Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-04-12
Nature Thwarted.

When nature set up, on this earth, her two
banded. large Drained, biped animal, she meant
a man. She had her time with monkeys before,
and will confess that, for the higher pursuits Of
work and worship, they are not sat.
isfactory race. Now Nature, lavish as she is of
her forms, is very economical of her ms terisl
She does not put brains into maw-worr,. nor
music into kangaroo. Where she endows
body with finer elements, she means ipcr work
The fingers of a man are tn most perfect niece
of mechanism for ar ir,Inity of uses that WAS
ever conceived of: and il would have been the
stupidity OF an imbecile to have put that ex.,ui
site cor.riYdnce to the service of a slug, or In
snrJection to the nnconvonted brain Of an OK.
But it was with admirable adoption Of means
to ends that the good mother put b. this facile
himan hand that finest of all physical organs
the cunning human brain; the capacity for end
less variety of work going along with the ca
pacity for infinite contriyance. And when,
above all, we find that the same mind that plans
can analyZe, amend, and sit in Judgment on its
work, and by subtle introversOn can study its
own powers and origin, and rise from the plane
of work to the plane of worship-as it perceives
its relation to a greater than all visible nature,
a universal formative mind-we are filled with
awe as with admiration, and feel that here, in
deed, is the crowning work of creatiou-the re-
goodness. ANYTHING less than living express
ion Of these lavish endowments and their divine
origin must be a practical dishonor to the Giyer,
as it is direct squandering Of the gift.
How does the sot. inbecile with drink, strike
you as answering these conditions, aud the end
Of his beingP Did it need the finest piece Of
physical organism To supply an instrument for
his sOdden wits Is splendid brain the cheap
est furnishing for such house as his body =?
And could Natue do no more economical thing
t,nn to knit all those exquisite nerye-tssues and
fine-strung muscles, and make those grand adap-
tions Of frame and leverage, in bone and sinew
Just 10 find mechanism for a helpless thing that
fumbles but doesn't execute, tLat reels bu,
d0esent walk, that babbles but doesen't think
No divine worker, nor servant of divine
worker, makes such utter waste of good ma
terials. The monkey, with all his fantastic
antics and occasional grotesqe foreshadowings Of
this creature, is still a king in comparison.
Poor mother Nature, wcarying Of these chatter
boxes, MS in nowise fit to stand for the ultima.
tum of her word, must have sickened to the
depths of her poor mother-heart. when she
saw this her crowning labor making such
shameful waste of all her splendid endowments
| II we must have sot, why take n man with an
immortal soul to make him Of? The on ard the
horse, without souls, are vet Incidentally toe
valuable to be transformed into such miscrea-
tions
The fngers that cannot shane form no,
handle tool, have no use for a cunning brain
to guide them; and the brain that cannot give 4
sequence to ideas, nor frame plain coheren
thought, can have no call for such noble instru
ments as human hands, So when the future
sot begins his downward career, leaving man
| hood and the world of work-the plane Of thu
| rcverent soul and the creative mlnd-he drop,
little by little the cunning Of the hand anC
brain, the power To invent and the power to exc
cute. Nature will not give her fine gifts I,
base ends ; and she withdraws them i
we persist in the degradation. Meanwhile, she
scourges the spendthrit Of her bountes with
thousand whips Of bodily pain, and thousand
stings Of remorse and shame, till his degrade
| tion is 50 complete as to leave no ira Of tht
better thing God meant him to be.
No other animal besides man 50 degrade,
itself, aud thwarts Nature by the prostitution o
powers which have been given 1.-THE Ndtioua
| temperance Advocate.