The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-07-21

The EYE. The miracle of light would have
been totally useless, and the lovely paradise Of
earth would have been to man still dark and
dreary desert, had there not been the twin mir
acle OF an organ of commensurate delicacv to
perceive the light, viz. of the eYe in which
there is the round cornea of such perfect tran
sParency, placed exactly in the anterior center
OF the ball, land elsewhere it had been useless)
then exactly behind this, the beautiful curtain
the iris, with Its pupil dilating and contracting
to suit the intensity of light; and exactly be-
hind this again, the crystalline lens, having ma
ny qualities which only complex structure in
human art can attain, and by the entering light
forming on the retina beautiful pictures or i'm
ages OF the objects in front.-the most sensible
part OF the retina being where the images fall.
vi these parts and conditions, had any one been
otherwise than as it is, the whole eve had been
useless, and light useless, and the great uni.
verse useless to man, for he could not have ex-
listed in it. Then, further, we find that the
precious organ the eye is placed not as if by
accident, somewhere near the center CT the
person, but alott on proud eminence, where
II becomes the glorious watch-tower of the soul
and again, not so that to alter its direction the
whole person must turn, but in the head, which
on pivot of admirable structure, moves while
the body is at rest; the ball of the eve, more
over, being furnished with muscles, which as
the will directs, turn it with the rapidity of
lightning, to sweep round the horizon, or take
in the whole heavenly concaye. Then is the
delicate orb, secured in strong socket of bone,
and there is over this the arched eyebrow, as a
cushion TO destroy the shock of blows, and with
its inclined hairs to turn aside the descending
perspiration which might incommode; then is
there the soft and plant eyelid with its beau
tecus frlnges, necessarily wiping the polished
surface, and the lachrymal glands above, of
which moisture the surperAuity, by fine me.
chanism, is sent into the nose, there to be evap-
Grated by the current of the breath Still fur
Their, instead of there being only one so prec-
lous an organ, there are two, lest one, by acci-
dent, should be destroyed but which two have
so entire sympathy, that they act together as
only one more perfect: then The sense Of sight
| continues perfect during the period of growth
from birth to maturity, although the distance
} from the lens TO the retina is constantly varv-
ing, and the pure liquid which fills The eve, if
rendered turbid by disease or accident, Is, by
the actions of life, although its source be tho
thick red blood, gradually restored to transpar-
ency. The mind which can suppose or admit
that within any limits Of time, even a single
such organ division could have been produced
by accident, or without design and still more
that the millions which now exist on earth all
equally perfect, Gan have sprung from accident;
or that the millions of millions in past ages were
! all but accidents, and that the endless millions
| throughout the animal creation, where each re-
quires most peculiar fitness to the nature and
circumstances Of the animal can be accident
must surely be Of extraordinary character, or
must have received an unhappy bias in its edu-
cation--.4thsncum.