The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-02-03

being above and beyond al this animal instinct Thew
are alike the appointed guides Of each class of BEINGS
put they completely differ in their very nature-in the
fundamental attributes. There is in animals rreat
beauty Of instinct; but there is In divine reason
an there 10 hardly animal beneath man that does not
usnssend him in instinct. II is by wisdom and UNDER
tnat man Is superior to the brute creation. The
& separate and complete existence from his
The breahsd into his hs 81 @
ana man eecame-what no material formstio could
in man or IN M hrv,a s0., Animal instinct, whether
mans soul thinks thousand sects AMI = sssn IN
entire opposition to the animal intnoften il Is cor
quered and subjected BY the animal inssinct In tse
body it dwells habitation; but 1t increasingly vim.
dcates its higher being and 1t leaves it lives ON
without It. The soul Of man Is capable Of unlimited
qurement and education. How much may not In
diyiduai acquire? Bishop Andrews and Cardinal Mezzo
fant two great linguists Illustrations Of cass
kepler Newton and La Place of another
class The nat1raists may answer that their thoughts
arose from the mechanical combustion of their
brain Their thoughts indeed thoughts that burn
and will enlightcn all future ages Each successfully
builds higher from the point which others have attained
limits can be placed. How sngularly deficient is instinct
in man The chicken viii run from danger surely
but the child win grasp the aame Of candle even as Il
would toy The youth of the human soul is the time
Of its weakness; but it knows age-no bounds
life cannot bound them They ask for eternity which
God alone could make for such creature Eer
remarkably distinguished by its social affections. How
effective and self denying have been these social
tons the whole history OF man displays. The life
absurd to point to the maternal relation, which,
only applies while the young are helpless. Age
has h; no effect on the maternal love Of woman it
binds on even in the Imagination to the memory tho
hearts the principles the whole destiny Of being long
after what was mortal in the parent has crumbled into
this is mere chemical forces We say Il is an inwarI
Of its "h that
this Is chemical operation is TO affirm that which every
man knows to be false and absurd There is majestic
power OF conscience which cannot deny, and which
makes of itself two different beings it in
erior and the other exalted No such quality exists in
the brute creation but this inward moral
of is the voice Of God in the human soul Nota fault
escapes its Of scrutiny and judgment reaxes not
its authority and grasp to the close Of e 1t the
with any materialstic theory Of his origin and being
Man is voluntary actor but animal ins .inct has
For @ uss ao IN a and
ty cat will eat the most cherished songsers natu
rally and nnoeently as the mouse in the trap. In
and this consciousness forms the basis hs claims his
fellow To consider all human as mere instinct
to dsorganze society what could Justify the hanging
for the mere specific combustion OF the branY The
soul OF man has an inward consciousness Of Immortality
Animal instinct has fears and authorizations. You
may drive the herd and the flock well to the fold
to the slaughterh0use The soul presses forward 10
something still in the future It's pressing forward to
for is
that ancient mythology could think of the soul rising
phGnix from its ashes But he did wonder that the
philosophers of the present time could all the
ders Of man. and then back and that creation
was mere chemical act and thought combustion
Of the BRAIN Sure striving to be wise they have be-
come FOOLS The soul Of recognize the power Of
the Creator in his workscan read his mind in what he
has doneit pray to him with perception of the
dignity Of the act till vice has brualized its perceptions
materalism destroyed its sense. Here is capacity
which completely vndicates the nature of man. and
powerful and manifest in the bosom of the peasant in
that of the best educated The argument through which
he had passed necessarily very oondensed but surely
it was adequate and convincing it may help to elevate,
you to the highest purposes in e and show you that
maintain the truth Of divine inspiration is not
sarily weakness. The lecturer concluded amid some
applause.