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panies her when separated from the body is not a modern 

 hypothesis, but was held by the Platonists and many of 

 the fathers. 1 



Our Lord says to his disciples The hairs of your head 

 are all numbered: upon which we may observe that the 

 head of man is clothed with hair to answer a certain end, 

 an end which has not yet been duly investigated, but 

 which in Scripture has been intimated by making it the 

 symbol of strength or power by which latter term it is 

 designated by St. Paul 2 as in the case of Samson, 

 whose superhuman strength seems to have departed from 

 him, when his seven locks were shorn off; symbolizing 

 might from the seven spirits of God, 3 or in other words, 

 the sevenfold might of the Spirit. It is well known that 

 the hair is affected by the electric fluid, and it may 

 conduct it to the brain or other organs. Whatever be its 

 function, however, its force will depend upon the quantity* 

 and the quantity upon the number of conductors, and this 

 God regulates in the case of individuals, according to 

 circumstances, so that, though some receive more and 

 some less, He that receives much has nothing over, and he 

 that receives little has no lack. 4 



NOTE 4, p. 9. For if the instinct of the predaceous 

 ones was not restrained, they would soon have annihilated 

 the herbivorous ones, even if, as Lightfoot supposes, they 

 were at first created by sevens. If the fall of man, as is 

 generally supposed, happened soon after his creation, the 

 first sacrifice, which as the Lord God clothed the first 

 pair with skins before their expulsion from paradise, 



1 See Dr. H. More, On the Immortality of the Soul, B. iii. 

 Axiome xxvii. and Cudworth's Intellectual Syst. 799. 



2 1 Cor. xi. 10. 3 Revel, i. 4, 5. 

 4 2 Cor. viii. 15. 



