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It is important to remember that in speaking of oxygen, hydrogen and so forth, we should not limit their meaning to the inherent forces and attributes recognised by modern chemistry, but that we should conceive these elements as possessing formative forces, with activities which affect one another mutually, and by which they contribute to the furnishing of the earth sphere. If we consider them separately and in detail, we must identify the external operation of *oxygen* with the internal operation of the *kidney* and *urinary system*. What is done in the outer world, by the formative forces of *carbon*, we must identify internally with the *pulmonary system*: not regarding the lungs however as organs of respiration, but as possessing particular formative forces. We must identify *nitrogen* with the *liver* system, *hydrogen* with the *cardiac* system (see Diagram 22). 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