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REPRESENTATIVE LIFE OF WESTERN ASIA. 

 Illustrating the Scriptural Idea of Living Souls. 



motion, whether manifested in the revolutions of the planets, 

 in the ebb and flow of the sea, in winds and storms and 

 tempests, or in the organisms of plants and animals. The 

 atmospheric expanse is charged with it ; but it is not the air. 

 Animals and plants breathe it, but it is not their breath ; yet 

 without it, though rilled with air, they would die. Neshemet 

 el, or atmospheric air, is the breath of God, as Job puts it, or 

 the mighty expanse, as affirmed by Moses. What the ruack, 

 or spirit, is, none with certainty can say. Extending from the 

 centre of the earth, and thence in all directions through the 

 immensity of space, is the Ruach Eloltim, whose existence is 

 demonstrable from the phenomena of the natural order of 



