The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1856-11-19

skin, In the form Of psrspifation, 10 very
shon time. The food, converted into bone
and muscle, especially In The fefmsr, pfobs-
bly, takes longest 10 change, but svsn the
bones are all changing with every bfsssh ,hss
10 drawn. In very short time, doub,Isss.
every part Of the body is consumed and 10.
newed. fse
The great agent 10 ell this is eombussiou:
That 10 10 say, We are each Of ~ all lhs Tina
burning up, purified hourly BY fre--a FIRE ID
the food snd 10 the bones of every living
man, every part ventilated with oxygen gas,
which 10 carried in the blood By The Iunes into
each nook and corner, and there, uniting with
the carbon, IL literally burns him up alive.
In fact oil animal heat is bu. the combustion
ofthe body, The burning up of fal and oshss
carbon Of the system, in consequences Of the
presence Of oxygen gas borne in the tide Of
the blood. .,s =
And what becomes of the great amount Of
water daily absorbed II serves for two pur-
poses-first, as canal 10 carry alike the fuel
and the oxygen 10 the different stations sII
over The body, and il also serves as reser.
voir 10 keep the FIRE in chsck, whenever
there is danger of fire getting the mastery.
If those water plugs, the capiIlaries of the
skin, get out Of order, or by any other means
the fire becomes uncomfortable, the man
burns up with the fever. Ifhe stir the fire BY
exercise, he gets hot, especially If be blow
with those bellows The lungs. II be lets the
fire alone, itgsis dull and choked up with
ashes. If he lives too fast by inhaling exhil-
arating gas, the carbouic acid gas accumu-
lates in the 81 stem SO fast that il chokes up
the vital powers, and may asphyxizts him.
But the combustion may be extremely low
without the fire going dead ont, as We see ia
cases Of ofhybernalion. Thus, some Of the In
dian tribes regularly take long nap through
The winter months to save food, i. 9. fuel;
and in India, some men have thus been pur.
pously buried alive and exhnmed and recov.
cred after several months OF quiescence.
The heat Of the. body in all climes is about
the same. No matter how cold OF how hot
the air, the temperature OF the body remains
at the same point, about sS degrees. Butto
keep this temperature requires larger amounts
of combuslible, or food, when We approach
ihe North Pole, and OF water to keep the fire.
in check as we approach the tropics. The
evaporation Of prespiraiioH from the whols
surface of the body enables man to stand the
hottest climates in the world, while almost
fabulous quantities of train oil, reindeer and
blubber keep up the heat Of the Esquimaux.
Thus then is life, physiologically, flame,
fire like Moses bush, burning, ye, uncon-
sumed, or rather momentarily consuming,
and yet replacing all The waste for years and
years. So far all might seem 10 change, with
nothing remaining, and yet there is not
moment that we live, not an action of our
lives, not an event that transpires, but what
is leaving its residuum, permanent and inn
perishable. Conscious identity continues un.
broken amid ltese bodily akznges; the ma
ierials that feed the flame sy change, but
each event leaves lie impression in the char.
aeter A man may live a hundred years but
that never changes. His body dies daily,
piece by piece, being literally burnt up, con-
sumed by slow inward fires, but there is
something in him, the existence of which 10
made known 10 him by conscious continued
identity, that survives all this daily death, and
is therefore immalsrial, immortal snd Di-
vine. Such is Professor Diapers view Of
man.