The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-10-04

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has been well said of the disciples OF this school, that
40 be defed 10 The face BY any sti necked problem
which this poor universe can produce V Humiliation 10
which they are accustomed submit A the nature
and attributes oflh Deity arc beyond their understand
ing His existence is beyond their belief. They belong
to the class 20 well described by Pope,
Who boldly takes the high prori road,
And reason downward iii they doubt OF God"
bold than startling, has been in work recent
published, and entitled Veslges OF the Natural His
tory OF Creaton," and which, according to an eminent
Scotch review, has been received with "suddsn oil
iavor" while English review OF equal authority con-
sders this book ihe best adapted OF all The productions
OF modern literature to give right direction 10 the phi
losophica Investigations OF the highest subjects OF hu
man interest" This theory authoratively announces
that "the whole train OF animated beings, from the sim
pes and Oldest forms up 10 the highest and most recent
then to be regarded as series OF advances OF the
principle OF development which have depended upon ex
terna physical circumstances 70 which the resulting ami
mails are appropriate" And thus the mysteries OF the
universe are unfoded by the mystihcaons OF false
philosophy, and men who cannot believe in Creator
believe in such creation as ths-iD spontaneous genera
on and in the transmutaion OF species Verify scept-
cism and creduy very near neghbors IN these NOR
tai frames of ours and the old Latin saw "Credo quia
posSlbis est"-l believe because is mpossbles as
true now as il twenty centuries ago. We have 10
Judge between the Redeemer OF man, who tells us that
The gerry hairs Of head all numbered and that not
sparrow falls to the ground Witou Me knowledge Of our
Heavenly Father and the prophets and neophyes OF this
new faith, who assert that the creation OF lower animal
is an inconceyably paltry exercise OF Almighty power"
monkeys and that our poserty will be angels
something higher in the order Of Nature, by successive
by which "organc life presses in" Tor. in other words,
creates itsel) lpheyerer ii has and encourage
ment, and accommodates It's forms to suit the CIR
cuBstaaces," (his less clear than satisfactory
and "a superadequaey in the measure of this underade
quaey ooutd enable goose 10 giue to its progeny the
body of rot and thus "one species gave birth 10
other, till the second highest gave birth to man." And
we are also told that our horses Paky derata
(names things, said Mabeau; and when they not
they too often their substitutes huge, half formed
living monsters. stretching like the fallen archangel
of Milton Inany rood, with three toes and claws,
eating herbs strange as themselves and that they will
march steadily onward in the scale of being, perhaps ill
they become able like the winged horse Of the ancient
mythology, carry through the fields Of air instead
OF the fields of earth, with improved powers and
larged faculties suited to higher sphere Of action and
that wheat fern or weed. and will in time
become ambrosla bearing plant, as far exceeding it's
present condition il is now advanced beyond its Orig
nal prototype, fitting food It may be, tor the human
when has taken its higher position in that ascending
series of progression and development to which is des
tined by this consoatory system OF psychology Till that
era arrives thus oreold by this faith and oreseen
by these prophets agriculture will be guided by
the principles of observation and induction and
without the vain and impious effort to break down the
barriers established by the Creator and 10 usurp His
province in the government OF creation.
Reason and revelation equally us that the
Great First Cause is everywhere, and everywhere and
always operation, either primarily and by its own
agency secondariy and by the agency OF laws il has
established And it is not gwen to TO comprehend
TEN of causatloR commenced its work, still goes
ward IN It's task
Earth on whose lap thousand nations tread,
Aud Ocean brooding his prolific bed,
Nights changeiui orbs bright and svery zones,
Where other worlds enciroie other suns,
One mind inhabits, one dHusve soul
Wieds ,h. large limbs and mingles with the whole"
The fossil bones of antediluvan monsters in rocky
siraa and their footmarks upon nduraed clay strange
heros yphics upon the monuments of Nature, written
language which man is striving to decipher have been
resoed 10 IN proof or IN illustration OF this scheme of
creation equally contradcted by the Book of Gods Word
and by The Book OF His Works There are far better
yesliges of crea,ion in His footmarks around ma in
His footsteps upon the and the land, impressed
upon the whole organization OF Nature, than these
searches, too often merely coDjectura into the
condition OF the globe furnish They are intel
all the facts connected with the natural history
the planet we inhabii. but than worthless when
used 10 shake faith the revelations OF Christianity
or in the attributes OF its Divine founder.
have presented for your consideration-for your
operation, indeed-various suggestions connected with
the advancement OF agriculture; but lar beyond these in
influence and importance is the advancement OF the ag
cuituTis-the education, sound PRACTICAL and enlarged,
OF that body OF youth who FORM and FORM
the farming interest OF our couniry-an interest that
braces more than one-haf OF our populaton and still
greater proportion OF the permanent influence to which
social md political institutions must look Tor support
in those periods OF their trial which have heretofore come
upon other nations and have come upon The cult
OF the soil engaged OF the nobes occupa
lions that belongs to the whole circle OF human employ
mentin repten,hing The earth and subduing IT, and IN
multiplying every herb-bearing Seed and every tree in
Uhicf ~ inc JTw 81 Tree Niefding seed, all OF which
were given TO for meat before he lett his print
tive residence where God first planted him. He deals
with organic life, with It's production, its Improvement,
It's null plicatoD, with the OF subsistence for that
great family OF rational and responsible beings which
" has dominion Az that the earth brings FORTH
well sperv hung hing that moutM upon IT, His
existence does not pass crowded cities, the works OF
man, surrounded with the physical and moral ills which
a dense population is sure to bring with il. He walks
abroad among the works OF God reading the great book
OF Nature, whose every page filled with lessons OF
wisdom, written in characters that msunder
stand but he fool that SAID has heart there God
The light that shines, the wind that blows the rain
that falls the phenomena of Nature are the companions
OF his daily. walks and work, mere objects of curl
osy or even OF contemplation, ind erent interesting
as he negects or observes them, but active agents
the domain OF Nature. performing The functions assigned
TO them, I'm seed time and harvest and cold and beat
and summer and winter, and day and night" which we
told by Him who knoweh and ordaineth it, shall NOT
cease mhk The earth rens,nsth.
The work shop OF the farmer not narrow and heat
ed ROOM shut out from light and but broad fields and
open sky the witnesses OF his labors and il is
not inert matter that he deals with, calling ex-
erton hs powers only, but OF the great
kingdoms OF living natate furnishing subjects of cease
less observation and wonder 10 the hehee intellect and
forever inviting the researches OF man, well by the
arged views presents OF great natural operations BY
the effect OF this increased knowledge upon The heart and
the understanding, and by the rewards which sure to
follow the exerons OF the enlightened cultivator
From the hyssop that springeh out OF the wall to the
cedar OF Lebanon, from the lowesl plant tina, creeps
above OF vegetation, resisting the winds of Heaven
for centuries there ia mighty Of organized forms
endowed with principle OF vitality which proclaim the
power of God and invite The researches OF man. Won