358 HEALTH. 



II. The happy carrying out of the heart's relations. Home, 

 friends, children, country, are the immediate world of the heart; 

 and when its love can reckon them over as its own, its every beat 

 against the breast is answered from without, and the heart eddies 

 through the society in widening concentric circulations. The blood 

 is made under the auspices of feelings which are the sweetest en- 

 joyments and the dearest bonds, and the body is tinctured with a 

 stately fire, larger than its individual life. On the contrary, where 

 there is no issue for the feelings, or no proper objects to love, the 

 breast is shut, and probably the senses absorb the soul, and carry it 

 out to death through their vicious doors. The disappointments of 

 the heart may either break it, or wither up countenance and frame, 

 showing the picture of a man whose blood carries no live motives in 

 its current. Moral freedom is the formula of this kind of health, 

 which imports that the walls of nature and circumstance — of heart, 

 ribs, manners and laws, shall be no hindrances to the structural af- 

 fections of mankind. We have got now to labor con amove, plus 

 life con amove. What next? 



III. The supply of heartiness to the heart from without. Man 

 is a being who lives forever upon grounds, forever breathes atmo- 

 spheres, sees suns, is gladdened by light and heat, chafed by electri- 

 cities, and pulled by magnetisms. No wonder; for all forms are 

 Pan-anthropal. But the planet which is ordered to accompany him 

 forever, puts off its exuviae at every stage, and shows a fresh core 

 or surface. The heart-man does not live on mineral, but on social 

 grounds, breathes not airs but thoughts, is warmed by blood heat, 

 or aifection, and drawn by living magnetism, which is love. And 

 this set of circumstances is a true universe which environs us, and 

 whence we get life ah extva, as we get nature from the world. Ac- 

 cording to the constitution then of the social world, is the supply of 

 the air, sunshine and waters of our existence, and we can no more 

 live out of the one world than out of the other. As we have all 

 from nature being nature's subjects, so we have all from life as we 

 are the subjects of life; ourselves alone being free, a germ of man- 

 hood plunged through and into all things, to grow through, and to 

 outgrow, the more limited planets. When man is all in all in the 

 secondary sense ; he will be in the image and likeness of God, who 



