The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-06-11
RANDOM THOUGHTS.
BY THE EDITOR

was any radical change IN his nature.
He was just as Jealous, earnest and hon
est in his opinions when he was persecut-
ing the Christians as he was when he was
preaching Jesus. There was no greater
change in him than there was in Benja-
min F. Butler, when he voted in Con-
vention ffty-six times for Jefferson Davis
for candidate for President, and after
wards facing and quelling and conquer
ing bowling mobs of pro-slavery traitors
in New Orleans and New York, and
making his eloquent and unanswerable
speeches for freedom and justice to the
negro, in the Congress of the United
States.
Paul well understood my theory of
development and inheritance of insur-
mountable bodily infrmities, which con-
troll the mental and moral character of
man. Therefore we hear him deploring
the thorn in his flesh, and exclaiming,
oh wretched man that l ami Who
shall deliver me from the body of this
death" evidently referring to his nature,
fastened upon him by his physical or
ganization.
Now perhaps the reader will ask me if
believe in this fatalism, which is worse
than Calvinism, why I favor education;
why l believe in moral teaching; why
write and select articles for publication
for long series of years, if mans fate is
fixed unalterably by his physical organi-
zation ? will try to explain.
Observation teaches me that nature
l will use that term for convenience-al-
ways adapts all her works to the end de.
signed to be accomplished. If any one
desires to strengthen and develop any
part of the body, or any faculty of the
mind, he can accomplish wonders by
going to work in accordance with the
laws of nature. DR.. Winship was rather
a small, slender man, yet he could lift
two thousand pounds. When he COM
menced practicing upon the law of de-
velopment, he could only lift from three
to four hundred pounds. By daily exer-
else he developed muscular power suff-
cient for the occasion, nature supplying
the necessary increase of muscular con-
traction to meet the demands of each
DAYS increased weight. He did not
doubt that muscular power could have
been developed sufficient to raise three
| thousand pounds, but as increased
strength could not be developed in the
bones, he was afraid to go beyond ton,
believing that the human frame could
not resist a greater weight, without
crushing the bones. L could give any
amount of similar cases of bodily devel-
opment, of the whole, or particular parts
of the body. There is more truth than
romance in the story that a man by lift
ing calf every day, could lift it with
equal ease when it had become an OK,
weighing a thousand pounds.
The mental and moral faculties can be
developed in precisely in the same man.
ner, but not nearly to so great an extent
1 have no doubt that the organ of memo
ry has its seat in one part of the brain,
destructiveness in another, veneration in
another, and so on. Any one of these
can be developed and strengthened to a
considerable extent by constant, regular
and continued use. Take for instance
| veneration In an infant you can see
the brain pulsating at the suture in the
time the skull becomes united. This
point, as rule, is fuller in girls than in
boys, and hence girls and women are
more religious-have more veneration
for parents-for God, and for all that is
pure and holy, than have boys and men.
Take boy with depression at this
point, and he has very little respect for
his parents, or for those older than him
self Let him grow to manhood without
special training with reference to this
tic or an infdel. He will neither fear
God nor regard man. Now to say to
such man that if he will repent and
believe he can at once be good man, is
just as absurd as to have told DIR. Win
ship before his muscular development,
that he could lift ton of pig-iron. But
take this boy and put him under thor
ough religious training, and his venera.
ton will gradually become developed, to
a considerable extent, his head at this
point will become fuller, and render il
possible for him to become to some extent
religious, although like Paul, he will
have a constant warfare with this thorn
in the flesh, and in his despair cry out
| e. 1oli fha hr1 Of Il
fastened upon him through inheritance
from his irreligious and undeveloped an
cestors.
The above will apply to any other or
gan the same as that of veneration. And
if there is any truth in the foregoing,
then it is a dangerous error to teach that
any reliable change can be wrought short
of natures plan. by constant and contin
ued training and development. 1t is no
child's play. 1t is no matter of setting
a resolution to do better, and then living
up to it. God does not now change His
laws, work miracles, and change men S
natures instantaneously. If this was
generally understood and admitted, men
to work in the great life struggle with
much more reasonable hopes of success.
The man with powerful bodily frame
could soon have developed muscle suff
cient to lift ton, and his great bones
could easily have borne the weight, while
it took the slender DR.. Winship years to
develop his strength. The man with a
well developed head and body, inherited