The Economy of the Animal Kingdom #1

By Emanuel Swedenborg

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1. PART I. THE BLOOD, THE ARTERIES, THE VEINS, AND THE HEART, WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO RATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY.

INTRODUCTION.

THE animal kingdom, the economy of which I am about to consider anatomically, physically, and philosophically, regards the blood as its common fountain and general principle. In undertaking, therefore, to treat of this economy, the doctrine of the blood must be the first propounded, although it is the last that is capable of being brought to completion.

  
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