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for responses which daylight cannot give, and the opening of them 

 as sensories introduces us to magnetisms and communications that 

 the five senses will not know. The unseen world of the body of 

 man is indeed a grave-land of innumerable prophetesses, each to be 

 compelled to speak when the powerful enchanters come. 



This sensory nature of the viscera is the complement, and the 

 antecedent, of the motory nature which we claimed for them in our 

 Chapter on the Lungs. It is because they so keenly feel their ob- 

 jects, that they breathe them, or move towards them. To enable 

 them to do this, the respiration itself varies as the objects vary, and 

 the parts of the machine, trebly consistent, move all together. To 

 promote the sensory nature to a still larger correspondence with ob- 

 jects, the muscular system is given, which has two beginnings of 

 ends, one external, by which it produces all human actions, properly 

 so called; and one internal, by which it engenders all human visce- 

 ral actions. As we may not have another occasion to speak of the 

 muscular man, we shall now dwell upon him briefly, to give a little 

 more completeness to our views. 



The human body, besides containing in potency all organic sensa- 

 tions and motions, from visceral sensibility to intellectual perception, 

 has moreover a will, which decides upon the objects to be sought, 

 and muscles as servants of the will, to bring up the motories to their 

 fields of operation, and the sensories to their stations of feeling. 

 Apart from the will, action is molecular, and feeling, like a dream. 

 But under the force of the will and muscles, the smallest impulses 

 (p. 232) become translated into personal actions, and the minutest 

 senses lead to gratifications of which the whole man is the sensorium. 

 For the will is our sovereign pleasure with a soul added to it, and 

 in the muscles it forms our own motions, in contradistinction to 

 the motions of our blood and fluids. It is our continued human 

 life, and each volition is a tick of our proper clock, without which 

 we are not " going." We may call it the organ of progress, as the 

 muscles are the organs of locomotion or bodily progress. It takes 

 up the helpless viscera in its arms, and runs with them where it 

 chooses, or where they choose, setting them in pleasant places which 

 they could not have reached without a strong will equally supported 

 by numerous muscular servants. 



