The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-11-24
From the Philadelphia Unitsd States Gazette.
REFLECTIONS

From the Philadelphia Unitsd States Gazette
REFLECTIONS.
The following is the closing paragraph of an edi-
torial article in the New England Review; its
editor is J. G. Whittier, man of good sense, ex-
quisite feeling, and most felicitous expression.
"The glory oc the Summer is gone blythe
beautiful greenness has become withered
and dead. Were this all-were there no
associations of moral desolation-of faded
hopes-of hearts whitening in the bosoms
of the llving-connected with the decaying
scenery around US, we would not indulge
in moments melancholy. The season of
flowers will come again-the streams will
flow gracefully and lightly as before-the
trees will again toss their cumbrous load of
greenness to the sun highland by messy
stone and winding rivulet, the young bios
SONS will start up, as at the bidding of their
fairy guardians. But the human heart has
no change like that of Nature. 1t has no
second springtime. Once blighted in its
hour of freshness, it wears for ever after the
mark of the spoiler. The dews of affection
may fall, and the gentle rain of sympathy
be lavished upon it-but the sere root of
5lighted feeling will never again waken
into life, nor the crushed flowers of hope
blossom with their wonted beauty"
Our brother, we perceive, has not outlived
his raven locks-he has looked in upon the
heart at its mourning season, when the
tempest has scathed the young buildings of
its golden hopes. He has paused in the
midst of waste and desolation, when the
spoiler has come. He has looked around !;
and blade, and bud, and blossom, and smil-
ing fruit were scattered in an unseemly and
mournful chaos-he has looked up, and the
dark clouds yet sent forth their torrents !;
the wind bore upon its wings the wreck of
natures beauties, seen only by the cleaning
of the jagged lightning, while hill and vale
sent back the deep reverberations of the
thunder. These things has he seen and
heard, and has said there shall be no more
sunshine for the sonl-tempcst shall sue
coed to tempest, and the cloud shall re-
turn after the rain"
But let our brother wait till tune shall
have bleached his head, and he shall see
that as the forest is greened again with
buds, and the field puts on anew its herb
age, which shall grow with increased rich
ness from the decaying vegetation around
so the scathed and sered heart shall be
nourished into vitality again, and the mem
DRY of early delights and decayed Joys shall
give new redolence to second Towering,
and the storm drop that hangs upon the bios
som which survived the tempest, shall glis-
ten with double lustre, as it catches the
eianted rays of the western sun.
The joyous fexibilty of youth may net
retain, but even the widowed heart will
have its passive Joys. The smile of child
hoods willing obedience shall be to it like
the "dews of Hermon"-while the bless
ings of the befriended orphan shall /" drop
down marrow and fairness upon it,"
INCREASE OF THE NUMBERS OF MAN
KIND. On the snppostion that the human
race has power to double its number four
times in century, or once in each succeed
ing period Of 25 years, as come philosophers
have computed, and that nothing prevented
the exercise of this power of increase, the
descendants of Noah and his family would
have now increased in the following num-
Der: 1,496, 577, 676, 626 s44, SIS. 240. 573 268.
701, Ava, 8l2, 127, 81, 1924, 007, 424.
The surface of the earth contains,
square miles, 296 ,64S 1855
Mercury, and all the other planets,
contain about 1914, 5I1 900
The Sun contains 2,4f2, 900, 000,000
2,439 ,987, 1854, 355
Hence, upon the supposition Of such rate
of increase of mankind, as had been assum-
ed, the number Of human beings now living
would be equal to the following number for
each square mile upon the surface of the
earth, the sun and all the planets: 81 ,062,
000,000,0 10000 100000, 000,000,O 00,0 100000
-or to the following number for each
square inch: l49,720,000,0 100000, 100000
O00,000,000. This last number alone is in
finite with relation TO human conception
Merely to count it would require an incred
IDLE period. Surprising the whole inhabit
ants now upon the surface Of the globe to
be 1,000,000,000. which is believed some.
what to exceed the actual number and
supposing that this multitude, infants ant
adults, were to be employed in nothing else
but counting; that each were to work 36t
days in the year, and 10 hours in the day
AID TO count 100 per minute, it would re.
quirc, in order to count the number in ques.
tion, 6,536, 500 millions of years.
Quarterly Journal Of agriculture.
TIE COMMENTED FEMALE. A noblsmar
soliciting young couAtry girl to abandon
her rustic state, and reside in q populou:
city, she replied, All my Lord the farther
we remove from ourselUes, the greater il
our distance from happinessp They who
leave their homes, uncalled by Providence
IN search Of happiness, generally find they
ara only farther fromit