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change; death; body of man bag of water; vibrations; pon- 

 derable and imponderable; health, disease; renovation; re- 

 juvenescence, philosophy of; the cell the focus of all renewal ; 

 the fountain of youth ; implements of renovation, all medical 

 science and all nature; chronic disease; change of habitat: 

 vicious despotisms of local causes ; voice of nature, come to 

 me, come to the woods, frequent the haunts of Pan ; renova- 

 tion, gospel of; "primordial utricle;" small details "no 

 great, no small;" Malpighi, Ehrenberg, Brown, Mohl; Gali- 

 leo, Kepler, Newton, Herschel; brain of Shakspeare; Monas 

 termo ; Pan, the cell ; details of things cared for on Olympus ; 

 the mean and vulgar represented as well as elegant and divine ; 

 great forms of matter ; kingly and queenly deities ; lowly gods, 

 big heads, small heads; Jupiter and Minerva, Pan and Vul- 

 can: no comfort in the world without Pan and Vulcan; the 

 god of "pastoral life" and god of furnaces indispensable; 

 trumps of the hour ; iron and milk ; thanks and eternal honors 

 due to the humble deities they superintend the drudgeries, 

 and make earth comfortable; style of the god of the woods; 

 not prepossessing, not beautiful ; uses, ends, ghastly needs ; 

 represents the great kingdoms of man's both lower and higher 

 nature ; significance of the clever ugly god ; cloven foot, ra- 

 diant face, leopard's skin; Pan a symbol of the universe; 

 grateful worship due to this god of the woods ; let him flourish, 

 and the sacrifices of the seekers of renovation and youth shall 

 burn forever on his altars ; god of the woods symbol of the 

 cell, original germ, always perfect; represents the formative 

 nutrient process of the organic world ; the great herald of the 

 cell, the microscope, and the philosophy of rejuvenescence 607 



