Daily national Democrat., 1858-11-02
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The very Wonderful SpcculatIOns Of a
very New Philosopher!

10 THE EDITOR SIERRA CITIZEN Il wish to
inform you that l would be known as phi
losopher, | have several theories on hand,
which think are good my notions may not
suit you, but it will not be right to exclude
me from the privilege of giving my ideas out
to pasture in the great, green, unfenced field
of conflicting opinions. Some of my discove-
ries are very wonderful indeed. Let me as.
tonish you with view of the stomach.
The stomach is the commissary department
of life, but why it is necessary to the continu-
ance of vitality, | never could perceive. 1t
seems to me that the business of eating and
digesting the innocent and beautiful produc-
tions which make the earth busy and bright,
Is pursuit altogether unfit to rank among
the sublime arts of civilization. However, l
am aware of the folly of interfering with the
firm ordinances of nature, but nevertheless
claim to express an opinion decidedly in con-
tlict with what was, very probably, designed
for the wisest purposes
| should have no determined opposition to
the establishment of slomachs, wereit not for
their craving capacity. Just witness their
demands, and observe what they take in and
secrete Ten extravagant wives were more
easily endured than one gnawing Appetite
The profligacy of ones stomach exceeds all
duced by it on character are often gross and
deplorable. BY constantly swallowing sta
pie substance, its active principle becomes the
active principle of our being.
Hog eat hog" physiologically defines the
position of the animal devoured and the one
feasting on his carcass | do not deinitively
maintain that pork-eating people isinevita-
bly, drove of hogs yet assert that there
must be frequent individual cases where the
resemblance is scarcely apt to escape notice.
The principle of infusiug the essence of one
substance into another, and the stronger alb
sorblng the vitality of the weaker, is so ex-
tenslve that believe man subsisting en-
tirely on fish will be enabled to swim on his
hrst entrance into water, and besides having
scaly mental organization, will prefer the
bolsterous sea to the beauteous landscape
And the vegetarian, who paItakes only of
wha is reared by the soil, will ultimately
partake of the potato rot, and appear as yer
daut as young wheat in the field. But will
not insist that all creatures which eat grass
are sheep, or that they who drink much wa
ter, or wine, are either fountains or vine
yards; nor would l convey the impression
that large consumption of groceries will
transform the consumer into "cheap gro
Gerry store"
NOW, permit TO me refer you to the subject
of brains.
What are brains good for? To those who
possess them, they are an annoyance, and
they lead mortality INTO the errors and mis-
fortunes hat attend its duration. In all di-
visions of the globe the human organism is
restless-darting this way and that, content
with nothing, and aspiring to the ownership
of everything. Brains are the motor which
causes this instability, thii unceasing and un
happy action; they constitute the tyiannical
government of our existence, and we are ac-
cessories TO the wrongs, fclies and inconsist-
encies which accompany us from cradle-day
o graveday.
Alter thoughtful investigations of estab-
lished systems and everyday affairs, decide
that the proprietor Of intellectually, solely
active in an ideal sense, is a pitiable creature
lie has an eniailment more afIlicting than
transmitted disease, and it will be wise in
him to give his hands bill of sale on his
brains, and apprentice himself to mechani-
cal pursuit. Thus situated he may indulge
in the consoling habit of envyiug those whose
uiilitarian brains have no fastening to the
dish that holds them but which float eau
tiously on the transparent fluids under them,
yet when touching the sides of the vessel,
knock down pockets fall of dollars
| am, Sir,
New PUILoSopuER