Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1858-05-27
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Change Working in and Upon us.

Tie following fine passage, from the pen of
\ =. G,orge Wilson, is a part of an article
rei by LittglI's Living Age from the Edin-
.-. Essays:
The living body Of man unites in itself
ae contrastcd and apparently Incompatible
mlities, Of great stability and great nobility.
!, is 50 stable that it can last for threescore
Years and ten for a hundred or more main
tanning is sharply defined individuality all the
line !. 50 mobile that it does not con-
lt Of entirely the same particles during my
.T5 successive moments. The dead matter of
lie outer world, it is ever changing into its
.Tn living substance and its living sub
stance is ever changing into dead matter,
which is alien to itself, it returns TO the outer
world Like the heavenly bodies, it undergces
series Of secular variations which carry it
st. continual altering conditions through the
-T-a phases Of embryonic infant, adult, and
~ri'e l,e Like certain Of heavenly bodies
a,3 il describes diurna revolution, knowing
{, alteration Of sleep and waking, hunger and
4..y, activity and rest. The reproduction
t5> kind involves peculiar series of very
lm,IrX changes especially in the maternal
r,a,sm Mechanical injuries disabling or
DESTROYING organs and tissue require the mani
station Of corresponding recupcratiye pro
-S< Disease, equally def 4ciug aud dostruc
a demands couut"rvaiIing ris mcdIc1trir
eIraZt It's violence or rather, disease
Va battle between the organismal elements
witch are quick at finding casas betf and
.'s7T!rareIy at perfect peace with each other.
t'erasIiug change and yet fxity. Uuceasing
'usy.e and yet no scbism Civil war and
Gnmonarchy. These unlike conditions are
a Lai and harmonized, every moment in our
aaaly and wonderfully made bodies
II We reduce these apparent incompatibles
2 their simplest expression, we shall per
-a9' ind it in this. Physically, the human
'-aaI>m is an aggregation Of solids and H.
G.@ which are continually changing into each
-rF the solid melting into the liquid, and
-a liquid congeaIing into the solid whilst
'.a stand SO related to the air which is the
~eall Of life, that they arc continually va
11aG into gaSSeS, and gasses are continually
" %Uyng and soIidfyiug into them. When
hamlet exclaimed
oh! that this too too solid flesh would melt,
NAV, and resolve itself into a dCw -
Z "aS preicrring a request which was granted
[.''e twas preferred, and which is every mo-
-.D, Receiving fulilment in each of us Blood
Ilaed muscle, nerve, sinew, and muscle are
'.laed blood and at every moment flesh
yecomlng blood, and blood flesh. The cur
.'"' Id our veins is at ouce river of the wa
wy oi NE and sustaining all that grows along
,.s ~I SHORES, and a river Of Lethe quenching in
=. S..''an everything that it touches Like the
,.-5' Or other great rivers Of the world, it is
I. '.l,l .,e same time wearing down the hills, and
,-~!aS up continents but with this difference
,-O.s The mountains of AbgSSinia, and only
.~'fuctIye in the plains of Egypt, the blood
y. very point in its course is simultaneously
"o,oS ga aud subtracting.
tIose wonderous crimson barks or woOd-cell
.'g ,1'a navigate the arteries are keen traders,
| 'Io follow the rule of the African rivers, where
s,'- u.s. are are elected only by barter but :hey
M aua 10 this rule one peculiar to themselves,
IN. ilu neither civilized nor savage men care to
|o"; ,a. namely, that they give away new goods
4, ,'4Viiange for Old Here the trafickers on
,.,, .'u river deposit fresh brain particles, to
.,...c sase those which the immaterial spirit has
Js,.,l J,.Iced to the expression of its thoughts
rSsa .n'f ayIor taught a great physical truth
N;rl Le declared long ago, that while we
f, .n ,', thought we die" The eloquent preach
.,. ,,S death near us at every moment, and
I, ,'5F at each than at the moment before !;
n, 1gath is IN US at every moment, and it is
t. merely rijla but because we think
,o3dt that We die. Alas that we cannot
q-y1"'gIt q-.y with such innocent sef-Slaughter,
q 5r.- me river Of life in our veins forgives in
BIO. ,, ,,I'ection IN every case as fast as it rip
..., l'lS' 1t cannot help u.s. if we oyerthink
''''1 and die before our time, but during