FIRST 
ELEMENTS OF VITAL POWER: 
HOW THEY WERE 
ORIGINALLY GENERATED, 
AND 
WHY THOSE ORIGINAL ELEMENTS ARE STILL INDISPENSABLE 
TO THE PRODUCTION AND REPRODUCTION OF 
<3 VITALITY IN THE HUMAN ECONOMY. 
STARTLING EXPOSE OF IMPORTANT MISTAKES 
AN ENTIRELY' ORIGINAL AND 
THAT UNDERLIE THE 
TEACHINGS OF “MEDICAL SCIENCE” (SO CALLED)' 
IN CONSEQUENCE OF WHICH, FEARFUL NUMBERS OE LIVES ABE DAILY SACRIFICED! 
and the Constitutions of other fearful 
Numbers Broken Down. 
These, with other facts and causes of the present deterioration of the Race 
(especially the American Race), will be presented, with proofs irrefrag- 
able. Correctives will be immediately demanded by the whole intel- 
ligent investigating community. The Materials of the Human Body 
will be known and proven. Correctives of the many mistaken 
Theories in relation to the Formation of the Earth, the Origin 
of the Rocks, Trees, and Animals; their progressive changes, 
developments, &c., &c. Man (Ethnology), and the causes 
of the present varieties and conditions of the human 
race, &c. It has cost me my life-long years to be 
enabled to j>resent a synopsis of facts as I 
pronounced them in three Lectures 
in this city. 
BENJAMIN HAEDINGE. 
NEWYORK: 
1870. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, hy 
BENJAMIN HARDINGE, 
In the Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of 
New York. PREFACE. 
“ Vitality—gentlemen,” said the far-famed Professor , 
to five hundred who had stepped down from the shades of Par- 
nassus, into the “ anxious seats,” of the medical amphitheatre 
of “great expectations.” “ Vitality, gentlemen,” said the cele- 
brated Doctor , at his opening Lecture upon Physiology 
and Therapeutics, “ Vitality is a word to express a something of 
“ which we know nothing. Our business here is to understand 
“ the analyses of the materials of which the human body is 
“ composed ; the minute anatomy of each apparatus, and every 
“ organ and its functionary action in the human economy. But 
“to explain the w- Vitality is not within the reach of human 
“prerogative, although we meet the word at every step in 
“ our studies. It means that mysterious something that has 
“ never been defined by man.” 
There was one among the graduating class who did his own 
thinking—and his own reasoning. He was also a close observer 
every where, in the external world around, as well as in hospital 
practice. He would tell the fable of so many “ tracks into the den, 
but few tracks coming out.” He had read Dr. Sir Charles Bell’s 
confession, (after over forty years’ practice) of the fearful results 
of great mistakes that underlie the whole false superstructure 
called the “ Science of Medicine,” “ Therapeutics,” or “ Healing 
Art.” Our “ original ” saw with his own eyes, and heard with 
his own ears the corroborative words of all the old, honest, 
experienced physicians, “ that full three-fourths of the doctors 
are killin'1- instead of curing, and breaking down the constitu- 
tions o 11 e human race at a fearful rate ! ” And he set about 
the study of man with a determination to know Ijy what laws we 
live, move and have a l)eing. In short to know the meaning of 4 
the word “ Vitalitylie studied long and ardently. He 
found the boohs wrong on the most important materials which 
compose the human body. And this particular was of itself 
sufficient to condemn the whole profession. 
He found that man for his very existence, yea, from his first 
formation, his very frame-work is dependent upon a 
substance of which not one word is mentioned in the books ! 
He not only discovered the monstrous mistakes and their fear- 
ful consequences, but he discovered what Vitality is ; and not 
only what Life-Power is, but he has discovered what it is not. 
He has found it to be no “hidden,mysterious, incomprehensible 
entity, not left withiu the powers of human investigation to 
know all about.” But that Vitality is the resulting power of 
the play of many elements known only to the man who has 
spurned all the false teachings of the schools, with reference to 
the formation of the earth. 
And now, after his whole life-long years of study and practical 
tests, he is enabled to present in the following pages a synopsis, 
an epitome of his theories with reference to those (heretofore 
abstruse) subjects, together with such irrefragable proofs, plainly 
presented, in style and manner unique, original, and some- 
what homiletically varied in arrangement; and it will be found 
by the intelligent reader that every paragraph is full of mean- 
ing and forcible connection, elucidating in the briefest pos- 
sible manner my whole theories, embracing creation, inorganic 
as well as organic, showing that both are inseparably connected, 
in the production of Vitality or Life-Power in both plants and 
animals. And although all the processes of creation were slow, 
when compared with our conceptions in reasoning upon other 
subjects, yet the reader will have discovered that this book has 
been written by a man who has made himself familar with every 
generating process; the spontaneous working of every chemical 
law, together with its simultaneous action in all those progressive 
developments and alternate changes, viz. : How and through 
what agencies a first gaseous spheroid was formed; how nebulas 5 
were generated and aggregated. Thence how the rocks were 
formed. Thence the hows, whys and wherefores; the generating 
of every elementary action in all the stages of organic develop- 
ment up to the Adamic period, of perfectly formed lung breath- 
ing Mammalia. Man being the culminating acme of all that had 
preceded him—a distinct type, a mentally as well as physi- 
cally organized being. And here, it is obligatory on me, to say 
that I am the one referred to who has always been accustomed 
to do my own thinking ; and further, it will have been seen that 
I could not (truthfully) explain these subjects without throwing 
a Congreve rocket into the medical camp, which will completely 
explode, not only the whole theory of present and past Thera- 
peutic practice, but demolish the proud Temple of Medical 
Science from its very base to cupola, and imposing alto relievos, 
and lay bare all its interior teachings with the irresistible scalpel 
of scientific truth, presenting the proper correctives in conformity 
to the unerring, immutable laws of God and nature, as will be 
fully explained in the following pages. By reading them at- 
tentively, you will be the better enabled to live much longer 
and more joyously in the land which the Lord your God has 
given you, is the full belief of 
BENJ. lIARDIRGE., INTRODUCTORY REMARKS, 
INCLUDING A SYNOPSIS OP THREE ORIGINAL LECTURES DELIVERED BY ME, 
EXTEMPORE. IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 
DEVELOPMENT OF WHAT IS CALLED LIFE, OR 
VITALITY. 
ON THE 
The word Life is a very common word, a monosyllable of 
only four letters, sometimes called Vitality, sometimes Motive- 
Power, sometimes an Etherial Aura, etc. But these words 
teach us nothing, but are used only as vehicles of thought to ex- 
press the name which we have been taught to apply to a power 
that we see developed in infinitudes of forms and functionaries 
throughout every species of organic matter, in accordance with 
and in conformity to each particular organism. 
A half a century since, I was taught by the learned of the 
age that the word Vitality was a word to express a something 
of which we know nothing. And I have heard the same blind, 
portentous mistaken fallacy pronounced by our distinguished 
professors in the amphitheatre of physiological science at differ- 
ent periods ever since, up to the present time. The result of 
this mistake is as alarmingly great now as ever. 
The destruction of human life, and the breaking down of the 
constitutions of fearful numbers daily for the want of a perfect 
knowledge of all the elements of Life-Power, and how vitality 
is generated and reproduced in the human body, the materi- 
als of which are not presented in the most elaborate medical 
works up to the present time, are facts to be proven in these 
lectures. 
Also to understand all the various grades of Vitality or 
Life-Power exhibited to the eye of common observation, and 
to be qualified to foster and control this power to a great ex- 
tent ; to extend its existence in our own animal economy, by 8 
reproducing its waste in the fluid secretions; by first knowing 
the physical elements of the framework of all animals, and of 
man in particular—in short, to understand the ways and means 
of generating and inviting this tenacious life-power for years, 
yea, many years longer than without this knowledge, our 
days of healthy existence are comparatively few, and our 
lives much shorter in consequence of the willing indiffer- 
ence, as well as the all pervading ignorance of the whole human 
family upon this subject, of all others, to every man and woman, 
the most important. 
Life and Intelligence are inseparable companions, from the 
highest to the lowest genera and species of both animal and 
floral life. Although intelligence exists in but a very low de- 
gree in the lowest animal organisms, and scarcely recognizable 
in plants and floral life, yet we know that such is the fact. 
The next thought that presents itself is the infinitude of 
grades of both life and intelligence which meet the eye of our 
common observation with reference to this fact. Not only in 
the lowest grades, the connecting link (so to speak) between 
animal and vegetable organisms, do we recognize a species of 
intelligence, but the same fact pervades every genera and spe- 
cies of floral organisms, and it is this fact that makes the study 
of Botany highly interesting. 
There is an elementary life-power not only in the fluid globule 
circulation of all animally organized beings, from the minutest 
animalcule up to the human organism. The life germ deposited 
is in accordance with the parent organism, both in animal and in 
vegetable and floral life. While in engrafting fruit trees, you 
derive the life fluid from the sap of a sour apple-tree into capil- 
lar ions recipients of the scion of a Bartlett pear, and a tree is 
thus sustained, yet the fruit it bears is in accordance with the 
organic fibre of tbe parent of the scion, to absorb sncli other 
elements as with ammonia, hydrocyanic acid, etc., produce Bart- 
lett pears. 
The material substances of which plants and trees are com- 
posed, and how these materials were first generated and alter- 
nately organized into the said living developments we shall 
know all about vu vVcvVjl-A 
The next thought that presents itself in\his brief glance of 
our subject, a posteriori ad prius, and before we shall have ex- 
plained the origin of the elements of the materials combined 9 
in generating the living or vital principle of both vegetable and 
annually organized life, its waste and reproduction in both, 
there arises another fact. There is no gradual rise of intellect 
(I use that word for the present purpose to convey the correct 
idea which we shall arrive at before we finish, and more espe- 
cially when we shall have got through the fog of false teachings). 
There has been no gradual rise of animal intelligence, in pro- 
portion to alternate development of advancement in physical 
strength until we shall have reached Man, 
We are all more or less familiar with evidences of intelligence 
in vegetable organisms. The sensitive plants in warm latitudes 
are striking illustrations. They are classed as Genus Mimosa, 
because some of the species enclose themselves within their 
virgin drapery at the approacli of footsteps, or concussion of the 
ground within several feet around their habitation. 
If you slightly pinch the extreme outer pair of the leaves of 
the sensitive plant in your garden, (of a species indigenous to 
North America,) every pair of leaves will in regular succession 
communicate the injury to its next neighbor, until the three sets 
of leaves on three different stems, shall have closed inward and 
bowed themselves down into a species of quiet indignity and 
wounded pride for an hour or two. The reciprocal action of 
plants in their early endeavors to respond to the genial smiles of 
the sun, is indicative of one of the agents of Life-Power. 
The frame-work of your trees having been first formed in 
the way I shall explain, will show a higher grade of intelli- 
gence. If you bury a bone near your grape vine, and examine 
it a year afterwards you will find that a feeler has been sent to 
the bone from a main root, and that feeler has found its way 
into every foramen of that bone. That the nutritious phos- 
phide of lime—carbonate of ammonia and of gelatine may be 
extracted from the bone during its decomposition, that you and 
I may not have sour grapes, while the vines themselves seek 
direct communication with the sun. Keep a woman from the 
sunlight, and she also will be sour and without color or 
health. 
Some years ago I delivered an original lecture on “ Wood and 
Woman,” and another where the subject was “ Men and Eocks.” 
The novelty of such announcements brought many ladies, who 10 
went home satisfied that my subjects were not only in philoso- 
phic keeping, but were said to have been instructive. The 
texts were scientifically suggestive to me. I found them copiously 
prolific. The great desideratum embraced in the first lecture, 
consisted in teaching the ladies the laws of vitality, and how to 
preserve the fire in the eye, and the rose on the cheek, and the 
ivory teeth, and all the springs of life and locomotive action three 
times as long as they now do, and how to evade the whole cata- 
logue of nervous headaches, neuralgia, general debility and list- 
iessness and languor, depression of spirits, torpidity of liver, 
and the ninety-and-nine other complaints, besides trouble with 
kidneys, growing worse by swallowing “sub. mur. hydrargari,” 
■which in nine times out of ten brought on that dangerous disease. 
With reference to intelligence in animals, we shall find no cor- 
responding rise in the scale of alternate development of genus 
and species, in the chain from the reptile up every step, in all the 
different radii to the Ourang-outang or Gorilla. I shall prove 
man a distinct creation, genus homo, a double type. I shall prove 
the fallacy of the concatenation or “ development theories,” of 
Mr. Darwin and La Marck and others, whose publications have 
only darkened the minds of the tens of thousands who depend 
upon others, to lead them into infidelity. 
I have said that there is no corresponding rise in the intelli- 
gence of animals, during the long ages of alternate develop- 
ment of both genus and species in animal organisms. It needs 
no great stretch of thought or observation to prove this fact. 
I have watched with my own eyes the circumventive, mischiev- 
ous, quick movements of the sea-crab at low tide in clear 
water. See him with a very small pebble in his forceps, waiting 
the opening of the oyster, so that the pebble which he quickly 
puts between the unconscious bivalves affords him a quiet 
oyster lunch. Here is a moral lesson to thousands of men who 
boast in the word smart, and in circumventive talents; the crab 
is his boon companion. 
So that the Gorilla, though very strong on account of his 
coarse organism, and can stand at an angle so near 90° ; yet, 
in intelligence bordering upon reason, the crab is far his 
superior. Phrenology loses nothing here, the anterior lobes of 
the brain are very low, and although the crab is almost minus 
brain, yet, he exhibits a pair of prominent telescopes, and will 
give you unmistakable evidence of nerve power, if he gets hold 11 
of your finger. The bite of the claw of a lobster is like that of 
a screw-vice. If you punch the eyes of the lobster he will let go 
his hold. The large heavy claw of the lobster only communi- 
cates with the body of the animal by a thin, small, tender joint 
containing a nerve encased in a cartilage, which communicates 
with the optic nerves of this almost brainless animal. If you 
step upon the electric eel of South America, he will knock you 
down with the shock. The spring of a salmon up a waterfall 
seventy feet high, against tons of pressure, gives us some idea of 
a combination composed almost entirely of water, organized by 
gelatinous hydrous silicates and phosphides, the elementary sub- 
stance of the salmon and electric eel, and the whole finny tribe. 
Water is of itself a remarkable electrode. 
The human brain, particularly the anterior cerebral portion, is 
larger than in any other animal, hence it is our great galvanic 
battery, 80 per centum water. 
About eighty-nine one hundredths by weight, of what we 
call water, is an element which has been named oxygen, from the 
Greek verb to generate. Yes, it does generate. How does it 
generate? By its universal destructive power it generates static 
electricity. It was the first elementary agent in forming this 
globe. We shall know all about this directly. Oxygen by its des- 
tructive properties is our first agent in Life-Power, albeit, oxygen 
and carbonic-acid combined become a death-power, while oxy- 
gen alone would kill us with kindness; and yet, oxygen with 
about three times its weight of nitrogen is welcomed into our 
lungs. What for ? How does such a universal destroyer become 
a vital power ? By attacking the waste deleterious substances 
and throwing them out by the return process, or falling of the 
bellows, the lungs, while it keeps on finding its way through the 
air-vessels into the blood vessels, generating electrical action 
throughout the entire and minutest channels; producing ca- 
pillary attraction (that heretofore mysterious power that we 
shall explain), at the same time evolving caloric, which we call 
animal heat; and by perspiration superfluous watery fluids are 
exhaled from all parts of the body. There is now and then an 
enemy which this great analytical destroyer finds difficulty in 
removing; such as virus, poison, cancer, hydrophobia, etc. Then 
change these substances into food for oxygen: we shall know 
how; and a word to the wise is sufficient. For instance inject 
into the cancer that which will render all the fibres and tissues 12 
an easy prey to oxygen, thus opening the other absorbent vital 
agencies. But these are not medical lectures exclusively. 
To fully understand Life-Power is to know all its elements. 
To know them is to know how they were and are now genera- 
ted. Vitality is not a unit; a mysterious indescribable entity ; 
but the resulting combination of many agencies, as we shall find. 
How find ? By retracing all and every species of matter, organic 
and inorganic to their common origin in a gaseous form and 
condition; know what these gases were then, and how they were 
generated. 
Electricity is not Vitality, as many a hemiplegiac or palsied 
subject has found out too late to be here to tell us of it. Elec- 
tricity, though the most universal potent power, was not in 
itself an entity, but a resulting power of elements which pre- 
ceded it. We shall know about its action in connection with 
ourselves, as well as the world around us. 
