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sensibility; whence the passion of anger in extreme cases is attrib- 

 uted by the deep vulgar to the liver, and a bilious man by choice 

 exercises upon his society critical and denunciatory functions, dis- 

 turbing their good natures, and digesting their easy admissions with 

 terrible stringency and power. The words of such a prepared in- 

 strument are gall to his age. These are metaphors, because the body 

 itself is a metaphor — a flesh that " carries with it" spirit, because of 

 the likeness it bears to the spirit. The creation is the body and 

 pressure of all metaphors ; and seen actions are done because they 

 carry out the unseeu in everlasting resemblances. Nature is a force 

 willed from the first to sculpture the images and paint the portraits 

 of God's attributes, in earth, plant, beast and bird, nations and 

 peoples, wherever the one problem works, or the one end predomi- 

 nates. The sensorial nature of the body during emotions leads us 

 experimentally into these realms of metaphors; for we feel that an- 

 ger lies in bile, and that bile publishes anger; and out of this double 

 marriage we cannot but infer a natural intercourse, illustrating itself 

 by metaphors of language, and proceeding from a real ground of 

 similarity or correspondence. 



The sensory nature of the body is plain, from the fact that any 

 part may be the seat of pain, and thus become an object of con- 

 sciousness. In disease we have an indication of what also happens 

 in the higher stages of order and content. This sign is used indeed 

 by the sick to disprove the better condition ; those laboring under 

 indigestion long for the intervals in which they do not know that they 

 have stomachs; and the nervous, in like manner, wish that they had 

 no nerves. But then, on the other hand, the pleasures of the body 

 are as much facts as the pains, but with this difference, that pain 

 enthrals the body to self-considerations, whereas healthy pleasure 

 either soothes to slumber, or else excites to activities and a keen 

 relish of objects; for peace and joy are straight aims and energetic 

 powers. 



But if the body be sensorial, it is evidently capable of a liveliness 

 of which at present we have no instances. For if the presence of 

 objects causes so vast a rousing of the five external senses; if the 

 eye gladdened by the light of day, stands so prominently forth, and 

 opens our little halls of light so wide, what will be the state of the 

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