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The Use of the Body in Relation to the Mind
The Use of the Body in Relation to the Mind Author:George Moore Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER i. THE BLOOD. Our bodies nre formed by the addition of materials received from without, which, being admitted into the blood, are distributed with ... more »it to every part of the system. In reflecting on this fact, the next thought presents itself in the form of a question. How are the blood, and the vessels through which it circulates, first produced ? We can only reply, that the vitalized fluid, in which dwelt the organizing principle, in a suitable nidus, and under favorable circumstances, attracted materials to itself, and thus evolved the physical framework of the human being. It was derived from the parent's blood, but the primal source of each individual must have been from God in the direct creation of a parent stock. Hence, " each sire begets his character and kind," and no creature produces one of another species. The process by which blood is formed from other fluid under the influence of life, may be watched in the beautiful mystery of incubation. If we would trace up the formation of the body to its first perceptible rudiments, we shall discover that there is something invisible and immaterial, that is not acting within the known laws of matter; something at work in the living fluid, tending to form a new body, and of course existing before that which it forms. This something centers iu a point, and, as the earliest evidence of its power, produces a microscopic vesicle, or tell, which, under the formative influence, goes on toenlarge into a perfect egg, through every part of which the same principle exists at the same time, and causes the evolution of a specific order of organs, that ultimately harmonize and unite together, and administer to the consciousness and will of one sentient being. We see that the process of vital organization is not that of devel...« less