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through " developments :" that science is sometime a cold-blooded 

 animal, and sees respiration from a fishy point of view, as is the case 

 with the existing physiology, whose doctrine lies motionless in the 

 seas of knowledge, and without proper breathing takes in and gives 

 out the little and casual air which is dissolved in the waters. But 

 it is time for the scientific fish to undergo another stage, and putting 

 oif the piscine, to busy itself with warm-blooded motions. And, 

 finally, the fish must become a man, and derive the pulmonary 

 motions from another kind of warmth, which in old wisdom is the 

 Soul. This will be something practical in the doctrine of " develop- 

 ment." 



For assuredly the lungs give our bodies a series of endowments 

 which are not animal ; comparative anatomy sheds no light upon 

 these, unless you reckon the anatomy of the soul in the series of the 

 comparisons. And this leads us to speak again of the lungs as 

 space-makers; a function of which we are so jealous, that if we be 

 confined in breath, or restraint put upon the chest — arms, legs, and 

 every muscle fight with convulsive energy against the oppressor. 

 For human liberty is doubly grounded, in the body, and in the soul. 

 And in the body, the liberty, by virtue of the airy and opinionated 

 lungs, is given attractively to every organ, as we showed before. 

 Thus, each faculty has its proper size, or liberty, which is the air it 

 breathes ; and if it has it not, it dies. Breathing makes the living- 

 body bigger than the corpse. Sense makes the body roomy enough 

 for a lustier exercise of powers. The passions dilate it to the scope 

 and size of public strife. Thought again diminishes it, because 

 thought does miracles in minimis, and alters worlds, if need be, 

 from the throne of poverty, or from examples radiant through dun- 

 geon-walls. But free thought, by the blessing of God, is a liberty 

 beyond liberty. In truth, each faculty and each fixed opinion, 

 spaces the body to suit its own play; whence sects and parties wear 

 their very bodies for liveries, and are dry or juicy, liberal or stinted, 

 sensual or spirited, according to the openness that their tenets put 

 into their lungs, and their lungs into their livers and frames. 



Much has been written about the cause of the first breath, as 

 though it had not the same cause as all the breaths, being derivable 

 from no other source than the motion of the organic mind in the 



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