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agulum in which most of the reel particles are entangled. There- 

 after, purely chemical effects succeed, and we have a disengagement 

 of gases, and a further alteration of the clot. Such is the first 

 method and its chronicle. We observe that it is most perfect when 

 the examination begins, and at that time holds on the subject under 

 the eye; but gradually and not slowly the subject changes, and a 

 set of phenomena present themselves, which, if taken for living ap- 

 pearances are mere delusion, for they belong strictly to disorgan- 

 ization. 



The second method with the blood observes it in motion, in order 

 to gain the hint and image of thought, and afterwards and espe- 

 cially learns what it accomplishes in the body, in order to gain the 

 scope and details of the thought again. It is as when you first see 

 a man, and take his impress on your memory, and afterwards from 

 his observed actions you put his character into him, and find what 

 his person is and means. For it is the deeds of men and things 

 which by time's benefit range themselves into their intelligible 

 vitals. Who can care whether the blood contains minnikin particle 

 within particle ad infinitum, without these can be tallied off against 

 something that the whole blood achieves for the human body? 

 Otherwise they are the decomposition of our observing powers, and 

 rot the organic sciences. At best such microscopic observations are 

 the visions of the underworld, the empire of the dwarfs. But what 

 then is the motion of the blood? It is, so far as we see, the stream- 

 ing of an incessant population of globules through the vessels; the 

 body is a city of active life-bloods, moving like the nations and 

 peoples of a whole planetary system at once, through every atom of 

 space and time which the system allows it. And what are the offices 

 of the blood ? We answer that it deposits the elements for every 

 organ; that it perpetually deals out the parts into their respective 

 places; that it is the body itself in a fluid state. Thus, everything 

 in the body contributes to our notion of the blood, and the man is 

 a representation of its powers and tendencies as well as of its sub- 

 stance. We may define it as a compound of all the simple elements 

 of the organization, and as the globules are its most living portion, 

 this is pre-eminently true of them. The eye sees nothing of this 

 its character, as neither does the eye see in the brain the faculties 



