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proval is as it were the whole man, a choice anatomy of senses in a 

 body of delight. 



The sensories of the body form a key-board played upon by nume- 

 rous hands. The body plays upon itself through their means, and 

 parts of it become present to other parts according to the variations 

 of the correspondence. If the womb, in catering for the embryo, 

 finds the existing larder insufficient, its want is present that moment 

 to the tender-hearted intestinal tube, which uneasily yearns for the 

 food that the nascent nature claims, making as though it were assi- 

 milating it, as we by dumb-show of eating at our mouths, show our 

 hunger to those who do not understand our language. This sign- 

 work is next suggested in idea to the mouth and palate, which set 

 muscle and artifice in motion to procure the viands that the blood de- 

 mands. Thus the hen, in correspondence with her eggs, picks up 

 their shells in bits of lime that will cement and protect her unborn 

 brood. In fact the vitals are the conductors of instincts from the 

 depth of our nature, and the body turns first to them for whatever 

 it wants from their respective fields. Each part is applied to in this 

 manner as occasion requires, for every part knows the rest, and relies 

 upon them. For want of knowing that the body is sensorial, in- 

 stinct is a mystery; whereas instinct is the sight, voice and action 

 of faculties as broad as our faces, and as luminous as thought; but 

 these faculties happen to lie under our skins, and in our entrails, of 

 which they are the wants, the knowledge, and the ways. The com- 

 munication of each want from its starting place, through the course 

 of organisms that lead it to its objects, takes place, as we have said, 

 by no other means than correspondence ; as supply and demand take 

 place in human affairs. The line of sympathy thrills and trembles 

 with the want, which becomes, as in the case cited, yearning in the 

 bowels, expectancy in the mouth, longing in the person, suggestion 

 in the mind, which completes the circle of the womb, gives the want 

 both sight and voice, and then the will is stirred to pursue and grasp 

 the object. And by the line that the want ascended as a protean 

 instinct, the supply descends, putting off husk after husk and hard- 

 ness after hardness, until the pure milk supplicated, is squeezed into 

 the little mouth that made the cry, too tender for the mother to hear, 

 excepting by the ministration and enlarging trumpet tones of part 



