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and interest. He drives not only trade, but commerce, with the 

 surrounding natures. His atoms have the benefit of seeing foreign 

 parts, and bring home new fashions. Are there not also currents 

 or winds in the human sphere, whereby clouds, drawn from one part 

 of the surface, are drafted to other places, to descend with refresh- 

 ment thereupon? for what is dead in the view of the face or chest, 

 may be living enough for the belly and the limbs. 



We therefore see reason to divide the transpirations into active 

 and passive, or into sweats and radiations, the former of which gra- 

 vitate and fall, but the latter are permanent and creative. In treat- 

 ing of the lungs we made a similar division, into breaths and spirits, 

 or into bodily and purposeless respiration, and into spirited breathing. 

 And the same remark applies to every system with greater or lesser 

 exceptions. But this belongs to a new psychology founded on com- 

 mon observations, and which shows that heart touches heart with 

 magnetic fingers, and indeed that organisms are linked to their simi- 

 lar parts by sympathetic columns of emanations. The reason of this 

 is, that the soul is not only included in but also includes the body, 

 or not only lives beyond the brain, but also beyond the skin; being 

 the omega as it is the alpha of the microcosm. 



In Chapter II. we dwelt at some length on the ensoulment of the 

 breaths, and here we might show, did space permit, that each exter- 

 nization* or excretion that we make is a similar spirit-carrier. The 

 sweats are no exceptions to the rule. In faintness whether born of 

 fear or pain, the sweat is mortal cold, for the life has left it prema- 

 turely. In low animal passions the sweat is hircine, to suit the goat 

 who owns it. And so forth. The range is as great as it is subtle. 

 It extends from the shininess of oozy monk and stall-fed prelate, to 

 the glory-rim around the saints, and again to the crucifixion before 

 the crucifixion, the Master's agony-sweat as of great drops of blood 

 in the garden of Gethsemane. 



* The externizalion of things amounts to anew essence in them, whereby 

 they become distinct objects, not only to other beings, but often to themselves. The 

 difference between a foetus and a child is externizalion acting upon a capable 

 organism. Emanation, therefore, where it is an emanation of life, differences 

 itself, or beettuse a fresh object, at each successive elongation from its source. 

 But this for the metaphysical. 



