Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-01-22
MAN A RATHER POOR LOT.
;olno of His Faculties Compared With

Some of His Faculties Compared With
Those OF Other Animals.
Man is vain sort Of IN animal
at all times" observed thoughtful
citizen yesterday, "and in his process
OF naming and classifying things
around him lie has attempted to leave
reminders of himself in every possible
Place, and he has generally succeed
cd, for ones eyes may not escape fali-
ing on something named after some Oh
his attributes. But when We come to
think OF it, when we come TO look ma
ture squarely in the face, man is not
the only thing in the land which ccn
lay claim to highly developed senses.
Take the human eye. Unquestlon'
ably the little bundle OF nerves in the
eye which make Installation possible
ard which present the mind with
Photographic relinements which no arr
has yet equalled, is one of the phys!o-
logical marvels, and opens UP an end
less field for speculation in the realm
Of psychology, that unsolved riddle OF
science in whose presence even the
giants have covered and skulked in
hopeless ignorance. Yet this eye, dis
cerning with so much delicacy when
the picture is no farther than the wall
of ones room-this eye with its cir
cumscribed limits would be looked up
ON with Gignified scorn by yon soar
Ing eagle if he only knew how much
farther he could see than human be-
ing.
"Take the human ear We may not
hear so well as the rats and mice that
burrow under the palaces in which we
live, or the squirrel that capers yon-
der in the forest, and countless other
things cne might mention. We may
diiierentiate with greater accuracy
and trace refinements in sound when
these lower creatures may not trace;
but when il comes to the matter OF
catching the sound at long range,
their ears seem to have been more
perfectly constructed.
1T is conceded that no human voice
has over been heard which could equal
in sweetness of tone the lays which
one may hear in the orchard. No hui
man being ever sang more sweetly
than Patti, but she never sang so
sweetly as the meadowlark when he
pours hisTgurgling love song out on
the summer. air, or oriole when he
shades his silvered octave from the
bending bough.
''sWhat device for measuring water
pressure has man invented which
will compare with the nerves which
string the sides of the fish? 1t is a
sense which is not represented in the
human category. Man must resort TO
artifcialties in order to learn the air
pressure and the degree of heat or
cold. But it is different with the fish,
for he can always tell just what the
water pressure is, and he knows how
much he can stand, and he acts ac'
cordingly.
"Take the olfactory nerves. Man
is all c:ght when 1t comes to altar
OF roses. violet perfumeries, and this
and that sort. but you may pick out
the measliest old hound in the swamps
of Mississippi, and if he knew how
mitch superior his sense of smell was
to mans, we'll he wouldn't want to be
caught in mans company.
"No, am not running my own creed
down. I am Just relating few things
which ought to make us all natural
lovers, for the many deserving beau
ties that we wot not of in these hurry
ing times, and among them may be
counted the things menti9ned, Prove
it? Prove nothing. | an Just telling
you."-New Orleans >1fmes-Democrau.