The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1845-09-15


agony. yes, ms, hurr,d ...ny of thought, tn
solve the terrific mystery that brings starvation.
and world Ot torture {, stare inxuriius easy
thong hlpsSness full in the face! Yet we gaze
umn the thousand tints. we breathe the thousand
odTs OF the spring we view the abundant promise
of the SPINNER sun lit fields we press our way
amid the abundance OF au,unnal haveSts. nor once
inquire whence these products ui The earth derive
their nntJment, what nutitudeS nj unvaryinu
~ attendant circumstances are necessary To amt
IN heau'ens f"hes aud crown " iih comforts E,r
the use of man, The mm~s of vegetable tribes with
which earth is hiply nverlain. Should we bph,ld
the walters ut the inllning deep all ON fire. was
every river broad anI dark in an instant Ia ignite
did every rivn!e and rll present a sheet of liquid
lame. did every bn bling fountain belrh forth
burning blasts, we're every luwly plant, each
beaue"u~ shrub. and every towering forest tree,
that contains drop nf mnisture mn.nrnrarily To-
tn light mp 'ur earth in one ronrinun,s blaze, nay
were every living creature developed ON every
aide and seized in every vein by the devnuriny
element. and could human miud could our minds
nuhnrt amid The general conf Igrarinn look dawn
npnn The appalling. hackenlng. blasting scene
would We moi desire III know the cause Would
we not think il matter of sume moment To the
tenants of our guhe
YET how many of our monarch race have
learned, and fully realize the fact, that the ele
meniS of the crystal Il md are two fluids the one
at which. Oxygen. Is 81 iufllm,uanle that the
hardest steel will burn in it with buIliancy and
rdpidlly; the other, hydrogen, is more easily IL
niled than gnnpowder itself Lei us for mo-
ment suppose HAT every watery particle to he
separated INTO its original elements let there be-
fur an instant. IA diSunion of these two invisible
gases aud we have no need nf fiery comets flying
through the realms of space TO set our planet in a
blaze.
Again: should the expansive pnwer of heat
cease 10 separate the PARTICLES oi water in such
manner as 10 render them specifically lighter and
more hunyan, than the clrcumjaceni atmosphere T.;
II" longer would clouds oi vapJr borne by the
breath ut Heaven be- seen caretring, like angels
al mercy, through the skies bearing health hope
aud beauty in their full charged bosom, nu lnnuer
wimld refreshing showers descend upon the gras-
sy mountain side. and shed new lite and vigur
through The vale no pugpr would the nrld
lIghlnlngS Launch along The sky To purify each
earth. would only offer To the eye one wide
waste of arid deS,laIiun. The charming lnts of
natures iich praclIllng would fade away Win
ter would forget his sn""y robe, spring her YER
dant covering summer her needlu nutrment u,
man and beast. and Ia the vegetable world and
aniumns golden cornnc"pia would be broken.
scattered over vide plains Of burning sand would
lie The bleachlng bones oi furnished myrIadS
We have not time space Ia ennmeraie the
multiudrs of Orher that would result from
! This one slight deviation from natures urdinar,
course. But again: suppose that power of al
IrarlIun which now binds worlds individually and
collectively together cease It's operations /:
nature cfumbng la decay. w0nId have hui atoms
here to rush on aIuns there. in wild confusinn
NEEDING. or scattered through the void immrnsit,
of chaotic space Ia fv To far off regions in the
Universe al God which finite mind would seek
IN vain t" thom, and imagins ton s hlcrst Aiuhis
nInsi fail tn reach. VIII" Will mol delight To I'm :
vesligate the wnndr"us works of nature S.