Smyrna times., 1881-07-13
For the Smyrna Times
Discourse on the Physical Basis @
Life.

All the grand balance conditions and
on the plane of interchange, be-
tween the mineral vegetable and animal
Kingdoms, are seeming tides of motion,
ever sweeping onward over the progress
i've fields of perpetual transmutation, all
correlationally entering into all the Others
The naturalist who begins at a senseless,
contradictory source of causation, and
follows in the pathway of theoretical
ignorance, bigotry and creed-defending
superstition is too weak to command our
attention or comment. 1t is not our
purpose now to stop and consider whether
the Chinese Pau-coW-she, the Scandina-
Wan Thor, Greek Jupiter, Mosaic Jeho-
yah or HindoO Brahn got up the world
we inhabit. We hear the Whisperings OF
an intuition within, feel an active pulse
trobing through the connecting rivulets OF
our physical and spiritual being and learn
from natures records before us, that there
is an Alternative wisdom of spirit in all
things, ready to teach us all we would
study concerning ourselves and surround
ings, and in fact, all that has been, is, and
is to come. With the introduction of the
microscope, some century and half since
came to us the spirit of new and most
powerful range of vision, peering as fal
into the sOul-inspiring infinitesimal as We
through the equally wonderful telescope
s,,fa h. s,G 4.
astral and yet even these wonder scopes
of the inlinitesmal and the infinite, bene
ficially furnished the inquiring genius o.
reason, only raises us to the still humble
and hopeful condition of pigmy investiga
| tors, who can but learn to feel more hum
bic as we see and compare ourselves. a!
individual entities, with the grand sun
total of which we are but sensitiv,
component part. Some of the fungi of tn,
vegetable kingdom, not hundredth par
as large as pin-head, grow in one night
time, to the dimension of large gourd
nor is this at all uncommon with the ami
NAL fungi of the human species, that groy
equally large i'll proportion, as they chanc
to be pent up in the dark in favorabl
season and soil. The miscroscope reveal
a world of wonders in all grades of exist
ance. To illustrate we find in the cellu
lar tissues of the calladium, numerou
rudimentary plants, sodeep and so hermet
ically sealed as to allow of no other con
clusion than that they are the products c
spontaneous generation. New classes
orders, general species and varieties {
vegetable and animal life supply the plac
of all those hewn down by the scythe {
time, and cast up on the pyre of the MOI
umental past of which geological stratiici
tiOns speak.
AS rays of light seem to attract wha
darkness drives away and Uice Uersa, $
/ the onward alterations of the ever chang
ing and progressive past regenerates an
supplies the loss of the more crude int
the more refined eternal motion, begets
ceasless supply of all demand, of whic
we seem lily competent to judge. In ii
soft summer shades of tropical twiligh
bats and moths come forth, both to enjC
themselves, and yet the one to feed upC
the other. Can it be that the essenti
life of the moth thus ending in the ba
but enters higher field of sensation?
not, wherefore is the purpose and econ
my of this ceasless course of motion III
change? Many of the more delicate m
y lusls of the sea rise to the surface iowa
If dawn, and sink again beneath its dancil
= ripple as the sun appears. And mai
plants open and close at certain seasoI
certain months, and certain hours of {
day. The black helebore flower appef
v in January the Messeron in Februar
the wall flower In March; the periwinl
in April; the iris, lily-of-the.yalley, lii
;, and others in May, month named afl
. Mai, the Goddess of flowers; in Jun
42 July and August, the propitious seas
e heralded in by May, dresses all nature
in the pomp of bridal bloom.
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Oi BLAcKBIRD HUNDRED.
- TO be continued
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