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

| ct on WHICH lie Is I0rfneQ. lie STANDS
forth amid universe of forms and
principles, the finite embodiment of in
finite worlds, above and below him.
Oc his body, he is of the earth, earthly.
OF his mind, he is of laws, principles
and intelligence, spirit immortal, by
virtue Of his undying atoms united to
his Interchangeable and iudestruc.ible at
tributes as planetary ultimaie
Incandescent or planetery fame is
the first observable state of planet.
Then comes the mineral, or earthly
state; then the vegetable, then animal,
then man. Each of these degrees is
accompanied by an ascending grade Of
laws. With mineral, is motion; with
vegetation, life; with animals, sensa
ton; with men, intelligence. The last
and highest acting in form which is
the ultimate or crown of all the pre-
ceding attributes and organizations.
That man coutains all prevous de-
grees and forces, he las but to look
| around him.
His body is q walking cabinet of
mineralogy; his blood is full Of iron
his skull stone mansion, with audito-
ries, doors and windows. He has lime,
magnesia and slick in his bones, and
the enamel of his teeth is chemical
compound much like the calcined slick
of his cupboard>ware and window
lights. He is also a compound of veg
etables in their sttuents-alhunen
gluten, fbrine. saccharine; and he is
also laboratory of all animality. He
has nerves, tissues, fibres, muscles, fcx
ors, bones, nails, hair, sensation in
short, man can trace himself back into
the earth with the certainty of the
thread of Ariadne in the labyrinth
See /! man eats animals and vegetables ;
animals eat vegetables vegetables eat
the ground The atoms that compose
these different forms and phases of pro,
grcks, have not died; they have simply
changed degrees from lower to higher.
They must be kin to US. for by our eat
ing them, they enter into life relations
with US, and daily become our mortal
being!
This is the observation of the physi
ologist on the side of atoms and forms
Now, what docs he perceive psyche
logically, on the side of attribute ? (By
aetrlbutc is meant justice, mercy truth
goodness, love, wisnom. self hood. etc. J
In the spinal cord of all animals, birds
fishes, he fuds motor aud sensational
ganglia, or nerve centres. This, in
some low types, is The residence of in
stinct and attribute but in higher
types, there is superimposed upon this
spinal cord, a portion OF the brain, t1c
cercbellum, in which resides and mani
tests superior instincts and attributes !;
aud Tor still superior types of animals,
as the domestcated classes, he finds
still another brain supcrimposed upon
the cercbellum. This last brain, the
cerebrum, is greatly diversified, and
shares in animals the arrangement of
several groups, and the possessors OF
these groups have invariably shown the
exercise OF different faculties, instincts
and attributes.
Man combines inshis brain all these
groups of faculties in the aggregate,
that he has found in manifestation in
the singular, in the animal kingdom.
besides his own groups that are pccu-
liarly human.
H. the physiology of animals, he dis
covers ruling groups, as destructiveness
ane secretivenass in the cat fidelity in
the dog; nobility in the horse; con
centrativeness or self hood in the hog,
etc. In one man, or in race of..men,
be finds combination Of groups so pc
culiar to some class of animals as to
suggest their similar physiology -tkeir
natural derivation. For instance. the
Indian predominates in those groups OF
faculties -destruciiveness and cunning
leading, that distinguish the entire ca,
nine and carniverous kingdom. lie is
the child of the forest. Destructive
and untamable, he will not work and
cannot be enslaved. His head Is thick
est through the ear. Like the cat and
panther, he delights in. killing and tor
turing helpless prey. His wigwam
smells like a fox kennel. he is the
Wild Beast Man! evolved by the
change of atom and attribute from the
animal kingdom, up into the human.
The next race most highly marked
in points of animal and human physi.
ology is the African. This type pre-
sents the ovine groups in predominance.
The Negro smells like the sheep-his
hair kinks like wool He can make
battering ram of his head, like that
animal, without injury to his brain
| Nationally he is helpless and defence.
less, like the sheep, and therefore easi,
| ly enslayed. His ruling groups Of
brain are the affsctional and the semi
intellectual. Scripturally, the ovine is
] the emblem of innocence and non>ag