116 THE HUMAN LUNGS. 



It must be recollected that in these conditions the lungs are not 

 emptied of air; for expiration does not go to that extent, but plays 

 upon a certain depth of the pulmonary reservoir, leaving the re- 

 mainder undisturbed. The involuntary right of the lungs to the 

 air is strongly asserted if we attempt to expire beyond a certain 

 point. Otherwise, the body would lose its life size, the wedge of 

 atmosp'aere would have ceased to open it, and the spirit crushed out 

 of the body could not lift it a second time into the operations of 

 breathing. 



Moreover, in these conditions of suspended animation the chemical 

 laws do not persist, but like the rest are suspended. Held breath 

 concurs with held spirit, held blood,* held life and held time. The 

 tissues, particles and fluids, and the wind in the lungs, are entranced ; 

 the body is absent from chemical corrosions as the mind from animal 

 provocations. The air is not required for exchanging products with 

 the blood, but for maintaining the level of the state, and serving as 

 an eHstic animus under the fixed attitude of the brain. And even 

 when the air is expired in partial trance, it is not because it is 

 vitiatal, but for deepening the state, and as it were steering and 

 standing in nearer to the shores and lighthouses of death. 



We aow see what this concurrence of the lungs bestows upon the 

 organs, for they all stand when the lungs stand, taking up their 

 places as fleshly eyes in the attitude and body of the intelligence.']" 



for this purpose no apparatus is necessary beyond observation on the one hand, 

 and the possession of the human frame on the other. This, then, may be a uni- 

 versal science. In the same way we showed, in the Chapter on the Brain, (pp. 

 72, 73), fbit there are vivisections which may be studied without torturing 

 animals, na\nely, the divisions and sects of a certain creature which cuts up its 

 own specie a and its own brains for us every day. 



* The hea-t indeed in itself, though not in its blood in the organs, is an excep- 

 tion to the universal concurrence of the frame with the breathing ; for although 

 influenced thereby, it is not reduced, like the organs, to the pulmonic rhythm. 

 But as we shall show, it belongs to another regiment of natures, and to a dif- 

 ferent disciplhe from the lungs. 



t The concurrence of the head with the body is provided in many ways ; but 

 the moving hoimony of the lungs and the brains appears to be at the basis of all. 

 Let us take art instance of this concurrence from the muscular system, and let 

 the subject of he experiment be walking. Now let him fix the eyes in a gaze 

 upon any object. Soon the walk becomes slower, and the body is brought to a 

 pause, as it seem, voluntarily. If the gaze be continued under favorable circum- 



