Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1849-05-28

Shl> pOln' o Sieve these two grand urLs ~ lie c'ns
tute 'o.ethe, eplendd adjusting automatic machine.
lsese .ee the :wo d.i,ios Of III wurd Of organizl
ton reacna each uheP through the medium Of the
Smosphers-tfe Using against the IilesSS The moving
aIaln.' CHE a .ionle.1 and MT nly influencing each
o''er Though that medium. bus maintaining is proper
ll.s pSeser unimpYeS and yeafy 'or action. u 10 he
giry 0: Assnomy 70 says proved shat the planetary
ors. which crc around Che sun, % which earth
under Che Influences ~ pair Of 'oees thus 'eacng.
csn retain fhels movements undi>urbed through coming
eternity. AnG ii astronomy has made the splendid dis
c'srs that the inorganic world has attained condition
IT eternal equilibrium chemistry has rvaed il by show
ng that the grand truth apple IS to the world of
saHlzatlon 10 watch the eternal coming QUE Of the
sransltorv will Away, strike rejecting mind with
tons Of the hiahe. Animation Tile sunoeam-the fin
ger OF sr'd~l. flashes unknown regions Of he
universe IN masent, Banging lite ouf Of death, and
clothing The thisys around in manv colured dyes has
extracted shs condition Of sveIlas ng pesnansnce .oIa
! pre- existing inviSblIity.
From considering she dussment u the Two kincions
tosach other, might be led she idea that each in
dsIdual has his counterpart in the orhe idea bringing
US into relations wh the vgetatng world supported
by shs highest phosJ phical Considerations In imlgina
tlon we might work of groups In the two kingdoms
perhaps We who have to resist the storms of life,
mas haze representatives in the rugged trees Of the
forest The ladies Will ind their antagonists among the
and flowers. tron what has been SAID, You will
have learned how important is the post which oxygen
plays In the scheme OF nature. ~ it is Committed the
duty 10 destroy all animal races and transfer the paris of
which their bodies composed plants 1t begins to
discharge this function the begin ~ breathe,
peTvadng each instant every part Of bdes and bring
ing molecular death, and the ntinuous removal "
particle after particle which it carries For there
IS an lnceSSant change gpln9 in all living structures;
lai which we t'-pay differs fir IN yesterday and 10
morrow, and this unrng agent all tile time az work
nor stopping IN its actions with dissolution, but going
with into she tomb until have been restored ba..
y the air. tfthus the duration % individuals and race.
Is determined by the Two great systems OF forces "Ich
haze been combined into selfactng contrivanc-t
" IS OF the most inter sting inquiries in which
engage " find in what way estraordinary
bnatiun has been established 2rom those periods
Of the rarh's history q which revert-has the
same kind " agency prevailed Or have other avs
other Selt-actlng machines in Other times you see
here the doctrine " the geological antiquity Of
the earth without any kind Of hesitation During tWo
centuries, its spherical form bitterly denied BY many
good and well meaning Bot The truth at last pre-
vailed and. during the last fifty years, liz aye has in
similar way and on similar principles been contested But
this. like lie former, Is no" settled question. lie ~ho
thinks the earth only seH thousand years old simply
knows nothing abont it. lie who deniee its antiquity
will also probably deny its figure proceed Then rapid
" in the inquiry in which engaged. and would
premise shaI there is fac, better established in all the
range o. PIN steal science than that Of fes.ys before
meniiOneI:hat plants grow At the expense Of ..e alo.
phere.
tarhSS call to MIN: The settled Ytct haS all He
.eter bitnHn.ls anthracite is of vegetable 5gln.
that all 'he great deposits ostes carbonsceous materials
occurring esey where. for hundreds o. miles in extent
aud % unknown thickness, vegetable matters.
o.med .nde! she influence of the sunlight and exisin.
as luAusnt forest growths-torests which in
.nlombed in the bowels of the ssrti.. There ~as
then Time when a this carbon existed caI,nlc scid
ga. ts s:. gvin. Use 10 atmosphere in which.
ano". anAa life could not exist But che sun had
charge ~ !hs matter, and centuries rolled by he
extracting that poisonous gas from the atmosphere
the ca5 hon. fNd IT, in the orIn OF coal; aud
thus rendering back vital air oxygen gas, and getting
thn.s reads for Che appearance and continuance %
nal life therefore regard. in philosophical point q
sew the period of the deposit Of coal the great event
in the saIth's history
Yhos.. who are familiar with the details ofrhese things
will yecoGnl1e ii that period which pared off blank
solitude ore side. broken by the rude beginnings OF
Ow animal life, from that latter period the other. which
is Adorned by all the beautiful contrvances of animated
nature, and crowned by the presence Of man The laws Of
nature from the beginning been such they
now and we fully able the clear relationship
bwen the condition Of living things se surface Of the
.a,. and .he constitution of 1ne atmosphere What che
mistYy SAYS ought to have taken place IN successive cen
t,ies geology tells actually occurred understanding
the chansn. condition Of shiugs respects the
air. We could predict Inc CORES nuding changes
in animated nature, and the evidence that we
are r.h'. engraved shs socks aud stamped The
ocean.
So therefore. we see the relation that now exists be-
tween animals and plants, affair that has spTung
OF prior order Of things that there time when
she constitution Of the utterly unfit for the sup
port of animal life that publication took place through
The aco Of the rays Of sun, and the deposit Of coal marks
out the great epoch when life of high order among air
breating animals, became possibility. And from this
grand have sprung those great laws which deter
mined not only the Xliy of the constitution OF the air
but also the duration OF the species and individuals that
automatic self acting machine,I which animal and veg
etable life are the equalzing anagonstic principles
Through that astronomical agency TO which | have al
uded-the action Of light eXered during the period of
the deposit Of coala purcatUn OF the anosohere was
effected such extent, gradually to enable warm
bluoded animals to exist the temperature which they
attain being directly dependent upon the amount Of OK
ygen they take in from the air From these facts
lea t. rejoice \ hen spring approaches not much be
cause there is promise Of food, though should never
forget that al these vegetable products Of which many
are destined t. delight tastes mortal p0sons
while hey were vel the air, but chiefly because they
are indications that all that necessary for as thinking
beinos is accomplishing have told you that the con
tinuance of the life of is ndssouby linked with the
putting forth Of the buds Of the Let the one fail
and The other will speedily ollow;nay more AS all our IN
teec acts can only consequence OF respra-
ton and the respiration too, of such ananosphere as thai
Of our earth perceive that highest endowmenis are
thus connected with things first sight apparently having
no alliance And though it Is thus that arch chemist the
Sun, who ransnues poisonous gas IN the ar INTO rlts
seeds and aud flowers, who prepares the vital medium
that we breathe and enables therefore to think and
move shall we not look with veneralon, through his
more obvious agency, silent Influence that Is yond
Al.