The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-23

& pounds are like the mixed air and gas
4 Of the gas-engine. IA rested muscle may
be llkened to a complex and Well-organi-
.zed battery OF gas-ens!nes. On the stinu-
lus supplied through a nerve channel q
series OF co-ordlnated explosions takes
rlace: the products 81 The eXplos1ons
Zone of which IS carbonic acid sas) are
taken up and hurried away by the blood
stream; and the protoplasn1 sets to work
to form a fresh supply of explosive ma !:
terial. Long before the invention Of The
gas-engine, long before gun cotton or dy-
Mantle were dreamt Of. long before
some Chinese or other inventor first mix
ed the ingredients Of gunpowder, or
ganic nature had utilized the principle OF
cell. - The cells on or near the ex-
ternal surface OF the tbody-those, that Is
to say. which constitute theAend organs
Of the special serfses--conta!n3 explosive
material which may be fred by astouch
u sound. or an todor. the contact with a
supid fluid or a ray OF light. The effects
OF the explosions IN these delicate cells,
reinforced In certain neighborng nerve
knots-ganglionic cels-are transmitted
down the nerves as along fired train
OF gunpowder and thus reach that Won
derful aggregation 'of organized and Coz
ord mated explosive cells, the brain.
And IN the brain, somehow associated
with the explosion Of its cells. conscious
ness and the mind element emerges.
Looking; then, into the molecular and
atomic physics OF cell life or activity
VIC behold BY mental vision in processes
that seem simple and uneventful to SUI
perfciai thought connections and rever-
sails OF tendencies of molecules and
at6mes, more rapid and violent, more
magnificent and wonderful. than even
the most extraordinary most sublime.
more awe-inspirlng exhibition Of self
Transforming energy the celestial, stellar
universe has at any time presented to the
gale Of human eyes. Innumerable mil
lions Of cosn,lc bodies, which we, agere-
cations Of those bodies call molecules
and atoms. acting from some impulse.
the nature of which, Is at present In
scrutabe to the very physical organ Of
thought which those bodies, with all
their impulses and characteristics. con-
sttute go to work with rarely-faillng
readiness to fill up with themselves Or
form in the cells of the brain and other
parts OF the organism. Should We see.
on some clio udless, n1oonless night,
thousands of the stars OF the milky way
move In orderly manner towards tho
great vacuoles OF tho heavens, called Coal
Sacks, and, after arriving t their deatl-
nations, arrange themselves there SO skill
heavens at those points uniform with tho
appearance In the more thlckly starred
regions we should behold a phenomenon,
a display OF cosmlc purpose, that would
be no more noteworthy, no more I'M
mense pan-cosmometrlcally regarded,
than any one Of countless similar exer-
,cises Of prodigious determinist!c activity
patent to the mental observation Of the
mathematical biologist III the building or
the repair OF any cell OF his own body,
And As estimated that there are Co.,
oo1, 900 cells In the average human brain
alone,
Man and the world are large or small
accordingly as they are regarded macro-
scopIcaly or mlcros copically.