THE HEART OP FEELING. 201 



ible world, and the skin, of the tangible world, from the first sensa- 

 tions onwards; and to gratify these eye-loves and touch-loves, the 

 body is set in motion in the service of their organs. It will here 

 be remarked again that we are speaking of full-grown senses and 

 sensations, and that we by no means enter upon any question con- 

 nected with the growth and genesis of these feelings. 



We have now therefore located sense, bodily-felt intelligence, and 

 the feelings, respectively in the organs of the senses, in the lungs, 

 and in the heart itself, and we have seen that the organic system of 

 thought is parallel in the three cases, and that the same reason, 

 namely, feeling and speech, which has caught light in the eye, and 

 hearing in the ear, has also surprised spirit in the lungs, and love 

 in the heart.* This short analysis suffices to mark out certain dis- 

 tinct continents in the psychological map, and to show that the 

 living body, though all compacted of feeling, yet distributes it 

 countrywise ; the heart being the central land, where accordingly 

 the feelings proper inhabit, whilst the term feeling in the other 

 parts is changed for that of sense, respiration, &c. Terms however 

 shift according to the occasion when our course lies through new 

 contexts 'and expediences. 



We now then assume it as indisputable that the feelings dwell 

 in some sense in the heart, for experience dictates this conclusion; 

 we feel their correspondence with a certain glow, beating, and sense 

 in the breast, and this unfailing correspondence it is, that forces us 

 to say that the cause is present and agent where the effect is felt. 

 Language, to which we have referred, is the voice of this well-known 

 fact. Let us now adopt this law of correspondence as an instru- 

 ment, and proceed to apply it further. 



The physical heart, we will presume, lies before us, and as we 

 have now exhausted the present information to be derived from our 

 feelings, we can only regard the heart in its physiological functions. 

 The question is, whether these exhibit any correspondence with the 

 emotions ; whether auricle and ventricle, and their bloods, are ex- 

 pressive of passion, somewhat as the face is expressive ; whether, 

 in short, the structures of the heart in action are not a countenance 



* Let it be borne in mind that we use the term love in no limited or sexual 

 sense, but as embracing those active central impulsions that connect mankind 

 everywhere to their human objects. 



