74 Chemical Affinities. 



manifested in neuralgic and nervous affections and fevers, 

 that it is difficult to conceive the due adjustment of plane- 

 tary motions to meet the successive requirements adapted 

 to complete certain successive orders of change in a morpho- 

 logical point of view, and certain forms of disease,* without 

 conceiving at the same time that one general law influences 

 and binds together near and remote objects in one common 

 focus of interdependency and correlation of actions. 



Again, the sun gives us many rays and colours 

 in one whole, and the earth, in organic nature, reflects those 

 in distinct separate colours, above all, in a condensed form, 

 in the Morphology of leaves; whilst that bright and burning 

 luminary probably receives back in another form the rays 

 he has sent forth, in some of the many metamorphic con- 

 ditions which the antagonizing fluids assume in ful- 

 filling their multifarious offices, as colour and heat trans- 

 formed to magnetism and galvanism, etc. The effects are 

 left behind in new combinations of matter ; but the active 

 agent is restored back to its original source, the sun. 



* See Graves's " Clinical Medicine," page 436. 