Electricity, in itself, is not Life-Power. Therefore we shall 
remember this fact while we are speaking of its universal 
agency in every action in and around us; In every storm and 
every calm; in every sound, whether harmonious or discord- 
ant ; in music and language; in poetry and painting; in the 
act of memory, the will and the affections; and processes of 
reasoning and speaking. This elementary agent is the pro- 
pelling power when combined with the other elements that act 
upon the organic machinery in accordance with the more or less 
complicacy of each respective organism; somewhat as latent 
steam in the boiler becomes power, when in circulation and 
expansion, or motion and exhaustion. Thus the first beginning 
of a law of Vitality in plants, long (and I shall explain how 
long) before some of the materials for mans’ Life-Power had an 
existence. Albeit, every point of progressive creation tended 
toward this acme of God’s purpose. And we shall have learned 
other facts in addition to what constitutes Life-Power in the 
human family; and how we may prolong our lives; or shorten 
them. Plow woman may continue to blossom after many a tor- 
nado has prostrated her for the time. She rises through the 
combined agencies of Life-Power, like a field of corn, which the 
merciless gale laid low on yesterday, stands to-day erect in its 
silken pride, plainly speaking in the breeze in soft and sublime 
whispers of eolian enchantment the truths which I am going 
to elucidate with reference to intelligence in plants^. 13 
It is our business to know tlie operations of oxygen and elec- 
tricity, and hydrogen and the other elements of Life-Power in 
the animal organisms. Unless we know all the materials of the 
organism, whether more or less compound, we cannot know any- 
thing about these operations of the elements of vital power in 
the human economy. You may study minute anatomy, and 
physiology forever, unless you know, in the first place, the 
materials of which the human body is composed (and I am 
going to prove that the books do not even know or teach this 
first necessary lesson). And I say further, that Yitality cannot 
be understood by the teachings extant. True, you may know 
that man is an instrument of a “ thousand strings,” and wonder 
that he “ keeps in tune so long” (under present trying circum- 
stances). That he is an organ of a hundred thousand stops. 
That he is a wonderful engine and musical electro clock of a half 
horse power. A locomotive and fire engine. A windmill; a 
bagpipe ; an air-gun; a water-mill and aqueduct; a velocipede 
and viaduct; a demi-god; a demi-devil; a demon-crat; a de- 
mos-crat; a pie-publican; rarely a true democrat, or even a true 
patriotic republican. A demi-go-gus; beginning not at Jerusa- 
lem but Yew Cork; no longer Yew York! Leaders of the 
demos to demon: hence the new names demoncrat and pie-pub- 
lican. A right angle (Ay-angle), obtuse and hypothenuse. A 
plumbline; for he walks by the square- Why by the square % 
He preserves his centre of gravitation and forms a right angle 
with his mother earth of ninety degrees, or the fourth part of a 
circle; indicative of moral as well as physical uprightness. Ho 
other animal can do this. The lower animals occupy all the 
other radii, man only the meridian.' So in the physiology and 
order of his creation. 
But I have no time now for moral illustrations by allegorical 
figures. It is my special purpose in these lectures to promulge 
such of my discoveries in the physical sciences as are of the 
greatest importance as well as of vital interest to the whole 
human family. 
These discoveries have cost me a life-long experience, and a 
vast expenditure of money. 
And, as common count, and common observation admonish 
me, “the sunset of life” may be premature by some 
of the casualties or causes not recognized in the bills of mor- 
tality ; or I may overwork my brain for the benefit of a 14 
thankless world. Then, who can “minister to a mind diseased? 
Raze out the written trouble from the brain ? Pluck from the 
memory a rooted sorrow? Or, with some sweet oblivious 
antidote, purge the foul bosom of that perilous stuff that 
preys upon the heart ?” No! Ido not mean to say that we 
can live always, even if we would; but, a hundred years, even 
now, should be the meridian of our lives of healthy vigor and 
manhood were it not for three causes, viz: The devil/ society's 
increasing derelictions; swallowing error, drugs and pills, and 
the ipse dixit of everbody’s nobody; instead of doing their 
own individual thinking. All are contending for that common 
prating about “truth and common sense” without knowing 
truth. yHence, what is contended for truth and common 
sense, in one locality, is nonsense in another, all over the 
world. I ask no man to receive as truth anything more 
than what I shall either prove or disprove by presenting 
facts and the proofs. These facts are the results of my 
early investigations, many of which I published long years 
ago, naming at that time many reasons against the Plutonic 
theory. Such, for instance, as water found in the middle of 
quartz crystals. Also, the supernatant water found in the 
center cavities of Geodes. Also, found in the molecular divisions 
of granite rock. Also, by the spontaneous jettings out of 
hydrous silicates at the Geyser springs, and many other spon- 
taneous hydro-thermo-silicious phenomena. I not only alluded 
to these facts, which present themselves to the commonest 
observer, but I discovered the fact that silicic acid (so called for 
want of a more suitable name), was one of the first elements, 
together with oxygen and hydrogen, which were generated with 
carbon and electricity into an agueous spheroid of aggrsgated 
and ago-reffatino; nebula) rotating; in chaos for thousands of 
OO o O O 
years. 
These subjects will come up in their regular order in my 
coming lectures, viz : The formation of the earth, origin of the 
rocks, trees, plants and animals. We have to go much farther 
back (than the authors of the “ Cell and development theories”) 
to know the original elements of Life-Power, the first Germ, 
Ovary-Egg, Cell, Monod, &c., viz : The generative agents for 
the perpetuity of species of animal and vegetable life and re- 
production. The action of Pollen and Stigma for a similar end 
in floral life, Ac., as aforesaid. 15 
To understand these subjects, we must first not only know all 
the elements of vitality, but how these elements themselves, and 
the laws which produced them were first generated. 
It is a great mistake on the part of the Professors in all our 
medical colleges, when they say at the opening lectures that 
vitality is a word to express a something of which we know 
nothing. No disease ever existed without a disturbance of this 
heretofore mysterious power. No disease was ever cured with- 
out its agency. 
This, together with the erroneous teachings with reference 
to the materials which compose the human body, and how they 
get there, and how reproduced in the every day wear and tear. 
To prove this, it will be necessary at the same time to show how 
all the elements of matter inorganic, as well as organic, came 
into existence, and progressively developed into the infinitude 
of forms and conditions in which we behold them. lam going 
to prove, as it will be seen, that vitality or the life-power in 
plants and animals is the result of long progressions and accum- 
ulations from a gaseous beginning toward such a wonderful 
end. This very great ultimate design of Him whose immutable 
laws he progressively marked out by primary causes. 
Slow, indeed, to our hurried feeble imaginations were these 
causes being generated; but sure and simultaneous were their 
action in the first indications of their living organisms as well as 
their perpetuity by sexual organisms. We shall be fully con- 
firmed in the mistakes of the author of the “ Yestiges of Crea- 
tion,” LaMarck and others, who, with Mr. Darwin, were original 
thinkers. But it is by a thinking and searching much further 
back to know the origin of life-power, or its germ in the ovary, 
egg, or cell, or other generative agents for the perpetuity of each 
genera and species of animal life and re-production, or of the 
action of the pollen and stigma for the similar end in floral life. 
Those gentlemen have to look much further back to find the 
priori of life-power. Therefore, to understand this little world 
of ours and its material substances, is first to learn to unlearn 
the nonsense which has been taught in relation to the geo- 
logical formation of the earth, and all such expressions as 
“ countless millions of years.” We shall find that it was not, 
nor is now, a “rotating mass of incandescent molten lava, which 
took 400,000 years to cool a surface for the accumulation of 
aluminous soil.” 16 
r But tliat our world liad a gaseous beginning, and all the ele- 
ments of matter which now exist in the three kingdoms of Min- 
erals, Plants and Animals, are the result of progressively gener- 
ated laws, and their simultaneous application by slow, but sure, 
successive results in the manner I shall shew, and that these were 
the results of six divisions or periods of time, embracing about 
200,000 years each; making the age of our planet about 1,200,000, 
instead of countless millions, and all the horrible stuff and non- 
sense recently taught in this city of blew York, and swallowed 
by our savans in science. Therefore, I shall now proceed to 
give to the world such irrefragable proofs, together with such 
an alarming expose of facts, causes and consequences as will (my 
life for it) produce a happy change in life’s claims to enjoyment 
in the whole human family. I shall not only teach all who are 
willing to be taught, how to preserve the tire of life in the eye, 
the rose of health on the cheek, development of healthyr muscle 
on their bones, and power in the galvanic battery of reason, and 
spring of action over all the telegraphic nerves, which the wisest 
man that ever wrote called “ the keepers of the house f that they 
shall not prematurely tremble. That the memory (in the rich- 
est of all caskets, called by the wise man the t£ golden bowl ”) be 
not broken, nor the silver cord prematurely loosened. Solomon 
lived a long time ago. But he knew, not only all the machinery 
of the human economy; but he knew that the prolongation of 
human life depended upon the preservation of the vital power. 
He calls the head the “ golden bowl: ” Why % Because it is 
the “ seat of reason; palace of the soul.” The medulla oblon- 
gata and spinalis, he calls the “ silver cord; ” which becomes 
“ loosened ” when those cartilaginous buoyant fluids, from which 
the electric action in those little batteries, the ganglia, cease to 
be supplied with those elements of vitality, which it is my busi- 
ness to explain. And “ the keepers of the house tremble ” (the 
nerves). “ And the strong men shall bow themselves ” {muscles). 
“ The grasshopper a burden.” Here is a double figure, represent- 
ing a drouth or drying up of the fluids; and the light (“ grass- 
hopper ”) trifles become “ a burden.” And the “ almond tree ” 
—the hair—is deprived of vital fluid and turns white. The 
eyes have also lost their fire of life; “ those that look out of the 
windows ” “ darkened.” The vocal organs (“ all the daughters 
of music are brought low ”), including the lungs, “ The sound 
of the grinding is low.” Calomel, sugar plums and heavy hot 17 
doughy biscuit have done tbeir share in destroying the teeth. “ The 
wheel broken at the cistern, and the pitcher at the fountain.” 
In the article of death the propelling power of the heart is 
stopped, and “ the door is shut in the street.” . . The whole 
chapter has special reference to vital power, capillary force, 
endosmosis and exosmosis, etc., etc. AVhen I hear my learned 
' friends talking about how much more we know in “ this age of 
progress ” than Solomon and JVloses; and how much farther we 
are advanced in either the arts or natural sciences; I feel like 
bringing forward a catalogue of my gatherings from the extreme 
past. We shall be apt to acknowledge the truth of the saying 
of a life-long student (when speaking of man and the earth he 
inhabits): “Nothing is known.” My answer was: “ Read the book 
of nature for yourself, sir; read both analytically and synthetic- 
ally ; read from effects back to causes, and from causes to effects. 
Then, by your comparative induction and long and close obser- 
vation, you will be able to ‘ prove all things and hold fast that 
which is good ’ and true.” 
A few months since I had put an advertisement in the 
“New York Medical Gazette,” calling upon the most experien- 
ced in the regular profession (in the practice of therapeutics) to 
see me at my residence, 130 West 34th Street, with reference to 
the necessity of an immediate change, etc. 
A few and but few called; and those who have since spent 
many hours with me, have heeded and adopted my correctives, 
and will never lose a patient by mistakes. 
I have cautioned them against ever using either bromide of 
potassium or digitalis (purpura), . . . both act the part of an 
insidious charm at first . . . but the capillaries (from being 
overworked) . . . have dilated and so much weakened, that 
their functions become nearly suspended, . . . the nervous sys- 
tem becomes exceedingly weakened, as indicated by loss of 
memory, dimness of sight, spots (like flies, before the vision) 
(called “ amourosis ”), and finally paralysis and death. 
Bromide of potassium is all the go among that class of phy- 
sicians who are mere copyists, and the name of that class is 
legion. Drug-stores in the city prove the results will be as I 
say. You may have unquestionable evidence from all the Eu- 
ropean Hospitals long years ago. 
It had its run for a time. But lo! the fearful results ! and 
hence it was abandoned; excepting in a single dose with ammo- 18 
nia to bring a man out of delirium tremens, to die in the reac- 
tion ; and hence arose its fata] charm. If I am called upon 
for the proofs, I can present individual cases recently in this city 
where I interfered, and where I did not interfere, and whom 
I can bring here, and of others who cannot be brought here. 
Valvular obstruction, regurgitant reaction—blood not decar- 
bonized ; nervous system gives way. The memory and whole 
mind admonish approaching paralysis, or softening of the 
brain; and all the catalogue of portentous symptoms of this 
character. ... I referred them to its history in Europe, from 
1828 to 1836, when it was abandoned. (See authorities of the 
celebrated Doctors Wilson and others, of Lock Hospital, Doctor 
John Eagan, Walker and many others.) The same was reported 
from Doctor Huette of Paris, and others. We find a similar 
report from Doctor Philman of St. Petersburg, and many 
others, ail of whom and of the facts seem to be entirely un- 
known now; and these preparations are this day killing thou- 
sands in this city alone. Many have fallen under my notice. 
I saved a minister from being sent to heaven before his time 
(by my interference); and when I called to kindly caution the 
Celebrated Nerve Doctor, on— St., the latter told me that “he 
had no time to listen to my abstract theories.” . . . 
Bromide was condemned by all the old and most expe- 
rienced practitioners, as a killing instead of a curing compound. 
Calomel was then adopted as the sheet anchor of the profession, 
and its havoc among the human family for the last thirty-eight 
years, is too well known to every old physician and the world 
at large, to need further comment here : although the mercury 
ranges high in the thermometer of many practitioners still. 
It is still contended that Sub. Mur, Ilydrargari is the only 
lever to rouse a torpid liver of those who have survived among 
the millions of pigmy swallowers of calomel and other mineral 
as well as highly concentrated vegetable poisons. True, men 
were created to die, but not to be killed off in this way before 
the time. 
And while I thus enter the arena of a whole army of martyrs, 
I fully appreciate the value of all the preparatory scholastic 
studies, embracing years of intense application ; and so exten- 
sively varied, and so minutely complicated are the studies of 
anatomy and physiology of man, “ so fearfully and wonderfully 
made,” that the moral effect upon the expanding mind of the 19 
thorough student, together with the increasing responsibility, 
all combine to mark this class of men with superior attributes as 
they move in the society of other scholars and gentlemen. And 
there is no earthly shrine at which I worship save that of highly 
cultivated mind And when I behold the sight of 
hundreds of medical students who have stepped down from the 
Acron of Science into the amphitheatre of “great expecta- 
tions” from each learned Professor, thence into the demonstrat- 
ing hades, and alternate tracings where “ the knife the leading 
nerve lays bare,” . . . and finally prepared for examination . . . 
tell off the names of the 210 bones, articulations . . radii . . 
fulcrum . . processes . . number of foramina, Ac. . . All the 
{near') 500 muscles and every tendon, from tendo achilles to 
sterno-cleido-tendo-mastoides and sphenoid and ethmoid, with its 
S3 processes and 22 foramina, and know the minute anatomy 
of the head and brain . . . and all the dividing membranes, 
from the strong dura mater to septum lucidum, Ac., Ac. 
This is all indispensable, but I shall prove the indispensable 
necessity of not only knowing the processes of organism, but 
also it is desirable to know all this and the elements and func- 
tions which connect them externally and internally in the pro- 
cesses of thought, will, and locomotive action. ... It is not 
sufficient to tell and lay bare with the scalpel, the different 
classes of nerves. . . That the will-power travels out over the 
anterior column, and the nerves of sensation come home to the 
great sensorium over the posterior column of the medulla 
spinalis, the brain itself acting the part of a galvanic battery; 
(water being an electrode,) the brain being four-fifths water; yet 
I shall prove to you that electricity, though a great universal 
power, is a resulting agent, and not, in itself, life-power ; but is 
often a death-power. Oxygen is an important agent in life- 
power ; it is also a great destroyer; when inhaled into the lungs 
it kicks out behind it, at every expiring breath, the decaying 
carbonaceous residuary waste of the system, generating animal 
heat. All physicians know Leibig’s theories of this, and the 
oxidation of the food in the stomach, friction of the fluid globules, 
action of the capillaries, Ac., all generating animal heat. And 
Dr. Larhder’s theories of the gases and fluids, and light and heat, 
havebeen rehearsed enough here, and happily exemplified these 
two winters. But while we have been “ looking to the East for 
light,” we have been egregiously befogged with reference to the 20 
subjects embraced in my announced intellectual bill-of-fare for 
these lectures. With the other physical arts and sciences 
generally, it has been different. It seems to have been the order 
of Providence that the arts and sciences should first take their 
rise with the eastern sun, and spread with him their glorious 
luminaries, that have lit the ponderous wheels now rolling over 
the Rocky Mountains, laden with the fruits of the long and 
diligent toil of philosophers, sparkling with the diamonds of 
genius, and spiced with the odors of Parnassus, to the shores of 
the Pacific: and none have given more evidence of reciprocal 
favor than some few bright stars in the medical profession, some 
of whom I see before me to-night, who, my life for it, will 
radiate a splendor in their medical reputation, especially in 
their therapeutic practice, and become immediately stars of the 
first magnitude in the great medical galaxy of this western 
world. 
