ON THE MANUSCRIPTS OF GOD 



human race, there is always a joint action 

 of the heart and head, or a vote from both 

 houses in the Republic of Man. Unless this 

 form of individual legislation exists, a man 

 is living Tinder an unconstitutional mon- 

 archy, tyrannously ruled by his red or white 

 corpuscles, however free he may think him- 

 self. 



Unfortunately, the head and heart are 

 often mentioned as if they were entirely in- 

 dependent organs in separate compartments. 

 But nature makes no such sharp demarca- 

 tions in their functions. She never does for 

 any organ, but makes it collaborate, visibly 

 or invisibly, with all the rest, suffusing and 

 blending its functions and their influence, 

 as she does those of the heart, by means of 

 the arteries, veins, capillaries, and the organs 

 of respiration. 



In like manner there are thoughts of aortic 

 force, and others which are arterial, venous, 

 and capillary, in their function and influence. 

 If one could watch a thought from its be- 

 ginning to its end if it ever has one it 

 would be discovered that something quite as 



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