meet and are neither wholly one nor wholly the other, but a whirling
mass of contradictions such as attends all fusion.

What property is to a man's mind or soul that his body is also, only
more so. The body is property carried to the bitter end, or
property is the body carried to the bitter end, whichever the reader
chooses; the expression "organic wealth" is not figurative; none
other is so apt and accurate; so universally, indeed, is this
recognised that the fact has found expression in our liturgy, which
bids us pray for all those who are any wise afflicted "in mind,
body, or estate;" no inference, therefore, can be more simple and
legitimate than the one in accordance with which the laws that
govern the development of wealth generally are supposed also to
govern the particular form of health and wealth which comes most
closely home to us--I mean that of our bodily implements or organs.
What is the stomach but a living sack, or purse of untanned leather,
wherein we keep our means of subsistence? Food is money made easy;
it is petty cash in its handiest and most reduced form; it is our
way of assimilating our possessions and making them indeed our own.
What is the purse but a kind of abridged extra corporeal stomach
wherein we keep the money which we convert by purchase into food, as
we presently convert the food by digestion into flesh and blood?
And what living form is there which is without a purse or stomach,
even though it have to job it by the meal as the amoeba does, and
exchange it for some other article as soon as it has done eating?
How marvellously does the analogy hold between the purse and the
stomach alike as regards form and function; and I may say in passing
that, as usual, the organ which is the more remote from protoplasm
is at once more special, more an object of our consciousness, and
less an object of its own.