Work of electricity in nature

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This work contains all the articles upon the subjects of offices of electricity m the human body, offices of electricity in the growth of plants, origin of species,^ offices of electricity in the earth, offices of electricity in the solar system, and the short pamphlets on the philosophy of storms and seasons, and the evidences o^ Gharactep,

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Chapter I

The importance of discovering what the offices of the subtle agent called electricity are in human and animal organizations, and the belief that such offices were capable of being understood, have induced us to examine this problem with as much care as it was possible to bestow upon this department of the operations of this influence in the affairs of nature.

The essential facts we think we have discovered of the operations of the influence in our bodies, shall be given in the articles we will publish. The amount of work of description necessary to disclose what we believe to be the more important offices of this agent of creation in our organizations, will preclude us from giving it all in one article.

In what we shall state, if it be true there can be discovered a solution of the problems of life , mind and growth.

The question of the truth of what will be stated must, of course, be left to the decision of the scientific and thinking world. We give our conclusions only that they may be examined ; and if found to be true, 'that the world may have the benefit of the knowledge.

The best evidence at present of the truih of any proposition we shall advance, is the examination of such propositions which the scientific world may give, and only when they are examined, and declared to be true by competent examinations, do we expect they will be accepted by our readers. The evidence we shaUoff^er in support of our propositions is intended only to cause the theories advanced to be carefully examined.

It is a fact, of course, that the writer is confident of the truth of such propositions as are going to be given, and it is the belief of the writer that scientific associations will find that they are true ; but this is not evidence for the reader, and we are anxious to avoid any error being made on the part of our readers by any article or proposition we may publish.

The uses of electricity in the human organization are so numerous, and so important, that it may as well be stated at once that without the currents of this influence in our organizations, our bodies would be no more than a piece of wood or clay. ,

There is only a composition of such materials in the body of a man or an animal, when this vicegerent of creation, called electricity, is out of it.

In the absence of this wonderful influence the body is without life, mind, or feeling; and in no organization in nature can either of these elements of a living being be found, except when they are produced by currents of this influence coursing through them. Just in pro]Dortion to the extent of the operations of electricity in any of the organizations of the Creator, will such creations possess life, feeling, and consciousness. It is of no consequence what the organization is, for alone on the currents of this agent of our creator does it depend for what of life, consciousness, power of motion and capacities of feeling (so often called the senses) it has. In all of the organizations of the animal kingdom there is as much plant as animal, and in all jdants there is as much animal as plant, so far as the substance of such creations are concerned.

It is only in the difference of the offices of electricity performed in such organizations, and in the difterences of their forms, that we can discover what constitutes the plant, and what constitutes the animal.

In this great truth, the scientific world is in the future sure to find all the means they can desire for ohtaiuing a knowledge of the origin of S]3ecie8, for if this fact can he established, the origin of animals must depend on . the production of plants and their decay. The necessity for such a condition of creations as plants, before animals could come into existence, Will be observed, when it is known that a i)lant depends on the earth for a sufficient force to constitute its growth, and that animals and man depend on a force generated within their own organizations for their growth.

No animal could exist without an origin of the species, and the plant kingdom has furnished all such originals When this truth is established, and we are confident it one day will be, the world will be willing to recognize the mistakes of the authors of evolution, and the teachers of an entirely miraculous creation.

In this article it is inappropriate to discuss the question of the origin of species, but hereafter the subject will be thoroughly examined, and our conclusions given.

In our examination of the question, a description of all the methods of evolution of life and separate orders of animals, will be undertaken; and when it is important to discuss the problem of a future life, we shall also undertake to disclose the origin of a human soul.

Let us now discover, if possible, what our bodies are created from, and what it is that produces in them the different orders of the manifestations we can discover.

E^ery organ in the body is grown by the operation of some power. We all know this. Every organ is capable of doing something in the economy of the entire organization.

Some force is exerted by which all the organs can be moved, and the whole body also. Some influence is operating in every part of the body, capable of giving the sensations of all the^ senses of the body. Some construction of substance is given to the brain, capa ble of so acting as to afford a means for the manifestation of mind, whatever that may be.

