Then he answered me that the divinity had revealed to him what he had written, and therefore his work had been accepted amongst the sacred writings of Toth, [Called by the Greeks "Hermetic Books." The Papyrus Ebers is the work called by Clemens of Alexandria "the Book of Remedies."] which stood fast and unassailable as the laws of the world; he wished to give me peace for quiet work, and I also, he said, might be a chosen spirit, the divinity might perhaps vouchsafe revelations to me too.

I was young at that time, and spent my nights in prayer, but I only wasted away, and my spirit grew darker instead of clearer.

Then I killed in secret--first a fowl, then rats, then a rabbit, and cut up their hearts, and followed the vessels that lead out of them, and know little more now than I did at first; but I must get to the bottom of the truth, and I must have a human heart." "What will that do for you ?" asked Pentaur; "you cannot hope to perceive the invisible and the infinite with your human eyes ?" "Do you know my great-grandfather's treatise ?" "A little," answered the poet; "he said that wherever he laid his finger, whether on the head, the hands, or the stomach, he everywhere met with the heart, because its vessels go into all the members, and the heart is the meeting point of all these vessels.

Then Nebsecht proceeds to state how these are distributed in the different members, and shows--is it not so ?--that the various mental states, such as anger, grief, aversion, and also the ordinary use of the word heart, declare entirely for his view." "That is it.

We have already discussed it, and I believe that he is right, so far as the blood is concerned, and the animal sensations.