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144 The above reasoning may be applied also to the blood, which is kept in circulation by the pulsations of the heart; and which, it is well known, retains the same temperament, notwithstanding all the vicissitudes of heat and cold in the surrounding atmosphere. For what rational solution can possibly be given of this extraordinary phenomenon, but what is grounded in the connection between body and soul, and between soul and the, and between the and animal heat? Is it not a necessary consequence, therefore, confirmed by every day’s experience, that whensoever this connection is broken, as at the separation of soul and body by death, the blood of man instantly becomes subject, like other fluids, to the vicissitudes of heat and cold, so as no longer to retain the standard temperament which it possessed during its residence in a living body?

But I pass by these considerations, wonderful and edifying as they are, to call your attention to what may be termed the figurative character of the two bodily organs under consideration, that so you may gradually attain the possession of all that sublime wisdom, to which this figurative character was intended to conduct you. For that all and every part and operation of the human body points at some corresponding part and