These different phenomena are all produced either by one agent or influence, or each of them are produced in a way we can as yet discover no cause for. It is the agent we call electricity that is doing all these different kinds of work in the system, or it is an ^ agent, or different ageats, of which the human intellect is entirely without means of ^ discovering. \

To admit that all the functions of the body 1 are performed by electricity, and that the \ mind is only an electric phenomenon, imposes on the one who claims this the task of disclosing the modus oj)erandi of this agent in such phenomena. To deny that it is electricity that performs such work, and that it affords the brain all there is of capacity for consciousness or thought, of course relieves us from the necessity of finding a cause for these phenomena, for it is not expected, and the philosophers of the past and of to-day have yielded the problem as one insolvable.

The attempt to establish the fact that thought or consciousness are produced by a change in the substance of the brain, is abandoned, although the fact is established that there can bo no oiieration or manifestation of the mind without some change actually taking place in the substance of the brain.

In our description of the philosophy of thinking, and the creation of consciousness, the causes of the changes in the substance of the brain that take place when a thought or the Avill is generated, will be seen and understood if our description of this philosophy is correct.

Now when an animal or a human form was established, and the way they obtained a beginning will not here be discussed, their organizations were calculated for the operations of this agent we call electricity, and also for this agent to operate them, and we now will state that every animal and human being is an automatic electric motor of such complicated construction, (excepting the lowest orders of creatures) that every motion, sense and manifestation of intelligence is produced through the influence of this agent of all nature.

To say this amounts to little, and if it were not possible to prove the truth of the statement, it would be a very reckless assertion.

The same statement can be made with respect to vegetable productions, for they are no less than animals of less capacity for moving and exhibiting intelligence. In a future article the modus operandi of the development of plants will be given.

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In our preseut attempt to delineate the work of electiieitv in tlie liumaii Tbody, we can make no comment on the uses of this agent in pUmts, except to state that it is identically the same as in our bodies so far as it is allowed an operation. The difference is solely in the extent of its operations. The plant, as we have stated, obtains a power of construction from the earth, and which is but an electric current, and our bodies obtain a power of construction from the atmosi^here which is also a current of this influence, and which is augumeiited iu the body by the generation of the inHuence in well prepared generating batteries. The most useful and the most beautiful operations of nature, outside the animal and human organizations, are to bo discovered in the employment of this great agent in producing the vegetable kingdom.

Our readers, in the future numbers of this paper shall have an opx)ort*unity of reading a description of this benignment office of this agent, and it will be the first time in the history of science, as we believe, that the method of the Creator in this great department of nature has been disclosed, and it is our belief that every teacher of science will be willing to investigate the facts we shall offer to established the truth of what will be proposed. Now, in obtaining electricity from the atmosphere, every person and animal is receiving a breath of life^ which operation is a literal verification of the declaration in Genesis, that God breathed into the nostrils of man the breath of life, lie did do this, and our nostn s are created and left open for no other j)urpose than to receive this breath of life. An insignificant use of another character is made of the nose, but it is only an ordinary incident of a design of all creations to make as many uses of every thing as it is capable of performing.

In our lungs there is a very well arranged means for delivering the electricity of the a mosphere to the blood, and it is appropriate to state that these organs are created for this purpose only. Every inspiration of the atmosphere bestows to the blood in the lungs the electricity necessary to cause the heart to expand about four times.

This action of the heart is simply a repetition of the action of the lungs.

The atmosphere, when drawn into the lungs is performing a veritable cyclone, and when discharged it is simply a mass of carbon in the form of gases. "Carbonic acid gas" is a common term m the descriptions of atmospheric gases, when deprived of electricity. They are rendered the same kind of atmosphere as before when this agent circulates in them again.

Now, every organ in the anima^ and _uman body is a magnet, and capable of discharging and absorbing electrictity. The discharge of this influence from such organs is, as in every object that does discharge it, produced by the pressure of the substance of the organs upon it, or by the absence of the influence in one or more of the organs, into which it will pass as air or water goes into a vacuum created on their borders, and the whole body will attract this agent from the atmosphere through the lungs and discharge it at the surface of the organs and body. In this circuit of this agent only a movement of it is performed as in any other circuit of its coursing. Any person at all acquainted with the character of the action of electricity will understand that it is capable of circulating rapidly only where it prescribes a circuitous route. When this is not allowed the influence of the current is simply diffused through tho atmosphere and rendered useless except to create an ecLuilibrium of the appropriate elements of our atmosphere.