Why ? Because they have not only the honesty to admit the 
truth of my theories, but will govern themselves accordingly, 
and they will lose no patients by mistake. They will better 
understand the power of endosmosis and exosmosis, and human 
life will be preserved while they enter the arena to combat the 
fell destroyer. Ray, further, we may be able to tell the con- 
nective functions of tuber cinerii, those capillary fibres which 
take their rise in the basilar regions of the cerebral hemispheres, 
forming the physical connecting link between mind and matter. 
And know, further, that these particular tubular fibres be- 
come more and more developed as mind and memory become 
more and more expanded, as well as more tenacious and 
strengthened, while they draw a large portion of their fluid 
Ufe-power from the cerebellum and lower ganglia. But in vain 
shall we know the extremes! functions in minute anatomy, while 
we are imitating some blinded Professor in therapeutic practice 
by destroying those life-functions in the continued doses of 
bromide of potassium, either alone or combined with digitalis 
purpura. 
In vain has the eager and industrious demonstrator of anat- 
omy classed off the grand divisions and subdivisions of the 
anterior and posterior brain, ensconsed in Dame Nature’s night- 
cap, the dura-mater and its silk-like membranes, the pia-mater 
and arachnoides, septum lucidum and the ancient seat of the 
soul in the pineal gland, and all the changes of strata from cor- 21 
pus callosum to corticle. He closely examines those windows 
to the soul and their neatly joined frame-work. The sphenoid' 
and ethmoid superciliary orbits. He finds the ethmoid the most 
complicated bone in the whole body, with its thirteen processes 
and twenty-two foramina. He lays bare the evidences and 
functions of the three sets of nerves, ganglia and branches. 
Those which carry out the will power over the anterior column 
of the medulla-spinalis and those which bring in dispatches 
from the external world over the posterior column of the medulla- 
spinalis, through the great common gateway (foramen mag- 
num), into the frontal upper chambers of the great sensorium, 
throne of reason, “palace of the soul.” 
In vain might he minutely describe the intellectual compart- 
ments of Dame Mnemosyne and her four daughters, viz: 
Poetry, Painting, Music and Language, in contradistinction 
from those grovelling rascals who occupy the cerebellum, as Dr. 
Spurzheim and Mr. Fowler and others have so graphically de- 
scribed. 
There are hundreds, yea, thousands who can amputate a limb 
without a jerk of the saw; set the bones, watch and relieve the 
bandages; yea, these are important trifles. Yea, there are hun- 
dreds wTho perform internal operations the most difficult that 
can be conceived of, and with a lady’s hand, a hawk’s eye and a 
lion’s heart. He has astonished every one around ; and he has 
saved a precious life, and is worth his weight in gold, and I 
know such. 
Put, in the “theory and' practice of medicine,” our subject 
changes into a deep contrast, demanding our sympathy as well 
as our immediate interference. Albeit we see them hurrying to 
and fro with the anxious care-worn evidences upon their very 
countenances, while in the pursuit of a professional, self-sacrific- 
ing and oftentimes thankless occupation. By night and by day, 
from garret to basement, in storm and in cold, to kill or to cure 
by comparative induction, or by book authority, for twenty, 
thirty, or forty years—“ then to be thrown back mortified ”. . 
as the most distinguished have both acknowledged and written. 
“Mortified and disheartened,” numbers are this day 
exclaiming that the whole theories and practice of medicine 
should be stopped by legislative interference. So said Sir 
Charles Bell. . . . (See his Preface to his last work.) So said 
old Doctor Stevens a few months since. In answer to my question to one of the oldest practitioners 
known to fame in this city, as to the term “ medical science,” 
“Instead of the word ‘science’ introduce ‘Will o’the Wisp.’ 
There is the answer to your question, sir,” he said, (turning 
to the frontispiece of Josephus’ large volume). “ You see a 
woman, with low forehead and cat’s ears, with a lantern in one 
hand, pointing into an unexplored cave. Her drapery entangled 
in a skull and marrow-bones. There” (said he) “is Ignorance 
stumbling over Death. Ho, sir, I was a close faithful student; 
I have had all the facilities that the old and new world could 
present; I found out long since that something was radically 
wrong from the very foundation ; and as to the practice by books, 
God alone by miraculous power can save three-fourths of the 
patients either from death or an impaired constitution! Ho, 
sir, I give but little medicine, and those are of a harmless, hygi- 
enic description.” 
Such physicians I have not only found original thinkers, 
especially among most of the old class with whom I conversed 
for hours together upon this important subject, hut I have now 
and then found old heads on young shoulders, who, after a few 
years’ practice, haye discovered the mistakes aforesaid, and, who 
being well versed in animal chemistry and a thorough educa- 
tion in anatomy, had discovered important mistakes in phy- 
siology as well as in therapeutic practice, and have adopted a 
simplified system in the treatment of all diseases, relying upon 
hygienic agents to assist nature in her adways ready efforts to 
throw off disease.* True, there are cases where the immediate 
action of certain chemical agents combine with the natural 
hygienic influences, and a life is often thus saved. But it is 
useless for me to talk to that large portion of young physicians 
who practice by book authority, and if the case is a fatal one, 
they throw off the responsibility upon books. \\ 23 
MATERIALS OF THE HUMAN BODY, 
It is not my purpose here to dwell upon the progressive com- 
parative anatomy of animals during the last grand division of 
creation, any further than is necessary to prove some very im- 
portant facts not to he found in other publications than my own 
that I know of, viz : The materials of which the human body 
is composed; and by what laws, elements and agencies we live, 
move and have a being. 
Animal Electricity, Ac. 
A fewr preludes are necessary in this department. 
In all organic life, from the lowest order of both plants and 
animals, we find similarity to crystalline form as well as deposit 
from a particular and the most spontaneous element in the 
mineral kingdom. In the growth of trees this element is ab- 
sorbed ; and forms the strength of the fibre in very elongated 
crystalline forms, in hexagon angles. The same phenomena 
exist in the frame-work of tlje bones of all animals; deposited 
differently iu different organisms; not only in the bones, but 
cartilaginous tissues, and the finer membranes, etc., as I shall 
describe. I briefly state here that the whole animal and vege- 
table kingdoms depend upon the mineral world, not only for 
their strength, but for a wonderfully diversified number of elec- 
trical batteries, (so to speak.) This element is silica, a non-con- 
ductor of electricity. 
The absorbent action by these curiously formed compound 
phenomena, operate in obedience to a law of attraction through 
the thus formed capillary tubes. A law of absorption thus 
formed will lift a fluid higher than itself. 
If I were a teacher of animal and vegetable chemistry and 
the natural sciences, I should tell the student that an oak tree, 
while it is carbon and oxygen (nearly equal parts), is a living 
grocery store. Not alone of yokes, brooms and axe handles ; 
but of corn, soap, starch, sugar, vinegar, paper, ink, leather, 
bath-brick, metal-potassum, boraeic acid; pyroligneous acid, iron 
and other metals; coloring pigments, a small portion of hydro- 
gen and hydrous silicates. 
Thirty years ago, hydrous silicates were seldom or ever men- 
tioned either by professional men or any body else, save of the 
experiments by Berzelius and a few others in their little experi- 
ments, and these copied into chemical books. Albeit, hydrous silicates are spontaneously produced all over 
the world, not only to provide all the frame-work for vegetable 
and animal organisms, but to be also deposited upon the sur- 
face in obedience to a law in physiology, of both plants and 
animals, as I have stated. 
My own theory in this particular, as well as all others, will 
be understood. I briefly say here that, from the moment we 
enter this breathing world all the processes of waste and repro- 
duction have begun their never-ceasing chemical operations for 
the perpetuity of Life-Power; and however mysterious these 
operations may seem to the superficial student, who is content 
with the teachings of his master professor, that “ Vitality is a 
word to express a something of which we know nothing,” I shall 
I think, shew that all the operations, as well as all the agents 
employed in generating, producing and reproducing this great 
mysterious tenacious power called Vitality, are within the 
scope of our comprehension. 
But in order to understand these said operations, and the 
agents employed, and how employed in the production of the 
great result in question, we must well know the A. B. C. of 
creation, a priori, to the end of the alphabet; and then be able 
to retrace all the grades from u Izzard to A,” d posteriori ad 
prius. 
And I am bold in the prediction, that the physician who 
will contend that all this study is not necessary to qualify a 
doctor for the practice of medicine, but continues to speak with 
indifference in reference to my theories, will find himself with- 
out practice sooner than he anticipates. 
Because the most observing among the most intelligent of 
every community everywhere all over the civilized world, have 
been finding out the lameiltable truth of the prevailing proverb 
that “ the doctor is oftentimes the most dangerous disease 
Why so ? Because Vitality is the only doctor in the practice 
of medicine, and Vital-Power is not compounded in the mortar 
of the drug-store. Neither is it a charm to be invoked by the 
colored show-bottles in the windows. 
It will soon be seen that there is something yet to be learned 
in minute anatomy, as also of what materials the human system 
is composed (and the books are far from being correct upon this 
important branch of our subject; as I shall also prove before I 25 
finish): and not only these facts and their proofs; hnt the 
greater and most important necessity of all, arises at this point 
of the important subject of these lectures, viz.., the elements and 
agencies of Vitality or Life-Power, and how, why and where- 
fore, and from whence these said materials which compose our 
physical bodies, are taken up and disposed of in our compli- 
cated developments for many years of continuance; and how 
our said vitality, or Life-power is reproduced when continually 
drawn upon in the every-day exhaustive action; mental or 
physical, or by both or either. 
Had I the time here, I would explain the minutia of my 
theories on the human economy. Those thin membranes of 
silicious albuminates spoken of elsewhere, you will find not only 
playing their parts in the membranes of the great sensorium 
and ganglia as non-conductors of electricity; but like pheno- 
mena pervade the whole classes of nerves and their branches : 
and not only there but throughout the whole muscular tissues, 
forming multitudinous galvanic batteries (so to speak). The 
oxygen of the fluids being the oxidizing agent; and electrical 
action is produced by both the processes of waste and reproduc- 
tion going on perpetually in the animal economy. 
Liebig vaguely saw something of these phenomena, when he 
thought that he had discovered in the “ contraction of the mus- 
cles that the nerves supplying the part withdrew their vital 
protection; and oxidation under the chemical laws, and the 
consequent development of force, resulted.” A strong evidence 
of this theory is the waste of animal substance which occurs 
proportional to muscular action. 
This theory is sustained in the examination of the organs of 
electrical fishes, to which I alluded just now, where, by oxida- 
tion of tissues, electricity itself, instead of muscular force, would 
be eliminated when the protecting agency of the nervous system 
was withdrawn. The analogy of the action of the will or 
nervous system in producing, in the one case, muscular, and in 
the other, electrical action, is a subject never yet explained. 
My object is to understand the cause or causes of these different 
phenomena. The gymnotus is found in the fresh waters of 
South America (electrical eel), and the torpedo occidentalis, 
varying in weight from 20 to 200 lbs. Their shock is sufficient 
to prostrate a man. The electrical organs are on the anterior 
and lateral portions of the brain. 26 
Tims, it will be seen, that electricity is not in itself vitality, 
nay, it is not an entity, but the result of spontaneous chemical 
action of other elements (as I shall have shown). It thus 
becomes of itself a commanding power; a life- power ; a death- 
power. A life-power, when generated in the animal organism 
(as I shall have described). A death-power, when applied arti- 
ficially by a strong shock, either from a frictional, magnetic, or 
cup battery. 
Had Galvani surcharged the living frog with the same strength 
from the battery, he would have killed the frog ; and so of ex- 
periments upon the human being. 
A patent was recently granted for killing whales in this way : 
They take into the row-barge a strong electric battery with 
long wire to connect two harpoons; they throw both harpoons 
into the whale (the latter being already fully charged with 
phosphide and electricity)—the overdose paralyzes him—he can 
neither dive nor swim away. 
He has fallen into more fatal hands than his common fearful 
enemies, the swordfish and thresher. 
A concussion thus produced is more dangerous than that 
produced from a fall or other external causes, which often prove 
fatal, as every physician knows. 
The different classes of electricity described elsewhere, com- 
bine to command a power indescribable. Our aim is to under- 
stand this power in its compound as in its less complex form. 
The spirit-rapping sound of this power is now ticking upon 
the tympanum of our memory in a thousand telegraph offices, 
travelling at the rate of 182,000 miles in one second of time, 
beating the reveille—news of the morning’s dawn, of startling 
events, for good or for evil, which transpired yesterday on the 
opposite side of the globe; a lightning report of some savage 
massacre, or the harbinger of hope of a higher tone of coming 
civilization than they heard from us and from Andersonville five 
years ago! Human efforts to concentrate magnetic-power into 
what we may very properly call the “lightning talk,” are very 
antiquated, as I shall show on another occasion, when I intend 
to unfold my gatherings (from the extreme past)—the origin of 
many, yea, all of our most important arts; facts, which the 
speculative and curious will hear with startling interest. Ex- 
cuse the digression. There is no material substance, either 27 
organic or inorganic, either passive or active, could have ever 
existed without this primary power (electricity). 
The breath of this power is felt in the welcome zephyr’s vernal 
aroma, and heard also in the tornado which raises the Atlantic 
to a foaming fury and calms her again into a gentle lullaby. It 
is this power which is perpetually destroying a world, and- by 
its agency a new world is being progressively formed from 
gaseous to semi-fluid, thence into fluid, thence into semi-solid, 
and finally into rocks, plants, trees and animals. But first by 
its agency in generating new elements and new laws, that have 
always acted simultaneously with their productions. We must 
understand all these facts, or we are also dealing in unproved 
hypotheses. 
I have only as yet presented results of some of the elements 
which combine as auxiliaries as well as the power itself that 
we use in song or speech, in sight and taste, in hearing or 
in locomotive action, the brain being our galvanic battery, to 
use at our own pleasure, and oftentimes at the pleasure of 
others. Electricity is a power which is ever changing, is never 
extinct, but is ever in action everywhere; ever busy in the 
great geological laboratory under our feet; fills all space ; 
rides upon the wfings of the morning, dispensing vernal sweets 
to the whole floral and animated world. It is God’s armed 
power. Would you see it ? Look into the interminable regions 
of space; think onwards until you pass the millions of worlds 
which roll round worlds in harmonious obedience to its law. 
Would you find its end? Think onward until you pass into 
space for thousands of myriads of miles, passing thousands of 
other worlds, and new suns and moons to other worlds ; still on- 
ward thinking, out into opaque darkness. Stars again appear. 
Think onward until you approach other solar systems, other 
hundred millions of miles further away—away ! 
You ask yourself, where is the end? Nowhere! Where the 
beginning? Nowhere! Return, then, and chant your vesper 
hymns under the sweet influences of remembrance of the lost 
Pleiades; for worlds as well as men have their allotted time to 
exist, that other worlds and other men may be produced. Life, 
then, and its reproduction is perpetuated by death, destruction 
and decomposition, and the processes therefore must be going on 
always. 28 
HARD AND SOFT PARTS OF THE HUMAN BODY— 
THEIR ELEMENTARY SUBSTANCES HOW AB- 
SORBED, &o. 
In an extemporaneous (conversational) lecture in the new hall 
of the Y. M. C. A., on the evening of the 16th of March last, 
before a number of the Medical Profession; Doctor Griscom pre- 
siding as chairman; I proved important mistakes in all the 
medical authorities with reference to materials of which the 
human body is composed, together with other mistakes exceed- 
ingly alarming. 
I £said that of all the subjects written upon in this book- 
making world, or lectured upon in this lecturing age, none have 
suffered, more, and been more and more befogged and mysti- 
fied, than those announced for these three lectures. And while 
I would pay all the forms and courtesies of every-day life, especi- 
ally before those care-worn philosophers, those distinguished 
gentlemen whom I have the honor of addressing on this occa- 
sion, with some of whom I have had much conversation upon 
these subjects, all of them admit with me that, to understand 
Man as a physically and mentally organized being, embraces the 
necessity of knowing not only the materials of which the human 
body is composed, but by what laws and their agencies we are 
kept in motion, by our connection with, relation to, and depen- 
dence upon those laws, their elements and agencies (directly and 
indirectly) that surround us. Not only for our physical organ- 
ism, a priori, production and reproduction of the hard as well as 
the soft parts, but further also for life, strength of thought and 
will-power, as well as strength of muscle and locomotive action. 
I will now name over from memory all the analyses of both the 
hard and soft parts, as taught by the medical schools as the 
material substances composing the human body; and for the 
correctness of my memory, either in these or in minute anatomy, 
I respectfully refer to the experienced physicians present, for 
correction. 
