Man, who represents the highest point of intelligence, and who offers us the only organism by which we arrive at a power that is semi-creative--namely, THOUGHT--is, among all zoological creations, the one in which combustion is found in its most intense degree; whose powerful effects may in fact be seen to some extent in the phosphates, sulphates, and carbonates which a man's body reveals to our analysis.

May not these substances be traces left within him of the passage of the electric fluid which is the principle of all fertilization?
Would not electricity manifest itself by a greater variety of compounds in him than in any other animal?
Should not he have faculties above those of all other created beings for the purpose of absorbing fuller portions of the Absolute principle?
and may he not assimilate that principle so as to produce, in some more perfect mechanism, his force and his ideas?
I think so.

Man is a retort.

In my judgment, the brain of an idiot contains too little phosphorous or other product of electro-magnetism, that of a madman too much; the brain of an ordinary man has but little, while that of a man of genius is saturated to its due degree.

The man constantly in love, the street-porter, the dancer, the large eater, are the ones who disperse the force resulting from their electrical apparatus.