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that we may be instinctively known and knowing, and bring witb us 

 our own groundwork of sympathies and antipathies, whereby to find 

 and maintain our places, according to the old laws, of cohesion, 

 attraction and repulsion. For what is true in the mineral kingdom, 

 is only more and differently true in the human. 



We are accustomed indeed to think of the transpirations as not 

 only effete, but unclean. Yet there is certainly one honorable sweat, 

 namely, that which stands beaded on the brow of toil. Little chil- 

 dren too are of a sweet savor to their mothers, "as the smell of a 

 field which Jehovah has blessed." Lovers also dwell in a common 

 atmosphere of purpureal satisfactions. The redolence of health it- 

 self is like fresh morning air to those that meet it. History more- 

 over gives cases of persons whose presence was pleasantly aromatic. 

 It belongs indeed to the skin to rid the system of particles outworn 

 in its service, but these are not necessarily foul, but simply the dead 

 forms of the same principles which are living forms in the organs. 

 Inanimation does not imply uncleanness, but rather the consolida- 

 tion of a new universe inferior to life. It is the body as influenced 

 by perverse passions and habits from generation to generation, that 

 makes our legitimate spheres into noisome sweats, and the radiations 

 of our minds, actively repulsive. If the rose or the lily could be 

 gluttonous or covetous, lewd or hating, the third generation of them 

 would give out stenches. It is the inner world that exalts, or con- 

 taminates, the outer; and the purity of the soul in the body would 

 add a thousand perfumes to the air, and a manifold attraction of fine 

 sympathies to the instinctive understanding. At present the rule 

 of tolerable scents ascends no higher than the flowers ; the perfume 

 of good and true men is an incense both prophesied and possible. 



But the whole of the transpirations do not consist of effete mate- 

 rials. We feel on the other hand that life is surrounded by life; 

 that a man's outposts extend beyond his skin, and convey his feel- 

 ings by their emissaries to our own. Spheres touch before skins. 

 Judging by the analogy of the saliva, which comes out of its organs 

 alive, and returns back thither after a circuit, we deduce that the 

 transpirations are not primarily dead, but leave the body for a space, 

 to revert to it with fresh supplies won from the atmosphere in their 

 journey. Man in every sense can travel out of himself with profit 

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