The chemical analyses of the hones as presented by Doctor 
Gray in his standard text-book, last edition, are as follow, [viz.; 
All the analyses of both the hard and soft apffe as tanght jn the 
schools I repeated from memory correctly, as certified by the 29 
physicians present, (see Gray's Osteology,) as well as muscles and 
nerves, etc.,] and not a single word about the principal primary 
elem.ent that forms not only the first frame-work of the whole 
animally organized kingdom, viz.: ligaments, tissues, thin, strong 
membranes, cartilages, etc.; but also the table-plated epider- 
mides of all the bones, teeth, hair, nails, etc. This element not 
only forms the very frame-work of animals and trees and plants, 
but it is plentifully spontaneous in sea-water, and furnishes in 
laminous coatings the whole family, Crustacea, from infusoria to 
the mammoth bivalves ; and beautiful variegations are produced 
by the-layers on shells in the low latitudes. ~lt forms the 
coats of mail as well as wings of insects. It is in the waters 
that percolate the ground, and prepares the seven years’ locust 
for its armor, to be carbonized in the sun immediately after his 
resurrection, call it carho-alhuminated phosphide of 
silicium. You find nothing of its name or existence or applica- 
tion in any book but mine. ... You have evidence of its 
spontaneons existence in silicious springs, not only of the Geyser 
springs and stream u which so stone-coated the wheels of the 
mill that the water could not be used for that purpose.” .. . 
And you are sure to find sulphur with that liquor of flint, as you 
will always find in other like thermo-hydro-silicious phenomena. 
It is the spontaneous solution of quartz, during metamorphic 
changes; and I have proved before the most scientific men at 
Boston that sulphur and carbon and electricity deprive quartz 
of its oxygen, and from this condition the silicic acid seizes upon 
the oxygen and hydrogen (water) and forms into its native 
hydrous condition (prior to forming the crystalline rocks). For, 
be it remembered, that four-fifths of the rocks of this globe are 
quartzose. I mean by the word quartzose, the combination in 
which we find it. 
It is liquid silicates that form the hexagon tuba capillaire of 
all trees, as well as the cellular tissues of our lungs. I have 
had granted to me an English special diploma, for reproducing 
wasting tissues (before the ligaments have been carried awaj). 
And for my original discovery of the inhalation of the vapors 
of a balsam taken from an evergreen balsam tree, when in a 
hydrated condition into transitu in the month of June, ... be- 
fore it carbonized into balsam. . . I have it at Milhau’s, in this 
cityAbJ mention this fact to shew thatil am practical in my 30 
discoveries. ... It is liquid silex that forms the glassy stone 
coating to your great grandfather’s Malacca cane, as well as his 
bones and teeth. It is 'quartzose hydrous silicates that cover 
every spear of grass and every corn stalk, kernel of corn, oats 
and all cereals. Therefore, oatmeal is one of ray many simple 
elements to build up any late victim to drugs. 
A thought of precaution strikes me here, not without founda- 
tion. It was several months ago that I had a letter to a “ dis- 
tinguished lung doctor” in this city. There were, (by special 
appointment), two other physicians present. (After having heard 
me nearly one hour), one of the said physicians present said 
“ that he had discovered these mistakes some long time since, 
and that he should prescribe the hydrous silicates of commerce 
for his patients.” “ Then sir,” said I, a you will surely kill those 
patients ! Ho, sir ! This all important element must be sup- 
plied along with the albumen and phosphide of ammonia which 
always accompany it in the food.” I here related the case of 
the prospecter in the interior of Oregon. A geode was thrown 
down from a high peak, and striking a rock, broke in halves. 
One of the men being very thirsty, drank the liquor of flint, 
and died immediately. This was the supernatant liquor of flint 
left in the cavity of the geode after the crystallizing agents 
had been absorbed. It is, therefore, necessary for us to know, 
that wdiile the silicates are taken as food into the stomach of 
most of the animal organisms, it is necessary to be prepared 
very fine for the human stomach. 
Birds, on the other hand, pick up the quartzose gravel which, 
(assisted with the silica upon the kernels of corn, oats, etc.,) 
furnish not only the strong, thin hollow bones of the birds, but 
their quills and feathers. How, how % Why and wherefore—the 
animal and inorganic chemistry of this operation ? And why 
the feathers of the male bird are much more variegated than 
those of the female ? You never saw these things printed in 
any book before you saw them in mine. I never did ... I was 
invited to Boston by Professor Rogers and others, four or five 
years since, to explain my theories of the origin of the rocks, 
plants, animals, etc. . . . My theory of what Moses meant to 
convey as to the length of time (scientifically explained), neces- 
sary to a reasonable calculation of the age of our world, etc. 
More especially with reference to my theory as to sulphur, car- 
bon and electricity, in combined action upon the decomposition 31 
of quartz, and thereby bringing the latter into a hydrate, etc., etc. 
I related a scientific (original) anecdote, which happily illus- 
trated an important question put to me by Dr. C. T. Jackson, the 
president presiding, at a regular meeting of the wise men of 
the American Athens. 
The ostrich swallows pebbles and pieces of glass as large as 
your thumb ... Two out of the flock of wild turkeys, were 
shot in the Rocky Mountains; gold specks were found in the 
gravel and pebbles in their crops. , . . Question ? What became 
of the gold-bearing quartzose gravel in the crops of the dozen 
turkeys that flew away ? 
Birds have “ quartz-mills” and “ digestersbirds drink but 
little, and never urinate; they have no urinal organs, while 
they possess many recipient organs for oxygen, which generate 
a high degree of heat . . . along with frictional electricity . . . 
strong ammoniacal solvents for quartz, aided by ammonia, sul- 
phur and carbon. All quartzose gravel and pebbles in the 
crops of birds are completely dissolved, to form and reproduce 
their strong, hollow bones, quills and feathers; and, (in obedi- 
ence to a physiological law in animal development,) in a succes- 
sion of thin, laminated, cohesive, chemical compounds. Already 
hardening by the chloride of sodium to chloride of calcium. The 
latter, with the silica, forms the extreme hardness of all the sur- 
faces of the bones, while all the spongy parts, cartilaginous tis- 
sues, strong membranes, etc., remain flexible, by the continu- 
ed absorption of lymphatic, gelatinous albumen, supplying the 
bones as well as the softest parts, viz.,—the brain and nervous 
pulp, with more or less of the generated phosphide, as I shall 
describe. There is no such thing as “fluoric acid” in the 
bones; it would act mischievously upon the silica. . . . (The 
books have also made a mistake in this particular) 
Row, why are the feathers of the male bird variegated, as 
those of the peacock, golden pheasant, and most other male1 
birds ? A chicken is to be provided for and sustained. ... Ton 
find sulphur in the yolk of the albuminated ovary. The com- 
mon shell is a sulphurous carbo-albuminated hydrate of lime; 
that it may easily decompose during the time and process of 
incubation, to give easy egress to organized life. You will find, 
however, a thin, non-conducting membrane, inside the common 
shell; this is a tough, silicious membrane. You may observe 
like phenomena in the material texture of the exceedingly thin 32 
membranes, viz.,—Septum lucidum, pia mater and arachnoides, 
or inner linings of nature’s night-cap (or dura mater) of the 
brain. The purer silicious covering upon the feathers of the 
male in exceedingly thin laminae, and the struggle of the rays 
of light in passing through them, reflect prismatic colors upon 
our vision. 
But to the next question. What became of the gold specks in 
those quartzose gravel stones in the crops of those turkeys? 
The solvents aforesaid, do not, in the slightest degree, produce 
any action upon gold; and the specks of gold are voided 
amongst the smooth faeces, along with the residuary ammoni- 
acal, alkaline carbonaceous waste; after all the agents of (direct, 
as well as indirect) life-power for the present vitality had been 
absorbed. Phosphorus is one of the elements of life-power. 
I here produced a chunk-bottle of “liquor of flint,” as clear 
and as colorless as spring water. This article, ladies and 
gentlemen, is a very superior solution of pure quartz or silica in 
water, with the silica in much greater excess over every solvent 
agent than has been known before. I have not taught any 
living man to make this article. It is too well known all over 
the scientific world, to be necessary to tell here, that I was the 
first to dissolve one ton at a time of quartz in water, eleven years 
ago, making over a thousand gallons at a time. That article 
which I then introduced as an article of commerce, was very 
inferior to what I have made since. This article which you see 
me turn into this tin vessel and put over the lamp, will exhibit 
the flexible glassy wdngs of the insects. You see me turn some 
more from the same bottle, into which I turn a few drops of an- 
other equally clear and colorless liquid. By agitating this 
compound, you now see me cut out from a large tumbler an 
opal like clear wThite stone, rapidly hardening. This is, not the 
process by which I cast a white flint statue. It is exhibited 
here to illustrate what I have been telling you. To understand 
what constitutes vitality or life-power, we must begin with the 
origin of matter, viz: The first elements of life-power in gaseous 
form. To understand all the laws of vital power, we have to 
retrace creation back to the first three elements of matter, and 
know how and through what agencies the other three elements 
were progressively generated; how all originated in a gaseous 
form, and thence into fluid; thence into semi-crystalline forms; 
and we must understand, from scientific research, not only these, 33 
but about how long they would require, and by what increased 
agencies and what laws were progressively generated, and how 
their simultaneous action produced the first germ of life-power 
in plants, and through what agencies the alternate progressive 
changes in the first genera and species, as well as their multitu- 
dinous developments, not only in floral life, but of corresponding 
advancements in animally organized life, from the lowest cell 
monod and molusk up to the frightful monstrosities composing 
the Eeptilian age, and thence through the second division, or 
the Mammalian period. If Cuvier or Sir Charles Lyell, or the 
equally esteemed Professor Agassiz, had applied the same number 
of years of unparalleled industry to the tracing effects back to 
causes, a posteriori ad prius / to the how and wherefore, the 
original formation of the rocks, and how, a priori ad posterius, 
and through what progressive agencies the regular steps into 
organic life. And why the alternate advancements in floral and 
animal organisms. Upwards through the long Carbonic age of 
an inconceivable amount of combustive elements which culmi- 
nated for the sublime change to he explained in these lectures ; 
a change which developed organisms of genus and species that 
could not have existed in the elements of life during the Eeptilian 
or Carbonic age. They would have discovered that our world, 
in its progressive processes, has undergone what we may term a 
double creation, as we shall find. Had Mr. Lyell discovered 
this fact and the processes, he, in his last publication, could have 
answered the question put to him by Sir John Herschel, relative 
to what the latter terms a “mystery of mysteries,” viz.: “ The 
replacement of extinct species by other genera and other species.” 
If Sir John Herschel had been as anxious to know how worlds 
are formed as he was to discover new worlds ready-made, he 
would not have found it necessary to appeal to Sir Charles 
Lyell to solve that mystery. God has vouchsafed to man the 
ability to retrace every step and every element back to its origi- 
nal gaseous condition, and how our nebulous spheroid was 
formed ; not only the origin of inorganic creation, first develop- 
ment of life-power in plants and animals, but also the progressive 
elementary agencies in the alternate advancement and successive 
development of genus and species, upwards and onwards in the 
slow concatenation to what we now behold in all the indescrib- 
able varieties of organized life all over the world. 
For, be it understood that I am going to shew that vitality 34 
or life-power is not a mysterious unit, a “ something that is is not 
left in the power of human investigation to define."’ 
I shall shew that it is a compound resulting from many ele- 
ments and agencies, including multitudinous influences, which I 
shall fully explain in the progressive order, my kind of order, 
and especially in the summing up of causes and results. 
It will be remembered by those who heard my lectures in 
1839 and in 1846, and by those physicians who heard my lec- 
tures upon Vitality in 1841, and by those who heard my lectures 
in this city (eight years since) upon the “Original Formation of 
the Rocks from a Gaseous beginning into an Aqueous Nebulous 
Spheroid,” that I then contended that the primary elements first 
generated were proto-oxyd of hydrogen and carbon, thence silicic 
acid, thence sulphide of carbon. . . . The latter-named elements 
having played a very extensive part, not only in the original 
formation of crystalline quartz, but in producing infinitudes of 
changes with the assistance of hydrogen and alternate reaction 
upon oxygen; thus depriving quartz of its oxygen, bringing it 
into a hydrated condition, thence into a perfect iiydrate of silica, 
viz.: a perfect chemical solution in water; thus producing a 
liquor of flint without the aid of an alkaline solvent. The re- 
cords of my application of this discovery to the arts may be 
found in the secret archives of the United States Patent 
Office, filed 1859 ; proof of which was presented by Professor 
A. L. Pleury to “ Polytechnic Institute,” on the evening of 
the 12th day of March, 1867. This said discovery is also 
authenticated and proven by those most distinguished French 
chemists, Fremy and his co-worker Pelouze, of Paris. (See 
“ Traite de Chimie,” Volume 1, page 1057.) 1 mention this 
for the enlightenment of certain distinguished chemists of New 
York, who were inquired of in relation to my recent patents for 
the discovery aforesaid, viz.: the very same distinguished gen- 
tlemen who were enquired of twelve years ago “Whether I 
could dissolve a ton at a time of quartz in water, making a 
thousand gallons at a time of a superior article of liquor of 
flint?” The answer was that “Hone but a crazy man would 
say it, and that nobody would ever do it.” Put in less than one 
year afterwards I dissolved more than a ton of quartz at a time 
in water, and hundreds of thousands of gallons of liquor of flint 
have been made in the city of New York every year since. But 
the liquor of flint that I now make is a very different article, and 35 
which I have never taught any man living to make. If nothing 
is known or practically done but what is to be derived from 
the circumscribed limits of cramped, cute, crude cranii of those 
(my worthy past aids in my long and increasing labors), our 
progress in science will be slow I think. I am sorry to be 
driven, in self-defence, to tell these facts. Sarcasm is not a gen- 
tlemanly weapon, and I am proverbially good-natured, and 
would have preferred being spared the necessity of retaliation; 
but lam compelled to come out with facts. “ Magna est veritas 
et prevalebit! ” 
My principal reason for arranging my lectures in this manner 
will be better understood by such intelligent ladies and gentle- 
men as shall have heard all that I shall have had the honor to 
present, and whose special attention I shall have been honored 
to enjoy while telling my experience, after many years’ trial 
amongst my fellow-enquirers after truth, some of whom I occa- 
sionally find in the “ anxious seats, while others make a 
wretched choice,” and rather swallow the thistle productions of 
the barren fire-theories of the present age. Another tells me 
that he “ don’t see any money in it.” 
They who hut eat, drink, sleep, die,— 
Will never raise a thought so high ; 
But a mere monkey part will act. 
Chattering the common dialect. 
Of gathering cents, with cap and tact, 
To Ijieap up trash ; 
Of millions passing from the stage 
Of merited forgetfulness— 
Leaves but the page 
That barren crops of like 
Transmissions may infest 
A once created Paradise! 
The law of hereditary descent and transmission of qualities 
will be exemplified in my coming lecture upon Ethnology, when 
amusingly melancholy facts (it I may be allowed such an ex- 
pression) may be anticipated. But the principal reason for my 
apparent departure from logical arrangement is to afibrd myself 
the advantage of presenting all the elements of life-power in 
their progressive order, and at the same time to prove, not only 
my theories in this most special department of my programme, 
but all the laws of creation with which vitality is inseparably 36 
connected, as will have been seen. While I recapitulate my theories 
in relation to the formation of the earth, I shall, I trust, be able 
to prove every grade of accumulation from the first said nebulous 
spheroid, the origin of the rocks, trees, plants, and animals;-from 
the first separating link between inorganic and organic life; the 
first lichen, or fern, up through the Carbonic age of floral life, to 
the vast growths of stalk-formed Lejpidodendri, etc., and from 
the first development of animal life, the first cell or monod to 
the reptilian Iguanodon of 150 feet in length. .. . The transi- 
tion effort at forming wings and feet, viz.: Pterojpod, Pterodactyl, 
.... Plesiosaurus, from Plesiosaurii, following the concatena- 
tion up to the Paleozoic climax of the Carbonic age, before 
the change to Mammalia through the causes to be explained in 
these lectures. T mean the great culminating causes of the mil- 
lions of volcanoes that not only destroyed the myriads of those 
ill-shaped organisms, but generated the materials for a new 
creation (so to speak). And we shall understand God’s indis- 
pensable ways and means and length of time necessary to pro- 
duce a habitation for man. 
My attentive audience will have discovered my clearing the 
way for a more perfect understanding of all the subjects em- 
braced in my programme, especially the origin of the first ele- 
ments of life-power, and of the hows, whys, and wherefores, the 
succeeding elements were generated, and the progressive laws of 
their action, and how these laws themselves were generated. 
Be it remembered that the first law of vital-power was gene- 
rated by the first and continued reciprocal smiles between the 
sun and our new-born gaseous (thence nebulous) spheroid globe. 
This embryo lifempower could not be so named until many thous- 
ands of diurnal revolutions ; neither a living or breathing animal 
could have existed, save only in the anticipating, all-seeing, 
omniscient, watchful eye of Him who is the “ great first cause 
least understood ” by our utmost powers of comprehension, with 
whom and whose comparative power to create a world, is but a 
breath, as it were, or single fiat of his will, as implied and 
briefly expressed by Moses in the creative account. 
It is, however, within the province of our powers of discern- 
ment, and it is also not only our prerogative but our individual 
duty to learn all the laws by which we live, move, and have a 
being. I would not repeat these facts, but I am determined to 
reverse the teachings, not only by professors of therapeutics, but 37 
of many theologians, that, “ God never intended that man shonld 
know these things; and very many theologians contend, that to 
study those sciences is antagonistic to, and not within the line 
There is nothing so dangerously absurd, as we shall better 
know by my coming lecture upon the ethnological condition of 
the different phases which the human race presents this day. 
of a religious man’s duty.” 
