The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-06-14
PALATKA, FLA, JUNE IA, 1884
TRANSFORMATIONS.


material things by the application
of scientific principals. But the
most wonderful changes take place
und9r our very eyes without notice
or remark. Muscular energy may
be converted into brain power or
even moral force, and the chance is
only analogous to the transition Of
matter from one world to another
Energy is stored in all articles Of
artificial production and determins
their value almost entirely. The
hidden faces of nature when utilized
by thought Immediately becomes
marketable. The silver dollar is
valuable only because by common
consent it represents ten hours of
muscular work. A watch spring
costs more than the same weight of
ore because it is the expression of
all the brain power and muscular
force required to change one into
the other.
But "labor is money" only when
judiciously applied, and energy is
susceptible of shapes as various as
its productions. The fruits of
thought are the most precious of all
these And after muscular exertion
has earned a dollar, its transforma-
ton into the mind power or moral
force by using it to buy training for
the thought is most astounding of
all. The material and the physical
is carried over to tho spiritual
world; the energy stored in piece
of silver may produce efforts in q
realm totally different. For thought
rules the energies hid in the opera
tions of nature, and by the cultiva-
ton which comes as the result of
education, soul may be saved. 4
brain may be made capable of
thought by the product of muscular
exertion; the thought produces a
definite idea which may be wrought
into a machine in which may be
stored energy requiring the muscu-
lar eXertion of thousands for its cx-
preston. Time and space are the
great limitations to our nature; bv
the products of labor and thought
embodied in books, we may, in
effect, enjoy the fruits of life from
the dawn of history to the present
moment in our day, thought, en-
bodied in modern inovations, has so
annihilated space that we can set
still and cross a continent, or sit in
New York and enjoy an opera in
Boston.
Thus one man can transform his
muscular exertion into the brain
force of child; then it may be en-
bodied for the detruction of man
kind as new gun, or bear fruit in
an effort of his moral nature which
may leave its impress for good or
evil to all eternity on his spiritual
being. Our people have been alb
sorbed in the prime necessity of
wrestling continent from nature,
so that we are apt to undervalue all
energy not producing immediate and
material shape, but those transmit
ted into brain-pOwer or moral force
are grander, more valuable, and
more needed. Without education
our material prosperity will be a
matter of ancient history only few
years from the present, our conquest
and determination of the Indians a
cruelty without excuse, and our mis-
sion, appointed us in the eternal or
der of things, impossible of realiza-
ton. No man should hesitate to
exchange muscle for brain power.
To each his work is appointed and
the farmer who gives his dollar for
the education of his neighbours child
reaps direct benefit ten or an hun
dred fold. We have a common in
terest in common country, and no
man can spend for the public good
without reaping private reward. In
this case we can receive early and
visible profit for bread cast upon