The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-05-21
From Bucks .SaJiimity Of Nature.

MAN. No bee has ever introduced single
Improvement TO the construction of its CELL no
beaver in the style of its architecture, and no
bird III the formation of it's nest They respect
lively arrive at perfection by intuition. Man
could form = cell as geomatrcally as a bee, but
he cannot collect neither the honey nor the
wax. He surpasses the beaver: and can col
lect the materials or the nest of a bird but the
utmost effort of his art will not enable him to
put it together He can neither make the leaf
of a tree, nor the petal of flower /; nor can he,
when he finds them already formed TO his hand
lnc!ose the one in a calyx or fold the other in
bud
Beasts are covered with hair, with wool, and
with fur birds with feathers fishes with scales
and insects by a skin so hard, that it not only
supplies their want of bones, but preserves their
warmth. Of these, the coverings of birds and
fishes are the most perfect. There is species
of crab which clothes itself in the discarded
shell OF a lobster but man is the only animal,
that can regularly form a covering tor itself.
He is the only ANIMAL also, to whom nature
has entrusted the element of fire; an agent,
which is the most wonderful of the elements,
and which still battles, by its opposite effects,
the researches of philosophy.
Whether we consider man as one complete
bodily machine, or in his relative parts of head,
arms, hands, fingers, thighs, legs, and feet !;
bones, hgaments, and membranes, VEINS arte-
ries, glands, muscles, tendous, and nerves the
heart, the stomach, and the mechanism. by
which all those members are connected and
the nice expedieuts, employed to convert the
food into chyle, to blend it with the blood, and
to ditusc it through the entire system it may
truly be said, that man, presents to the aston
shed Imagination, an attestlng wonder But
five extend the contemplation to his sensations
in youth, his reason in age, and his capacities in
every stage Of his manhood, the visible Signs,
by which speech is embodied, and by which
sounds are realized, are found to be inadequate
of media, by which to express the excellence of
the wonderful machine.
In fact, man need not blush to be proud, since
he is capable of expressing all his wants and all
his ideas by the medium of four and twenty
characters; of calculating numbers to compar-
alive infinity with only nine numerical figures /;
and with only seven separate notes, to elicit, on
musical instruments, almost innumerable com
binaton of sound.
But the universe is replete with miracles
from the first source of caloric to the simple
grain Of sand, which contains animals, to
which it is world, as large as the whole circum-
ference of the globe is to US. For nature con-
stitutes mirror, in which the Eternal seems to
allow himself to be seen greatest in small
works; while, though a sublime mystery en-
veops and conceals, in awful solitude, the first
principle of life and reason vet, as it is the
privilege ola great mind to be capable of seeing
much, where common minds see little, the most
apparently insignificant object will frequently
present to an enlarged Imagination more than
all the associations, connected with Raphaels
school of Athens.
GgosFEEERIEs. In all cases, the gooseberry