This original law of the beginning of the process of the first 
element of life-power by the continuous reciprocal action 
between our rotating nebulous spheroid and the sun, and during 
a long period (the first creative day or “ Tome”) of the accumu- 
lative increasing action (or effort, would better convey the idea) 
ffp form an equilibrurn between the earth and sun, which equili- 
_brum, by the way, lias never yet formed (and hence our law of 
sun and storms). Excuse me for these apparent digressions. It 
is my way of teaching, multum in parvo. The peripherical 
action of our new globe, rotating in space, in obedience to two 
contending laws. I mean those of centripetal and centrifugal 
forces. The generating of these two laws are now coming out 
in my present description of the combined causes of the increas- 
ing production of all the combined elementary powers of 
frictional electricity by the said peripherical action of our said 
spheroid with the surrounding atmosphere, together with an 
increasing magnetic electricity as infinitudes of infinitesimally 
fine molecular atoms accumulated. Hence also the increasing 
powers of cohesive force and molecular attraction, and hence our 
first formed spheroid world of nebulae, a rapidly increasing 
terrestrial magnetic sphere. 
I would here remark, that while I am explaining the progres- 
sive action and establishment of the first law of heating and 
being heated, and of cooling and being cooled, and of a pro- 
gressive formation, or the beginning of what we now term 
terrestrial in contra-distinction from atmospheric electricity, by 
the increasing warm smiles of the sun, and the generating reci- 
procity and molecular attraction and cohesive forces toward the 
centre of our young mother earth, progressively increased the 
greatest of all attractions, viz : The attraction of gravitation to 
the earth’s centre. I say, that while lam explaining these be- 
ginnings of the creations of the inorganic world, I am, at the 
same time, explaining our first element or law of vitality. To 38 
be well understood here, I repeat, that it was through the 
rapidly increasing agency of this first-born power, the resulting 
production of oxygen and carbon, that established the law of 
cohesive force and attraction, as well as generating sulphurous 
gases, silicic acidulous vapors, embraced in proto oxyd of hydro- 
gen, formed our nebulous spheroid globe of increasing molecular 
aggregation of primeval deposit in an amorphic condition. It 
was this continual aggregation that increased powerful elec- 
trodes, that further increased the power of the law of attraction 
of gravitation to the earth’s center, to a degree inconceivable to 
us, originating as I have stated, by an increased and increasing 
reciprocal chemical action between our (then embryo) earth and 
the sun. Here were the beginnings of the generating a law of 
o c? o 
the first elements of life-power, long before the subsequent laws 
and the materials which resulted into the ultimate production 
of man’s life-power, before man could possibly have had an ex- 
istence. 
Albeit, we shall see that every point of progressive creation 
tended toward this acme of God’s purpose ; we shall learn other 
facts in addition to what constitutes life-power in the human 
organism; facts the knowledge of which may enable us to pro- 
long our lives or shorten them; how woman may continue to 
blossom as the rose after repeated tornadoes have prostrated her 
for the time ; she rises through the agencies of this first class of 
the agencies of life-power; the laws and their action. We were 
just beginning to know something about the first origin of a 
power which can now be exemplified, and to some extent under- 
stood, by observing the fields that the merciless gale had but 
yesterday passed over, and completely prostrated—floral growths 
that stand to-day perfectly erect, fresh and healthy, speaking in 
the breeze in soft whispers the truths of this first law of vital 
power that now pervades all organized life, whether floral or 
animated. I wish it specially understood, that when we speak 
of vitality or life-power, we are speaking of the never ceasing 
spontaneous effort and action between terrestrial electricity 
(positive) and atmospheric electricity (negative), and their united 
play of action or interference with the direct angles of the great 
solar magnet (the sun), and the dynamic changes in the chemi- 
cal action of the gases, in consequence of the diurnal revolution 
of the earth; and (in the effort to form an equilibrium), not only 39 
causes the alternate changes of storm and calm, hut establishes 
a daily breathing (a life-power) between the earth and sun and 
the alternate day and night; also, the alternate atmospheres, 
viz: The vital air for animals, and the carbon for plants, as 
well as alternate sleeping and waking of both animals and plants. 
I make these few remarks of facts evidenced to our thoughtful 
observation, to prove the combined elements of life-power in all 
organisms, whether floral or animated. 
It is by the alternate action of the laws last described that the 
processes of decomposition as well as life and reproduction are 
perpetuated in the vegetable kingdom. Although plants and 
animals inhale the alternate contrasted atmospheres, they alike 
depend upon the reciprocal smiles of the snn for the production 
and reproduction of life power. If you observe an attempt of 
a potato to grow in your cellar, you will see but a long sickly 
white sprout—you will also notice the struggle of plants in 
your conservatory to spontaneously entwine toward the sun’s 
rays. (I elsewere speak of the grades of animally organized 
life and motion from the first crystalline germ to the fully de- 
veloped man). I elsewhere state and prove by comparative 
induction as well as scientific laws that the light of the sun is as 
indispensable to the prolongation of the life of a woman as well as 
a man, as are the elements of oxygen, nitrogen and the food in 
his or her stomach, and that these are God’s medicines in the sick 
room. It is only in and during eye operations that light of the 
sun should ever be shut out, and always get a southern room for 
your sick. Avoid powerful anodynes excepting in extreme 
emergencies to allay pain, while sensible treatment helps nature 
through with the trouble. The simplest anodyne for this pur- 
pose is an equal combination of tinct. opii sptfc, chloroform and 
camphor, once in four or five hours, in small 
of my objects (and it is an important one) is to show to all not 
only from whence life power originated, but that it exists in the 
form of such elements as I have and shall have shown. I shall 
also fearlessly exhibit the manner in which it has been handled, 
and the various means of trying to create it by either mineral 
or concentrated vegetable poisons of the most poisonous char- 
acter. I hereby pronounce them all as pernicious and destruc- 
tive to vitality, and should never be used, excepting as aforesaid. 
We shall understand by degrees, and soon know, that by the 
combination of the play of all the la;ws just explained, aaid these 40 
acting in combination with the alternate action and reaction of 
terrestrial and atmospheric electricity, are caused rounded forms 
to all organic growths.* 
In other words I briefly say here, that while these contending 
elements cause plants and trees to shoot up at a right angle, or 
the 90 degrees of the sun’s meridian altitude (there is no other 
“up” to be recognized, either by a spear or asparagus, or a man, 
and all may be compared to so many millions of spokes in the 
wheel of the world). It is these same elementary laws (in 
an extended form in the exceedingly complicated human organ- 
ism), which cause carburetted deposits from local diseases to be 
diverted spontaneously to the surface. If you class this fact with 
my plan of removing cancer and other dangerous affections I 
speak of elsewhere, you will the better understand me in this par- 
ticular. And lam at the same time talking about natural elec- 
tricity (so to speak), and how it is to this day produced, in con- 
tradistinction from thermo-e\ec,iviciij. A grand and awfully 
sublime illustration of the latter I shall feebly attempt to describe 
in its action, when I shall have reached the acme of progressive 
accumulation in an incredible ratio of increase of carbon, pre- 
paratory to the vast spontaneous combust!ve action that closed 
the carbonaceous age, and produced in the vast geological labor- 
atory at the close of the universal volcanic period the great 
variety of combinations now represented by our nomenclature 
of minerals and metals, and the deposit of the different salts 
and compounds with their acids. As electricity had its origin 
and rapid accumulation in the manner I have described, we 
shall know how it accumulated in a ratio of vast increase dur- 
ing the whole carbonic age of increasing combustive material, 
organic and inorganic. This brought about the great change 
by universal spontaneous combustion. Although these volcanoes 
were at unequal distances from each other they were sufficiently 
near to envelope the entire earth with carbonic oxide, and dense 
masses of smoke from their consuming debris to suffocate the 
millions of reptilian organizms. 
It will have been seen that I have briefly presented an epi- 
tome of the results of those first generated elements of life-power. 
* With few exceptions. The pod Okra assumes angles in its growth in obe- 
dience to a law described elsewhere. A few of the pods will make a dish of 
mock-turtle soup.—(See Chapter on Food in second volume.) This is to prepare your minds for a perfect comprehension of 
my theory of two grand divisions of progressive creation. 
I have not invited you here to rehearse the speculations of La 
March, or Mr. Darwin’s cell and development, or the speculative 
theories and commentaries of dozens of doctors upon them, 
either of approval or disapproval. They have all taught us 
something, but that something amounts to nothing that conduces 
to throw any light upon the subjects in my programme. I was 
speaking of a double affinity. This double affinity increases in 
its geometric forms of development, embracing all the curves in 
the upper segment of a circle, as well as all the radii of angles 
from the base to the 90°, You and I and every well-formed 
tree of the forest are living evidences of a law first spoken of in 
relation to terrestrial and atmospheric electricity, in direct effort 
to form an equilibrium. Water is an electrode. You have seen 
a bowl of water surcharged with electricity. It is static electri- 
city, now. Put the water over the fire. Watch the curved motions 
it takes. It may be now termed a compound of thermal and 
static electricity. See, also, the forms of branches and their 
floral curves upon your windows, suddenly evidencing the result 
of extreme cold crystallization in obstructed contact with thermal 
electricity within. The silicious substance, which is the glass, is a 
non-conductor of electricity. A sudden obstruction to the law 
of heating and being heated, and of cooling and being cooled, 
caused these phenomena of crystallization. If you cut oft’ a young 
thrifty oak, ten or fifteen feet from the ground, you have in like 
manner caused a war in the laws of combined action between 
terrestrial and atmospheric electricity, in their effort to form a 
direct equilibrium, which combine with those laws of dynamic 
electricity, that produce geometrical circles to the shoots of floral 
life upwards and outwards, in obedience to the great additional 
attraction which we shall fully understand. 
The oak fibres immediately take a circular motion, and the 
vital powers along with the well supplied oxygen, carbon, near 
forty per centum each, the silicic acid and a little hydrogen and 
other elements, form into large knurls, which, when sawed into 
veneers and made into dressing cases, present the richest appear- 
ances to the man of taste in this department of the arts. The 
number of saplings which shoot out from the large knurl leave 
their little circular beginnings in the form of eyes. All these things were among my A, B, C lessons in vitality long, long ago. 
Terrestrial electricity, on the other hand, attracts shoots down- 
wards and outwards to receive supplies, not only water, hut 
such other nourishment from mother earth as best suits the 
appetite of the forming organism, as I illustrated by the shoot 
from the grape-vine to the bone, to find whether there be any 
foramina through which to suck out nourishment. 
I have lectured upon the simultaneous beginning of instinctive 
intelligence with the development of life-power, and I wish to so 
systematize my teachings as to first present creative develop- 
ments, during the Carbonic age, of very different floral as well as 
animal organisms from those of the second creation. 
I have explained how our globe became a vast magnet, caus- 
ing the great law of attraction of gravitation to its centre. I 
have endeavored to prepare the mind to understand (as far as I 
have gone) relative to the generating of the first laws and their 
action in the crystallization of the rocks in angles, in accordance 
with their respective bases, which I shall explain hereafter, when 
treating upon the second grand division of creation. Suffice it 
for the present to say that all the floral organisms, during the 
long period of the three first divisions of creation, were of the 
stalk-formed growth, beginning with the lowest in the scale or 
link between organic and inorganic, advancing by a rapid pro- 
duction and reproduction of a carbonic life-power in plants from 
the first lichen to the stupendous forests of Lepidodendri and 
other huge stalk-formed trees, and also the production and re- 
production of carbonaceous life-power, from the first monod up 
through thousands of years of rapid production and reproduction, 
because of the rapid decomposition and equally rapid accumula- 
tion of sulphuretted hydrogen as well as sulphide of silicium, or 
sulphide of carbon and ammonia. 
Through the agencies already described, all these vast accu- 
mulations, formed first into semi-solids as well as solids, with 
oxygen and hydrogen, formed stagnant lakes with their accom- 
panying islands of the deposits of ages of like accumulations. 
We can but faintly imagine our world previous to the finishing 
period of what we now term the Carbonic Age, with its millions 
of the most hideous as well as most devilish amphibious mon- 
strosities, playing their ferocious pranks in the stagnant fresh- 
water lakes and miry beds. The Iguanodon of from one to two hundred feet in length, in a fight with a dragon-formed Ptero- 
dactyl of his size and like fighting propensities,-while multitudes 
of their like ill-formed neighbors were devouring the thousands 
of the small fry, Pteropods, Plesiosaurii, etc. 
Such were amongst the early developments of animally organiz- 
ed life and corresponding floral increase of the aforesaid capillari- 
ous stalk formations, with multitudinous absorbents taking their 
share also of the supernatant liquid rock, (or silex,) or hydrous sul- 
phide of silicium, and depositing same upon their surfaces, in obe- 
dience to the vital principle when in embryo, but now estab- 
lished. The large spotted lepidodendron, and the vast variety 
of broad leaved trees of three hundred feet in height, with 
others of a like -genera and species, long since extinct; save 
only of their lignite specimens, found in the coal-beds, or in 
fossilized rock, where they had slept many hundreds of thousands 
of years, to tell us of that wondrous age of plants, stalk-like 
trees and animals, deposited together to become fossilized or 
petrified, in which forms we now behold them; save of their 
subsequent displacement by volcanic action, the sure cause of 
which we shall soon learn. 
There were, during the close of this second epoch, and during 
the first half of the third creative day of two-hundred thousand 
years, an accumulation of hydro-carbon in miry beds and dykes, 
over which the supernatant liquid quartzose settled, carrying with 
it floating oxides of minerals, which were so operated upon by the 
escaping carbonic acid and dynamic electricity, as to finally crys- 
tallize into semi-solids, pressing and being pressed by the now es- 
tablished law of gravitation—those hydro-carbonaceous dykes 
into solid masses, also continually depositing sulphur, nitre and 
carbon along with other solid matter. 
Before those vast masses wrere solidified, it will be remember- 
ed, they were gathered (during their surgings) into islands, by 
cohesive attraction. These islands being surrounded by vast 
fresh-water lakes, of the supernatant hydrogen and oxygen still 
forming water, and throwing off its stagnant vapors, which 
were as rapidly absorbed by the vast flow already described, 
continually depositing a surplus of hydro-carbon, until these 
ocean lakes became vast aquarian gardens, receiving a continu- 
ous interchange of the chemical actions of the sun upon the 
rising vapors, continually producing and reproducing its share 
of life element. 44 
The decomposition during the many thousands of years, we 
know, by the progressive increase in size, and numbers of these 
early organisms, animal and vegetable, produced a corresponding 
increase of carbonic acid and nitrous ammonia; especially when 
we have the evidence that the family of crustaceous ani- 
mals began about this time to absorb the supernatant solution 
of silex, not taken up in the crystalline hardening of the vast 
quantity of silicic acid with the abundant oxygen and water 
through the crystalline agents aforesaid. These Crustacea mul- 
tiplied, also, from the minutest infusoria to the mammoth-sized 
tortoise, and bivalves, such as we now find in low latitudes. 
No lung-breathing or warm red-blooded creation was there; 
a mere breathing sack, running longitudinally, or a pair of 
valves; no finished compound lungs as yet; no abode for God’s 
holy spirit or for man. All appears merciless and devilish in the 
extreme in organic animal life. But there is a thought of the 
existence of prismatic colors in the vapors caused by the 
struggling rays of the sun, whose smiles diurnal had been doing 
this work for six hundred thousand years. But no angel of 
God nor disobedient man was there. There was a whisper of 
eolian enchantment in the putrid atmosphere that swept across 
the stagnant fresh-water seas. For there was no chloric acid 
yet. We shall find out how that was generated in the next 
two hundred thousand years, during which period the rapid 
reproduction, and equally rapid decomposition of the millions 
upon millions of such animal and vegetable organisms just des- 
cribed, deposited such an immense amount of debris and semi- 
organic carbonic oxides, that the ratio of increase of both, and 
many other agents to form other elements, was beyond descrip- 
tion. 
hTo angel of God came yet to report a world suited to heaven- 
ly spirits. And yet, all this was in accordance with progressive 
ways and means to prepare a world for a higher order of organ- 
isms. This was an age of wild and awfully wondrous floral 
growth and lonely grandeur. But no man yet to witness this 
enchantment! The scene consisted in its solemn loneliness; 
preparatory to a great coming change. God creating a world 
for animal organisms of a higher order of genera and articula- 
who could not live or breathe at that stage of the world’s 
jjreanonjJECence a change, from this age of undisturbed accumu- 
lation ipid deposit of the latent c/imbustive material into the 45 
vast universal magazine. When we reflect that all these vastly 
sublime preparations were to precede a great coming change 
which was then soon to follow, our reflections deepen, our 
thoughts tremble within us. Yea, all these, together with the 
heretofore untold wonders, in the then coming phenomena inde- 
scribable. A change which must take place in accordance with 
those unerring processes of God’s immutable laws; and his ways 
and means to prepare this world for a much higher order of liv- 
ing beings, whose genera and species were destined to be of 
more complicated and more perfect articulations, for higher and 
nobler purposes ; and hence the necessity of this deposit of com- 
bustive materials in the universal magazine. For all was now 
ready. The omniscient fiat was sounded as if by a few signal 
guns here and there by spontaneous ignition, and a successive 
roar burst forth from the fiery throats of hundreds of thousands 
of volcanoes all over the globe, swallowing in their fiery 
throats, millions upon millions of acres of the grand and lofty 
flora, together with the myriads of those hideous reptiles and 
monsters, as they with dragon-wings, affrighted, leaped and 
flew, and dropped, suffocated, into the nearest flaming vortex. 