The operations of this agent of our creation, and of all creations, does in this circuit through our bodies perform every function of our organs, or bodies that is not performed through the exertion of the will, and these ojierations are only possible by the employment of the agent obtained by our breath, and the organs called the blood and marrow. These organs, the blood and marrow, are operated solely by this current sweeping through our systems, and are only auxilliary agents for the more complete work of the current derived from the inspiration of atmosphere.

The marrow here referred to j-uciudes the medula of the brain, nerves and bones. Now when our lungs are expanded, we behold the first operation of this agent in our bodies. The attraction of our organs for the influence draws the atmosphere into the lungs, as a current of this agent from a fire or a decomposing body causes the atmosphere to ascend over auch decomposition. The gases only fol-

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lowing wliere tlie curreiit create* a vacuum. The expansion of the lungs is due to the influence of the electricty in entering every interstice of these organs, and the influence is capable of expanding everything in the universe in the same vray, if it is given a similar o]iportunity. The current passes into the arteries that deliver the veinous blood to the heart, and carry this blood into the heart in precisely the same way that the current of electricity in the atmosphere carries the gases of the atmosphere into the lungs, and when the blood thus charged arrives at the heart, the current is caj)able ot expanding- the auricles of the heart in precisely the same way it expanded the lungs, and when such parts of the heart are expanded, the blood will fill the auricles as the atmosphere filled the lungs. This work of attracting the veinous blood of the lyniphotic channels of circulation is what the doctors are anxious to discover, for they are confident the heart is not capable of doing the' work of throwing the blood quite around the channels of circulation, and in our further explanation of this wonderful office of the heart, and its motions, it will be seen that it only allows a focus of the currents of electricity that are obtained from the lungs, and that the currents of this agent perform all the circulation of the blood that ever takes place.

When our hearts are exx)anded by this influence, it is possible for the veinous blood to flow into the auricle of the heart from which it is carried to the entire limits of the organs of the body, and in this operation of changing from one auricle to the other, the blood receives the undecomposed substance from the thoracic duct or c nveyanceof fluids from the stomach. The influence of electricity upon the blood from this point is augumented in a way the scientific world should know, for it is simply a process upon which all growth of the organs and muscles depend, and as important as the circulation itself. The additional influence this agent exerts on the blood after it is impregnated with the fluids from the stomach, is a further decom- X)Osition of the corpuscles of the plants, arid animal substances taken into the system as food. In this process of decomposition of such corpuscles, only a combustion of such small objects takes place, and it gives to those that are comsumed while burning, a fiery aj)pearance as any slowly burning carbon presents.

These burning corpuscles are what are called the coloring matter of the blood, or red corpuscles. Those which apx)ear to be white are soon made red, by a similar process of the following pulsating currents of this agent of our circulation.

The way the combustion takes place is identically the same as that of any substance that is decomposed or fused b^ a current of electricity.

This statement can be found to be true, by any careful observation through the microscope, of the decomposition of blood-corpuscles, and it is of no importance whether the blood be in an artery of an animal or person operated upon only by the electric currents of the circulation just described, or in a clot charged by a current from a galvanic battery. In either case, a combustion of corpuscles will take place. A variety of salts will do a similar work on the blood when out of the body, and simply by the currents of electricity evolved by their decomposition.

When the heart is giving out the augmented blood, a contraction will take place of all the muscles around the auricles, and they will contract timply because the cause of their expansion has been attracted to all the organs of the body, and no valve is closed except to prevent the blood going in any way but to the surface of the organs, and back through other channels.

The uses of the pulses are to create tissue or cellular constructions, and without such a pulsating character of the passage of the electric currents through the system and out the surface of the organs and body, no tissues of any character like those that exist in the organs or body could be constructed, for the cells of the tissues are created by a pulsation of the current of electricity that sweeps through the blood and escapes through the orifices in the organs and skin.

