The Cecil Whig., 1873-11-15
For The Cecil Wlig.
WE LIVE AS WE DIE.
BY AGRICOLA.

BY AGRICoLA.
How? says one. Do you mean to say
life and death are one? That we are dying
at the same time we live it's impossible.
Why, | am the same person l was yester-
day. enjoying the same good health and
feel as able to attend to my business
can't say that old death is graphing with
me. Indeed am at a loss to know how
eve Live as We Die" But stop, we are
" never too old to learn. Read and ST udy
the works of any physiologist-by the way
Il practical study that directly concerns
every individual, and vastly of more i'm
portance to the general body and good
health, than all the classical requirements.
Acquaint yourself with this study and you
are then enabled to comprehend it's i'm
portance and necessity. Give your atten-
tion for few moments to the anatomy,
physiology and hygiene of the human being,
and the philosophy and logic of the little
sentence, "Life is DEATH" is forcibly
known, and irresistibly forced upon your
mind.
That the blood makes its complete cir
cult through the system in about four min
utes, from the lowest, most distant capil-
larry Of the toes to the equally distant veins
of the fingers, equally circulating (in a
healthy being the pure corpuscles of blood,
of life giving principles, and taking away
in its return course, the impure particles
of blood, and millions of lifeless bodies
that have served their mission, and filled
their purpose in building up and keeping
the physical and mental energies in a
healthy condition. These have filled their
destiny, are shrivelled and worn and are no
longer of any use, are then cast off; while
at the same moment they are cast off, a
drop of pure, healthy blood is ready to
take the place just evacuated by the bad;
and this, filled as it's with it's millions of
minute species of healthy life, 60 to nour-
ish the system, and thus the processes of
metamorphoses are going on, life still con-
tinues with no apparent change, though
there is death at every thoe of the heart,
and every breath that escapes from the
lips throws its thousands of vitiated, life
less bodies into eternity. New life does
take the place just vacated, yet to one
unacquainted with himself physologically,
there has been no material change, yet
thousands of births and deaths occur every
second. But this is nothing to be annoyed
at; it is no epidemic malady, but rather an
evidence that all is well.
Were you to abstain from nourishment
for such length of time as to be pros
trated by weakness, and continue thus to
deny nature her recuperative principles,
the saying, "We Live as We DE-" would
soon be verified.
The glands which draw nourishment
from the digested masses in the stomach,
finding that their need, in that direction,
was lacking, would cease in their action,
and other glands, that were lying dorm
ant while they were acting, would direct
their action on the stores laid up in the
system, in the shape of fatty matter, &C.,
thus we would be living, as it were. "with-
in ourselves" The flesh of even the most
robest would waste away as snow before
the scorching suns rays. The elements of
the system cannot exercise their functions
unless the requisite nourishment is furn-
ished, which must come from some source,
so long as life lasts. If not directly furn-
ished in the usual manner, in the form of
food, good, nourishing food, the very
vitals will be preyed upon-therefore d" We
Live as We Die"
A very nice and able comparison is
made by some NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. they
The human system with furnace,
which, so long as it is supplied with fuel,
keeps up the proper temperature; and so
long as food is consumed, the fire in the
human system keeps life's lamps aflame or
at least in tlutter. But let the supply of
nutriment he exhausted and very soon ma
ture is felt tugging away AZ the vitals to
keep up the proper temperature, and phys
ical metamorphosis-first the fat is con-
sumed, then the muscles, and finally the
furnace becomes cold, the powers refuse to
act and life is no more. The supply of
nutriment was not equal to the demand
upon the system, and, as l said before, it
must come from some source, and the fat
and muscles were attacked, soon exhausted,
and death ensued.
Here it is "We Live as We Die" Had
the supply of new matter been equal to
the excrement, there would have been no
necessity for this draw; but such was not
the case, and life wasted away.
The stove will illustrate the subject, for
fuel is placed in it and ignited when
the oxygen that finds home in every
nook and corner, takes up with the atom
of carbon, a part going TO heat up the
stove, the rest to escape out of the Chin
ney; the stove and chimney becoming
heated, radiate that heat, so with the hu
man system when 'tis nourished properly it
takes up the heat (fguratively speaking)
from the stomach and radiates it to the
remotest corners of the human economy,
while the lungs, like the draft of the stove,
take oxygen from the surrounding air, mix
it with the carbon already there, destroy
ing the poisonous effects of the pure car
bon, rendering healthy again the blood as
it passes through their net work of minute
veins, and allow it again to course the sys-
tenn, thus carrying off the waste and depos-
iting the repairing principles.
Knowing all these facts, can we doubt
the assertion, that GIVE LIVE As WE
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T0acn Point, Nor. 3rd, 1878.
VALUE OF RIGHT CALCULATIoN.-Men
ire apt enough of themselves to fall into
the most astonishing delusions about the
which time affords, but they
ire even more deluded by the talk of the