Who can conceive the awful grandeur, or give any adequate 
description of the destructive results of God’s own artillery? 
The rolling and seething, and dividing by a rapid and universal 
succession of those grand and awful convulsions. Piling up 
the mountain ranges, continents, and sierras; and such of 
the islands as are now found of primary quartzose rock. 
These volcanic ignitions were not exactly simultaneous all 
over the world, for the combustive materials were far from being 
equally deposited. The various and varied phenomena caused 
by them must therefore have been progressive and successive, 
for reasons described. Had the combustive material been 
equally deposited, the whole world would have been left in lava. 
The volcanoes themselves generated their own extinguishers. 
The now superabundant carbonic and hydrous oxides and 
other acids, and sulphurous vapors also rose in their white 
supercilious, or I should rather say, sulphur-cilious triumph above 
the groveling surges of the multitudinous debris of the now 
formed and forming mixture of liquid mineral oxides, left for 
man to name, some length of time afterwards. Our own Dame 
Nature was then but in embryo. We may at that convulsive 
period have anticipated the then coming parturition, when but 46 
few tears of crystalline carbon were shed to radiate a lasting re- 
membrance of their virgin purity. We find now in onr day of 
a few hundred thousand years, that Confucius, the renowned 
Chinese law-giver, shows records of their days of finding dia- 
monds 25,000 years ago. But this digression is of minor im- 
portance, and I must ask the company of your clairvoyant 
imaginations back to find what caused that great event, and 
what was that great event that the virgin tears were des- 
tined to commemorate. We were in the midst of surging seas 
of elements, midst rolling and seething billows, and surgings of 
the millions of the unconsumed admixture of the huge monsters 
that did not come in contact with the thousands and tens of 
thousands of volcanoes. • portions of floral life in form of 
the forests (stalk-formed piarns) underwent immediate changes 
either into stone petrifactions or lignites. also 
floated off in divisional strata to form subsequent rocks or coal 
beds. These were also taking their chances for an upper 
stratum in our globe, while other coming seas of liquid oxides 
of mixed debris of the forming minerals were also contending 
for a final resting place amongst liquid talcose and schist, incrust- 
ing and parting by intense humid heat. Having shut in any 
quantity of carbo-hydro-sulphide, produced that now very desir- 
able precious metal, which we now call gold! Muriatic acid was 
now being distilled and deposited in geological carboys and dis- 
tracted contortions. The semi-vitreous in contact with the 
steaming aqueous. The consuming and consumed forests and 
animals, both in immediate contact, and also at sufficient dis- 
tances to form sulphuretted hydrogen, while dykes of carburetted 
sulphide of siliciuro semi-crystallized with liquid granite syenite, 
and feldspathic veins, were chemically forming and attempting 
to sort themselves out while settling down to rest in their gen- 
eral bosom companion, silex, slowly crystallizing while cooling 
from superheated steam, in continual contact with its sur- 
roundings, generating dynamic electricity as one of the crys- 
tallizing agents, while other silicious sulphides and other 
dialyses floated off as supernatant liquid to form the opake 
opal, or the projecting, hexagon, elongated, translucent quartz 
crystals. The carbonate of lime floated off by itself, or tried 
to do so, while here and there the sulphuric acid escaped and 
took possession of a small remnant of cream of lime ; and gyp- 
sum was the result of the marriage. Latent combustive com- pounds were buried beneath millions of tons pressure, depositing 
immense quantities of sulphide of carbon and nitre, sufficient of 
themselves for the non-conducting silicious rocks to hold so long 
in subjection. 
But when we shall learn of the frightful amount of latent 
heat that was deposited in the formation of the metallic oxides, 
along with forming and formed minerals, and the fearful amount 
of static electricity that accumulated during the 600,000 years 
which have elapsed since the close of the said Carbonic 
period, we shall not ask for the reasons for increasing earth- 
quakes in divers places. Those millions of volcanoes described 
were stilled down by their own smoke, which was compounded 
with the pyroligneous acid, and other acidulous as well as alka- 
line silicious gases, all being extinguish 
common smoke so' hugged the whole surface of the globe in 
thick blackness, as not only to partially extinguish the further 
violent action of the craters themselves, but obscured entirely 
any light from the sun; meantime its effect and heat destroyed 
every living thing that escaped the direct fires by suffocation, 
imbedding many of their dead organisms in perfect form, to be 
fossilized side by side with those of such of the then floral king- 
dom as escaped the immediate action of fire. Many speci- 
mens of which in the form of lignite coal and fossil petrifaction 
now present to the admiration of the inquiring geologist incon- 
testible evidence of the extinct formations that flourished in 
ages so remote as to seem to defy all powers of computation, 
by the classification of strata which overlay these deposits, 
when we consider the terrible magnitude of the surging 
millions upon millions of acres of the aforesaid carbonaceous 
forests, along with other millions upon millions of the huge 
monstrosities (just described) that did not come into direct con- 
tact, moving with the vast masses into heterogeneous lamina 
and chaotic confusion, during the long surgings, and windings, 
and seethings, and contortions and terrible convulsions, throwing 
up mountain continents, that “ fixed the seas what bounds to keep, 
and where the hills must stand.” Hence the deposit of our coal- 
fields and the olefiant petroleum from the commixtures of olefiant 
gases of the millions of animals with the carbonaceous forests. 
Hence our lakes of asphaltum and springs of hdryo-carbonaceous 
liquids and inflammable oils. The anthracite is the result of its 
being in too near coutact with heat from the volcanoes, which 48 
deprived it of its bitumen. Silicic acid combined with oxygen 
and water and a little sulphur, as we find combined with other 
mineral oxide deposits, with the silica upon an average full 
75 per centum in four fifths of the rocky portion of our globe. 
A vast amount of chloric acid was now generated to form a 
salt ocean. 
We have the evidences of the long continuance of the volcanic 
period, and the changes of locality at long intervals, and the 
opening up from different parts of the ocean beds, as any 
number of proofs to the eye of every geologist present them- 
selves in every part of the world. The alternate inland strata 
of nodules, pebbles, and sand long triturated by oceanic action. 
Here our inquiry carries us back to the question, whence and 
by what further means and causes the deposit of all the admix- 
tures of minerals and metals that are now recognized in the long 
catalogue of geological nomenclature ? We must remember the 
long continuance of the volcanic age which succeeded the long 
carbonic age. I shall give you my figures for the length of time 
of each of these grand divisions, then their subdivisions into the six 
creative periods of Moses, and show that in the aggregate of the 
whole six periods there have been no millions of years, nor yet 
a million and a half—not quite a million and a quarter, but 
somewhere about 200,000 years to each creative day; making 
1,200,000 years as the completed age of the world. During the 
first part of the volcanic period, and middle part especally 
of the volcanic age, and thence towards the closing scene 
which I have tried to describe, every conceivable combination 
of metallic and mineral deposits were accumulating from those 
originally amorphous elements which I have named, and were 
formed into crystalline solids through the combined action of 
carbon, sulphur, electricity and thermo-hydro-silicious combina- 
tions with oxides of infinitudes of residuary debris, during those 
long surgings, and seethings, and winding contortions in those 
boundless caldrons and chemical refining processes which pro- 
duced gold, silver, platina, etc., deposited in the matrix of the 
mineral and metallic oxides which first gave them birth, in an 
amorphic condition not recognizable as gold, or silver, or pla- 
tinum, until subjected to subsequent volcanic action, accompanied 
with those ever industrious workers, thermal electricity, etc., they 
eliminated free gold and nuggets. I will remark here that if 
you strike two pieces of quartz together, your electrical friction 49 
produces a sulphurous odor. See my Pamphlet published some 
time since for gratuitous circulation in California, among the 
miners there. The book contained from forty to fifty pages, 
entitled “ The Original Formation of Gold.” It tells the miners 
the important fact, that the gold in its chosen matrix, quartzose 
sulphuret, is chemically united, and hence cannot be separated 
except by chemical decomposition. 
I have now a patent for dissolving ten tons of quartzose rock 
in water at a time, precipitate all the gold, and then use the 
ten thousand gallons of liquor of flint to advantage. 
I have proven that the teachings in all the geological schools 
(of there having been first created sixty-seven primary elements) 
are entirely erroneous. If I were a teacher of what we call the 
natural sciences, I would tell the student that gold is not a 
primary element, but the residuum of sulphur, carbon and silica, 
and a great number of other oxides, all of which had passed 
through a destructive process, or what we term a refining pro- 
cess of volcanic action; and there are other equally inexplicable 
phenomena which the learned world seem not to understand. 
I allude to metamorphic changes, both accumulative as well as 
destructive in the wet way, and these have been going on 
for ages, through the agency of our never ceasing elements, 
oxygen, electricity, hydrogen, &c. (as I have stated), in the in- 
organic world, and these elements, with other elements (now to 
be explained), in the organic world. To what satisfactory pur- 
pose our most distinguished geologists have spent so much 
time in speculating during the last half century (as touching the 
important announcements embraced in my present lectures), 
I respectfully submit to an intelligent world to judge, and a true 
verdict give according to evidence. 
Suffice it to say, that our little world again became a vast 
electric magnet, not only a deposit of static electricity (if you 
please to admit the term, which, by the way, is scarcely ad- 
missible,) but always being generated by that never ceasing 
worker, oxygen, in the great geological laboratory as well as 
everywhere else. These metamorphic changes are still deposit- 
ing accumulations of sulphur and nitre, and additional electri- 
city along with the vast amount of other combustive agents, 
saying nothing of the old carbonaceous deposits, in the form 
of coal-beds, asphaltum lakes, petroleum and other hydro-carbons, 
olefiant and other gases. We will please to know that the great 
geological laboratory is constantly adding again to its already 
4 50 
well-stored magazine; and, as my former publications predicted 
(and since realized), of “ earthquakes in divers places.” Yet fear 
not, ray alarmed friend, yon and I have time to understand these 
subjects that so much conduce to our individual well-being. I 
will repeat here my disclaimer against our globe being an “ in- 
candescent molten mass of fired lava,” with a crust of forty or 
eighty, or any other number of miles in thickness ; but that 
Ignition only exists where fissures admit communication of 
oxygenated gas from other cavities that communicate with the 
earth’s surface; and these cavities are increasing as minerals 
decompose, and as metals oxydize; and that all these causes 
will increase until the final consummation of the result of these 
scientific causes (as presented in my former lectures, years ago, 
and printed also in my early publications); so I am not just 
beginning my long lessons upon these, to me familiar subjects. 
The all important great portentous question here arises—When 
will the final consummation take place ? When the “ elements 
shall melt with fervent heat,” I do not know exactly, but this 
fact I do know, we are hearing of “ earthquakes in divers places,” 
and they are “ increasing.” And earthquakes will “ increase 
in divers places,” as a sequence. 
But it may be many years before the bursting out of volcanoes 
in a universal responding roar of God’s artillery, encircling and 
enveloping the earth with a dense commixture of carbonic oxide 
that will destroy all living organisms, and revolutionize inor- 
ganic matter. There is no knowing to what extent. It may 
entirely be melted u with fervent-heat,” into a homogeneous in- 
candescent ball of lava, “ rolled together like a scroll,” to rotate 
in space, and become a star of small magnitude to be discovered 
by men and women of other worlds as intelligent about world- 
making, perhaps, as the best of us here, even in Aew-York. 
I will here state, that thirteen years ago, I proved the fact 
that sulphide of carbon has played an extensive part, not only in 
the original formation of our quartzose earth, in producing 
infinitudes of changes, with assistance of hydrogen, and alternate 
reaction by oxygen. And that quartz may be again acted 
upon and deprived of its oxygen, and brought into a hydrated 
condition, thence into a perfectly chemical solution in water. 
See my records in the Archives of the XI. S. patent office in 
1859, witnessed by Professor A. L. Pleury, who stated the fact 51 
before the members of the blew-York Polytechnic Society, on the 
evening of 12th March, 1867. My said discovery is also reported 
with favor by those most distinguished savans of Paris, France ; 
mentioned elsewhere. 
PART SECOND. 
PRESENTING A CORKECT TRANSLATION OF THE 
MOSAIC ACCOUNT OF CREATION: 
Perfectly Harmonizing with my Scientific Theories, and their 
' Progressive Results, as described in the following (as 
well as in the foregoing) pages. Also, Per Contra ; 
I shall, as in duty bound, call attention in the following pages 
to the wildest, the most vague and incongruous nonsensical 
theories recently taught in this city (and reported all over 
the United States), with reference to the Creation and Age 
of our earth. 
Comment is unnecessary—read for yourselves—the proofs are 
in the city of New-York by the thousands. 
The Carbonic Age is now a common expression among many 
geologists, and very properly so; for the expression itself implies 
another age which is termed the Mammalian age. 
I believe that I am the only one who has marked the periodi- 
cal line of those two distinct periods of creation by the closing 
of the Carbonic age, by the grand universal destruction of every 
species of animal and vegetable life, and in the manner in which 
I have described. I have, therefore, divided the six creative 
days into two grand divisions of 600,000 years each, as afore- 
said. It matters but little to the important object of these 
lectures how near right I may be as to my calculations of time 
for the creative processes which I have described. 
I now proceed to notice such further grades of developments 52 
in the second grand division of creation as are indispensable to 
a full understanding of the most important objects and purposes 
of these lectures, viz; The production and reproduction of 
vitality or life-power in the human economy, as also to correct 
wild mistakes in relation to the age of the world. 
I have presented evidences of similarity in the first develop- 
ments of life-power from those causes already fully described in 
the primitive elementary creative processes. 
These first physical causes are to he seen by powerful micro- 
scopic aid, and as much proven in a single drop of rain-water, 
or upon a single leaf you discover a little inhabited world of 
perfectly formed animals not visible with the naked eye; and 
while these original elements were sufficient for a low type of 
animal organisms, whose life and existence were and are sustained 
by carburetted hydrogen more than nitrogenized oxygen, and 
like millions of scavengers, existing in the air which we inhale, 
acting the part of other decarbonizing agents than those I have 
before explained. Yet, with all that I have so far shown in my 
full explanations of the processes of accumulation, up through 
those long periods, to the close of the Carbonic age, and, in 
order to a perfect understanding of the necessity of the newly 
created elements for the new developments of a more compound 
creation of genus Mammalia of perfectly formed lung-breathing, 
warm-blooded animals, I need not recapitulate my theory of the 
first formed gaseous elements into a nebulous spheroid, and the 
generated laws of cohesive force and attraction, and every addi- 
tional law, and how spontaneously generated for simultaneous 
action. Suffice, now, to say, that those primary elements are 
still the commanders-in-chief in the great transition to the 
second creation, so to speak. I have alluded to these points in 
a retrograde way to prepare our minds for a perfect reconcilia- 
tion to the Mosaic account; for of all subjects this day, and the 
beclouded opinions now extant, caused by muddy-headed teachers, 
of the creation of this world, none is suffering more, and making 
more infidels than this. 
Now, let us see what the divinely inspired recorder says in 
the few sentences with reference to the creation in the first of 
the Genesis—the translation also: uln six days God created the 
heavens and the earth, &c.” The “ heavens,” so far as the crea- 
tion of our earth is dependent upon the celestial planets for her 
springing into a continuance of existence. “In six days,” &c. 53 
The word days is translated from the Hebrew word; “ yomim,” 
which is the plural of the word “yome.” The latter word signi- 
fies one indefinite period of time; and in the Hebrew record of 
Moses, it thus says, six indefinite periods of time. And in order 
to a full comprehension of the translation “ Let there be light 
and light was,” are phenomena fully explained in my former 
chapter, as are also those of alternate day and night. ... “Out of 
the dust of the ground He created man,” If we give a chemical 
translation of dust, we find it is composed of nearly all the ele- 
ments of the physical creation, and all the periods of time which 
I have described (and no more) were necessary. “He breathed 
into his nostrils the breath of life, and he became a living soul.” 
This was also one of those powerful double implied expressions 
peculiar to the Hebrew. It embraced not only the physical 
breathing of the new formed atmosphere, suited to the perfect 
organism, but also the psychological spirit, mind and soul, re- 
cognizing man as the special, finished work. A double organ- 
ism ; the culminating acme of all the rest of God’s creative pur- 
poses, not only in majestic form erect, but with anterior sentimental 
brow of high and noble bearing (I am speaking of the first 
original paiip, a distinct type (genus Homo). “ In his own image, 
male and female, created He them, and blessed them, and called 
their name Adam.” 
