PUBLIC LIBRARY

167725

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1900.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the Year 1834, by SWORDS, STANFORD, & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York.

ΤΟ

THE MEMORY

OF

AN AFFECTIONATE AND MUCH-LOVED

MOTHER,

A LOVELY BABE,

AND

AN HONOURED AND LAMENTED AUNT,

WHO,

IN THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD,

WERE ALL REMOVED DURING ITS PREPARATION FOR THE PRESS,

THIS LITTLE WORK IS INSCRIBED

BY

THE AUTHOR.

ERRATA.

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scribes.

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affection.

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sert and

PREFACE.

IN the following pages it is intended to illustrate the human heart. By this, I mean something widely different from that fleshly organ, which performs the most important and the most vital functions in the body of man; which has been so often laid bare by the knife of the anatomist, and technically described by the physiologist. I mean THE SEAT AND SPRING OF THE AFFECTIONS; THE MORAL AND SPIRITUAL PART OF MAN; IN DISTINCTION FROM THE INTELLECTUAL OR THINKING PART OF THE SOUL, AND SEPARATED BY A STILL BROADER AND DEEPER LINE OF DEMARCATION FROM THE

MATERIAL BODY. That man has A HEART, in this sense of the term, even wild and sceptical theorists allow, and the world at large feel. The distinct nature of this spiritual organ is clearly recognised in