The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-10-28

that? Action of nerve, and that from agit-
alton of the centres of motion. And do we
there find the Man? Consciousness only
tells us that back of that, is self determine
ton, and plan of thought for the music.
Get we find not the self Personality be-
comes trackless desert, dark and silent,
belonging to the unseen. We call it forth.
1t responds in the counteuance, or move
ments of the body, but is to be known only
through It's manifestations.
We conclude, then, that personality be-
longs to the unseen order of creation.
That 1t is to be known only through its
self revelations. We reason from its works
that it possesses moods of thought and will,
ideas of symetry and proportion, moral char
acter by the good AIMED at in its works,
emotions, ideas, and that it is progressive,
By applying this same reasoning to the
world about us we find back Of nature, In.
finite Personality, knopn only by self rere-
tatiOns, also uHSeen,
To embody his conceptions and to man
ifest his will, man acts down upon and
through sensitive and highly organized
matter IN the body, upon more gross mat
ter, and makes use of vital, chemical and
mechanical forces. Both matter and force,
in the body and in nature, are not the pro
duct of his thought and will, neither can he
destroy any of their elements. All that he
can do Is to combine and adjust, and the
forces do the work.
(a) Thought, Will, and Benevolence Man.
itested in the body.
In the human body matter is distributed
in bone, muscle, nerve. Arrangements are
formed to transmutc the energy and warmth
of food into the more highly organized
forms Of force in the body. In it
is the furnace that preserves even temper
ature, the circuits carrying life to every
part, and at each point the mandatory
which weaves bone, tissue and brain, never
making mistake or becoming confused
Over these many processes, all working for
the good Of man, thought and will preside:
yet they work independently Of mans
thought and will
Galen writes, Sin making mans muscles
alone, 5000 several views and intentions
were to be formed and executed. In the
bones, the distinct purposes aimed at are
1860. The average brain is capable OF
entertaining 5000, 100000 separate ideas.
Besides this evidence of plans and in
tentions, we find ideas of proportion and
symmetry, and are impressed with the like
ness Of the personality of man and that OF
the architect back of the body.
(b) The relation between the body and
the outside world reveals this Personality
as Omnscient and Omnipotent, as Infinite
and Eternal.
The eye has its ] inch lens adapted for
far and near objects. It is arranged with
reference to the properties of the atmos-
phere and of light. Light is diff'used
through the atmosphere, and is emitted
from each particle Of air, and by this ar
rangement we escape the changes from
sunlight to black darkness, or from noon
day to the night brooding over every place
on which the sunshine does not rest. Land
scapes become possible, and the variety be
tween the foreground and the far away
dimming background is secured. By the
properties of absorption, interference and
retractiOn, we have the colors of sky, foil
age, water and cloud, the brilliancy OF
pumage in the bird and the changing iris
of the mother of pearl.
For the perception of this coloring the eye
has a set of three nerves corresponding to
the primary colors When $4,000 light
waves measuring an inch in length and
rushing at the rate of All million million
waves a second beat upon the eye, the per.
ception is of red, and so up TO the highest
color to be seen, $1,000 waves in an inch
at 699 million million waves per second
producing violet.
Similar arrangements are found i'll the
density of the atmosphere conditioning
sound.
The ear has a range of sound from the
heaviest bass up to the shrillest cry repre-.
sented by s to 24,000 waves of sound sirik
ing the ear per second. In the ear are
5000 vibrating hairs, of which $500 are
for the seven octaves of musical tones
When 80 waves interfering strike the ear
per second, discord is felt which decreases
to l2O, when it ceases entirely.
If two of these hairs yibrate, the sensa
ton is 9th of half note, and the quick
est note is heard.
Were it not for the stability of the dens
ity of the atmosphere, these wave sounds
would move slowly in dense vapor, and
more rapidly under less pressure; were il
not for even absorption Of heat, the crests
of the waves would rush ahead of their
base, and music would be an impossiblity
and sounds would be constant only IN un.
pleasing variety OF pitch.
Now these senses have other relations
than to the atmosphere, and the properties o
the atmosphere have many other relations
than those which touch these perceptions
By its density the air acts as blanket re
tarding and holding the long return waves
of the warm sunshine, were 1t less dense
the waves would rush away; more dense,
and the finer waves would not penetrate tc
the earth, or should they, would be held
down only in the lowest layer. Were II
less dense, the 400 millions of meteor mat
ter which strike the earth yearly, would mo-
berubbed into fire and burn out Ia the upper
air.
Were it differently endowed in its pro
portions, and properties, and temperature
great streams of vapor would be rushing
from tie equator to fall when condensed
into showers of destructive force, which
now softly fall; watery yapor would flash
from every pool and stream, and were life
possible. it would be certainly disagreeable
But such is the perfect balance and adap
tation. that thro the relations between
the mountain chains that gird th'
earth. the rivers of wafer vapor invisible II
the skv containing four times the water o
ai our rivers, and the temperature, al
move in harmony and order, anC
the rain, dew, frost, snow and ice are the
manifestations of unseen powers
and arrangements by Mind ant
Will for the good Of man.
As the water vapor of the atmospher
consisting of invisible bits of repellen
dust, has its antsgonism destroyed by eleC
tric power and then appears in cloud, an