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globes cm prairie and in forest places; the community feels the thrill 

 of its parts, and with open sensories creeps, flies or gallops under its 

 pressure of delights. The stroke of the love of pleasure throws 

 each creature round its world, through the length and breadth of its 

 own climatic organs, and causes it to seek its mesmerism and sham- 

 pooing from every soil, animal, fruit and circumstance, whose friction 

 is good for food, or whose look is pleasant to the sight : grasping the 

 lion globule, it shoots him like a meteor through a night of cruelties 

 and destructions ; softly kneading the lamb-globules, it coaxes them 

 about over meads where dew is bright and innocence is in the grass.* 

 The instincts are the brightness of this love — flames in which, by 



* Oil the above principles we may offer a fresh rationale of the make of the 

 blood and the offices of the heart. If the heart-principle be love in its genera 

 and species, the known effects of love will answer to those of the heart. Let 

 us take an instance to try the equation. The love of science shall be the heart 

 that we choose to grasp us. This love lies in germ in the affinity between in- 

 tellect and nature ; the mind can be assimilated to natural laws ; the assimilation 

 being the stomach process preceding that of the heart. It consists in throwing 

 down the mind before the new object as it were into a fluid state. But every 

 science is round, or a little world in itself, and the heart functions commence by 

 raising up our vague liquid willingness into spherical states. Thereby we 

 turn a side to every portion of our subject, make ourselves in its image, or be- 

 come soft and impressible to it. The first point in entering into any sphere is, to 

 become ourselves that sphere : the first point in the blood life lies in making pre- 

 vious fluids into globules or little bodies answering to the body. This done, the 

 next object comes, and the round mind can go the round of the field, and as it is 

 alive and universal, can give living universality away. The equilibrium and 

 plasticity of the spherical form enable it to pass everywhere, for one sphere is 

 applicable to every other, without regard to difference of dimensions. Moreover 

 the love is a force, energetic upon these round forms, and forces them to visit 

 the parts whose affinities they feel. The blood globule is the love of the whole 

 body, round according to its mathematics, and in the centre of the whole ; hence 

 it represents the radii of the body, and necessarily travels along each, to deposit 

 in the circumference the virtues of the centre. The correspondence of physiolo- 

 gical love or heart love with other love is therefore plain. .For love makes its 

 subject alive, spheral, soft, impressible, facile, cosmopolitan or universal ; in 

 short, makes it into circles, and carries it into circulations. Love is to the heart 

 what the falling apple of Newton was to the moon ; it brings self-evidence to the 

 seemingly inaccessible half of the equation; and with self-evidence science is 

 content. 



Corollary.— There is no subject or thing that we may not explore, if we love 

 it, and where we fail, it is that we are not loving or spherical ; for if we were, we 

 should gyrate through it as necessarily as our blood courses through our bodies. 



