New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-07

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the shell which produces the bird The lecturer then
explained that the shell hsh took in air with the water
which supported them, and tha, there were lungs in
shell hsh, might be in the oyster where there
is coating round the she'll and ether hsh sooS
sir by the glls with water, bat the proof thai
they consumed little air was the whiteness Of their
I flesh lie then came 10 animals, and explained
that the lungs were bag fastened a, the top
which expanded or contracted according as the air
was taken il or put out BY respiration The lecturer
laid il down principle Tia: the lower the animal Is
in the scale Of beings the less sir be requires for the
support of life and the higher in The scale OF beings
the more air for the same purpose. The qusnnty OF
air, however, which person consumes depends In
some measure oneself and by training can be made
more or lees The taylor and shoemaker take little in
COMPARISON with the lsborer. and the public speaker
srd singer thosc who cry commodities Tor sale
through the streets. man in good hesith MAKES
eighteen respirstous in a minute, and 10 twen'yiour
I hours consumes if,yone hogsheGds Of air. Food IL
generally taken three times day and some persons
have tasted twen;y-four hours without much ineon'
venience; but let any one put bis fingers his nos
trs and close his mouth for three minutes aud he vii
experience feeling of sufocstion which continued
for very short space would produce death Respra-
ton is the last act OF digestion, for without this our
food would be useless clay and il is by this
air that the food is turned into blood As the oxygen
which supports HE is small ought 20 be very par
ticular how we permit other gases TO mix with II and
vtiete it, The blood, when t enters the lungs
is blsck but when the oxygen acts on il II be-
comes red and sends il through the veins 10
impart life and animation This black bloois produced
by carbon and imparts the blaekness which we sec in
the face Of persons whe lose their ves by suaocaton,
because the oxygen not let reach the lungs TO pur
fyit When send out the air from the lungs we do
not send il in the same manner We inhaled il, for
when exhaled il is deadly poison arsenic cor
rosve sublimate The lecturer showed this BY expert
mcnts and illed vase with his own breath in which
a lighted candle would not live. Ii was such air as
killed persons who went down into wells in the country
or who died when pan of charcoal placed in
ROOM The danger OF taking impure matter into the
stomach was not great into the lungs, for the
stomach had power TO eject Impurities which the lungs
had not The lecturer went on then TO explain how
careful persons should be live in pure atmosphere
and that other sickness attributed 70 different causes
when want of pure air the sole cause. Beside
the impure air we exhale there are $500 pores on
every square inch of the surface of the body and to
body of large size there are $500 square inches and
these multiplied make 100000 OF pores. Tnere Is
sort of drainage pipe in the body which sends out mat
ter well gas and this pipe is calculated NJ twenty
eight miles long The particles of matter which are
out and which do not dissolve are 30 numerous,
that in China, where the houses are low and great
many persons arc in the habit Of assembling in one
room il has been discovered that after fifteen or TWEEN
ty years these particles adhere much TO the ceiling
of the that the farmers will contract 10 put up
ceiling if they are allowed to take down the Old
one 90 valuable has it been found for manure. The
lecturer went at much length to explain the ncces-
sity of pure air the absence of which he attributed
great many diseases and particularly consumption
and that pure air was often the best medicine that could
be given the sick.
An election for officers will take place ut the Institute
next Tuesday so there will be nolecture
! The Interior Life-Its Relations md Faculties
BY REV. HENRY GILES.
The eighth lecture of the New England
/ Course was delivered In the Brooklyn Institute
! Tuesday evening by Rev. HENRY GILES. 1t was dis
course characterized by felicity Of dcton precision OF
analysis force and sparkle OF imagery and adery inn
passioned style of delivery In commencing, he said;
| sit by my window: river Is In my view line Of
wooded hills slope up before the river It is autumn
time and the Is setting. The parting beams are
purplng the uplands the stream crecps azy along in
shadow: stiffness Is in the air the stiffness would be
silence except that underhum of music, like the
I
nature obscarity gathers the eastern landscape
but the western sky Is crowded with golden paa es,
and yisas open beyond them into endless turn
my eyes from the dim objects OF earth TO the gorgeous
visions of the heavens while gaze the whole fades he
fore me- and darkness is on the face OF the world.
draw the curtains and quickly lamp is lighted; q
household circle comes into view, and intimate afcc
tons are excited into action. take ups newspaper
an account Of calamity to numbers grieves me and
yet, all know Of these numbers Is that they are
human lay the journal down, and, looking
around the chamber, my attention is drawn to a
print of divine tranquility and beauty my uneasiness
is Gained and my spirit Is reaned-l read pathetic
| tale my emotions are stirred | read noble poem
nv imagination Is filed / read passage Of history
and have sense Of being enlarged I read piece Of
! grand philosophy;-my intellect is strengthened, and
| my ideas are elevated. And when all these are away,
am again alone with myself: reflect on whit | have
thought or spoken or done associate with much Of
H. the power and the freedom OF my will with such
association comes the inimation Of right wrong Of
approval or censure Of satisfaction or of shame The
"sof" of the Present calls back the SELF Of the Past
and bringing the consciousness that had been into view
of the consciousness that s the self" of the Present
Judges and criricses the self" Of the Past. have
not left my chamber and yet my soul has lived in
varied and profound existence. It has had notice OF
things immense; feelings Of things social and con
sciousness Of things PERSONAL in other words, OF the
uniyerse-of general humanity, and OF the individual
| self
| Here has been the presence Of peculiar hie That
life to which the setting has been reality was not 10
the sun that sets not in the eye that looked upon
the setting ii aot in the sensation which came by
the medium OF the eye it il something distinct from
the sunset-somethng behind the sensation something
interior and inscrutae something, not OF matter not
of the animal not limited, not local IL Is something
which in It's ultimate consciousness 10 uncreumscriDed
in the depths Of being The soul in every spot sn the
center Of the infinite In every moment In the center
of eternity every idea OF space and motion suggests
boupdless universe every idea Of time and transition
suggess endless duration. Every conception oil oeing