Litchfield enquirer., 1839-07-25
MAN.

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 that has been said in his diseonragCmeen,
 notwithstanding his utter helbIess1es1 1ar la long time aiter birth and no.wi,hseao6- jog the greater perfection Of ,en.s or sHs gresfer 6ulk; or the greater strength, to pc found sn otherss still man is by nature the most perfect animal on the face of inc earth ,, more than match for any in his natural. nnassistsd strength and swiftness, and uniting in himself greater powers, and greater variety of powers for self Dres- ervatioF or annOyance. and moro astUn- ishing combination 6f bodily endowments. than any other animal. He bears up ,ih- der pressure that would crush tho ele- phant. were the elephant loaded in the like proportion to hiS bulk that is he can preserve himself erect under tho, bfessure of two thousand pounds. proPSTly dissrib-;: uted, which would give 10 the kOfsS f6Gr-- teen thousand pounds, were he loaded in proportion to his bulk, and 10 the elephant ninety-eight thousand pounds, or nearly fifty tonsl So astonishing in fact is man's bodily strength, that, in some cases, aa in that of Topham, man of moderate size. equals that of seven or eight ordinary men. lie htas with his hands round. smooth stone. weighing eight hundrei pounds he lies down fat upon tl,e earth. and suffers large masses of stone to be laid on his abdomen. and broken to pieces with 2 slsdge-hammer, or arches his broad chest and allows black.smilh's anvil to be placed upon ie, and iron to be forged there. without hinching; he bears up . cannon weighing between two and three thousand pounds. pulls against two horses. and breaks large ropes, with single effort, in stretching himself by the mere strength of his Joins; in fact 90 far as the legs and thighs are concerned, and ehe double arcl, .of the pelviss . man of ordinary strength is capable 6f BeafihG dis diid.Sr a weight of between four aud Ave shousand bounds. which would give to the elephant more, than one huhdrsd tons yet four thousand pounds, or two toll;SI, are load for the largest elephant.-
 Nor would wS stop here. His wind and swiftnsss are equal to his strength. He tires odt the asesssts Rorsss of the desert, Keeping 6p with them all dtY l6ng, and beating them dt' full speed he runs down. the ostrich and tlts aptelops i; hs endurslsss extremes of heat and cold, and changes of temperature, not only without iniury, but! without suffering, which would he fatat to any other animali even tho walrus and tho polar bear have been found no match for
 him in their capability of enduring cold,
 though he is stranger, and they dE kOns,
 in tho frozen regions Of the north. Man
 is found where mercury freezes iH the bulb
 of the sherntometefS nSinlaining his vital
 haats aad upholding Ris godRke supsemacy
 by nothing but exereisd.. You fnd him
 fiourishing where tE4 same tilSrhiometer
 shows a heat of from one huudred and forty degrees Fahrenheit, in lhe sun. and
 going about barebeaded in the perpetual
 furnace of that region and you see him.
 exposed to heat which boils water and
 roasts flesh. and still maintaining the squa-
 ble temperature of his blood, andthe steady
 beating of his pulse dependant wholly
 upon precipitation for relief Upon the eaft6' ybH find lins csSpable' of enduring thS steady pfdssurs of the at-
 mosphere, which is equal to thirty.two. thousand four hnndrsd snd forty pSunds-- diving into the sea to depth where he has
 to support the pressure of many ata,os.'
 pheres. or ascending mouptains, or calling
 about the sky, iH' tho BaIioons, where that
 pressure is diminishsd t6. such . deeyee.- that the Blood ooEes from every pore of his, body--and yet he liveS oIl The inmor-' ssl spirit of the machine upholds it forev-
 or, and ii cannot be crushed nor extineuish.
 ed. Add, to all ihis, man is. bv hhture.
 oMNivERoUs. All food and all climates are, alike to him, @ far at least as this, that Do thriyes upon all sprtst of food. whether an-, imal or vegetable. cooked or rs&, snd' Aourishes in all sorts of climates, from sitt
 torrid 10 the frozen zone. sf. a:s- At laat# Scott and his CAiltgrsS.-t I8e had 6ov
 two boys and two gifis--he never had more,
 He was one of those who take much de-, light in ( merS infant; but no fsiiier ever devoted more time aBd tender care; to his offspring than he did to eaeh of bis. as thev excessively rseclled ,6e age when thew could ljsten to him sna vsderstand his talk / Like their mute phy ydisiss, Camp and tI,,o' greyhsu1dS, they had free access io his stu.> dy; he never considered their ta..ls sny disturbance; they went and came as pleas. ed their fancy and when they, uneonseious how he was engaged, enirsated him to lay down his pen and tel them steiy, he woul6 sakf tI,sm on his knee, repeat a kal< lad or . legend, kiss them and set shasa down again to their marbles os nincpins an6s resume his labor as ifssfrcshed by the in., ierruptioD. From very early age he nade then dine n table, and e to sit up to sup- per " was ihe great Eeward chen thev heT been "yery good bairns." I1 sAcrs hs considered t q she highest duty al w.sIf q the sweetest pIeasege of a barsni Co be a comPanion of his children he parsook of alP theis kiale joys and sorrows, and made his kind infDSiiAr insirpeiisns to blend so essily and piayfally eish the 6stf6nt sftbeir own sayings- and doingss shas @ far from