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it in their arms. Again, given a structure that admits nothing but 

 the first and last essences of every nature ; that knows not of the 

 vine but through the grape, or of the grape but through the vine ; 

 that balances masses of earth by an imponderable weight; that 

 expresses tiny illustrations of light from continents of matter, and 

 maintains bodily heat by a solar glow that costs no fuel ; that is 

 in the parallelism of the miracles of the universe, and related to 

 the farthest stars ; that is naturally autocratic in the body, and pos- 

 sessed of forces that blood and humors dare not disobey — given 

 such a structure, and in its own interest it will cease to itself and 

 live to the mind; in other words, given the brain, and the presence 

 of the mind in the brain, is, and is to be. Again, given the mind 

 with its better faculties, which live with other minds, and the 

 Divine Spirit is with it; as He himself said: " Where two or three 

 are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of 

 them :" observe — not, there " I will be/' but there " I am." So 

 again : given a structure disparted into limbs to insure material 

 motions, or the operancy and progress of the human body ; and 

 brains and volitions, which are the loves of work and progress, will at 

 once order it into play : whence the muscles being gathered together 

 in the name of the will, have the will in the midst of them. Lastly, 

 given a structure, as the human body, designed for harmony, for 

 contiguity of parts, for opening to enlarge its harmonies, for closing 

 to keep them secure — then pleasure and pain, or ordinary sense will 

 live upon its self-defending plains. So much at present in explanation 

 of our canon, w 7 hich is this — that wherever in the body any organ does 

 anything that is like the mind or the mind's doings, there, in propor- 

 tion to the likeness, and according thereto, the mind, and its special 

 deeds are present. But in the human body everything done is like 

 the mind, nay, like wisdom working ; wherefore the whole of it has 

 the mind or the man present to it. Q. E. D. 



We began with the heart, and to the heart we circulate back after 

 this long episode, to complete the present chapter. And first we 

 would say a few words upon the different signification of heart and 

 lungs, or pulsation and respiration. The difference here is, that the 

 lungs ponder and weigh the existing state, and slowly commit it to 



