Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-05-24

VI hiaAeI' n pure mlnu cannot be shown
in connection with depraved blood and
vitiatec nerves. To talk about regenera.
ton OF mind withou. regeneration of body,
is to talk absurdity, insanity, ignorance
and nonsense. All may see and know
this who will stop and examine = or, il
might with more propriety be said, go
along and examine. We have already
had too much stopping and pausing, rs it
has been called, under the pretext ofexam-
inalion. AdrGnce and examine would
sound much better to me than pause and
examine. The two should go together
the advancement and the examination.
But to return to the idea that mind and
the matter il animates dwell together and
act upon each other - that, as our Eng
lish brethren would say, they cannot be
affirmed Of separately, in regard to moral
character, or goodness and badness of
acts. All will acknowledge at once that
there is connection unavoidable between
the drinking Of alcohol and the manifest
atlons OF mind 10 follow the degree de-
pending on the quantity. Now if matter
and mind are affected together by alcohol,
why not by tobacco and tea, and by what
we eat as well as BY what we drink2 A
moments consideration will convince all
that it is so. All know that we can eat
poisonous things and destroy life, as we'll
as drink poisonous things and destroy life.
And all who will observe may know
equally well that, short Of destroying life,
we may eat and drink hurtful things TO
the injury Of health, happiness and USE
fuIness. All who have taken any proper
thought on the subject know that il is so.
But, unhappily for humanity, they who
have taken such thought are too few and
too far between We have abused our
stomachS, and thus Frustrated our bodies
and this we have charged to God 1t
was an act of Proridence! And BY the
same process we have vltiated our minds;
and this we have charged to the Devil
II Alexis ST. Martin be still alive and in a
to afford US opportunity for ex,
periments. for humanity's sake let profes.
sors Sewall and Horner give Us additional
sets Of stomach drawings. And if there
be no available living subjects, let the best
possible use be made Of dead ones, that
can be laudably Obtained. for the benefit of
the living. But let language be used with
pro2riety. in giving descriptions. Let
them speak comparatively. beg Of them
not to speak OF "lhe stomach in a healthy
state" until they find subjects for dissection
whose stomachs have been treated differ.
emily from ony have yet known Of
Those who will be most likely to ridi.
cule the idea that bad eating in the hu-
man family at large has had so much TO
do in disorde:ing mind and morals, are
to be looked for among the believers in the
doctrine that the whole have been "Iaoral-
ly and toalIy depraved" by the eating Of
one! Such, iflhey dare so far depart from
the instructions Of their teachers as to
think for themselves moment, shall
themselves be The JUICES as to which view
is the more ridiculous.
There is not room in the space which
1 designed TO devote to these remarks, for
charging on the point to which my mind
has been allowed to run in the last preced-
ing paragraphs above. The subject was
only alluded to incidentally in the Con-
vention. But it must be examined, and
shall be. Il has been alluded 10 here for
the purpose of getting at the Foundation Of
The mischief. The principal thing done
w tHO OOusCutiOu was W SAPoSC tnO CNilS
oil the msum and tGum system the sys-
tenn which divides human interests and
says this mine and that is thine = and TO
propose a remedy, or remedies for those
evils. One sentiment introduced in the
form of resolution. it will be perceived.
traces the cause Of the difficulties in the
present social state, 10 the perverted sell
6shness of the universal human heart."-
This believe 10 be correct, as far as il
goes. But ii does not 60 through. 1t
does not reach the alLima Thule. The
next and last question is. Whenee the per-
rerted seLfshness? In other words, aohere