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their poor languid life is the rescource of the corresponding arts ; 

 but Man, the hierarchy, is the presence before whom these limits 

 disappear, and the reservoir out of which wholeness and vitality well 

 from perennial springs. For as the parts rise to the stature of the 

 whole, our knowledge of them is the physiological double of our 

 knowledge of man; and the arts of their cure and conservation, are 

 the religions and virtues of the human race, represented under their 

 healing forms. 



All this means, that under the pressure of these views, the body 

 begins to have a spirit. But also by the same doctrine, the spirit 

 begins to have a body. For as the present world, like a battle field 

 in which the armies both of truth and error have been slain, is strewed 

 with the dead corses of the sciences, so there is a melancholy array 

 of spectres called philosophies, fighting over again in the air the 

 same old cause which was hopeless on the earth. But the sciences 



becomes transmogrified into virtues; dark nights are converted into felonies; 

 dull November days into suicides; and Lot suns into love. This is materialism 

 with spiritualism in its pocket. The creed is an old one, and not untrue of ani- 

 mality; for the beasts love in summer because the sun bids them, and their 

 hearts are cold in winter because winter is cold. But it is false of man, and 

 false of his very atoms, excepting in so far as he degrades himself into an animal. 

 As it has been said of the true man, 



" The sun to others writeth laws, and is their virtue ; 

 Virtue is his sun." 



For though he requires heat to love, yet he requires to love at all times, and that 

 is the root of the art by which he procures a constant temperature that makes his 

 body capable. The prior fact is his human determination to beat winter and 

 summer; and though he must have climates, to pick and choose them at his 

 will. 



There is no convertibility of forces between life and nature ; there are no cells 

 by which heat can be filtered into vitality. The doctrine of Correspondence 

 must be substituted for that of convertibility. It is because love and life them- 

 selves are live fire (p. 89), that they come forth by the law of invitation, when 

 the organism which they affect by the same principle of correspondence (pp. 225, 

 226, 242 — 244) is immersed in the dead heat of the sun. All circumstance is ne- 

 cessarily haunted, because there are spirits akin to the circumstance, which co- 

 habit with it, as the soul cohabits with the body. But the soul is not porous to 

 the body, though the body is porous to the soul ; and by no art can camels pass 

 through needles' eyes ; death get into life ; gross heat penetrate living heat ; or 

 dead doctrines of convertibility procure admission to the distinct and fastidious 

 truths which conserve the empire of the world. 



