Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-05-25

support you in oil your acts. We rebels
are ready to stand by you if enfranchised.
The Giant of Gotham His Nervous
system; or Man the Mystery OIL
Creation.
EDITORS LEDGER: Pope wrote, the
proper study of mankind was man; Burns
wrote, Oh, for an eye to see ourselves as
others see us; but write to explain, if /
can, one of the mysteries of mankind
the mind The idea has occurred to me
that the mind is electricity, that the body
is an electro chemical machine, and that
he vsgetably exists by the sun. If the
fact has been established by chemists that
the body is chemical combination OF
the mineral and vegetable kingdoms, it
appears to me that more than one-half
the difficulties of this puzzling enigma
| are already solved; and if anatomy has
established the fact that his whole nervous
system is q most perfect galvanic battery,
it appears to me his whole economy can
be accounted for ON scientific principles.
Then to put him together and set him GO
ing, as he really is, / will ask science and
reason 10 guide my pen in trying to paint
his living picture of reality. Assuming,
then, that his body is thermo-electro
chemical machine; that his brain is a
great reservoir to contain electricity ;
that his nerves are the wires that conveys
the current through the senses to the
outer world, and that he is surcharged
with negative current internally, while
all the world outside is charged with q
positive same, is it not plain the rushing
together of these two forces will produce
sensation and light up the domicii of the
soul and show the image of realities ?
This consciousness begins at the point
of awakening, and ceases when we soundly
sleep. Then be does exist mentally
intelligent through some one of the five
senses, and through them alone; there
fore have come to the conclusion that
the mind is electrical from the following
reason: it is the only known something
that makes itself known to ell Of the
senses in some way. We can see It in
the spark, we can hear it in the leaf, we
can smell it in the ozone, we can taste 1t
in the sapid, and feel it in the heat. A
second reason is, thought and electricity
are the only things that ignore distance
as to time; they appears to go hand In
hand. We can send dispatch 10 London
almost IS quick as thought, and ] dare
say if we had material connection to the
sun that was as perfect conductor as
the one on which thought travels, they
would both reach the sun at the same
time. Then they appear to base much
alike in another respect, there must be
some connection for the one to know that
the other does exist. The mind must
exist. the connection must exist and the
reality must exist. To illustrate my
| idea: Take man that is awakened up in
the morning at a strh1ge place and let
his brain be illed with this negative cur
rent Now, in order for him to know
that certain house is sitting on GER
tain hill some one of his senses must
come in range Of it, Let it be the sense
of sight The magic auid flows along
the wires of perception, sensation is pro-
duced, the brab is frightened up snd the
image of the house is placed before him.
The pure intellect is the keeper Of the
house, and If she likes the pic
tsre she viii admire its beauty,
but il she GOES not abe will drive
it from memory's cell it she can; Then
pure intellect stands frat. and is the Judge
that sits on the throne, mind and reason
are the powers, and the body is the ma
| ehins that gives the material effect. This
great Giani OF Gotham has his great rail-
way system, which eorreepopds to the
veins a-d arteries Of mans body. Then
he has this gresttelegraph system, which
oorresponds to mat nervous system.
And then be has this great newspaper sys.
tenn. which corresponds to the mind OF
the people. Then, With these three great
systems harsnonioasly working together,
who need Gotham fear1 Certainly, not
Old England. Canada Is where our
great danger lies. 10 few more years
she will be another Russia, backed up
against the north pole to destroy Us.
We cant hank her Iceberg seas. There
is a great God that created the universe,
with all the orbs and planets therein.
There ara seasons and fixed laws they
all obey, moving round centers and orbits
in beautiful curves aud elipses. First
comes the great sstorai System with al
the stars, the limits OF which are The
bounds Of finite mind. Then comes the
great solar system, the sun with all his
planets s.A satellites measured, distanced
and defined; Hersehsl. with his rings
Jupiter, with his belts. and the moon
with her imaginary man.
Then comes the earth With her mineral,
vegetable and animal kingdoms aud,
lastly, comes mantle crowning acme
Of the whole, the image Of his owl
great Creator, With bis body, his mind
and soul existing in Que. The body and
mind co-exisiing as one belonging to THU
world, while the soul, the pure intellect
the God part Of him, lies beyond the
grave; and when be sheds Of the caskei
Of this mortal coil, It's but 10 release thu
Immortality TO join tie spirii-land yhers
ell is peace, joy and happiness. Then
that man is the pursst Christian Who car
ct one grand glance view the whole scale