The pulsations of the blood are a veritable tidal-wave of this fluid in the body, and produced by the same kind of influence that produces the earth's tidal-waves, and by the same character of oT)eration. The philosophy of the blood's circulation can be witnessed by any one who will stand on the banks of a river where the tides are caxDable of ebbing and flowing, and watch the move-

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ment of the water in tlie flow of tliis wave.

The heart is so much, smaller than the lungs, that it requires a greater amount of time to dispose of the electricity the limgs imbibe than is required for an inspiration by the lun-xs, and the lungs will not attract a fresh supply of this influence until the previous supply is absorbed by the heart, as just described. Now, let any one who thinks this proposition a reckless one, watch the operations of his lungs and heart, and see if the lungs are not in the habit of wating for the heart to exhaust them and the blood in the arteries of the lungs of this influence before a second inspiration is taken.

The presence of this influence in the lungs, and the blood in them, can be felt until the heart has pulsated four times, or if the person is weak, three times, and the influence will be felt as pressing the chest and lungs after the exhalation of the atmospheric gases of the breath. The necessity for such pulsations as we have adverted to, required such an arrangement of the heart, with respect to the lungs and the reception of this force.

The next office of the electricity in the blood after causing the circulation and decomposition of the corpuscles in the blood, although performed cotemporaneously with these operations, is to construct the organs, or perform the growth of the organs and entire system. We are now assuming the complete organization of the body, but in a later part of this work we will speak of the con stmction ol the organization.

AYhen the decomposition of the corpuscles takes place, there is left in the blood only the influence of decomposition, and the sediments of such, corpuscles, and the water of wliich the blood is aim :st entirely composed.

I'^ow, if this is s^^, where are we to find the material for the construction of our tissues, and all the other substances of which the body is composed ?

The waste water and sediment are carried cff by the kidneys, and are lodged in these organs on their return from the arteries and capillaries, for a purpose which as yet the world of philosophers have never noticed. Of course, the idea I shall advance may be an error, but if true, this statement is proper.

The substance of the growthi of our organs that are composed of muscle, or what is commonly called flesh, is the same as the substance from which our solar system was constructed, and the same as that which every object in nature was created from.

No discovery of the works of the Creator that man has yet made, unless it be the discovery of the philosophy of the solar system by Capernicus, is of more importance to the human family than what will now be disclosed, if what we shall state is true.

The work of cellular constructions, and the union of such cells in tissues, are the productions of the condensation of such electric currents as are produced by the decomposition of the corpuscles in the blood, and which we obtain from the plants and animal food we eat. Such corpuscles as we eat, and which are not dissolved in the process of digestion, are by the influence of electricity in the blood actually converted into electricity again, and this electricity again condensed to constiuct such, species of cells in our bodies, and which would, if allowed to become food for animals, be again decomposed and again converted into cells for the bodies of the animals that might eat them.

The immense imx^ortance of this disclosure, if it is the truth, that is stated, demands that the teachers of science who are possessed of the means of expeiimental investigation shall examine this proposition. The means of discovering its truth are so plain that it is useless to deny the possibility of learning it. The appearance of the cells and union of cells in the tissues are as well calculated to instigate such an investigation as the statement just made for the examination of them will disclose as surely as a thing ever was disclosed, the character of construction which has been described, and the tissue will bo found to consist of only a chain of cells united in the same way that any chain of organs of a semi-spherical shape would be, if the chain was comx)osed of one cell setting over the coni]3lete end of another. The actual process of these constructions is capable of being seen, with the assistance of the microscope, in the growth of plants, and in animals and man, when the blood is so transxiareut as not to obscure the issuing of cell after cell in the cuticle, or skin. The hair of the thistle, or the hair of a squash vine, or as small a hair of any plant will disclose the philosophy of growth, we have described, and the condensation of this vicegerent of God, called electricity, can be seen in the creation of cells in these hairs.

and the phenomena has already been witnessed and noted, without the discovery of its vast import or purpose. The teachers of science are in possession of a knowledge of this wonderful operation, so far as the phenomenon is concerned.

