The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-09-12
IIaInIllaIDiIitY 81. NaflIrc.

hkaNAl1eg 1atu uS1eg ute hSepaIdDie from L
the works Of Art. The hand Of man has
fashioned nothing that will forever remain
andimperishRble. The mag.
nifeeflt cathedral aud the stone buiit castlesl
crumble and fall. Governments change. /
Revolution follows revolution in rapid sues /
cession like the shadows Of summer clouds
chasing each other over the plain.
But the books Of nature are not thus subject |
Itochange. ImmutabiIity is stamped upon
them. They are secure fiom decay and |
e xempt from humiliation. True, the
flowers blossom and fade; the green drape.
" with which the country is now clothed
will lose It's loVeliness; and the yellow har,
vests of autumn will disappear at the ap9
proach of winter. The proud oak, too,
whose branches now wave maiesticaIly in
the wind, and whose tooth of corruption,
will grow rotten and miBgle with the earth
from whence it sprung. But these are
specksin the universe of Nature. Though
the flowers do Wither and the oak decay;
though the green heritage of summer gives
place to the drifting SHOWS of winter; and
the balmly air and cheerful sunshine of June
be followed by the wild blasts of January,
the immutahle principle is still manifest in
/ Natures creation.
Il The laws which govern the universe are
{ immutable. The regular order in which
the changes around us occur, are subject
neither to wide fluctuations nor accidental
ldelangement. From year TO year we wits
ness the same succession of the seasons
] Since the Almighty spoke into existence.
the world we inhabit, the alienation of dav
: and night has never ceased; and the gentle
deWs and genial showers have never failed
! to visit the earth at their appointed season.
0 In aserene eveing, who evel turned his eye
' upward when the ''golden lamps ofheayen'
\ were not, emitting their feeble Light And
0 do not astronomers tell US that these worlds
5 which seem like floating specks in the uni.
' verse are governed by no fixed, immutable
! laws2 Jupiter and his four attendant world ]
have never ceased TO reVolVe. Saturn, with
G his conceRtric rings and seven satelits have
been borne 'son theiF bread pathway tire
the heavens" at the same unVarying rate.
By an immutable law of nature the moon
wakes and Ranes the sea GIBBS and flows.
Light has ever traversed the universe with
the same unVaTying Tapidlty and the Yeloci.
: ly of sound has ever remained the same.
The scenery oil nature in its most males.
! tic features, bids defiance to change. The
towering mountain, since man became an
observer, never laid aside its grandeur and
i Isublimity. 1t stands mistaken amidst the
Q play Of the storm and the war of the ele,
Q ments. The bolt that bursts upon its sum-
olmit cannot rend it asunder, nor can the Jar.
y ling thunder shake it from its base. Hanni
il bal could smooth passage over the Alps
IF but the combined force of the whole human
) race is too weak TO remove the huge mass
. from its foundation.
q There is no change in the WATERFALL
d From day to day, and from year to year, We
e behold the waters of the same stream rush
e ing along in the same course, ever foamins
~ and fretting as they glide downward, undo
es the shadows of tangled trees and oveIhang
le ing cliffs What mutations in nature vii
lg make the proud river cease to flow! A
s, long as Che mountain springs are supplies
n with rain from heaven, the deep rolling wa
on tiers viii hurry forward and lose themselVe
as in the ocean.
sy And when will the ocean changed tt
se always the same boundless expanse-th
=, same hoaFy waste of waters. Man is IN;
az bic to make single abiding impression u
on If. The keel of the ship ploUghs It's 70
g row on The bosom Of the deep, the waite
p close behind and 20 trace is there. @
lilt ocean remains the same liquid, limitle
TIT body. with no perceptible increase Or dim
a. ution of bulk.
the desert Is as changeless as the ocea
thousand centuries may roll BY, and
dFeariness. and desolation will remain.
yerduFs will ever render beautiful The Sd
dr. waste; no feTtiIizing stream will ep
ia gladden. The dry and burning desert.
81 The musiciof nature retains is primer
of sweetness and harmony. The last gent
al zephgr that played through the forest, toue
ore ed the chord of nature harp IS skilfn
Is tie first breeze that wokesthe stiffness
Eden's groves. The woods, rocks, a
a. waves. have been the instrument upon VIII
Der The elements have played and thers IS
sad change u The music they produce.
81 Survey Nature il IL Iier forms, and
81 shall find permanence that does not
els long = Enan-an illiElul BE pFincip lei
rcd ing throughout. Tho slight changes
der The surface o. the earth may seem OBJ
rec sed 70 tha theory q universal stability, /
science shows us that these Changes
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