Nature's revelations of character; or, physiognomy illustratedA description of the mental, moral and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance . your thoughts tower away among the hill tops, orrecline among the flowery vales, nerve again your whol©frame, for one grand effort, to send your spirit, imagina^tively, throughout the vast labyrinths and mazes of worlds,rounded and painted with flowers, gladdened with the THE ABDOMINAL FORM. 53 songs of birds, and decorated with rainbows, blue skj,and glorious landscapes, until you are swinging on airypinions, m
Nature's revelations of character; or, physiognomy illustratedA description of the mental, moral and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance . your thoughts tower away among the hill tops, orrecline among the flowery vales, nerve again your whol©frame, for one grand effort, to send your spirit, imagina^tively, throughout the vast labyrinths and mazes of worlds,rounded and painted with flowers, gladdened with the THE ABDOMINAL FORM. 53 songs of birds, and decorated with rainbows, blue skj,and glorious landscapes, until you are swinging on airypinions, mid the beautiful Paradise of the Poets. When your natural condition returns, and jon wonder-ingly scrutinize, and try to divine whether it was a vision,a dream, or noble thought, almost doubting your ownidentity, then remember one step has been taken tobring your spiritual nature over your gross animal appetitesand deadening passions. A hundred such lessons, withdaily care and diet, will give you spiritual conceptions,and a thousand similar upliftings, and you will have aspiritual birth. Thus, and thus only, can we develop themind and spirit, and ciirb the Old Adam within
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