APPENDIX. 



Note to p. 112. 



Throughout this work we have been anxious to register the 

 cases in which the body expresses the soul ; for we have a conviction 

 that such effects go deep into the nature and theory of our corporeal 

 incarnation. If the outward universe be a manifestation of spirit, 

 it is a fair question whether in the human sphere the realm of ex- 

 pression be not the essence of manifestation. And as expression is 

 either self-evidently intelligible, or nothing, so it amounts when 

 fully traced, to a complete exposition of nature in its universal prin- 

 ciples. It is but another name for symbolism and correspondency. 

 Hence to our mind the importance of the gestures of the body, in 

 expounding the functions, and the ultimate structure, of the organs. 

 For example, if the liver, as bile maker, be the wise organic anger 

 of the frame, then the whole personality of anger, traced through 

 every part, from the furies of the face, to the violences of the arms, 

 and the stampings of the feet, come to be put back into the liver, 

 and indeed into the bile, which is thus a wrath full of human signi- 

 ficance, and thence capable of acting, with due terror-strikings, upon 

 the society of the body. So too the manifestation or gestures of love 

 go into the heart, and show what it and the blood are doing in their 

 auricular privacies, &c, &c, &c. We therefore deem that there is 

 no more important subject in psychology, than this of expression, or 

 organic Words. And as we indicated before (p. 380), it is the 

 plainest symptom of all that gives the clue to the expression, all 

 whose parts follow that bell-wether as its flock. 



