The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-12-04

a ana wonderful as your own hand
!. Mighty hand! In all its bones an,
muscles and joints learn that God
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COMPLEXITIES OF THE BODY.
: Behold the eye, which, in its photo
, graphic gallery, in an instant catche
the mountain and the sea. This per
, petual telegraphing of the nerves; thes
! joints, that are the only hinges that d,
, not wear out; these bones and muscle
, Of the body, with fourteen thousan,
! different adaptations; these one hun
dred thousand glands; these two hun
, dred million pores; this mysteriou
heart, contracting four thousand time
every hour; this chemical process
OF digestion; this laboratory, be
yond the understanding of the mos
skillful philosopher; this furnace
whose heat is kept up from cradle ,tt
grave; this factory of life. whose wheel,
and spindles and bands are God di
rected. If we could realize the won
ders Of our physical organization We
would be hypochondEiacs, fearing every
moment that some part Of the machine
would break down. But there are men
here who have lived through seventy
years, and not nerve has ceased to
thrill, or a muscle to contract, or a lung
to breathe, or hand to manipulate.
I take step higher and look al
mans mental constitution. Behold the
benevolence of God in powers of per
ception, or the faculty of transporting
this outside world into your own mind
gathering into your brain the males.
ty of the storm and the splendors Of
the day dawn, and lifting into your
mind the ocean as easily as you might
put glass of water to your lips.
Watch the law of association or the
mysterious linking together of all you
ever thought or knew or felt, and then
giving you the power to take hold OF
the clew line and draw through your
mind the long train with indescribable
velocity-one thought starting up a
hundred, and this again thousand
as the chirp of one bird sometimes
wakes whole forest of voices. or the
thrum of one string will rouse an or
chestra.
Watch your memory-that sheaf
binder that goes forth to gather the
harvest of the past and bring it into
the present Your power and velocity
of thought-thought of the swift wing
and the lightning foot; thought that
outspeeds the star, and circles through
the heavens, and weighs worlds and
from posing amid wheeling constella-
tons, comes down to count the bios
SONS in a tuft of mignonette; then
starts again to try the fathoming of the
bottomless and the scaling of the in
surmountable, to be swallowed up in
the incomprehensible, and lost in God
MAN ALONE IN REASONING AND UNDER
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ness of touch Mans powa her&fore
CONSISTENT not in what he can lit, or
how fast he can run, or how strohg
wrestler he can throw-for in these re-
spects the OK, the ostrich and the hyena
are his superior-but by his reason he
comes forth to rule all through his in
genious contrivance to outrun, ont
lift, outwrestle, outsee, outhear, Guido.
At his all conquering decree the for
est that had stood for ages steps aside
to let him build his cabin and cultivate
his farm. The sea which raved and
foamed upon the race has become a
crystal pathway for commerce to march
on. The thundercloud that slept lazily
above the mountain is made to come
down and carry mail bags. Man, dis
satisfied with his slowness of advance
ment, shouted to the water and the
fire: "Come and lift" Come and
drawn "Come and help" And they
answered, SAY, ay; we comew And
they joined hands-the fire and the
water-and the shuttles fly, and the
rail train rattles on, and the steamship
comes coughing, painting, flaming across
the deep.
He elevates the telescope to the
heavens and, as easily as through the
stethoscope the physician hears the
movement of the lung, the astronomer
catches the pulsation of distant systems
of worlds throbbing with life. He takes
the microscope and discovers that there
are hundreds of thousands of animal
cul@ living, moving, working, dying
within circle that could be covered
with the point of a pin-animals to
which a raindrop would be an ocean,
rose leaf hemisphere and the flash
of FREELY lasting enough to give them
light to several generations.
MANS MORAL NATURE.
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