Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-05-17

velous are thy works. Lord God Almighty !" There can
be no source of happiness pure enduring the
the beautu-a love which grows by what feeds upon
Thus was Beauty sent from Heaven
The lovely ministries OF truth and good
In this dark world.
CosvEHsArIos X.
ScEsE.-A hilltop, ,oith ioide spread pietv.
Edith No toll is better repaid than ascending lofty hill
like this How beautiful it is to wslk through 'the frost
fog gray that autumn morning partly wells these ee
waited spos and then floating away, and seeming to
dissolve into light and hail the progress Of the ascending
First to only region of unknown mist then through
partial dim forms Of distant things and at last
splendid scene with varied objects, brilliant In unclouded
sunshine, and overarched by the unspoed sky II is like
witnessing the successive stages Of creation Outward
and visible powers do appears finger draws aside the
curtain of the mist; scfmOved the glides noseless
through the sky We above the turmoil of the busy val
below further from the sbodes Of men, but in sensation
though in reality, to those of spiritual beings
Lyuph-Such and such times make two appeals,
one action and another reflection We feel the bound
ing energy Of mountain breeze and the calm deep thought
with its anties to the Questionable abysses Of heaven,
clear and free from the vapors which are below.
E.-Although mountains among the grandest facts,
when on them seem in the regions Of fancy
L.-Wheren found the submest realities.
E.-To what extent souls indebted to those
gigantic disturbances Of the solid globe by which mountains
upheaved and all the wdness Of picturesque beauty
substituted for dead level plains which, without the
Of noble objects, would have told little Of those sublime
OF WnIcn pr0pnet, stone book
L-Wonderfu are the harmones of nature each fact
each power s much-s note Of many meo
dies portion Of such varied shapes color Of many
pictures Myrads of ages ago, chemical and other agencies
were at work to produce results which now affect the physical
comforts and help mould the inost thoughts Of men, whose
creation, long posteror TO theirs yet makes with them
portion Of the everlasting chain of creative thought Nature
with the hand scaers abroad spiritual and physical
gs BY one operation, deep sunken strata have been ee-
vated eahs mineral wealth. the countless treasures Of mine
and quarry brought within human reach and regions Of such
beauty formed that poet and painter find their ideal OBJ
jecs the ground where labor gives nations the
physical Of conqueng the globe Metal and coal are
two Of the mghest instruments placed at mans disposal
and when associated with and mountain appealing to
all the nober feelings Of his nature may read the great
lesson that the material and the spiritual in themselves
some point Of imperfect view. External nature has done
what man must do in his mind and heart harmonousy
reconcile the two.
E.-Wha majestic poetry is that of science Well may
philosophy have been called divine. like
egivng shower, it again ascends its lofty birthplace
drawn upwards by the beams of the Great Source Of Tuth
L-Ths solid earth, the hard mountain which
stand is to great extent but air slight change in
its chemical aines and it would be mingled with the
mosphere again asght change in The condition Of the solid
matter that remained, and that too would gaseous
FORM Many might lead suppose that weight on
gravitation accident essential characteristics Of
matter and, for aught know, solid ponderabe materials
may pass into the almost spiritual condition of light heat,
and electricity Nothing but balancing ofpowers which the
slightest alteration Of natural laws would oyerturn keeps
geher the fabric of globe. The solid substance,
that balance overturned, would vanish like dream
very slight change Of the arrangement Of elemental particles
would convert wholesome food into noxious poison and
the properties of substances upon which happiness
and existence depend. We know that the same elements
may combine in precisely the properties and yet pro-
duce compounds of very varied character. Not moment
but change takes paceod snities and combinations are
dsurbed ones decentralization is ncessan and yet
through all the ncaculabe and nconceivabe number and
variety Of operations error occurs. With unimpaired
energy and unerring rec:itude the properties and powers
with which the materials Of globe endowed ages ago
still achieve their wondous work-a work which is at once
history prophecy, q revelation religion
E-I though all faculties united in the ultimate
truth which their most perfect exercise attain the poet
is nconscousy true to the philosophy of the profoundes
science; and the most lusous for wisdom in physical
knowledge rise above and through all petty detail into those
grand generazaons in which true poetry amply found
I've live in an atmosphere Of truth and beauty each
separates and sssimaes what he is able Very similar
the process of the vegetation around That distant
with its ancient oaks those uxuran fields with their rpen
crops whence do they derive large part Of their solid
matter 1t is the air floating around them, which brings in
the subest and most invisible FORM the supply carbon
which the delicate apparatus of organic life s able seze
and with upbud the stately tree the nutritious grain
Other elements there too borne by every wind plants
ready to take their part in the wonderful process by which
matter is condensed and arranged into the materials
which the human form is made. What wonderful
there in stories Of magical power than the creation of solid
palaces out OF thin floating clouds and yet every moment
nature condensng the transparent air into the endur
ing The decay Of animal and vegetable bodies
the outpourngs OF volcanic vapor continually adding
the treasures of the atmosphere The tendency of gases
mix most intimately the of rivers the melting snow
the ebo and now OF tides the action of electric currents all
help to minge the varied elements which the air consists
that every where organic life finds appropriate nurmen,
and means Of gro~th for only does the air contain sub
stances needu for the development of pante hut liz action
upon light hess and electricity makes vehicle by which
not food alone but the stimulus and power to use il are
once conveyed.
E-And all it throws the msgc Of color and aerial
perspective which, like descent Of tongues makes mani
mate nature even when most silent so truly eloquent.
L-such, then, small part Of what we owe to tho air
sucn e" OF the sublime views Of operations which
slender ray of science enables us to behold J -. c.r,
our minds back to the tabled beginning Of human ;dom
science hrst came from the stars and il has never f. ~
bear appropriate minds far beyond and above bs;, h.,,
chime Noble beyond conception ists mission in Tho ,o,d
To subdae physical elements, to make the mohe. ro..,
OF nature the minister Of human will to teach ma. ~,
are the great realities ofexistence, make a phvs.
but transparent veil through which he can dscs,n ,h
lime workings OF spiritual bengs-his part Of wis, 4 1.
destined TO accompsn and part Of which now dono and
in the past has DONE IL Is with such an apnrec,
work before him that Of science sbouId " VIZ
sustain his career In 90 DOING he NAV NEE, wih ,;.
honor in age when coarse and vulgar n,e,s.. -. 80
esteemed above the nobest truth bu, he will 49, s ~
to himself and true to that majestic Being whose -
endesvoring to eIpound and reward will not ~ no
surprising that which all the duelers 10 low o,ox.,;
| combined could give. 'e'"'s
E-Wouid that science were always tauoht il -,
spirit cannot but believe that to those only who feel ,h
devotion 10 natures truth great discoveries aios ~
L-And the history Of science proves the co,.s.
such view Those whose are beacon o.
pilgrims of truth. ever were such spirits IT, "o