I also realized, as was shown to them, that an idea of societies in the world of spirits can be obtained from the partnerships of muscles in the human being and their communications through the tissues and countless other connections, in that they flow according to their relationship into each most simple action; and that the breathing of the lung is therefore changed accordingly, because it is the lung that operates into the muscular system in general, as is known from the things written about the lung.* 1748, 2 Sept. * The Animate Kingdom 337.