The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1854-08-03
THE PRIMITIVE MAN.

IaE EhIMIIttE NJ AN
I hold Il to be morally impossible for God
TO have created in the beginning, such men
and women as wo find the human race ia
their physical condition, now to be. Exam
inc the book OF Genesis, which contains the
earliest annals of the human family. As is
commonly supposed it comprises the first
three hundred and sixty.nine years Of hu.
man history. With .hildlike simplicity,
this book describes the infancy OF mankind.
Unlike modem histories, it details the minu-
test circum stances of Individual life. In
deed, 1t is rather series of biographies
than Of history. The false delicacy of mod
eln times did not forbid the mention of
whatever was done or suffered. And yet,
over all that expanse Of time--for more than
one-ihird part of the duration of the human
race-not q single instance is recorded OF
child born blind, or deaf, or dumb, or IDIOT
ic, or malformed in any way. During the
whole period, no. single case of natural
death in infancy, or childhood, or early
ihahhooo' OF eVeh vi ih'ou'o i''ahu'ou
be found. NOT one man OF woman oied oi
disease. The simple record is. "and he
died." or, he died sin good old age and
full of years." or he was "oid and full oil
days." No epidemic, or even endemic dis
ease 2rexailsd, showing that they dsea she
natural death OF healthy men, and not the
urnsluTal death OF dislempefed ones
Throrah all this time, (excspt ia the single
case pf Job, in his age, and then only for
day Of TWO before his death, y It does moi ap-
pear that any. man was Ill, or that auy old
lady o. young lady ever tainted. Bodily
pain rom disease is no where mentioned.
NO cholera infantum, scariesina, measles,
sma'i pox, not even too.n-acoe. 90 ex-
staordinary hing was II Tor son 70 DIE
before his father, mat an instance OF u IS
deemed worthy OF special notice; and this
tlrst case OF the reversal oil natnre's law was
Two thousand years a'ier tue creation OF al
am. See how this reversal OF nature's law
has for us become the law; iof now rarely
II is now Tor all the children OF a family 10
snrvive the parents. kscnel d,ei at 'he
'birlh OF benjamin but this ss The only case
~ prsrpefal death mentioned IN the twenty
years -'i the sacred h,s'ofyi
and even ih's happened during Inc faligues
OF Patnarcnai journey, when persons were
not waited along IN the saloons OF ran
car or steamboat. Had Adam, .hink you,
tuperculous lungs; was Eve nat chested' or
dld she cultivate 'ne serpen''ne i'te oil grace
10 q curved spine pid Nimfod get up IN
the. morning with iurred tongue, OF was ne
soruehied with dyspspsias Had Esau the
gout OF hepaiisis! Imagine now the Tough
old Patriarchs would have looked at being
asxed TO subscribe for lying 10 hospital, or
an asylum for iunatics, or an eye and cal IN
firmary, or school for idiols or dsaf-mutes.
What would their eagle vision and swift
footedness have said to the project of Q
blind asylum or an orihopedIc establish
menif Did they suffer any Of these rava.
ges Of nature as aiust false civilization ? Mol
Man came from the hand Of God so perfect
in his bodiiy organs so deficient of cold and
heat, q drought and humidity so surcharg1
cd wishssi.al Gosce, that irtooK more than
two thousand years Of the combined abom-
nations OF appetite and ignorance ii took
successive ages Of outrageous excess and de-
bauohefy, 10 draia of his electric energies
and make him even accessible to disease