240 THE HUMAN HEART. 



and a sfcreani of blood magnetized by the unbending life, runs as a 

 bridge between the two, over which the spirit-soldiers pass and 

 repass. The sympathies founded upon this correspondence or 

 human magnetism, are of all force in man. We have already noted 

 how the muscular system is set in action by sympathy with its 

 higher parts (p. 117); how the muscles of that high round limb, 

 the eye, which rolls upon the beams of light, command actions in 

 the muscles of the trunk and legs. Similarly, the instinctive mus- 

 cular actions tend to be produced by the special movements of the 

 heart. In this respect the whole of the muscular battalions, pro- 

 ceeding downwards in ranks from the eye muscles on the one hand, 

 and outwards in fraternities from the heart muscle on the other, 

 may be likened to the ends of both series, or the five fingers, which 

 are so coordinated in action, that if one, and especially the middle 

 finger be bent, the others instinctively bend with it, and training is 

 needed to isolate the action of any one of the fingers. This is the 

 motor half of that propagation of events from the heart, of which 

 we treated in the foregoing pages, where the sensory part of the 

 question was stated (p. 232). 



We may now attempt a slight recapitulation of the psychology, 

 as it runs parallel with the bodily parts. In the brain and nervous 

 system we have found the mental and moral consciousness embodied; 

 a consciousness of the whole of what goes on in the other and lower 

 spheres, and added to this a sense of mind, or reason and will in all 

 their forms, which through this sense strike their attributes into the 

 body. The sense of mind, and the motion, is therefore the huma- 

 nity or peculiarity of the cerebral spheres. Below this we find the 

 body, which in the complex is the sense of feeling, or of mind, not 

 acting, but acted upon. In the heart we have the natural feelings 

 which connect us with other hearts; the central relations of man 

 present by a sense in the central parts of the body of man. It is 

 the sense of human love which is here perceived. In the lungs we 

 have the sense of thought, whereby we feel bodily the fluctuations 

 and shapings of our minds. Below the heart again, we have ano- 

 ther but more general firmament of feeling, which lives in the bowels, 

 and is termed sensibility, or by a privileged name, the sense of mercy. 

 This forms a compacter power in the liver and chylopoietic glands, 



