Living Souls, 319 
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Abe, 
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 filled with air, they would die. Meshemet 
el, or atmospheric air, is the breath of God, as Job puts it, or 
the mighty expanse, as affirmed by Moses. What the ruach, 
or spirit, is, none with certainty cansay. Extending from the 
centre of the earth, and thence in all directions through the 
immensity of space, is the Ruach Elohim, whose existence is 
demonstrable from the phenomena of the natural order of 
