192 THE HUMAN HEART. 



running away. The fact that we avoid what threatens us, often 

 with an instinctive passion called fear, formulizes the action of all 

 our parts in this state. The spirit or mind running away from the 

 brain in mortal chilly streams down the back bone; sight deserting 

 the swoony eye ; hearing leaving the ear ; spirit running off also by 

 the hair, and the hair standing from the head ; the head and all 

 parts horribly wide out and erect for a moment; the tendency to 

 universal displacement seen in head, eyes, tongue, arms, and legs 

 flying out and away from each other; the wind shrieking wildly forth 

 from the lungs ; the blood rushing pellmell from the heart ; the ex- 

 cretions running from the bowels and the bladder; heat falling 

 through abysms of cold, and life, which is courage, perspiring from 

 the skin in big drops of cowardice ; — these are all the same passion 

 in different parts and appearances. In all, the man and the organs 

 run, or tend to run, from the place of terror, which is not only the 

 particular locality, but the body itself; wherefore death, or running 

 away from the body, is not an infrequent effect of fear. Our know- 

 ledge, that fright produces running aivay, carries us through the 

 effects of fear upon all the organs, and we need no other principle, 

 but only the details of this, to explain the state of the blood in the 

 case, or indeed of any of the parts, whether solid, fluid, or mental. 

 We may now generalize further, and afiirm that the broadest con- 

 sequences of every passion and living state march through sphere 

 after sphere of the body, and deposit themselves in fresh but con- 

 sistent shapes as they visit fresh provinces. Thus love, which clasps 

 its objects to its own bosom, draws closer the parts of the loving 

 brain, and makes harmony of thought ; it knits the blood into new 

 relations, and as the newly-kinned globules touch each other, the 

 heart becomes its body's delight. And so each state of man is a 

 human frame complete. The unlearned world may follow this know- 

 ledge, deep and depth-seeking, using broad sights as an organon, 

 and never becoming microscopic, or resting in anything less than 

 limb, trunk and head. Common life is the college to teach live 

 physiology. 



Returning now to our immediate subject, we observe that the 

 theory that the heart alters and amplifies the blood, is supported by 

 the analogies of the principal organs. For example, the brain is not 



