FUNCTIONS OF THE HUMAN FORM. 823 



The fourth human form is love, the substance of substance, the 

 use of use, and the wisdom of wisdom, which takes the names of 

 the rest, and completes the circle of all in all. There is no such 

 incumbence as this, of loving, for love is not only God's image but 

 his likeness, and comes from the highest of the Highest. Its organ 

 is the will, which is motive in all acts and apathies — a man who 

 neither slumbers nor sleeps. This is he that ceaseless love solicits; 

 and it stands around him in all the shapes that touch him, as child 

 and parent, spouse and country; and by irresistible drawing, it welds 

 him to his objects, and assembles each world under its banners. 

 But union begets being, or love is the parent of substance. Hence 

 love is increased by existence, as flame by fuel. And being born 

 into the form of love, which is the human, we are bound not only 

 to our adopted will, but to its increases. In this form then we stand 

 under an almighty pressure towards union and generation ; and are 

 compelled to be at one with our companions; and by ever similar 

 progeny from the loins of our love to augment the society we have 

 chosen. 



This organic consideration presents old facts in a new discourse, 

 and we come to a functional root of the happiness and unhappiness 

 of man, and of his manifold healths and diseases. For life and 

 wisdom, love and action, are in his blood and spirit, and he must 

 either produce and secrete them aright, or fall into maladies innu- 

 merable. The form which he bears, being the essential organ of 

 happiness, wails over its own loss in tones which are essential pain ; 

 for joy and sorrow, strange in the world, are native here, and Omni- 

 potence itself seconds every monition and delight of the human form. 

 For the rest we have to observe, that to this physiological shape all 

 science, art, morals and spirituals revert; for substance is the quest 

 of science; use, including beauty, is the compass of art; wisdom is 

 for moral philosophy; and love and its universe for the spiritual man : 

 whence the human form is the future grammar of every school which 

 gives real instructions to mankind. 



Here too the problem of life receives its present last illustrations. 

 For though already we have shown that the inner man is " the vital 

 principle" of the outer, yet a new vitality is demanded for him 

 again; tortoise and elephant (p. 321), by themselves, though they 



