Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1863-04-30
Marvels Of Man.

w uilo VIC kdStTlC Juice MAS Luhu, Uiduu,
sweetish taste. it possesses the power of disolv
ing the hardest food that can be swallowed
1t has no influence whatever on the soft spd
delicate fbres Of the living hand but at the
moment OF death, it begins to eat them away
with the power of the strongest acids.
There is dust on the sea and land. in the
valley and on the mountain top there is
dust always and everywhere. The atmosphere
is full OF it. Tt penetrstes the nosome dun
geon and visits the deepest, darkest caves oil
the earth. No palace door can shut it out
no drawer 20 secret as to escape its presence.
Every breath of wind dashes it upon the open
eye; and yet that eye is not blinded. because
there is fountain of the blandest fluid in ma.
ture, necessarily emptying itself under the eye
lid, which spreads it over the surface OF the
ball, at every winking, and washes every atom
of dust away. But this liquid SO we'll adapted
to the eye itself, has some acridisy, which un.
der certain circumstances, becomes so decided
as to be scaldiog to the skin, and would rot
away the eyelids, were it not that along the
edges of them, there are little oil manufactor-
les, which spread over their surface coating
as impervious to the liquids necessary for keep
ing the eyeball washed clean, as the best var
nsh is mpervious to water -.-
The breath which leaves the lungs, has been
so perfectly dvested of its lifegiving proper,
ties, that to re.breath it, unmixed with other
cir, the moment it escapes from the mouth,
would cause immediate death by suffocation :;
while. if it hovered about US, more or less
destructive influence over health and life wo'd
be occasioned. But it is made of nature so
much lighter than the common air. that the
moment it escapes the lips and nostrils, it as
cends to higher regions, above the breathing
point, there to be rectifed, renovated and
sent back again, replete with purity and life
How rapidly it ascends, is beautifully exhibit
ed any frosty morning.
But, foul and deadly as the expired air is,
nature, wisely economical in all her works and
ways, turns it to good account 10 its outward
passage through the organs of voice, and
makes of it the whisper Of love, the soft words
of affection, the tender tones of human sympa
thy, the sweetest strains Of ravishing music
and the persuasive eloquencs OF the finished
orator.
II a well-made man be extended on the
ground, bis arms at right angles with the body
circle, making the navel the center, will just
take in the head, the finger ends and the feet
The distance from "top TO toe" is precisely
the same as that between the tips Of the fng
ers, when the arms are extended The length
OF the body is just six times that of the foot !;
while the distance from the edge of the hair
on the forehead to the end of the chin, is one.
tenth Of the length Of the whole stature
Of the sixty-two primary elements known
in nature, only eighteen are found in the hu.
man body and of these, seven are metallic
Iron is found in the blood, PHOSPHORUS in the
brain, limestone 10 the bile, lime in the bones,
dust and ashes in all. Not only these egh-
teeen human elements, but the whole sixty,
two, of which the universe is made, have their
essential basis 10 the four substances-oxygen,
hydrogen, nitrogen. carbon-representing the
more familiar names OF fire, e,water saltpetre
and charcoal. And such is man, the lord OF
the earth-a spark OF FIRE, drop of water, q
grain of gun powder. an atom of charcoal
But, looking at him in another direction,
these elements shadow forth the higher quail
tiles of a divine natnre. of an immortal exis-
tence. In that spark is the caloric which
speaks of irrepressible activity in that drop
is the water which speaks Of purity !; in that
grain is the force by which he subdues all
things himself, makes the wide creation the
supplier of bis wants. and the serytor OF his
pleasures while 10 that small atom OF char.
coal there is dimond, which speaks at once
of light and purity. of indistructibility, and of
resistless progress. There is nothing which
out shines it it is pursr than the dew drop.
Moth and rust" corrupt it not, nor can Or
binary fires destroy it while it cuts its way
alike through brass and adamant and hard
est steel. In that light we see an eternal
progression toward omniscience in that puri.
ty, the goodness of divine nature in that in.
destructiblity, an immortal existence lin that
progress, steady accession toward the home
and bosom OF Con Halls Journal Of HtaltA.
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