The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-07-24
MISCELLANY.
NOTHING MADE IN VAIN.

no relations with any thing else-nothing
which is not serviceable or instrumental to
other purposes besides its own existence
nothing that is not to be applicable or con-
yerrble to the benefit OF His sentient crea-
lures in some respect or other. The mine
raj has connection Of this sort with both
the vegetable and animal kingdoms, and
these with each other. The same principle
has been pursued throughout the animated
classes Of nature No one species Of living
being has been formed only for itself, or can
subsist in absolute uselessness to others.
This is one grand purpose for causing 50
many races OF animal beings to subsst on
each other. BY this system each enjoys the
gift of life, and each is made to contribute,
by the termination Of that gift, to the we'll
being of others. Fishes are thus useful to
each other, to many birds, TO some animals,
and to man. Birds have their period Of
happiness for themselves, and are service
able TO others of their kind, and to man,
and TO some quadrupeds, in their mode Of
death, instead of Wondering through cor
ruptiOn into their material dissolution
Quadrupeds have the same double use in
their existence; their own enjoyment, and
the benefit at their death, to those of their
own order, and TO the birds and reptiles,
worms and insects, that have been appoint
ed TO derive nutrition from their substance
All the kingdoms of nature have been like
wise so constructed, as to be beneficial to
the human race, not as nutrment only, but
in the thousand cOnveniences to which they
are convertible. The mphibious order OF
nature is no exception TO these general re.
suits. Its various genera contribute their
proportions to the common stock of mutual
utilities. They have their own qualification
from their personal existence; they contrl.
butte by their substance to the maintenance
of others of their fellow creatures; and
some Of their genera serve TO multiply the
conveniences and pleasures of man. He
derives advantages from all that exists in as
much larger degree to any other animal as
he is superior TO any in his intellectual exer
tons and universal capacity Sharon Tur
ner's Sacred History of the World.
INFANCY OF KNOWLEDGE.
| Mankind, but few ages since, were in
very poor condition as TO trade and navi
CATION; nor indeed, were they much better
off in other matters Of useful knowledge. Il
was a green-headed time; very useful I'M
prOvement was held from them they had
neither looked into heaven nor earth, neither
into the sea nor land, as has been done since
They had philosophy without experiment
mathematics without instruments, geometry
without scale, astronomy without demonstra
ton. They made wal without powder, shot,
cannon, or mortars; nay, the mob made
their bonfres without sluibs or crackers.
They went TO sea without compass, and sail.
ed without the needle. They viewed the
stars without telescopes, and measured alti-
tudes without barometers. Learning had
no printing press, writing no paper, and pa
per no ink. The lover was forced to send
his mistress deal board for love-letter,
and billei-doux might be of the size Of an
ordinary trencher. They were clothed with
out manufactures, and their richest robes
We're the skins Of the most formidable mon
sters. They carried on trade without books,
and correspondence without posts; their
merchants kept no accounts, their shop
Keepers no cash books; they had surgery
without anatomy, and physicians without
the materia medica; they gave emetics with
out ipecacuanha, and cured asues without
bark .-Curiosities for the Ingenious.
PREJUDICE.
Of prejudice, it has been truly said that
it ha sthe singular ability Of accommodating
itself to all the possible varieties of the hu-
man mind. Some passions and vices are
but thinly scattered among mankind, and
find only here and there fitness of recep-
ton; but prejudice, like the spider, makes
every where its home. 1t has neither taste
nor choice Of place, and all that it requires
is room. There is scarcely situation, ex-
cept fire and water, in which spider will
not live So let the mind be as naked as
the walls Of an empty and forsaken tene-
ment, gloomy as dungeon, or Ornamented
with the riches, abilities of thinking; let it
be hot, cold, dark, or light, lonely or inhab.
tied, still prejudice, if undistuubed, will fill
it with cobwebs, and live like the spider
where there seems nothing to live ON. II
the one prepares her food by poisoning ii to
her palate and her Use, the other does the
same; and as several Of our passions are
strongly characterized by the animal world,
prejudice may be denominated the spider of
the mind.-Montagu's Thoughts.
EARLY RISING.
There is no time spent so stupidity as that
which inconsiderate people pass in a morn
ing, between sleeping and waking. He
who is awake, may be at work or at play ;
he who is asleep, is receiving the refresh.
ment necessary to fit him for action; but the
hours spent in doing and slumbering are
wasted, without either pleasure or profit.
The sooner you leave your bed, the schooner
you will be confined to it. When old peo-
pie have been examined in order to ascertain
the cause Of their longevity, they have uni.
fomly agreed in one thing only, that they
call went to bed, and all rose, carly
The Circulator.
Business says celebrated writer, sis
the salt Of life, which not only gives CRATE
full smack to it, but dries up those crudities
that would offend, preserves from putrefac-
ton, and drives off all those blowing flies
that would corrupt it. Let a man be SIRE
TO drive his business, rather than let it drive
him. When man is but once brought to
be driven, he becomes vassal to his affairs.
Reason and right give the quickest despatch