American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-09-26
IMMUTARILITY or NATURE.

Mutablity and decay are inseparable from
the works of Art. The hand of man has fash
toned nothing that will forever remain un-
changeable and iapershable. The magnifi-
cent cathedral and the stone built castle c1um-
BILE and fall. Governments change. Revo-
luton follows revolution in rapid succession
like the shadows of summer clouds chasing each
other over the plain.
But the books of nature are not thus sub Jet
to change. lmmutablity is stamped upon
them. They are secure from decay and eX-
empt from annhilation. True, the flower
blossoms and fades; the green drapery with
which the country is now clothed will lose ltS
loveliness and the yellow haryests OF autumn
will disappear at the approach OF winter. The
proud OAK, too, whose branches now wave ma
jest!caly in the wn !, and whose tooth Q! cor
ruption, will grow rotten and m'nglc with the
earth from whence 1t sprung. But these are
specks in the universe Of Nature. Though
the flowers do withcr and the oak decay;
though the green heritage Of Summer gives
place to the drifting SHOWS Of winter ard the
balmyair and cheerful sunshine CT June be fol-
lowed by the wild blasts OF January, the i'm
mutable principle is still manifest IN Naturc's
creation,
The aWs which govern the universe are I'M
niutable. The REGULAR order in which the
changes around US occur, are sub Jet neither to
wide fluctuations nor accidental arrangement.
From ycar to wear we WitnesG the same sue
cession Of the selsous. Since the Almighty
spoke into existence the world We inhlbjt, the
attenuation OF dav and night has never ceased
and the gentle dcws and genial showers have
never failed to visit the eartll at their appoint
cd season. In a serene evening, who ever turn
ed his eve upward when the golden lamps Of
heaven were not emitting their feeble light?
And do not astronomers tel Us that these
worlds which seem Ike floating specks in the
universe ale governed by no fixed, immutuble
lawe? Jupiter and his foar attendant worlds
have never ceased to revolve. Saturn, with
his concentrc rings and seven satellites have
been borne "on their broad pathway thro' the
heavens at the same unVaryIng rate. by an
;mnutabe law Of nature the moon WAKES and
wanes, the sea GIBBS and flows. Light has ever
traversed the universe with the same unvarying
rapidly and the velocity OF sound has ever re-
manned the same
The scenery OF nature in its most majestic
features, bids defiance TO change. The tower
ing mountain, since man became an observer,
never laid aside its grandeur and submity. 1t
stands mistaken amidst the play Of the storm
and the war OF the elements. The bolt that
bursts upon IFS summit cannot rand il asCnder,
nor can the iarring thunder shake it from its
base. Hannibal could smooth passage over
the Alps, bat the combined force Of the whole
hun1an race is too weak to remove the huge
mass froa lis foundation.
There is no change in the waterfall. from
day TO day, and from year to year, We behold
tho waters ofth2 same stream rushing along i'll
the same course, ever lOaminT and ire,tlng rs
tFev Glide downward, under the shadows Of