Now, if it is a fact that we, like the whole solar system, are condensations of electricity, can we not discover what creates those parts of the body that are not composed of such immediate or original condensations of this influence ? For instance the hair, eyes, teeth, nails and bones, and the medula of the brain, bones and nerves ?

This part of our task is partly performed in the discovery of the construction of the organs of flesh, for as sure as the flesh is a condensation ot the influence the Creator employs in all his works, these more solid substances must be a construction from the same influence in a more condensed condition. The bones are as well understood as any part of the body, and are supposed fco be the result of some process of growth like that, that produces the other organs. The eyes are constructed before birth, but they are also supposed to be productions of some process of growth, and the nails, and teeth, and hair are supposed to be grown in a manner similar to the organs of the system that are composed of muscle and flesh. If what we shall state is the truth, neither of these organs are constructed by a process of growth like that which creates the other organs of our bodies, and a different process will be shown. The only substance in each of these organs is the undecomposed carbon and mineral properties in the brain, and in the marrow of the bones and nerves which is thrown to the surface of the marrow in the skull and bones, or discharged at the extremities of the nerves in the eyes, teeth, toes and fingers. The explanation of the construction of each of these organs will be given, and we ask the scientific investigators to particularly observe what is going to be stated, for the analysis of these important organs that will be offered, will, if true, greatly advance the work of the medical profession, and the anatomist.

The hair shall first receive our attention, for its creation is connected wdth the offices of the blood, already described. The explanation of the growth of such an adornment of our persons will disclose the character of the philosophy adapted by the Creator to clothe the different animal species with the coverings appropriate for their organizations and conditions of existence.

The wonderful cause of the growth of hair on the horse and other animals, the growth of wool on the sheep, the growth of feathers on thefowl, and the growth of bristles on the hog, while all of these animals exist in the same latitude and eat of the same food, to a great extent, is within the reach of human inquiry, and it shall bo discovered if we are correct in our conclusions.

The marrow in the bones and skull is little more than a mass of corpuscles, obtained in the origin of our creation in the wombs of our mothers, and they are the original centers of attraction that originate the development of the human body. In our discussion of the origin of species these centers of attraction will be carefully considered with re= spect to their origin and purpose.

The growth of these constructions is obtained iu the same way the growth of the flesh is obtained, and the waste material of their composition is employed in creating the bones that surround them.

The decomposition of these centers, or great generators of the auxiliary currents of electricity of the body, is accomplished by a process identically like the decomposition of the corpuscles of the bloo.l, solely by an electric current being charged through them, and instead of their sediment being carried off through the kidneys as the sediment of the blood corpuscles is, it is thrown to the surface of these batteries, and there contracted or solidified into what we call bone, and the skull and bones are simply undecomposed carbon, so robbed of its original qualities as to be only partly condensed amounts of broken and burned corpuscles.

Every part of the body, if decomposed by electricity to the same extent that the marrow in the bones is in the lives of our persons, will become as white and imperfect carbon as the bones are. Now, the decomposition of these masses of corpuscles of course generates currents of electricity, which is discharged at every orifice in these bones, and thrown quite out of the matter around them into the atmosphere.

If it could not be discharged in this way the bones would be exploded. The human family has had an immense amount of experience with the effects of a suppression of

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sucli currents in llie bones and Lead. The experience has been tlie possession of gont, rheumatisra aud lieadaclie, and tiie obstrnctions are sometimes sufficient to cause an eruption of the bones aud flesh of the character of a felon or destruction of bone under a contusion. In the escape of these currents to the surface of the body, the particles of lliis caroon that are not allowed to incrustate on the snrfat;e of the bones are dex^osited in the blood, and some of them are swept around the system, and the rest of them are thrown out on the surface of the body by the additional curr nts of this agent of construction the marrow generates and the piles of This stuif thus thrown out constitutes the hair on our persons, and its existence or locality is in every instance a perfect verification of this -theory of the uses of this waste carbon. In every part of the work of the Creator there is an example of economy for man to copy, and the economy in the use of waste carbon in our bodies is still to be seen in other equally interesting and important orders of work. ,