The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-06

when 1t Is skeletonixed she will care
fully lift 1t out and dry It and 1t will
stiffen up again SO 1t will hold Itself
in the air. 1t Is little like carrying
incipient human life on a pillow-a
little baby, you know how carefully
you have to carry it. A father taking
up his first born. you know there is a
sort of a dread lest the little thing S
head should tumble off or something
happen to it OF that sort. But this is
the type Of life of the smallest and
weakest which lives in the water whose
spinal column is parallel to the earth S
surface. Notice that the line of the
face in the fish is identical with the
line of the back; that the back brain of
the fish is large and the front brain
little. Now step up to the bird. He
has his spinal column making an acute
angle with the surface of the earth.
It is not fiat down, it is up little, a
little advanced. The brain is out yon-
der on the loose swaying neck and un-
steady and the line of the face makes
an obtuse angle with the line Of the
back. The back brain of the bird is
much larger than the front brain, but
relatively the front brain is larger than
in the fish-a little advance. Next take
the quadruped, his spinal column is
pushed back, again, parallel with the
earth's surface, but it is above 1t, in
dependent of it, and stands on four
solid columns; the line of the face
makes a right angle with the line of
the back, the front brain larger than
in the bird, but still much smaller than
the back brain of the bird-still an
advance. Next comes man, the spinal
column is perpendicular to the earth s
surface, and that is
AS FAR AS IT CAN GO,
because if it goes any further it will
go back toward where it was in the
first place. Not only the best, but the
best possible. The line Of the face is
swung around from the back until 1t
is now in line with the breast-the
best and the best possible, for If 1t
goes further it will go back toward
where 1t was in the first place. The
back brain large, but the front brain
larger. 1t looks as if we could not go
further, for without the back brain
we lose the force that drives the ma
chinery and we lose the power that
perpetuates our kind. So it means to
me we are safe in the conclusion and
inside the facts when we say that this
body is the best possible body in the
whole range Of human thought.
Now then, the conclusion I think Is
fair that God has put so much en-
phasis upon this body Of ours that /
have a right to stand here on my two
feet on this open platform and conf
IDENTIFY expect that he will do more for
me; more than that, I think I have a
logical right to stand on ground where
L can impeach the administration of
it does not do more for me-
L saw over in Germany a clock so
made and wound up-they said to run
a thousand years with one wind. !
didn't see anybody that had seen 1t
run down. But it had been running
half century, and it told off all the
changes Of the moon and the change
able feasts Of the church and the leap
years, and put in the extra time for
every century and took out the sur
plus for every 400 years-marvelous
machine. 1t felt little like taking off
my hat to the "old" thing, but when
l saw how it was only a machine /
said to myself: II will take off my
hat to the man that made tiff I can
find him." What would you say to the
man that made that clock If after he
had made 1t so perfect that 1t could
run this thousand years with one wind
ing, If it made one single solitary kick,
he knocked 1t to pieces. You would
say he ought to be sent to the insane
asylum for safe-keeping So 1t seems
to me, that after the almost infinite
emphasis has been placed by the SUI
preme powers of the universe upon
this body Of mine, if there is not to
be something to come out Of 1t worthy
Of such work and emphasis, then what
shall be done?
This trench has taken a little longer
to dig out than I intended, but If you
sit quiet and I don't jump around
much and get hot, we will go
ON TO THE DRAW-BRIDGE.
And I will make the draw-b bridge out
Of our intellectual faculties, 1 mean
this in which we are distinguished from
the animals. Some people tell me that
animals can reason. I don't know but
what some Of them are in sympathy
with reason, they do some things that
look like the shadow of real reason
They tell us in the old textbooks about
an old elephant that had a film grow
ing over his eyes; they threw him
down and chained him, and the ply
sician came and cauterized his eyes
which improved the sight a little, and
he came back and cauterized them
again. The elephant could see a little
after the first operation and a little
better after the second, and when the
doctor came the third time, the ele-
plant laid himself down and held still
without any chain, and received the
operation. 1 have seen good many
human people that would not do as
well as that under treatment. A horse
that goes through a bridge and hurts
himself, year afterward will shy al
that bridge and don't want to 60 over
1t. Yet l have seen men that would
drop into deadfall or a saloon and
damage themselves badly, who didn't
know enough not to drop into it again
the next day or the next week 1 am
not wholly persuaded that these ami.
mails haven't some incipient reason
but 1 am satisfied that they have not
that particular department of reason
that distinguishes US as men. 1 will
make 1t very short, but I don't know
any small Saxon words that I can fl
into the place. 1 do not like big words
they are usually the tombs Of small
ideas and Of not much USE We have
in odr makeup something that Is
known as original intuitive concepts
that is, ideas that come up out of the
structure of the mind itself, not from
any Of the senses; we do not taste