Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1869-01-01

the eight hour ar nt Oh tne pre'ence
that they, of all ms al not get chance
to employ their mius ia any serious study
without a rule of enfeked abstinence from
labor, is to underratesshe capacities, the
duties, and the aspiraa .ons of the Amerl-
can farmer.
From the Phi biological Journal.
Is Man I,mortal9
We are asked by correspondents to ex
plain many points wi b have puzzled the
sharpest thinkers Of sas world. Here is
an instance. We aAe requested to prove
to the satisfaction o the inquirer that
''religion is truth. lind also two points
Of the greatest importance, viz: "the ex-
istence of God. and the Immortality of
man." We feel ous,.lves constrained to
say something. ip res5anse.
The trouble with IL skeptics iu religi-
Gus matters begins i. radical mistake,
viz: that relig igion ito be comprehended
solely by the INTELLECT Most skeptics are
intellectual people Skq defy intellect, or
at least raise it abovs the emotional part
of their being, and whatever can not be
recognized by iutelIss., they deny the
truth Of; whereas tss whole group of the
religious organs is heated, not in the in
tellectual region, builin special group
above. The same is Etrue Of the social
group. Love is not asintellectual but an
emotional element: love Of man and wo-
man does not depend 5pon their strength
of intellect. Somesities people love in
spite of the teachings Of intellect, even
against the suggestions of reason. Is
love, therefore, not ruth because it does
not depend upon the5intellect or act ac-
cording to the strength or weakness of the
reason? Everyboay yvknows that we do
not love in proportion to our Intellectual
strength. Skeptics sly, "Here is great
philosopher he does not believe in re-
ligion" Suppose We say, "Here is a
great philosophers does not believe
in marriage = would that be an argument
against marriage? But suppose it were
said, Here is man Of weak intelligence
who thinks his wife snd children are the
chiefest consideration Of life; he will suf-
fer and serve that they may enjoys" shall
we say wife and chii..ssg.n are not desirable
because very inteI eIectual man ignores
them and the weak inded man almost
worships then ~ 5, a -. IJnra ia /; a
phffosopn3r wno IS not a Christian?" If
men had to become philosophers before
they became Christians there would be
few Christians among men. Everybody
knows that mans love is not grounded
upon the strength of intellect; and if you
were to attempt to prove intellectually the
existence of mans love, you would utter
ly fail. No man can appreciate logical
statement relative to it who has not the
feeling instinctively within him. We
know that love between the sexes depends
upon certain organic condition, the brain
harmonizing with the physical nature
Now let us suppose that the physical ma
ture Gas sometimes it is in animals) was
artifcially changed; could poet so stu
ated write of female beauty? Would he
have any conception of it? History,tells
us that eunuchs hate women, that they
are not destitute of intellect. Why can
not they reason out that woman is beauti-
full and lovely9 Show US man who is
destitute of moral and religious organs,
or has them feebly developed, no matter
how much intellect he may have, he will
be eunuch in respect to religion or reli-
gious ideas. But men very often defy
the intellect and think they must silence
every emotion, especially in religious mat
ters, until the reason can work out the
problem.
You must see, in the light of this argu-
ment, the folly of reducing religion, which
is the product of emotion. to the standard
of mere intellect. True, reason helps
man to appreciate the beauty which emo
ton suggests; and reason aids the religi-
Gus man; but the feeling must exist first,
and the reason must act secondarily and
under the inspiration and guidance Of the
feeling. In regard to the existence of a
Supreme Being, the lower animals ex-
hibit no recognition of such a Power
They never yield to anyrbeing as superior
to themselves until after they have tried
their strength with him. Man, though
he does not see God, has in his nature a
sentiment or feeling which leads him to
look up to Supreme Power. Wherever
man is found on the earth, however de-
based, barbarous, or ignorant, he is found
with an idea of Immortality and of Su-
preme Being; and though among the
lowest order of men demology perhaps is
more prevalent than theology, the feeling
Of subserviency to supernatural existences
is substantially the same instructive relig-
ious sentiment which is known to the
highest civilization. Our inference is,
that religion is not the work of pricstcraft
or of invention, but that it is inwrought
with the very essence of our being. The
lower animals provide for their offspring
|precisely what should be provided for
their health and comfort, and do it the
first time without any previous example.
This we call instinct, and is it not truth
Is not the treatment adapted to the neces-
sites of the case? Could reason alone
teach the young mother-human or ami.
mal-to manage as well as she does fol
her child? The mother that is in her,
instinctively manages rightly with or with:
out intellect. Now we may understand