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seem to support, only increase the weight to be supported; in short, 

 the inner man drops into metaphysical dust as the outer man into 

 physical, unless his parts are coherent through some self-sustaining 

 life. That latter is evidently the living God, the end of problems 

 and the font of certainties, who makes us not of cells and molecules, 

 but of humanities because He is human. Therefore the last office 

 of science is, to cease to make, and to accept a Maker. 



We have frequently adverted before to the principle of Corre- 

 spondence (pp. 225, 226, 242-244, &c), and we again remark, that 

 the above functions take place by its necessity. As spirit and soul 

 are present with body because creation is a band of like superiors 

 with like inferiors, so God is present to man when the same reason 

 holds. The spiritual world also plays upon us by this law of like- 

 ness, sameness or assembling : all the angels rest on our good parts 

 and deeds, and all the devils urge down into our mischievous fibres; 

 so that correspondence is the union of things, and harmony has ex- 

 istence in its arms. Think then of what jets the passions and vir- 

 tues are the springs; and what it is to be born into the human 

 shape, with its celestial and infernal hydraulics ! But this too is 

 under direction; for unstop our souls as we may, their wells are 

 supervised; for there is one "openeth and no man shutteth, and 

 shutteth and no man openeth." 



These also are things of which we spoke under other names 

 when treating of the anatomical organs. And we find by the 

 spiritual telescope, that the same fallacy has clouded our eyes 

 here as that which resolved the stars of heaven into a doctrine of 

 glittering dust (p. 290). For as those molecules of the universe 

 are universes, so the molecules of man are men. That which 

 seems little by distance is not little, but mighty ; and that which 

 seems little by nearness is, perchance, greater still. If the king- 

 dom of God is within us, then have we roominess indeed. The 

 little chariots of blood, seed and spirit are magnified into eternal 

 processions; and judgments, thrones and principalities, horses, 

 white and pale and red, move in awful cycles through our human 

 forms. If we are of the dust, well ! There is an end of us. 

 But if we are images of the Most High, there is no end of us : 

 but our breeding, educating, and healing are according to this pat- 

 tern and rule — no less, and no other. 



