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■which are the laws of the collective human being. But in the mean- 

 time the reader easily sees that man on the greatest scale is more 

 man than he on the least. 



We seem in all this to be wide of what is called physiology and 

 science; but on we go, for science cannot subsist without these 

 heights at last. What we desire added to all, is a divine physiology, 

 flowing according to the channels of the divine form into which we 

 men are born. For there is no life in science unless it communi- 

 cates with the fountains of its subjects; no resource in art or healing, 

 except from the draw and gush of the same living waters. There- 

 fore we have done our best to show, what the contents of the human 

 body are, and what pressures of life it stands under. For it is the 

 form of God; as it said in Psalms, we are His temples: and so it is 

 the native land of hope, and the arena of miracles and providences : 

 there is nothing which it cannot do, and nothing that cannot be done 

 with it, according to its correspondence with the Most High. It is 

 also the form of spirit and heaven, and the heights of Zion and the 

 abysses of hell are within it, circumpressing and acting upon it, ac- 

 cording to its correspondence with good and bad, and the other roots 

 of man, his body and his mind. It is therefore a pipe which runs 

 with every wine, angelic or demonic. Again, it is the centre of 

 history, and the life of the world plays upon it from without, and 

 brings forth tones which are myth and song, strife and triumph, the 

 fullness of the eras. Moreover it is the parliament of the natural 

 sciences, and the executive and army of the arts, into which know- 

 ledge arises and speaks, and from which power goes forth. Thus 

 what it finally does and can is by these rules alone — that it is like a 

 god among other things, like a heaven or a hell in its radiations, 

 like all history in its scope, like all science in its laws, unlikest of 

 all things to death, most inscient of impossibilities, most untrue to 

 itself in meanness, and most immeasurable by lies and materialisms. 



We will conclude this argument with two glorious scientific songs, 

 which say as we cannot hope to do, the mere truth on this matter. 

 George Herbert On Man remarks: — 



" Man is all symmetry ; 

 Full of proportions, one limb to another, 

 And to all the world besides. 



