The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1879-01-03

vh~ N"ssi fAk~ss vi a ~rs.s~ Ntns.,
FsN ths sshassnas8. fMiasfs4a
Popular rrajnslirr nj. u.s., alvA,s
ean'ln.~i T. III. ,la,l nges AMI .lla,.ta,,
elassss N na,iah, tut max h.4Nm.
fashionable hi thu u0entim. III .nlichi.
.hment, Hni no' amang the moral,
shabby .g.nteel only. for tie experience
~ our own century proves tha, III.
vrs~stsf nl~urIisl,s MAY II. defended
~ tile language If science, nr. H. Mons
NAiemhrr expressed il. tina, nnr ma.
tional academies are turning out aalepts
III the afi ui making nonsense l,iansi.
lie.
Throughout. Northwestern Europe
and Enclish.speaking North America.
people incline u think tina, ii high la,i.
tnie exercises al clr,ating influence Oh
The morals ani scientific capacity of
the human species, and that n lanl III
perennial summer auom~ it, inhahit.
ants e. state ~ permanent sluih aud
ignorance, view which Col. lnr,r.
soil candcnses. in his epigramma,ic
way, ny ASSUMING MS tina. civilization il
plant which can only thriv. iii the
snow"
Now. the truth evidently this. That
civilization whiel, ilnnrishcd in op.n air
during the golden age III the Mclitrr.
rmncan nations has become Il hot house
plant IN the nineteenth century. We
may hunt or light la snnw.stnrm; NO
mny tho Sioux and the S.link Tnr,ars !:
but painting, ii,i,lling. preaching. Tho
invention of lalTr-saving machinery.
the manufacture II shirts, steel pens.
newspapers, nutmcRs aud liberal lcc.
lures short, ull the OCCUPATIONS that
distinguish the civilized biped from the
two@lepncd beast are still carried TN in u
Matn climate. only with this difference
That the inspiring warmth shut once
cmanns.d from tho central body IL the
solar system has now IL bc maid for in
the form Of Noughiugheny coal aud
knLling-wond. Gnll..l, ii. iii. absence
~ warmth. per -, IL ~ .niavor.hie "a
the process oi llfe ~ darkness or mren.d
mr.; though partial explanation oi orr
modern snnM.Nnrship may H. found in
the circumstance that frost, like other
evils. has m indirect salne M I'm anti.
dote; i enables IL 10 indulge, with com.
lMrailsr imrnnlty, IN certain rai~ons
which the Sonthlan,lrr Inns ID avoid IN
pain II death.
AfeM montllsagu the papers n,lv.rtrd
~ the discovery ~ California opium.
eater who was nile u sober III III
ten minutes notice by swallowing hc.
role dose III arsenic; und more thnn 900
years Ago Panacclsus found TINT the
progress ~ d ,irnlrnt, and tin then IN.
durable disease could be arrested III
thu internal nre Of mercury. These
remedies may be infallihle, and, on the
whole, the lesser evil, but MI that
would hardly Justify Ill. assertion that
sobriety and purity can only thrive on Il
hasis 81 arsenic and quicksilver: and
yet 4 u ~ precisely analogous way
THAT cold climate cnuntoracts tend.
cncy t. sloth aud ignorance, and miti.
yates tho consequences Of dietetic
abuses.
An intelligent observer, travelling
slowly irom I'll. equator toward the
North pole, might notice .hat with
every degree farther north the forms III
III organic life decrease In size and prr.
lection, and he might thus arrive ii a
conclusion whiclr hi. lngists have
vsachtd by different route, viz. That
The tropics were the nrigin.l home AZ
all living thiner, and TINT only an M.
successful struggle FIR existence In
their intive cline forced animals and
plants - a snuwward emigration, On
their why from India IL knmt.cl,ntkn i,
palm trees dwindlcd 10 bnllrnsl.en, ar.
.'cr WITH giants TO juniper dwarfs. fern
trees 90 ferns; tigers shrnnk 10 wild
rMss and boArs 10 hlindworms; and
there seems IN a priori improbability
~ the idea that man alone should i'm.
prove under influences which stunt the
development u all other organic III.
ings. The paradise tradition and mum.
bcflcss national saeas point toward d
southern origin of tho human racc mot
% mention the Darwinimn indicia In thr
Mnc direction: A former happier
existence 81 beings of our species who
held the lease 81 life on more generous
terms and enjoyed centuries II mn.
bought pleasures which nov only the
wealthy can purchase for few H..
adee.
Alexander vun Humboldt remarks
apropos ~ Brazilian fruit plantation
that the banana tree yields quo times
greater amount II nutritious substance,
% the acre tlan my IL our Northern
cereals, and, by ihr same amount III work
w which Il dry lnborcr In tho North hnS
70 maintain himself, lie could i'm The
tropics provide the nccessitic. md many
lnxnrien q life for ! village u I'M H.
hahilantA. Himself and d moderate
family he could consequently support
with merely nominal amount IL inr,l
labor. and by fAr the greater portion IN
his time might b. devoted ID parsuits
that would raise him high above The al.
ilroloid drudge III the snow countries.
bhonld Ae ut tho same time he tom.
perAte and continent man, the same sun
hut rAises palm trees 10 the height IL
eighty cnbits would devclop his men.
tAl and physical faculties With i mini.
mum waste u vital power, and. since tho
HON. of the Semitic rures was land III
eternal summer. the atatistics Of putri.
Archai longevity may belong Ia the less
mythical portions III tho rrntatench.
- latitude where "all meadows and
~ wood are over green, and spring r..
surps with every rising SUM-" mai. might
regain lliH pristine happiness in tho
course 81 Ave or nix generations.
He might~bnt doe. tho history of
the human race make Ii likely that he
ever w1llf HHs man eyor failed 10