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 spiritual truth or theological dogma, in place of the physical truth or precept; although no mortal would have predicted that anything of the kind could possibly arise by bare literal transposition, inasmuch as the one precept, considered separately from the other, appears to have absolutely no relation to it.

"I intend hereafter to communicate a number of examples of such correspondences, together with a vocabulary containing the terms of spiritual things, as well as of the physical things for which they are to be substituted. This symbolism pervades the living body; and I have chosen simply to indicate it here, for the purpose of pointing out the spiritual meaning of searching the reins."

In addition to what Swedenborg himself published of The Animal Kingdom, several parts have been recently published in Germany and England, including three thick octavo volumes on "The Brain, Considered Anatomically, Physiologically, and Philosophically." That so much labor was given to the study of the brain was doubtless because the author found in it the seat