Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-27
M'KINLEY'S ANATOMY
ACCURATELY ANALYZED AND
SCIENTIFICALLY CONSIDERED.
Heavy Body, and Seems TO Pos
sess an Adequate Adjustment of
Solid and Fluid.

Heavy Body, and Seems to Pos
sess an Adequate Adjustment of
Solid and Fluid.
N. Y. World.
The specimen of the genus homo
here subjected to analysis possesses an
interest outside the circle of science
because he was, ON Nov. 3, elected by
an immense majority of the people to
the high office of President of the
United States. He is thus described:
Name, William Mckinley.
Weight, 191 pounds.
Considered from the point of view
OF elemental composition Mr.. Mckin-
ley consists of 114t pounds of water
and 76a pounds of solids. Among the
interesting solids of which the Presi-
dent-elect is composed may be men
toned, first, carbon. He contains
about % pounds of carbon. This ele-
ment exists abundantly in comets.
That fact constitutes the only known
resemblance between Mr.. Mckinley
and a comet.
Another of the solid constituents of
the new President is calcium, of
which he contains rather less than
q pounds. Calcium, in combination
with carbon, has back-bOned the
earth with mountain ranges, Mr.. Nc
Kinley no doubt has enough of this
fine element to supply all the back
bone that the task before him will re-
quire.
Phosphorous also exists to the
amount of abont two pounds weight
in the composition of the man who
beat Bryan. Phosphorus occurs
principally in the blood and the bones
but there is likewise a perceptible
quantity of it in Mr.. McKinley's
brain, where it has done good work
in the past and will have an oppor-
tunity to do better work in the future.
Some people eat large quantities of
fish under the impression that their
brains will be benefited by the extra
supply of phosphorus thus obtained.
1t is not probable that Mr.. Mckinley
has yet felt the necessity of prescrib-
ing for himself a fish regimen. There
is evidence that he already possesses
all the phosphorus he needs.
THE M'KINLEY BRAIN.
The brain of the President-elect
weighs at least three pounds, probably
three pounds and quarter.
That would be 50 ounces, or seven
ounces heavier than the brain of the
average man, and ten ounces heavier
than Gambetta's brain, but ten ounces
lighter than the brain of Lord Byron.
This admirable combination of
blood, bone, brain and muscle that
the people of the United States have
chosen to stand and to speak for them
in the councils of the world, is like
wise powerful physical engine. Let
us measure Major Mckinley by the
standards of science-the results will
surprise us. The energy of this living
locomotive, which has made the record
run in presidential race, reckoned in
terms of the mechanical equivalence
of heat, amounts in a single day to nc
less than 5000 foot-tons! That state
ment appears absolutely astonishing
when we remember that single foot
ton is equivalent to the work required
to lift weight of one ton to the
height of foot. The energy of life
throbbing in the body OF the new
President in the course of "a hours
would, if it could be properly applied
lift a weight of 5000 tons to the
height of a foot.
To keep the furnace bright aud the
engine running without the loss O
speed Mr.. Mckinley must consum,
every day not less than 5000 grains o
solid food, not less than 10000 grains
of oxygen and not less than $1,000 o.
$1,000 grains of water, from which .
large additional quantity of oxygen il
derived.
"When / was q young man." sait
Socrates, ~ earnestly sought to fine
out the mysteries of existence ant
diligently studied the physical sci
ences, hoping thus to be able to discove
the cause of existence. But thes,
studies bitterly disappointed me
They threw no light whatever on th'
great question why anything come
into being or perishes."
Finally, after turning in anothe
direction for the light he wanted
Socrates arrived at the conclusion
that undertaking everything whicl
is material and physical is anothe
essential principle, which forms al
ideal type, which cannot be understood
with the aid of the science alone, bu
which nevertheless dwells in the bodie
of men and gives them their rea
character. This spiritual and intan
gible principle Socrates held was no
only essentially different from tn
physical body, but existed before tina
body came into being and survives
after it had perished.
THE UNwEIGHABLE INTANGIBLE.
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