The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-22
THE MUsrc OF scrKxcx
An Interview with the Naa on the Eve .
q Performance Of DarNin's " Earth worms.

! am pretty sure that shall do no work at all
this summer. ! feel 1t In my bones"
Spring fever?"
No. said the man. II know spring fever.
! and have no fear OF 1t. Men are apt to be do
| pressed in tho spring because awak ening
| vegetation and the nascent friskiness OF the
! lower animals use up SO much ofthe restricted
quantity Of electricity. which nature has to
spare. that there is precious little left for man.
Therefore he languishes and doesn't feel like
working. but presently. when the plants and
the brute world have got we'll on the way to
make their own electricity and leave mans
alone tho feeling passes off,"
Then you think that electricity Is life. as
advertisements say II is?'
When feel like thinking 30. do" said the
man. " A week or two ago read in THE SUN
letter from Brooklyn philosopher whose
name escapes me. In which he said that man 8
soul was electricity. and the divine soul was
in and of the ether 1t struck me at the time
that this might no true for all knew to the
contrary and I remained in that frame OF
mind till found that the Brooklyn man mis-
interpreted Lodges opinions in regard to tho
nature of electricity-and, by the way. Lodge
says that IN some ways electricity acts as II Il
S Msfo Ro ,o who When oth9 bus
Misunderstanding q. another philosophers
doubt that tho conclusions he drew from, his
characterization OF the other philosopher.s hes
e Ws ali n sss sSa 1st"re ssE
worth thinking about. Still. they might be
irst: even though the whole process by which
heelectricity as "nythine else w 90 Wi.
the interview in when Mn Edison, expressed
the opinion, that atoms have souls. are con-
se!9us; ana .1 hn ". wills Of their 9wnI
before him and Hermann ,Lotze. and. per
chance also. remembered about animism
filings have souls U Mr Edsens notion Shs ' Seemed
Sp iHs sO Tod rp%s to fs RGn
he thinks Of electricity and atoms. 1t is the
saTnES nnmi1 carried from huks baek to
9pini,ons q 9, say!Ess Their formal perfection
poetic idea; You see. modern phiioso;;
hssss' Gao in fGf formal pea'eG ts Hna
their theories are what might be called a5so.
"e S u or o 9 9f as sE n
theories ,F q soul that thrill NC with exquisite
my Utmost soul or electricity just as ;Beetho-
ven Yen DOES, or Schnmann, and schuhsrt's songs:
aSopory hearn IN ' tie Grand tones peens
ir@9mI lis h'y w }bnst2yT"9psicon
when Old Man Huxley I'VE call him the Old
Man, Just as We call Beethoven sol sits down to
he IN eendnct tsa
orchestra. never went and ,puiyered and shook
and sobbed and went all to pieces IS do. In
short Charles Auchester wasn't in it."
And donot theories concerning the nature
md constitution Of matter have somewhat
You bet they do" said the man. take
Dalton's Atomic Symphony. i should say. his
Hi.hers En Fester Burg. with s f Frinee E N
gene finely called God Almighty Grenadior
e. most powerful microscope; YOU don't Know
that there are any and yet you feel that they
poead or Tx e CID
masters. or Boseoyich's Molecule scherzo. and
what more aSe could on heart wish for9 And speak
Euscles. in which he shows that gravita-
Pusion and mot not any hsss %tt1actoa
between masses, of matter, 1t would sound
yell Yalan even though pertG3rmed as prelude BY
saiWhat yen wantte h is is H H s -
tSrG Of the PLACED BY the fell t9psh
How grandly i used f. roll, along the ceiling
Hail Wien the old New York i liberal tlxb used
to meet there! Then bearded mon bowed
their beads nnd LIVE wsnt Sittsry and the bright
Woman thers Who used to sing tho vestses
then nobody could restrain his emotions.
Soms back beck to days q ny
ecd Stir wn me even ooa %
core! never had spring fever then.
~ s sHe1g ss and
Apparelled in celestial light
The glory aud the freshness OF dream.
Celestial light you know is the light Of
the sun;, moon. and stars. and In this state
against sa sssh as
u oDil you ever read or hear Evenings at
ntnSs and iSSsa ths EisaS@ q
was led astray. and it early palled on my taste
and offended my aeumen;. DO you think it
TlGht yiye such instruction as that o tho
times am Of another. You see, my mind has b..
ings at Home and there are even now mo-
that book as to something I have lost t'i and Id
t neyer reg3in FEEL With bitterness tho
Down s4s the anisy Fu %SSyp slsn.
For fear Of science inen.
Wee fox good folk.
Green nrsS9 5asks sIi I'd ;sSfs sar
Aud wise owls feather.
ITO might must call upon young woman
who promised this morning to play Darwin's
.Earthworms' and his symphony on the Cir
l should be very nice and sweet she would
give mo q bit from SAINT George Myart's elu-
sive Cantata OF the Cat Now go, for / must
dress and DO nice and sweet"
A Lively Spring OpenIng.
Prom tie Bstroh FIRE. Pres,.
TIE Rev. Francis Marsten Presbyterian mipister NJ
Ohio, has the rude vgor and grit of Calvin He was
nsked to open the Ohio Legislature with prayer and
this was the burden OF his petition: "Remember q
Lord the welfare OF these Thy servants gathered hero
in this mae strom of inquity fraud. and corruption
Thou knowest with what suspicion this Legislature is
looked upon by tho people of this great State Lord
deliver from the brides the brbers and the brib.
takers in midst and keep them from the WAYS Of
temptation which surround them on every hand and
may their acts be righteous and not corrupt"
What a kick this Republican body made II did mot
want amy such delverance. and in its kicking wen. 40
farm tntr hiatt m