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own sake but for the sake of the good, love their neighbor,—for in the other life good is the neighbor. All of this character are in the Grand Man, that is in heaven. (H. H., n. 59-64.)

How incomprehensible and unsearchable is the form of the human body, may appear in some general way from the nervous fibres whereby each and all of the parts are woven together. What is the nature of those fibres, and in what manner they perform their motions and fluxions in the brain, cannot be discerned by the eye; for innumerable fibres are there so folded together that, taken in the gross, they appear as a soft, continuous mass; and yet all and each of the things belonging to the will and understanding flow most distinctly into acts along those innumerable complicated fibres. How these fibres, again, wreathe themselves together in the body, appears from the various collections of them called plexuses,—such as the cardiac plexus, the mesenteric plexus, aud others; also from the knots of them which are called ganglions, into which many fibres from every province enter, and therein mingle together, and again go forth in new combinations to the performance of their functions,—and this repeated again and again; besides similar things in every viscus, member, organ and muscle.

Whoever examines these fibres with the eye of wisdom, and the many wonderful things pertaining to them, will be utterly astonished. And yet the things which the eye sees are few. Those which it does not see are yet