. Pas- 

 sion or Love, which corresponds to Heat ; 2. Intelligence or 

 Wisdom, which corresponds to light ; 3. Nerve-essence, which 

 corresponds to electricity (these three forming a trinity) ; 4. 

 The agent which attracts circulating particles, and deposits 

 them in the solid portions of the organism ; 5. The agent 

 which removes particles from lower tissues, and deposits them 

 in higher ; 6. The agent which acts and re-acts sympathetically 

 between one organ and another (these three forming a second 