It will be noticed here that Eve’s name was Adam also. A 
lecture upon the origin and process of the art of speech and of 
recording language would be in special keeping here, but it is 
not in my present programme. Suffice it to say for the present 
that the inspired recorder in the first of the Genesis used such 
terms of signification as the (then sparseness of) words in the 
Hebrew language would best present the record. The word 
“image” was not a correct literal translation; but, I trust we 
all know, it was intended to express man’s susceptibilities of 
those superior endowments, the progressive developments of 
which, during our life of probation, may lead us into a partici- 
pation of God’s holy spirit, and, by his written word, aided by 
a cultivated inherent inquiry, guided by every necessary index 
around us, to look from Nature’s course to Mature’s God. Man 
was created a progressive being from his cradle to his grave. 
And although the time allotted to him is long enough for his 
physical development, it is indeed short enough for his intellec- 
tual maturity. The word “image” was not well chosen. The word in the original Hebrew, as we all know, implied man’s su- 
perior susceptibilities of intellectual development from his cradle 
to the meridian of his progressive life of a hundred and fifty 
years at least, with a due exercise of his senses with the exter- 
nal world around him. And all nature presents every possible 
index in the exercise of man’s original innate incentives to prove 
all things a 'posteriori ad prius ,* taking no man’s ipse dixit 
upon any important subject, especially those which we now call 
the most abstruse. God has endowed man'‘with progressive 
powers, ad infinitum, that he may both understand the laws of 
his own being and their connection with the earth he inhabits. 
Man is a progressive being from his cradle to his grave. And 
all he can ever be or ever know must result from the exercise 
of his senses, in obedience to the injunction of his creator, God. 
In other words, not be too lazy to do his own thinking, his own 
reasoning, and his own proving. 
All the lower animals are endowed with certain prescribed 
limited instincts, each in accordance with its respective peculi- 
arity of organism and special adaptation to locality, climate, etc.; 
and they never depend upon man’s opinions. Hence they never 
make mistakes, especially in their hygienic department. 
They discriminate between the harmless and the poisonous 
plants. They need no schools to teach them either the poisons 
or their antidotes. While man is sent into the world the most 
helpless and most dependent for years upon his guides, his em- 
bryo opinions—be they what they may. 
Man is thus the creature of circumstances: First, where he 
happens to be born; secondly, transmitted qualities; thirdly, 
his master’s teachings. All, in every opposite locality, contend- 
ing for truth and common sense. But the traveller will find that 
what is truth and common sense in one locality is nonsense in 
another, wdiether in religion, law, medicine, or politics. Whether 
to become something or nothing; a divine or an exchange brok- 
er, a lawgiver or a highwayman, a peddler or a poet, philosopher 
or a clown, a hermit or a dandy; all through the various phases 
of human development of soul or mind; for I deal in a synony- 
mous term for this first superior attribute vouchsafed by God to 
man. And He breathed into his recipient powers of par- 
taking of God’s holiness, and man became “ a living soul.” 
But what is the record afterwards ? Alas I sad, indeed, is the 55 
reflection which my coming lecture upon Ethnology will suffi- 
ciently explain, not only of man’s past derelictions and the causes 
of the present variety of castes, phases, and infinitudes of shades 
(moral and physical) of anomalies presented by the human race 
at the present day It is all those considerations as well 
as other causes of deterioration, the most alarming of which 
specially prompt my determined interference. 
Therefore, why think it strange ? for it is no less strange than 
true, that every learned philosopher you inquire of concerning 
man and the earth he inhabits, will tell you in plain terms, 
“Nothing has as yet been either satisfactorily taught or known,” 
not only in relation to the original formation of the earth, aggre- 
gation and development of inorganic matter, but of what is still 
more desirable for us all to know. We are in the dark as to the 
elements which conduce to that all-important question embraced 
in my programme, viz.: “ Vitality or Life-Power.” The orig- 
inal progressively generated laws and their agencies in produc- 
ing the germinating principle, a priori. Moses, in his inspired 
record, saw the new-born earth enveloped in a dense smoke, 
when he said, “ A mist went up from the earth.” 
He saw the free “ gold in Havilah ” deposited by the refining 
volcanic action, and spoke of it immediately in connection in 
the first of the Genesis. Why did Moses speak of “ good gold 
in Havilah ?” Because he knew that all the metals for use of 
man were the result of universal volcanoes—that there had been 
“ no sixty-seven primary metallic elements ; ” and that gold was 
the residuary deposit of the refining process of oxidation and spon- 
taneous chemical action in the great geological laboratory ; that 
deposited gold, not only in an amorphic condition, but free gold ; 
and nuggets, few and far between. And, hence Moses said 
“ good gold ” was deposited * * He had just been speaking of 
the smoke of the great universal millions of volcanoes. “ A 
mist went up from the earth.” And yet our wiseacres will 
talk about “ sixty-seven primary elements.” 
Moses saw in his vision of the creation, the unwrapping of 
the swaddling garment that had for a long time hid our new- 
born earth from the light of the sun, whose reciprocal inter- 
changed smiles upon our then dark, rotating earth, were indis- 
pensable for regular alternate “ day ” and “ night,” for the 
chemical production of the process of the earth’s alternate in- 
halation and expiration every twenty-four hours, establishing 56 
the regular alternate production of the two breathing compound 
atmospheres, viz : the nitrogenized oxygen for the new created, 
perfectly organized, lung-breathing, warm-blooded animals, and 
for man in particular ; and the carbonized ammoniacal atmos- 
phere for the inhalation, development and growth of plants, 
trees and ail floral life. 
I would here suggest a correction in the translation of what 
Moses meant by introducing the word “ onyx” in his creative 
record. Onyx is the Hebrew word for a horn or nail, the 
laminated formation in the growth of all animals of genus mam- 
malia • and it has been from these different lamina that the 
word onyx is applied to stone of the Chalcedonic kind, found in 
thin luminous deposits, black and white, and sometimes a 
pinkish red or neutral tints. That with the red layer is called 
sardonyx. Moses saw in his vision the progressive developments 
of horned and hoofed quadrupeds of kindly-yielding dispositions, 
for man’s domestic control, use and support. The trees, also, of 
the new creation grow in concentric layers, marking the seasons. 
It was then “ the morning stars sang together,” and all pro- 
mised progressive perfection. 
Moses saw the how, why and wherefore with “ herbs and 
plants and flowery birth ” our “ naked globe was crowned and 
how the “ rain did bless the earth,” and the sun did “ warm the 
ground ”—and how 
The gaudy rising sun the -wide horizon gilds, 
Came glittering o’er the silver streams and cheered the dewy fields, 
And how, dispensing vernal sweets, the morning breezes play, 
And how the birds with cheerful songs salute the new-born day.” 
And how a paradise was prepared for the great culminating 
acme of God’s whole creative purposes. As I stated in the 
opening of these Lectures, and as we are all both directly and 
indirectly, materially and immaterially, morally and physically 
interested in this said special finished double organism of God’s 
great creation, Man, as a physically, as well as mentally organ- 
ized being, will be specially attended to, in accordance with my 
announcements of these lectures in the newspapers. 
I have abundant evidence of the superiority of the intelli- 
gence of Moses, corroborative of the records of Holy Writ, if 
I had time to dwell upon this important part of our subject. 
We may well have cause to mourn over the barren waste and deterioration of much more than we feel willing to concede of 
the majesty of conceptions of the earliest races of mankind. I 
have no time to dwTell here upon the “ Lost Arts.” Our capitol, 
at Washington, would only he suitable for a porch to a build- 
ing in ruins (upon the margin of the Kile), one mile in length • 
“ each column of which is enough for the minds-eye to reflect 
upon for a weekso says Champollion! This was a library, 
built by one of the Pharoahs, where Moses was educated. 
Will any theologian presume again to tell his congregation, 
that the great “ Doctor Aristocratos or Professor Anybody, 
knows more about the creation of the world than Moses could 
have had the facilities for knowing?” Yerily we are getting 
“ wise above what is written !” Moses saw in his vision that 
when that “ mist went up from the earth,” a new nitrogen- 
ized atmosphere was being generated for the coming mamma- 
lian race ; all with perfectly formed lungs, to receive and decar 
bonize and purify a newly generated vital fluid ; and he classi- 
fied all the new developments of genus and species. For he 
was taught in all the arts, and in the abstrusities of all the 
natural sciences of the Egyptians. I hope that when the wise 
men of this intelligent age attempt to tell us how little Moses 
knew, that they will please to send them to me. I shall extend 
to them the “right hand of fellowship;” having been often tried 
by sceptics, and ready to be tried again. Perhaps I may meet a 
brother who will “ cheer me with a brother’s page.” There is 
one fact to encourage me in my long and ardent labors in search 
of truth upon all these neglected, though most important of all 
subjects, and that is, the most profound scholars in Europe and 
America, seem to appreciate my reports of my long, untiring 
labors in all these heretofore most abstruse of all subjects. 
I published a pamphlet of some forty to fifty octavo pages, 
entitled “The Original Formation of Gold,” and how it became 
deposited in quartzose sulphurets. I have a copy here. They 
are not for sale ; but may be introduced into an Encyclopaedia, 
that I am preparing, for publication perhaps, before I die. 
I lectured eight years since in this city, upon the “ Original 
Formation of the Earth—Origin of the Rocks, from a Gaseous 
Beginning,” as aforesaid; and lam now recapitulating my said 
lectures here. I find many inclined to unlearn the mass of 
wild contradictory theories extant upon these subjects. I refer 58 
this audience to those whose letters (of correspondence npon 
these subjects) indicate, not only their approbation, but the evi- 
dence of the originality of my theories. I saw Dr. “ Irenas ns” 
Prime, at one of my lectures, (eight years since,) in this city. 
See his comments in the JV. Y. Observer. The lecture was 
upon The Original Formation of the Earth ; Origin of the 
Rocks, Plants and Animals, etc., etc., from a Gaseous Origin. 
I refer also, to “ Mr. Dana,” (now editor of The .Sun,) for my 
promulgated aqueous theory of the Origin of the Rocks, occu- 
pying four and a half columns of one of the largest journals in the 
city in 1857, thirteen years since. I give data for the special 
notice of certain plagiarists, whose propensities for picking and 
retailing, are happily hit by “ Moore.” 
“ In the woods of the north there are insects that prey, 
On the brains of the elk, till his very last sigh ; 
Oh! genius, thy patrons more cruel than they, 
First feed on thy brains, then leave thee to die !” 
My reasons for introducing the sentimental, as well as other 
unusually varied illustrations into my scientific lectures, are to 
relieve the main points from dryness ; for to many minds the 
more abstruse scientific subjects are not so interesting as they 
should be. And ray somewhat imposing bill of fare, embracing 
all creation, affords me full latitude for copious extras and side 
dishes, as well as exotics, digenous and indigenous, into ray des- 
sert—with a few wild flowers of rhetorical figures of spontane- 
ous rural growth besides some capricious cascade or lonely still 
lake, where the rainbow dipped its first arch of prismatic sig- 
nificant remembrance. For we have found such a period of the 
creative process, before a sufficiency of chloric acid was generated 
to form a briny ocean 
Before I take my departure from that beacon-light of hope, 
that has cheered many an outward-bound sea-wearied ex- 
plorer before me, I promise interesting remarks from my log- 
book, as well as to correct my traverse-table and dead-reckoning 
by the meridian sun of scientific observation during the late 
complete voyage of discovery of much that we may do well to 
yet know of this little world of ours, about which so little has 
been really known. It is but a little world (compared with 
Jupiter), but I have found it big enough to understand. Hav’nt 
you ? And yet I feel myself fully prepared to prove all I shall 59 
present, or shall have presented, in accordance with my pro- 
gramme, and I solicit that none will make np his, or her, mind 
with reference to my theories until he, or she, shall have heard 
me through. This would not only he injudicious, so far as lam 
concerned, hut you would still he left upon the ocean of uncer- 
tainty in regard to these important subjects, about which (should 
I appear to he mistaken at any point) I am open to correction. 
Knowing, as we all do that no human being is infallible, (except 
the Pope!) especially when men known to fame have presented 
us with- such mistaken theories of creation, and from whose de- 
cision (upon what I shall have promulgated) upon these subjects, 
I should appeal (by “ certiorari ”) to a much higher court of in- 
telligence. 
“ Solitary and alone ” I set my (gaseous theory, spheroid) “ ball 
in motion,” and protested against the fire-ball theory of Thomp- 
son, and all other Plutonic theories extant upon the origin of 
the earth, or there having been “sixty-seven original elements,” 
or that our globe was created in six-sevenths of a week, as mil- 
lions yet believe, because of human ignorance in the transla- 
tion. 
I here protest against the theory of “ worlds, large and small, 
being thrown off from the sun by centrifugal force,” to 
rotate “ 400,000 years before a surface was sufficiently cool to 
invite earthy aggregation to start vegetation.” This theory was 
started in Glasgow (seventeen years since) by a man by the name 
of Thompson, who “ computed his cooling process by comparing 
the time that it took the heaviest casting, at Woolwich, England, 
to cool.” The gentleman who has been teaching this theory in 
Hew York, (and various other places ever since,) was, about 
sixteen years ago, rehearsing from the (then just published) 
gatherings of the industrious and lamented Hugh Miller’s 
“Testimony of the Pocks,” the diagrams of whose gatherings 
were copied and sketched upon a large scale on white cotton, 
and were being exhibited to 3,000 of the choicest intelligences 
of the city, by very inviting advertisements (with Hugh Miller’s 
name left out). All went on smoothly, by the aid of good mem- 
ory, excepting in the rehearsal of two words in a sentence, where 
Hugh Miller (while in studious reflection upon the great meta- 
morphic changes and volcanic npheavings and displacements of 
the lower strata to the surface) exclaimed, “ This globe must 
have rotated countless ages of time.” Our said plagiarist 60 
made a little mistake in quoting, and said : “ This world 
must have rotated in space countless millions of years! ” I 
had just before received a copy of Hugh Miller’s “ Testi- 
mony of the Rocks.” A French chemist who sat by my 
side looked about to see the effect upon the three thousand, 
and especially upon the chosen committee upon the watch 
towers of science in the great city of Hew York. I was 
amused to see the expression so willingly swallowed, even 
by Peter, the great and good philanthropist himself, whose 
dilated eyes had met those of the audience as he was re- 
connoitering the well filled seats in the (then) just finished 
amphitheatre—“ contiquere omnes intent!que ora tenebant! ” 
But the learned lecturer by this startling discovery established 
the profoundest confidence in the opinion of himself, on the 
part of said committee, and he has been frequently called ever 
since to astonish the natives of the city of Hew York upon the 
subject of “world making,” by showing up'Thompson’s fire- 
ball theory, by a fire-color disk of about five feet in diameter, the 
edge of which exhibiting the earth’s crust of “ from forty to 
eighty miles in thickness,” claiming the theories of some that 
our “ earth is an incandescent mass of molten lava.” It is unneces- 
sary for me here at this moment to enter my protest against 
this latter-named theory, as you will have seen in my proofs 
of progressive creation that this is not so. Another, in his 
lectures this winter upon the creation of our earth, talked of 
“ an indefinite number of millions of years,” while the closing 
lecture upon this subject, at Stein way Hall, a few weeks since, 
has given recent “ European authority that 350,000,000 (three 
hundred and fifty millions) of years is the exact age of our earth 
by scientific calculations.” I shall show the sum total of the 
six periods of time, (from the first spheroid rotation of our globe 
to the present time), to be about 1,200,000 (twelve hundred thou- 
sand years). And I have presented the progressive processes 
from whence I come to about those figures. Whether my 
figures are anywhere near or not, my theories of the processes 
will not be questioned by any man of scientific reasoning. I 
had long been in hopes that Sir Charles Lyell, or Prof. Agassiz, 
or some other of our distinguished geologists of recent time 
would have given us their ideas about the original formation of 
the earth ; the origin of the rocks, trees, plants and animals. 
One thing I have noticed in the books of the most industrious 61 
scientific men that the last century has produced, that evidenced 
to me that they were men who did their own thinking, and 
came to their own conclusions from close study and observation 
of Nature’s productions, and read her great hook by her own 
index. That they saw evidence at every step of the fallacy of 
the* Plutonic theory of creation as taught in the schools, and so 
taught to this day. They found water in the middle of quartz 
crystals and in the cavities of Geodes, and discovered water in 
the molecular divisions of granite rock ; and the aqueous, instead 
of the modern fire-hall theories, is evidenced by every geologist 
who has done his own thinking. 
Sir Humphrey Davy was an original thinker, and the scien- 
tific world has profited by it in many particulars. He con- 
tended for the aqueous instead of igneous formation of the earth. 
