220 THE HUMAN HEART. 



from tip to toe. Language, which proceeds upon feeling, does not 

 attribute to the brain what is felt there only mentally, when there 

 is another place where the same thing is felt bodily. The affections 

 are the mind's as matters of thought, but not as matters of speech. 

 They belong by bodily or natural correspondence to the heart, and 

 are felt beating there, but their physical motion is not felt in the 

 brain. In short, but for the heart, they would not be carnally felt 

 at all, but only thought about, and it is their carnal feeling which be- 

 longs to the body. On account of this they are passions, for we 

 bond fide suffer them in the heart, but command, or ought to com- 

 mand, them in the head. 



We are now then prepared for attributing in the same bodily 

 sense other things to the heart, without prejudice to the mind, 

 which in truth is built upon the heart. Each feeling, let us remark, 

 is surrounded by its own film of imaginations, which body forth 

 what it is, in a <^fm-intellectual glass. "The imagination of the 

 heart" is the light of which feeling is the fire, and causes every 

 emotion to shine with its own peculiar ray. Where are these 

 imaginations localized ? On the inner membrane of the organ, we 

 reply ; for the inward skin of the heart is its blood-face, in which it 

 expresses its desires. Skins are always facial structures, and ex- 

 press what lies beneath them. By this membrane, the blood and 

 the heart understand each other, or look in each other's eyes, which 

 amounts to the same thing. Imagination then is localized all over 

 the cavities, which are indeed the express moulds of the thoughts 

 of the heart, or as the Scripture phrases it, the chambers of image- 

 ry. If we desire to know what these bodily imaginations are, their 

 shape is given in the fine membranes which transmit the emotions 

 of the blood, and the motions of the heart, reciprocally to each 

 other, and make them acquainted. 



Imagination, however, in this case the heart-house, consists of a 

 common chamber with two doors, and here we remark that every- 

 where, in the mind and the body, desire opens us by means of ima- 

 ginations, and thus is the dilating, opening or cavity-making faculty. 

 We open our mouths for food under the influence of hunger work- 

 ing through and shaped by the imagination of a supply : we make 

 ourselves hollow, to take in what supports and enlarges us. We 



