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54 from the walking-stick to the railroad; the real body uses them in nature, whether as the staff of its lowliness, or the means of its swiftness, or the equipage of its pride; they are the columns of movement; the rich soul's carriage, and the poor soul's crutches. But the arms and hands are all the finer machineries or inventions that are wielded directly by the arms and hands of the soul; they are the pen and the sword; the instrument of many strings; strength and manipulation in their bearings; in short, the mechanics of intelligence, whereby nice conveniences of truth are gathered in the dwelling of the soul. Then the abdomen is its kitchen, preparing from all things in its indefinite stores one universal dish—even the blood of life, to be served in repasts for the spiritual man; the viand of viands, varying from hour to hour, and suited with more than mathematic truth to the appetite and constitution of the eater. Then again, the chest distributes with a power of wisdom dictated from the halls above, this blood, the daily bread and wine of the body of the soul, and the wisdom that ordained, enters the feast, and it becomes a living entertainment. And the brain is the steward and keeper of the animated house,