That life will flow into my soul, just as the Oxygenating air flows down to the diver who is faithfully busy recovering wreckage from the wealth-strewn bed of the mighty sea.
"My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year"
John Henry Jowett
Sir Charles Bell, who discovered the respiratory system of nerves, pointed out how the lungs, from being in the lower animals merely the means of Oxygenating the blood, become utilised in the act of expelling air from the body for the production of audible sounds-the elements of human voice and speech.
"The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song"
F. W. Mott