Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1870-10-01

If. as has been long credited, "tbe
proper study of mankind in man, :" and
that subject Of study is a microcosm OF
nature, then is physiology planetary
human, animal vegetable, mineral, uni
versaI-the proper field for mans IN
vestigation and research.
). Cosmical physiology relates to the
objective universe. It is what the eye
can see of forms and substance, around.
above, beneath; whether they be the
vast and mighty planets, space dimin-
ished by the telescope, or the infini.es
sinai mite magnified by the microscope.
II is the education Of vision.
Gazing into space on a starry night.
the human eye beholds universe OF
suns and planets.
Pale stars glmmerirg. fIr and few,
In the deep chasmIs IF ever'astlEg ( blue,
Ungathered ard ttumarshall and one,
Like outposts of the lunar garrison.
The thought arises. what composes
that starry field, and what are its uses Z
Constructing instruments for measure
ment of distances and diamefers, he is
struck dumb with the indemonstrable
number and the ineonceivable magni-
tude of the rolling worl Is that sur
round him.
Still observing, with the telescope
and the triangle, he discovers that each
planet has points of departure and re-
turn; that each sun and system of suns
with their unnumbered trains Of planets
and satellites, rcvolve around some
transfxing and imperative centre. He
discovers that all is motion-all is law,
obedience, order The moon revolves
around the planet; the planet around
the sun; the sun around the central
pole OF its own system; the systems
around still grander centre; and he
is lost in the magnitude of the astral
field that surrounds him.
Returning to himself, he can yet OBJ
serve the sun aud planets of his own
sphere. Physiologicaliy, the sun seems
like mighty mother, whose children,
the planets, revolye around her in the
order of their birth. The. earth, of
which he is a denizen, is one Of her
.dwarfs. It has but one moon, while
Jupiter and Saturn, proportionalIy
larger, have several. He directs his
attention to the uses of the satellites,
and finds that they subserye inhabi-
fancy Of the planets by men and ami
mails, for whom it reflects light, governs
etides and vegetation BY analogy,
from observation, he thus discovers the
suse of the planets; that they are for
the production of man, as their highest
and ultimate fruit; that effectively
viewed, it is a semiliving body, of
which man is on epitome, aud has in
.grosser form, rivers for its arteries and
veins, granite, shale, marble, sandstone
for its ribs and skeleton bones; that its
atoms Of matter change form. but new
or lose life; that nothing is lost, but
order and obedience, and that through
q succession of atomic changes cease
less, constant, however slow, from infe
rior to superior, from lower to higher.
through disintegration and re~combina
tion, through what man calls life and
deatti-the fiual aud ultimate human is
at last produced.
Thus, to the Psychologist, it appears
that atom contains attribut; and uni.
verse, intelligence. The sum Of atoms
forming the visible body Of the uni
verse, and the sum of attributes. laws
and principles, its deifc intelligence
what We call God.