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It has always been supposed that man's power to breathe lay primarily in the united action of heart, lungs and blood. But a recent scientist of recognized authority declares that this is not altogether the case. He asserts, and apparently proves it to the satisfaction of many scientific minds, that although heart, lungs and blood assist the act of breathing, and constitutes man's physical safeguard against suffocation, the actual breathing — i.e., the taking in of the oxygen and hydrogen of the atmosphere, is done by the living substance of the human body. Practically we breathe, so to speak, at every pore, and not simply by the elaborate parts hitherto looked upon as the only human agents of respiration. Plants and animals as well as men thus breathe through the living substances which severally compose them. And what is equally wonderful, perhaps, is that, as this authority declares, "the mutual action of plants, animals and men upon the atmosphere in respiration is one of the most beautiful harmonies in nature." What one gives off as waste product is taken up and utilized by the other. Truly "we are fearfully and wonderfully made"!

(Homiletic Review.)

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KJV: Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

WEB: You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.