The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-02-21

causes other than dynamic energy.
Gentlemen, around this force, embued
with motion, gravity and attraction,
evolves the grand. principle of being.
Werecognize it as the most potent force
of the universe and while we know
how to produce and use it we know no
more of its source or elements than we
do of what lies beyond
This vital. process of Nature, or
rather its surplus, creates new forms
of life every minute, and it also pro-
duces the elements that perpetuate
their existence. Just what form of
vegetable or organic life the ancient
progenitor of man was we cannot say,
but we know that material or physical
complications are, by no means, essen
tial to produce living organisms.
Theories on origin are conflicting,
but it is more than probable that Ma
ture, in the evolutionary process, was
compelled to resort to artificial meas
ures to assimilate and vitalize the
motive power because, as the body
became more complicated it, naturally,
required higher voltage to sustain it.
How and when the change took place
is conjectural. It may have been be-
fore any definite line of demarcatiOn
between organisms existed; or even
before the atoms constituting life were
responsive to external nOurishment
other than their own attraction and
cohesion to the phenomenal force
assimilating them. 1t is not unreas-
enable to suppose that, in the struggle
for existence, this organism, composed
of, approximately two-thirds energy,
adapted itself to conditions by gradu-
ally developing a cell that acted as a
material anxiliarv to the, inherent
spark in generating its vitality.
Time and incongruity to my subject
will not permit me to go into theoretl-
cal details on origin at this time except
to say that this cell, in the various
forms of life, exists today in all its
intermediate stages and that it first be-
came a positive force in the fish-the
original progenitor of the vertebrate
kingdom. If structural complications
| in the lowest form of vertebrate life
, are to be considered as potent factors
} in descent then the osteogenesis devel
opment of the fish is sufficient evidence
} to reverse the entire order of beliefs
Q to accept evolution as an incontrovert
: able fact and the prescribed dogmas a
o superstitious rant of our ancient paga'
! antecedents.
J, In man and the mammalia this on
Q time auxiliary cell or organ has reache
,. so high stage of perfection and a,
a tanned so powerful a voltage of voltai
r energy that it generates surplu
70 greater in volume and intensity tina
e. is either consumed or required by th
e. physical body. The cell allude to ha
s. in the passing of ages, become ind'
,r pendent of the original spark by d.
e, yeloping the brain which, like tn
le DYNAMO and dry battery, draw an
20 assimilate their forces direct frol
RS Nature. Diminutive, in proportion
le the body, as the brain is, there is
,e series of combustions taking place
,s it's inmost recesses that, in the pbysic
e. body of man, exert an average pressu
tb of, approximately. one hundred poun'
G. per minute. This is not feveri
b. dream nor distorted fancy Of viv
is imagination, but an actual fact tn
in becomes less absurd when we kne
ls- that every pulsation of the heart
ouires an exertio of fifty pounds ar
he probably twenty i've more to keep t
ise blood at its normal temperature
,e- ninety-eight degrees fahrenheit.
,ic In all forms OF mammal1a, bell
* man, the surplus energy accruing
ts: concentrated on one or more sens
M such as smelling and hearing in do
rec horses and hyenas; and sight in ca
is giraffes, leopards, etc. In man, on
nv other hand, the nerves are sensitii
or. more uniformly, harmonizing
ery senses and giving him the power
of optional differentiation and consci'
of retention of mental associations, hel
{ a his intelligence. With the, possi
,ity exception Of the gorilla there is no
,tic NAL, approximating to the bulk
eat man that has his powers of endural
of and there is no form of life, regard
lnr- of size, that consumes the energy I
to he does; therefore, with his more