New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-08-26
Deviation Of Man from his Destiny.


Dohery.
Deviation Of Man from his Destiny.
Man, as we have stated, is the Overseer Of the
Globe and the Creations upon il: he is the Super
visor and Regulator of the whole scheme of Nature
around him. Endowed with the high Intelligence
which he has, he should continue on this Earth the
Providence of God, and establish upon it Order,
Harmony and Happiness.
Blu; Man has deviated, widely deviated from his
Destiny; he has neither performed his trust of Over
seernor has he discovered true Social Order which
would Inject him later in doing The signs of tkis
deviation evident; they speak aloud in the neg
lectcd condition of the Earth and in the misery Of
the residing upon it.
If we cast glance over the Earths surface, we
find extensive deserts scattered here and there upon
it, like ulcers upon a human body. The rays Of a
tropical sun, beating down continually upon vast
waste of heated sand-like that, for example, Of
Sahara, which is nearly four thousand miles long
and eight hundred broad-must necessarily pro-
duce an intense and unnatural degree of heat, en-
gender peslilentia exhalations and winds, like the
deadly simoom, and cause terrible atmospheric ex-
far beyaed its borders; its hot and relaxing wind
parches vegetable life, and enervates man and
beast The action of this aoeers ). rtrongly felt
in the Southern parts of Spain, Italy, Sicily and
Greece, and its deleterious influence upon their
climates is gradually increasing.
Vast deserts also exist in the interior OF Asia,
which produce like effects, and which are slowly
annihiatng cultivation and industry in the regions
around them. These great sores on the Earth's
surface are gradually increasing, and 1t is ascer-
tanned from observation that the Desert of Cobb in
Asia is adding few rods every year to its domain.
Since historical times several have commenced and
spread over vast tracts OF country, swallowing up
some of the most beautiful regions of antiquity:
that in which Babylon was situated, once the most
fertile and highly cultivated portion of Asia, is now
dreary waste of sand, without tree or plot OF
verdure to break this death Ct Nature. While
these wastes are increasing on two vast CONT
nents, none have been reclaimed and tertllzed
Is there not something startling in this fact, and
if there were an exchange of intellectual views OF
a high order between Nations, particularly be-
tween those of Europe, the climate of which is
attacked, South by the deserts of Africa, East by
those of Asia would they remain indifferent to
this most gigantic of evils in the material order =
Besides the deserts on the Earth's surface, we
find extensive swamps and marshes, the receP-
tacles of s.agnant and putrid waters, which, drying
up during portion of the season, expose masses
of vegetable matter the heat OF the sun, and ex
hale miasmas and poisonous vapers. BY neglect
l.; of no
around him these generators of disease, which In
feet the atmosphere he breathes, and visit him
with epidemics of various kinds. with plague,
cholera, yellow and typhus fevers, agues, &c.
The cholera of India, for example, was generated
over twenty years since by miasmatc exhalations'
This pestlence, after travelling Eastward to China,
turned its course Westward, and has since visited
almost every region of the inhabited Globe Is not
this q conclusive proof that Man in every part OF
the Earth is interested in the integral cultivation
of its entire surface
Man has neglected and degraded his terrestrial
abode he has left upon it these sources OF atmos-
pheric perturbations and diseases, and drawn upon
himself two great scourges:
Derangement of Climate
Diseases arti6cially produced.
There are other causes connected with them, how
ever which should not be overlooked. The uncal
tivated state Of tho Earth in all the Northern re-
gions of tho Globe, except Sweden and Norway,
produces an excess of cold much beyond what would
exist in true order of things, causing those vast
accommodations Of Northern ice, which have allowed
the Polar regions to extend their frigd domain far
= of ~ In 10Th ba nd
the vast deserts rear the Equator and the absence
of forests and refreshing streams, create an un-
natural degree Of heat. 1t is evident that these
excuses, acting together on the atmosphere OF
the Earth, must derange its climate and system OF
winds, and cause the greatest fluctuations and
irregularities.
Il is also easy to conceive that the warm winds
OF tho tropics, sweeping over the temperate zones.
succeeded by the cold blasts of the icy regions OF
the North, causing continual and excessive va
riaeions Of temperature, must increase iearuS, IN
the form of colds, consumptions, pleur1sy and
rheumasisms, the list of Diseases arttfeialiy
produced.
These observations are suhiccn, to show thai
Mon has not performed ut all his function Of
o,yerseer. and tina, he has neglected completely q
wise, well-combiaed and general cultivation of MS
Globe. Both civilized and barbarian Nations have
rayased it ignorantly, and have only succeeded II
bringing few points on it-China, parts of India
Europe and very small portion CT America-unde'
cultivation. Nine-tenths of the Earth at least art
covered with deserts, marshes and wild forests
THE following appeared in The Boston Daily Advertise
in May 1889 it shows how desert may commence anI
spread:
q Or, f,;. Sr,i-a Town Meeting is notified 10 be he'
in Yarmouth Burns,abe County 10 authorize the rasns
$5O0 for the puros stopping the SAID near hes b'ooh