Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1881-07-11

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His anatomical structure is in many
ways different from that of the apes.
The facts are all old, but strong. The
great distinction of man, however, is
that the range and quality of his rea-
son and his power of language lift him
UNNECESSARILY Above the brute crea-
ton. His glorious body, quintessence
OF dust, is worthy of the facilities
which manifest themselves through it
reason, imagination, love, will-power,
speech. Man is majestic. His do
minion over things is absolute. Power
and dignity are written in his form
and bearing. The grandest statue, the
most impressive portrait, cannot com
pare with the reality which it strives to
initiate. PraXitiles carves well, Raphael
paints skillfully, but what artist can
compete with the Divine Master? No
colored outline or chiseled form can
express power, stateliness, symmetry,
as does the person of a C%oriOlanus, an
Alexander, a Napoleon, a Webster.
Long before Goethe was celebrated as
a writer he was admitted as an Apollo;
we read that when he entered a res
taurant, the people laid down their
knives and forks to look at him, Plu-
tarch relates that "CaSius Maicius be-
ing in the depth of winter, and in a
great hazard of his life, was saved by
the majesty of his person; for while he
lived in "a private house in Miuturn,
there was a public office, Il Cimbrian
by nation, that was sent to be his exc
cutiOner; he came to this unarmed old
man, with his sword drawn; but as
tonlshed by his noble presence he cast
away his sword and raj away trembling
and amazed"
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.
What glowing canvas or shapen mar.
bic reveals %queenliness and grace as do
the form, attitude, and movement Of
shall | say, a splendid woman. Mar
lowe, the painter, writing to Mrs. Sid
dons, said that when, in the character
OF Queen Catharine, she addressed
Wolsey in the words, lord Cardinal,
to you l speak," her statuesque atti-
tude was the sublimest thing in ancient
or modern sculpture. Whoever has
looked upon the majestic figure of
Ristori, and has felt the thrilling elo-
quence of her pastures, and the poetry
and pathOs Of her gestures, realize not
only what genius is, but how absolute
ly beautiful and noble is the human
body. What in nature or art, 50 salts
flying to the aesthetic sense as a perfect
human form and face. Tradition saws
that Appelles, ambitious to paint a
picture that should worthily represent
the Goddess of Beauty, travelled for
many years, and, having beheld in
Vulnerable fair women, he mingled the
charming features of all in a compost
ton of surprising loneliness, and pro-
duced al ideal Venus to which all
Greece yielded alteration. In the
words of Campbell,
"Mortal charms seem heavenly when com
bined."
Shall we pass from the cOntempla-
ton of beauty to the study of strength
and endurance? What can the para
gon on animals" do and bear? Though
man in infancy is helpless, he becomes
at maturity very powerful for a crea-
ture of his size. Human power is es-
timated to be one-ffth of a horsepower
that is, the daily labor of a work
ing man is performed at an expense of
force sufficient to lift 354 tons through
n foot. a man of ordinary strength
may, by the advantageous application
Of his muscular energy, lift 1000
pounds at a single effort. Doctor
Winship, of Boston, was enabled, by
patient practice, to raise the enormous
weight of 300 pounds. Carpenter
quotes from Desagulier an account of
a mar who could lift 800 pounds with