The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1859-03-30

another bone, and at another hasrf None
of the laws of matter will answer; and we
must look to some power above them
This power we call life. Ask again.
what this life Is, and our philosophy
ends Hsa -1E
But Divine Revelation opens the book
and we read: God breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life. and mau be-
came living soul. Here then we see
the principle of life to be direct mani
festation of the power Of God; something
out Of and beyond the dead matter, of
which our bodies are composed.
And what reason have we for saying
that it is in any way different from the
immortal spirit Of mani Indeed through
out the Bible the terms spirit, soul, and
life, are used the one for the other
"But" says one author, "may be the an
cient worthless were ignorant of physiolo-
gy, and did not apply the terms as they
should have DONE" This is agrave
charge indeed to prefer against these in
spired men; but it loses much of its fear.
full power, when its author asserts that Vi.
tai heat is produced by friction; and that
the chief function Of the lungs. Is the pro.
duction of sound. No wonder that the
machine" doesn't run more than 10
years, ifit is attended with snch friction
as would be necessary to produce the
heat of the animal body. E" p GH
cannot help thinking that eu: friend
ALMo is q school teacher. If he is no
cannot see why he should come to th'
conclusion, that the lungs we're chief.
used for making noise. Vital heat i
produced, like artificial heat, BY the com
) bustion of Carbon and Hydrogen in tn
system. .ai5jl.sa III sgas,Ia ID s4 s,4
q By the chemical theory, we are utterl
unable to explain the cause Of death.
!. The human system is . self buildin
. machine As fast as old particles o.
/ ter are removed, new ones take the
t place. Then if the body lis wholly d,
i pendent upon chemical laxs. and asi the'
it laws are always constant, If we could OF
IS ly keep poisonous substances away fro
II the apparatus our life would last foreve
,e This is an absurd conclusion, but Of
II which follows leglti mately from the pro
d osition, laid down by our friend. '" q
ot Could al poisons be kept away fro
m the system, have no doubt, our iiv
ss would be Iengtheued; bat Holy Witt j,
TO- sures us that ut is appointed unto m
I'd once to die" = q ''s''' a.'i ''sssh7 9a1a
TO- Do we not then see. that, instead
to- iife's' being "a healthy action Of the {
r. gans," q healthy action, or indeed a
l. action, ofthe organs. is dependent up
ly Efss And does it not seem in accol
t. ance with revelation, and also with n
IS. son to suppose that the Soul, the imm'
L. tai spirit; of man should be this life pr
We ciple, acknowledging mo superior pow
on except God; and that it should have
~ ruling and fashioning Of no earthly te'
o. ment! stiaE- bal II. ga.ba2mmce41 !
n- It may be urged against this theo
at that if it is true, we prove the iimmort'
ais tyf of the brate. Brutes and also vel
= tables have life, but, they are Of 3 differ
X. order ofIlife. / God has not revealed TO
OF the immortality of the brute. Nv
kneoweth hsospirit of msn that gosth ,
as ward, u,,, aud tSsH spirit q sthe' beast I
e.'l goeth odovn,.ards % Me eertas1rE,
Oh s.-2l .iss8 y.5Ta aga 10 7ao1 10
in1 Man, and also the inferior amin
we are created forms, capable of receiv
50 life from the creator, and sin him :
Fer live, move, and have their being, +" :
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