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Rh will and understanding of man on the other; also between the will and understanding of man, and his bodily organs the heart and the lungs, there is discoverable a striking analogy, or, what may be otherwise termed, correspondence and harmony, by virtue of which the ultimate bodily organs of pulsation and respiration point to, and are in connection with, the higher principles of human affection and thought. Pursuing also the same chain of reasoning, you will likewise easily admit, that these higher principles of human affection and thought, in their turn, point to, and are in connection with, the still superior and highest principles of the and  of the ; so that what is last and lowest in the human body may be regarded as the basis and the figure also of what is  and  in the, and of what is intermediate and subordinate in the mind of man.

Taking it then for granted, that, though not fully convinced of the certainty of the figurative character of the heart and lungs, yet you are disposed to grant that there is a probability, at least, of the existence of such a character, will you permit me to point out a few cases of the important instruction resulting from such a character?

And first, the bodily life of man, we find by