Evening journal., 1901-11-02
DIVINE AFFLATUS


Genius does not always naunt itself
IN the crowded marts; it sometimes re
fuses TO come at the beck of the
naughty and the proud. At times, amid
lowly surroundings the divine afflatus
is manifested, and some son Of the
sol,. with genius permeating his mar
row and oozing from every pore,
breaks forth into song.
We have had occasion recently toI
speak Of the genius which has sprungI
into life in the little town OF Milton.
She mas sent into THE great arena cfI
tle world eminent physicians. judges|
and merchants Recently we told Of
an epitaph writer who has achieved
fame in writing epitaphs while you
walo, warranted to suit the most fastid-
icus taste. But our eye has been fixedI
on another rising star from the sameI
town. who has long been pouring out
his soul in prose. His effusions might
be termed "prcse etchfngs" since there
is an imagery and a delicacy Of touch
N5ich singles them out and sets llem
apart from the idle vaporngs of the
usual newspaper ARTICLE. SometimeI
we trust they may be gathered and
'pu, into a book, that they may not
be lest forever The following extract
is taken from a Milton correspondent of
the Milford Chronicle:
10 is an automatic principe inI
science and philosophy THAT nobody
can move, cr be put I'm motion. without
being acted upon by some force, either
material or immaterial What is this
that comes across me permeating my
frame; and walks out on these beau
tiful hazy days of October? | 50 cut
IN the woods and get something. When
| am thus perambu.atlng I'm not look
| irg for a lost cause" yet there is
something Within me that lifts me up.
WHIST is it? Metaphysics tells me it is
the power of mind over matter: "
! Huxley tells me it Is electricity" "
Darwin says "gaVanism. My early
education endowed me with an idio-
syncrasy that has never been forgot
ten. and Perhaps never will be. Meta
physics may have its place; Huxley
may sleeD beenath the waters OF the
Rhine and Darwin on the Survival of
ltle Fittest." may have its run and bel
admired, but There is a princip'e inbred
Within man, That looks not only for an
after cause but the grand cause of THE
beginning. If / by some means could
pump the oxygen from the hydrogen
in cur oceans, thty would burn the
wcrld up by their own spontaniety. If
| could pump the nitrogen from the
| oxygen in our air carbonic. acid gas
would be the result. and we should die
of over-infiation. This is my idiosyn-
Grassy; rhere is Just head to all
causes you may call it electricity. or
galvanism, or You may cali it the
power Of mind over matter, but the
cause remains; digest it IL You can.
Tho principle which is laid down that
no one can act without force outside Of
himself, explains much peculiar con-
duct II makes clear the reason for
the inability Of certain persons to
think for themselves. and explains
why someone else is always called
upon to perform that task for them.
II throws considerable light on the
subject Of pol!tics, and we need no
longer be in tine dark as to THE influ-
ence which causes men to espouse the
cause of public rascality.
Following the writer we find that
something is permeating his frame
these October days What is it? Can
it be sand-burs or "Iheumadz"? lie
says lit is something that lifts him
up and therefore we suspect it is the
former. The writer Ceaves us some
what in the dark, so we can only sur
mise. He says, wisely, that if he coul,
pump oxygen from air carbonic acit
gas would result and he would die o
imitation. All that is it; that is wiha
lifts him up. He has removed IN,
oxygen from the air carbonic, and aci,
gas has resulted. This has swelled hin
like diet Of dried apples and water
f and he is ready to bust" This ha
= been taken for divine afGaus, and tn
(. case is serious.
5 We are glad that we can return q
n earth and learn that one gentleman !
p painting his fence. and another is fix
is ing his porch. II is a pleasure, to,
r that another gentleman has put
ience around his front yard. while
DC fourth is building new stable In
return to earth suggests that tn
D. acid gas which had lifted him up ia
cvaDorated, and that the balloon Ia
a. returned from the clouds