Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

THE FIRST AND THE SECOXD MAX.89reveals. There are parts of it the structureof which is so minute and subtle that the mostpersevering science has not yet attained fully tounravel their use. In all this arrangement ofnerves and muscles, machines of every sort, meetingall manner of difficulties, and supplying allkinds of uses, what an endless storehouse of wisdomand forethought! And all these are permeatedby a common life, which binds everypart, whatever its several ^ importance, into onewhole, and all these, in the state of health, worktogether with so perfect an ease that the livingactor, the bearer of so marvellous a structure, isunconscious of an effort, and exults in the life sosimple and yet so manifold poured out on such amultitude of members, a life so tender that thesmallest prick is felt over the whole body, andso strong that a wound mav transfix thwhole structure leaving the life untouched. And,in addition to this physical marvel, the incorporealmind, which has its seat in this material^H^^^^^^^^^^^^^lstructure, and whose presence is itself its life,rules like an absolute monarch with undisputedsway over his whole dominion, so that the leastmovement of volition carries with it a willingobedience in the whole frame, and for it instantaneouslythe eye gazes, the ear listens, the tonguespeaks, the feet walk, the hands work, and thebrain feels with an incomparable unity. Themarvel of the body is that things so many an