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as curious and exquisite for their appearance as they are excellent 

 for use: for the eye receives the finest impressions from things, and 

 gives the finest expressions from the soul. So likewise the ear is 

 the hearing-trumpet of the real body, which would otherwise be deaf 

 to the music of nature ; it embraces all the means of reverberation, 

 whether in the free air, or of cheerful voices from household ceiling 

 and walls, or of stately sounds from the long-drawn aisle and fretted 

 vault : in short, both the whole instrumentality and the whole archi- 

 tecture of sound. But the nose is to the real body the prophecy of 

 devices that have not yet entered into arts; full as it is of mem- 

 branous parterres and vacant aviaries for odors ; for hitherto, aromas 

 are but casual visitants ; they come and go in brief seasons with the 

 fitful winds, and where is the vessel that can hold them ; hence the 

 nose of flesh is deficient in circumstance, and we can only identify it 

 somewhat barbarously as the scent bottle of the real nose. To pass 

 over the other senses, we find that the legs are the outward art of 

 locomotion, from passive to active; from the nails of the toes to the 

 wheel of the knee and the globe of the hip; in short from the walk- 

 ing-stick to the railroad; the real body uses them in nature, whether 

 as the staff of its lowliness, or the means of its swiftness, or the 

 equipage of its pride ; they are the columns of movement ; the rich 

 soul's carriage, and the poor soul's crutches. But the arms and 

 hands are all the finer machineries or inventions that are wielded 

 directly by the arms and hands of the soul; they are the pen and 

 the sword; the instrument of many strings; strength and manipu- 

 lation in their bearings; in short, the mechanics of intelligence, 

 whereby nice conveniences of truth are gathered in the dwelling of 

 the soul. Then the abdomen is its kitchen, preparing from all 

 things in its indefinite stores one universal dish — even the blood of 

 life, to be served in repasts for the spiritual man ; the viand of viands, 

 varying from hour to hour, and suited with more than mathematic 

 truth to the appetite and constitution of the eater. Then again the 

 chest distributes with a power of wisdom dictated from the halls 

 above, this blood, the daily bread and wine of the body of the soul, 

 and the wisdom that ordained, enters the feast, and it becomes a 

 living entertainment. And the brain is the steward and keeper of 

 the animated house, receiving order and law from the soul or brain- 



