The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-01


rinm-A Boa, a ROcking-Chnir, and
Maltese Cat
From the New York Evening Post.
1t is not generally known that the late
Francois Delsarte, who is associated in
the minds of most persons with a system
Of dramatic aesthetics, made a long and
scientific study of herpetology and ar
rived at some conclusions that have been
more or less verified in different parts of
the world, but concerning which our lat
er students of snake lore appear to be
either wholly ignorant or incredulous
Delsarte formulated a theory of his own
after innumerable experiments, and how
ever speculative many of his conclusions
may have appeared at the time it is
certain that subsequent biologic investi-
cations have not at all disturbed them,
corroborative light upon them The
French master at his death left many
manuscripts treating upon this subject,
and number of them came to this coun-
thy in the hands OF favorite pupil
1t may be interesting now to state as
briefly possible what the Delsarte the
DRY was. AS is well known to those who
are familiar with his aesthetic philosophy.
he, like August Comte laid down three
laws, which he called the vital, the affec-
tional. and the intellectual. He designat-
e1 them as zones of organization" indi-
cdtiVe of the animal capacity to be, to
feel, and to think. In the scheme of ami
mated nature, he found that the reptile is
OF ali the forms of vertebrate life with
which we are familiar. the one strictly
iToi cd To he oil l.;
dian form essentially a spinal system,
without the functional germs of the 9TH
er two capacities Delsarte declared that
the serpent represented, in animal life,
the first degree of space. He is a line,
more extension, and the last link in the
descending scale of familiar vertebrates
that give any evidence of consciousness.
a purely vital organization, the reptile
represented the basic element of life as
we e and unders and it. He dgested and
secreted, governed and impelled only by
/ the irritation Of an appetite or the dis
turbng accidents of his environment.
When his appetite was allayed, he became
dormant. His economy of forces was ad-
mirably adjusted to these ends. He
wasted little tissue and lived TO a great
| age.
1t was Delsarte's Ultimate conclusion
that this serpent vitality, as a distinct
factor in life, was embodied in man him
self in his spinal system, and with char
acteristic French aacrity he jumped to
Dsvchic conclusions Of sine,lIer If rot
fancful import The one great mystery
of the serpent is mans unconquerable re-
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