APPENDIX D. 409 



Double Relation of Material Elements. 



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( IMMATERIAL 

 ELEMENTS OP WEALTH \ 



1 Material 



Two relations in the body. The brain is directly associated 

 with the MIND, the stomach ministers to the blood. The eye 

 has been beautifully called the window of the SOUL, the lungs 

 admit the vivifying air to the Wood. Thus, from head to foot, 

 each part of the body may be classed according to its relations 



Riches and Nature can be correspondingly classed. Food 

 nourishes the Wood; music delights the MIND; silk, by its tex- 

 ture, preserves the warmth of the blood, while its glossiness 

 and brilliant colors please the MIND. The rugged mountain and 

 the trembling ocean excite emotions of sublimity in the MIND, 

 while bracing air and cool water depurate and refresh the blood. 



Through the six channels of hearing, seeing, smelling, tast- 

 ing, touching, and the muscular sense, the mind is acted upon, 

 and under the six aspects of food, water, air, clothing, warmth, 

 and shelter, the blood is acted upon. In tabular view as follows : 



f HEARING. 



SEEING. 



MIND through the channels j SMELLING. 

 of TASTING. 



RICHESAN D N ATUR E 



Mood under the aspects of 



! Warmth. 

 [Shelter. 



Each and all the three material elements of "Wealth can 

 therefore and should be arranged in two corresponding classes, 

 one adapted to develop and improve the MIND, and one adapted 

 to develop and improve the blood. 



Education is of course also twofold. The world at large says 

 that wheat is practical, beef is practical, the pantry is practical; 

 they are so only as every organ, when healthily active, conduces 

 to happiness : a rose is practical as well as a cabbage, a flower- 

 yard as well as a kitchen-garden, a parlor as well as a dining- 

 room, a library as well as a larder, the labors of Praxiteles and 

 ^Raphael as well as a reaper and a steam-plow. Nor is the sun, 

 *that shuts in our knowledge to the narrow limits of daylight, 

 any more practical, though he melts the icebergs and makes the 

 corn grow, than is the night, which lets out our minds from this 

 restricted boundary to the vastness beyond our own planetary 

 system, making us acquainted with the boundlessness of space, 

 and the immensity of God's power, leading us to think, that if 

 day shuts out so much glory which is revealed by night, why 

 may not life shut out a corresponding glory, which shall be 

 revealed by .death. 



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