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this material sister, increase her tenderness, and make her alive. 

 Thus given the bowels of man, and the sensibilities are in them. 

 Again, given a structure that will censure the former process, and 

 elect or reject the elements admitted by a firm afterthought and 

 severer examination — then judgment, or just and executive anger 

 will and can cohabit with this material judge; in other words, the 

 bilious liver will have this vital passion with it by the necessity of 

 the case. Again, given a structure that receives the races of our 

 blood with open attractions, blends them into groups,* unites them 

 in new bonds, spaces their infinitesimal lifetimes, and in their great 

 aortic emigration pours them forth to make of one blood all the 

 families of the body— then every sentiment of human nature will 

 and can associate with this royal, generous and grand materialist j 

 thus, given the heart, and love, life, will and affection must clasp 



* la the foregoing pages we designated the chambers of the heart by new 

 names, as " the family auricle," " the patriotic heart," &c. ; for living terms are 

 the proper expressions for the parts and functions of living bodies. Such terms 

 must be borrowed by analogy from life. Already some anatomical terms are 

 founded upon analogy. The word auricle, signifying "the little ear," is an. 

 analogy from the likeness of the part to the external ear. The ventricle means 

 "the little belly." Such nomenclature is a precedent in favor of the use of 

 analogies ; and the roots of language, by which it assimilates things to thoughts, 

 are analogical. But the analogies hitherto made use of in the body, proceed 

 from the low to the high, or from the outside to the inside, and require to be 

 corrected, and set upon their feet, by the addition of terms taken from intelligi- 

 ble affairs. Moreover, the dead languages have ruled our nomenclature in this 

 country. But if truths be living, to call them dead names is unscientific. So 

 long as this is done, universal instruction is impossible ; the democracy, whose 

 education is so vital to modern states, cannot sympathize with unknown tongues, 

 or with sciences scaly with crusts of Latin and Greek. The body must be 

 written out in downright English, before the horny hands can feel its beautiful 

 weight. We inveigh against Popery, for celebrating masses in Latin services, 

 and perhaps think it a mark of a dead church that it enshrouds its voice in the 

 word-garments of deceased nations. Alas, in this respect we are Papists to* the 

 very ground. We put the scientific truths of God in these old clothes, as our 

 brothers, the Roman Catholics, the religious truths. Though we are unlike 

 them, in that our science has no fine music in it, no art or beauty, to touch the 

 heart when common sense is away, and by a certain warmth of feeling to com- 

 pensate for the misfortune of intellectual rags. But providential time, which 

 has buried the old nations, will, we foresee, exorcise their ghosts, and free the 

 sciences from that spectrum of dead languages by which they scare the vulgar, 

 who, we must remember, are not always to be vulgar, but are the sons of God 

 in potency, like the kings and queens. 



