Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-07-31

in Eden: tubular bridges aud hollow columns had
been in u,e siLce the first bird with hollow bones
flew through the wood, or the first reed waved in
the wind. Strange that the principle Of The Menai
Straits railway bridge. aud the iron pillars in the
Crystal Palace, existed in the Arkite dove, and in
the bulrushes that grew round the cradle Of Moses.
Oar railway tunnels are wonderful works of science
but tunneled with its foot, and The phulas with one
end Of its shell, before our natives handled pick or
spade upon the heights Of the iron roads: worms
were prior to gimlets, ant lions were the first fun.
mel makers, a beaver showed men how to make
their mill'dams, and the pendulous nests of certain
birds swung gently in the air before the keen
wit of even the most loving motterlaid her nurs.
ling in a rocking. cradle. The carpenter Of olden
time lost many useful hours studying how to make
the ball and socket joint which he bore about with
him on his own hips and shoulders; the universal
joint, which filled all men with wonder when first
discovered, he bad in his wrist; in the jaws of oil
flesh ,eatiug animals his huge o~no'hinge Joint, in
the graminivora and herbivora, the joint Of free
motion for grinding. Mill'stoncs were set up in
our molars and in the guards Of birds before the
Egyptian women grou nd their corn between two
stones. and the crushing teeth OF the bycna, make
the best models we know Of for hammers to break
stones on the road, The tongue Of certain she'll
6sh-of the limpet. for instance-is full Of siliceous
spines which serve as rasp and drill: and knives
and scissors were carried about in the mandibles
and beaks Of primeval bees and parrots.
The leech and parasite fishes bled men before
! SUURTauO : tlHle, anu tnc EH1t uuu mnny OtDcT
insects furnished lancets to cupping glasses. Gas
pipes and drains were pre- formed in blood vessels
and leaf-veins: the first valves were made in the
6lood'receiving heart; and trap doors shutting only
one way, were set across sundry internal passages
Of the mammalian world. The foodgates of locks
and docks might have been long ago studied in the
two cartilaginous plates set in the back Of the
crocodile's mouth, by which we can shut off all
communication between his mouth and throat;
thus while holding his prey under water, still be-
ing able to breathe: and the FIRST idea of the iron
Orders of the Crystal Palace came I'VE believe
confessedly) from a study of a girders stretching
across and supporting the underside of the huge
leaf of the Victoria regia. Our sharpsb0oters and
SEQ ut and ri1emen dress themselves to be as TN
distinguisbable as possible when out in action, or
while lying in wait: long ago the young turbot did
the same, when he took the hue of the sa nd where
he rests, and; following the same law, the chame-
leon-hsh becomes a brownish purple in deep wa.
ter and yellowish green in shallow The spectre
insects and walking leaves Of the East are the very
copies OF the things among which they dwell-like
dead leaves or dried up twigs, like green leaves
or peranbulating buds-every one of them, and
the tropical spiders that live in creviccs and holes
are dingy and dirty. while those hidden among the
flowers are as bright as the flower themselves
The sportsman dresses himself in a certain brown
or grey, knowing to the tailoring world, ignor'
ant of the why. and stumbling by chance on first
principles, as fitted for his purposes: but the red
grouse and the red deer were heath-cUlored before
tailors fashioned their celebrated sporting suits,
and the lapwing and the curlew laid their eggs
like in color to the pasture that was to hide them.
Before, too. The axiom of like from like had obtain
ed in our breeding studs. Nature had set us a very
beautiful example of the law in her pine forests,
if nothing else. The Norway spruce bears cones
like itself, thin. tall, and elegant, the stone pine
great, broad-based and pyramidai-has cones
broad and apexial: Coulter's pine is round and
heavy ard bulky-so are it's cones, while the clus-
tAr ,;na q ,arfaa . ~ pro Dnrtinp ond pnrfant / n eY.
preston of strength-the monarch and the leafy
Jove of the forest pinery.
The insect world is overwhelming in types of
forms and fashions and arts and sciences, in pres.
ent use. Carpenter and mason, wood. staiDer and
shell. box maker are to be seen any day among the
bees and the wasps, the ants and the caddis' worm.
Cells we're hung with scarlet leaf upholstery be
fore we put up our curtains, or knew the value OF
brilliant colors in gloomy places: and nests and
r breeding cells we're lined with the softest moss anC
. and most silky 6bres. while human infants wailee
q in undressed COW hides, or, hitched up as pappoo
ses, stared blankly on their savage mosters roast
a ing roots in heated asheS.
In nothing have we originated ideas, in nothing
have we created. Even Baptista Portals myth
10 cal monsters, SO long received among nations an,
n nursery creeds, are now known to have been un
created even in Imagination, and to have bee
simply varieties of species, or y,brids, exaggel
X ated by ignorance or superstition. Man has thu
been indebted to Nature for the very models OF hi
10 invented lies. His three great types of politics
society, the monarchical, oligarchical, and demo
II cratic, may be found among insects and othe
n. communities, not enrolled in historic records: an
every moral characteristic he possesses finds i,
prototype among creatures of lower intelligence
The forethought of the ant, the activity of the bet
re- the faith fulness of the Cog. the stupid ferocity
/, the buffalo, the cruel foulness Of the hyena, an
s. the savage rage of the tiger. are they not all en-
Is blems of mans moral state? Are there not ais
"a among US individuals who hiss at nothing, lk
frightened geese; who cackle. for all III, -crld
IN hear, over their diminutive eggs; who thrust the
I'd heads into holes, and fancy no one sees their tai
an feathers sticking out: who bray as loud as lior
M. roar. because the wind is in the east. or the raj
is coming from the south; who strut to their ow
shadows, like peacocks in the sun, and prowl abo
their neighbours henroosts like foxes 10 the nigh
Do we not all know of patent camels, bearir
!. their weary loads with sad pathetic faces void
,c' complaint; and of proud, shy horses, with SC
S mouths and irritable nerves, who have to be coax
III into prancing in their harness? Is there a schoC
hoy or an office man among Us who cannot mar
' e the logged bullock, ~plodding under the yoke, t
,' race-h0rse, who breaks his heart in emulation, t
brave dog harnessed to too heavy a truck, d
az monkey, who only initiates for mischief, and CT
GU never be brought to usefulness or good2 Have
not patriarcbal goats among us, and placid mile
cows? Are there not. in all congregations of me
'l sheep who follow where the bell wether leads; al
lno is not the black bird secuted or pecked to dea
:s by his brethren among swans, as among Chr
les tiansf Do net ants makes slaves, and are the
va net in apiaries and formicaries. knights templa
and amazons, warlike vestals and monks milital
' as there have beer among menS Is there never
w. sleek tabby with velvet paws aud deadly ella
I've among the purring s~pinsters of a social tea?
ne there never snugly coiled upon the minister
w. benches, a rat who left a falling house and an q
verse cause? Is the lion. jealous and unapproaC
vi BILE. without human compeer both in the east a
- west. Is the ibis the only scavenger of the citit
", and has not even the crocodile his faithful, hunt
friendP Was q spiders net never spun in q la
'ue yer's Office? and to what dried up anatomies do
not the Court of Chancery reduce its latest blu
a bottles? Other societies, besides those of GRO
and starlings, avenge themselves on their oAA'l
i'm ing members; the mantis is not the only hypocr
IN Of pious seeming and deadly intent-there Il
ish men, like white ants. who undermine your so
tree, and eat the heart of your trusty staff,
to when you lean your weight on it you are flu
ec PROSTATE on the ground; and there are men Ii
'ds musk rats who faint and polute wherever tn
ers pass.
ess Turn where we will for science. for art for f,