This was also the opinion of David Brewster, and Dauree, and 
Saussure, and Pallas and Werner (see Werner’s Geognomy). See 
also Bischoff’s publications these last twenty-five years. 
But neither of these industrious stars in the scientific galaxy 
have given us their conclusions as to the how, why and where- 
fore of the origin of matter; theformationof the earth into 
nebulae, or anything about the original formation of the earth 
from a gaseous origin, or of the first formation of the rocks, plants 
and animals; the how, why, and the progressive developments 
of floral or animally organized life. 
Neither has that most excellent, the most distinguished Prof. 
Agassiz, or his equally worthy and distinguished contemporary, 
Sir Charles Lyell, favored us with their conclusions in relation 
to the original formation of the earth, origin of inorganic or 
organic matter, or of the elements of vitality or life-power, 
Hence our American “ world-makers ” are either driven back 
to the ring of Laplace, or the fire-ball theory of Thompson, and 
somebody’s guess work as to the age of this little world of ours. 
I think it is high time that text-books upon these special sub- 
jects should be forthcoming, especially when we hear a clergy- 
man of the Andover School of Theology say, as one said in his 
pulpit recently, telling his congregation, in a popular church 
(corner of Fifth Avenue and Street, New York City) 
that “he should adopt the figures of Professor for the 
time or age of the world, to be {an indefinite number of millions 
of years.’ ” 
As “ the Professor who was then lecturing is a very profound 62 
scientific man, and possessed facilities of knowing more about 
suck things than Moses,” the inspired recorder of the creation ! It 
would have been better, for the credit of his alma mater, to have 
taught said clergyman that the literal translation should have 
been construed, and explained by the commentators thus: 
Moses wrote, as was his custom, in the briefest style of the 
Hebrew, and in the metaphorical manner taught him by the 
Hierogrammatii, who were kept by the Pharaohs to teach and 
explain the richest allegorical language of representation in 
the briefest, as well as in the most sublime figurative expressions ; 
not alone on account of the sparseness of words then in use in the 
Hebrew, but because of the then long-established usage of an 
implied judgment on the part of the recipient of either oral or 
written language to decipher or construe, according to the con- 
necting facts or circumstances A style beautifully ex- 
exemplified in the Old Testament. The translation in some 
cases would very much conflict with our present cold matter-of- 
fact rules of writing and speaking. Moses used the Hebrew 
word, gome, which meant, in his account, a period of (indefinite) 
time; also, yomim, in the plural; yet these words also ex- 
pressed the word day and days j and the word yome, in all the 
Hebrew records, reads—an indefinite division or period of time. 
The expression of the verb and noun also, in describing Adam 
and Eve, in accordance with the usage of the learned and in- 
spired Moses, implied much more than a single one idea, viz.: 
“And called their name Adam,” from the Hebrew common 
noun, Adme (or red clay, arable soil of Egypt). And, as a pre- 
lude to my explanation of the Mosaic account of creation (that 
will come up in its order), we should remember that Moses was 
skilled in all that belonged to the sublime in the arts, in speech 
and of recording language. He was taught by the Hierogram- 
viatii of Egypt. Those profound scholars and priests were kept 
by the Pharaohs to teach the richest allegorical modes of speech 
—the language of representation. And was in accordance with 
one of the most distinguishing attributes vouchsafed by our 
Great Creator to man, not only by the spontaneous attributes of 
comparative induction in the process of thought, reflection, and 
progressive reasoning, but speaking and writing by similitudes 
and allegorical symbols. The first attempt to embody thoughts 
and connecting ideas was by hieroglyphical figures, either mark- 63 
Ed or scratched on such crude materials as were susceptible of 
graphic record ; gradually opening the way into symbolic associa- 
tions of comparative things and compound ideas of God and man,, 
nature and art, etc. blew germs of the inherent poetical attri- 
bute of inspiration sprang up and seized upon symbolical asso- 
ciations with other ideas. The higher attributes of the human 
soul were thus expanded, and inventive genius found play for its 
wonted action, until all that we can now find in the debris of 
the extreme past, that the “ wizard Time ” has spared us, as 
evidences of the sublime in speech, in the arts, and in Biblical 
record, were the legitimate offspring of those marked superior at- 
tributes vouchsafed to man. Poetry, Painting, Music and Lan- 
guage were deified in Grecian mythology as the four daughters 
of Mnemosyne (Goddess of Memory) 
The custom of the ancients to personify insensible objects, and 
also of having some special similitude or attribute or definite 
meaning in the naming a person, has been handed down to 
some of the nations of the earth to the present time. 
It may be true of our native Americans (I mean the Indians, 
the aborigines), that they are “ the descendants of the lost tribes 
of Judah—the Ishmaelites of America—whose ancestors it is said 
crossed over from Asia on the ice of Behring’s Straits.” 
For they evidence one of the attributes I have been talking 
about, and that is naming a young Indian in keeping with a 
peculiarity, connected or implied. Red Cloud, that uncouth, un- 
lettered Indian warrior-chief, gave striking evidence of spon- 
taneous native eloquence in a very few words a week or two since 
at the Cooper Institute. He told his audience that he was a 
minister, fully commissioned by diplomatic authority from the 
aborigines, the rightful owners of the whole country; that the 
Great Spirit, and the sun, moon and stars, and all the Rocky 
Mountains and the Mississippi and the North River, and all 
that is really great and vast, and wild and wonderful in power, 
were his endorsing witnesses; that the thousands around him 
must acknowledge his pre-emption right, and that in God and 
nature there is harmony and no mistakes. But he was sorry 
to say, that “white man is very unsartin.” 
There may be more truth than poetry in his last implied re- 
buke, but excuse me, this comes more properly under the head 
of Ethnology, Phrenology, Psychology and other ologies. 
I was speaking of a natural propensity to name men and things, by associating some natural development, either physical 
or moral, of men, in all ages, and so with the English now, as 
well as in the days of “ Eichard Coenr de Leon,” and so in 
Greece at its palmy days. Plato’s first name was Aristocles, 
until his highly developed intellect, high marble forehead and 
anterior brain claimed and received the name of “ Plato,” 
which means greatness. 
And the study of man among the Athenians was the climax 
of all studies. The motto chiselled into the granite in the tem- 
ple-gates, was “ JSTothese Anton'l 
In retracing the origin and process of the art of speech, we 
should be fired with a new source of the sublimest admiration. 
I should be delighted to spend an hour upon this subject at any 
time. At the close of that hour we should find ourselves the 
slaves and dupes of a very accidental, arbitrary, perplexingly 
long, and tediously elaborate mode of recording language, in- 
consistent in rule and pretended system, of writing and printing, 
what we call “ orthography, etymology, syntax and prosody.” I 
could convince you all of this fact by using that black-board 
only fifteen minutes. All the consolation I can offer is, that to 
know these facts, is learning, and to endure them is stoicism ! I 
discovered the trouble many years ago, and adopted a corrective 
for my own use. I have it engraved for myself and special 
friends. It has long afforded me a gratifying saving of much 
time and labor, and in my early enthusiasm I appealed in vain 
to college presidents and others to join me in the attempt at a 
complete revolution in writing and printing; a universal system 
of representatives of articulation and sound, formed by the 
organs of speech. But nobody cared about it, and I was (against 
my very nature) compelled to learn that great necessary secret 
of caring for nobody. I find it a tough lesson. Somebody else 
tried the phonetic experiment afterwards, but the system being 
unfortunately exceptionable, has not been adopted, excepting 
only for private purposes of brevity ; whereas, my system, like 
music, is, in very deed, “ phonetic,” and specially adapted to 
teaching elocution. 
My time and labors the last thirty years of my life have been 
ardently devoted to practical experiments, in proving my dis- 
coveries in the physical sciences, the results of which call me 
out at this late period of my life; and whenever it shall be pro- 65 
ven that I am not perfectly familiar with my subjects, or, that 
I cannot present proofs irrefragable of what I shall have pre- 
sented to the wisest men of (any American) Athens, or, of Eu- 
rope, then and not until then, will I ever after hold my peace, 
for I must necessarily be a great disturber of bandaged, sleep- 
ing sentinels upon the watch-tower of science. Just such as have 
figured in all time ; before whom, and whose presumptive power 
many a Galileo has had to be arraigned. Newly discovered 
truths find their greatest enemies among ignorant leaders of 
hoodwinked followers. The misfortune is, (as it has been in all 
time,) the masses of the people are too lazy to do their own think- 
ing, and there is nothing easier than for the veriest charlatan 
of astute calibre to become a bell-wether, in any department of 
human thought, upon all subjects that require individual study 
and close analytical investigation. Hence, the present porten- 
tous condition of the city of New York. So, also, in the de- 
partment of religion; the world has always a u Joe Smith,” 
and his thousands of misguided dupes, to the belief of the 
“ gold plates, (dug out of the hill,) and that these gold plates 
were covered with hieroglyphics, that none but ‘Joe’ and one 
other of like astute calibre could decipher.” The greater the 
marvel, the more the ignorant masses are attracted, and so with 
the “fire-ball,” and magic lantern teachings of world-making. 
When “ Peter (the great and good) Cooper,” built the “ Insti- 
tute ” bearing his philanthropic name down to posterity, his in- 
tentions were to unfold truth before the inquiring eyes of the 
rising generation, in accordance with his patriotic zeal for the 
advancement of the intellects of his beloved country, knowing 
that intelligence only can. save the republic. 
He had seen his old hallowmd word, “ democracy,” fall into an- 
other prefix, viz : demon, and he now sees his portentous fears 
being rapidly verified. The word demos means demon now, and 
demi-gogus means to lead to demon (the devil), the demos (the 
people) beginning here, not at Jerusalera, nor any longer New 
York, but New Cork ! Ah! my respected friend, I should have 
been happy to have found in you my venerable ward. 
Ho you remember, Mr, Peter Cooper, that some fifteen or six- 
teen years ago I called your attention to the artificial stone 
“ terra cotta ” arches (which were then going into the “ Insti- 
tute ”); that I crumbled them with my knife blade, and that I 
told you of my intention to make a thousand gallons at a time 66 
of liquid quartz, with which I could fully saturate those arches 
and make granite of them, and that you immediately inquired 
of two of the most renowned chemists in the city of New York, 
and their answer ? and not only their answer, but the answers 
of others equally known to fame! “ That any man who talks 
about dissolving a ton at a time of quartz in water, must be in- 
sane and you, of course, believed them. But I have since dis- 
solved a ton of quartz at a time in water, and the liquor of flint 
is now an article of commerce, and your arches will crumble 
down for want of attention to my preventive ; for I have a 
crystallizing agent of my own make, of liquor of flint, that I 
never have taught to any man living. 
I could have then told you, sir, that although we can well af- 
ford to have Hugh Miller’s Testimony of the Rocks ; and Doctor 
Lardner’s theories “of light and heat,” and all other real en- 
lightenment from the East rehearsed again and again in New 
York city, albeit, the lecturers forget to name the authors. 
But Thompson’s fire-ball theory of “ world making,” savors a lit- 
tle too much of genus salamander, even in New York city, 
where the capacity to swallow may be aptly typified by the 
anaconda of South America. Again, we have been so accus- 
tomed to look to the East for light; and this is well for most 
purposes. 
But I have noticed that upon all subjects that require long 
study, by those wishing to pass as tolerably well posted in 
the ranks of scientific men, the brains of European workers, 
thinkers, and writers are continually being picked out. As, uin 
the woods of the North there are insects that prey on the brain 
of the elk ; ” so we find upon the subjects before 
us, our wiseacres have got lost in the fog, without the sunlight 
of science to correct the dead-reckoning of wild and random 
figures and mistaken quotations of the lamented Hugh Miller’s 
guess-work, Thompson’s fire-ball, La Place’s ring, or somebody 
else’s random shots at the sun, so that with “ world-making ”as 
with the mechanic arts, we had rather import and pay the heavi- 
est penalty, ad valorem, than work ourselves. But in our im- 
portations of theories of “ world-making,” the most egregious 
extravaganza and wildest nonsense that could possibly be con- 
ceived of have been taught to the people of the United States 
for the last thirteen years, either regularly A'ported through the 
Cooper Institute custom-house, or smuggl i in and palmed otf 67 
as the results of an original explorer in the geological formation 
of the earth and in paleontology, exhibiting Cuvier’s great paleo- 
zoic monstrosity, the Magnatherium petrefaction, found by Cu- 
vier in South America, exhibited in a drawing thrown upon a 
magnified disk by a magic lantern, along with a variety of dis- 
solving views to the profoundest satisfaction of the great public’s 
grown children. 
To present a full and complete geographical finish to our sub- 
ject of creation, I should now proceed not only with the develop- 
ment of such of the animal organisms and vegetable growths as 
the new elements produced, and their alternate advancements 
during the last long Tertiary period, or the last creative day of 
the Mosaic account, and all the rnetamorphic changes of the 
rocky formations and the physical causes, including our subject 
of Ethnology, Anthropology, Phrenology and Psychology of 
that finishing part of creation expressed in a word of three letters, 
viz ; M-a-n. We have reached him as heading the new genera 
and new species, a type distinct, to lord it over all the rest of 
creation, and especially over himself, the latter being his special 
prerogative. Therefore, stand thou near at hand with me, my 
Man. We shall attend to your case and mine with all due re- 
spect, loving kindness and a great deal of that which is most 
wanted, viz : charity. Fiat justitia mat ccelurn ! For we shall 
find that there have been great metaraorphosic changes in man, 
as well as vast changes in rocks. And now for the How ? Why ? 
Wherefore ? 
The rnetamorphic changes which the rocks have undergone 
during the whole Post-tertiary period up to the present time 
have been by the following causes: Ist. By remaining volcanoes 
since the last universal change, already fully described. 2nd. 
By the transportation of broken fragments (thus thrown off) by 
glacial and tidal powers; and these causes increased by addi- 
tional prior causes, viz: changing zones by long ages of the 
continued sideral motion of the earth. 
How long were the ages ? and how many of them ? Have we 
no record? Yes, Dame Nature points her finger again from 
effects back to causes. The books upon this part of our subject, 
also, are exceedingly indefinite and contradictory, especially as 
to time. All the authors indulge alike in millions of years, 
wholesale; no smaller measure. I fully appreciate your long 68 
industrial labors, gentlemen. I have read all your reports with 
great “ expectations,” and your theories as to time, and with all 
due courtesy and the profoundest respect, answer them. We 
shall find no “ millions of years ” necessary in the whole aggre- 
gate, including the Adamic Age, up to the present time. 
It will be remembered that a vast amount of latent heat had 
been generating, and the terrestrial electric battery had been at 
work generating static electricity during the entire fourth pro- 
gressive period of many thousand years. We shall remember 
that a vast amount of nitre had now been generated, as also any 
quantity of sulphur and carbon; and these, together with all the 
elements before mentioned, and many mineral and metallic 
oxides, had now deposited and shut themselves in under millions 
of tons pressure, as is evidenced to our eyes when successive 
layers of broad and long leaves of once floral life are every day 
taken out of our coal beds, which were deposited (in company 
with millions of the animal organisms before described), and 
were so hot and heavily pressed as to be compelled to part with 
the oily carbonaceous hydrogen, to find its way into every 
possible skulking cavity, to be hunted and bored for by excited 
genus homo in .New York and Philadelphia, whose genera and 
species, however, were not destined to come into existence until 
the close of the sixth day, which we are happy to call our day. 
But pardon me for the strange course of having thus taken so 
long a retrospective view, thence into so long a futurity, and 
pardon the logic. I was speaking of the vast deposit and vastly 
increasing combustive elements, from the time of their liquid 
surgings until all the variety of chemical changes had finished 
the closing up of the fearfully portentous magazine, until a 
second fiat sounded the coming in of the fifth creative day. 
There were no human ears to be stunned, or human dwellings 
to be thrown miles into space, when rocks were split asunder 
and thrown into high peaks of Acrons, Andes, Alpines and 
Alps, and continents and islands and bluffs ; while others were 
shattered into millions of fragments, which the suddenly rush- 
ing in of the water, in its effort to find its level, carried 
along, triturating and wearing off the cleavage angles, assort- 
ing and depositing the sizes in conformity to the law of 
gravitating results; stratum upon stratum, in alternate layers 
of nodules, pebbles, and sand, as we now find them, either in 69 
loose banks or cemented into conglomerate, either white, grey, 
or greyish-brown, like the bed upon which Roxbury, Massa- 
chusetts, stands. I was up at Cheshire, in the north-western 
part of Massachusetts, to witness an inexhaustible bed of white 
granular quartz, uncontaminated with iron or other coloring 
matter. I found it now and then divided by a stratum of 
alumina-kaoline, which I have no doubt had been charged with 
such solvent agents as induced an earlier decomposition than fell 
to the lot of its granular neighbors, who have slept there a few 
thousand years in undisturbed repose, until recently it awoke to 
distinguished fame by taking the brilliant shine off every other 
cut crystal glass at the first world’s fair in London. 
Here a thought is suggested further, in reference to the de- 
posit of silica in its crystalline hexagon form, whether in its 
native inorganic form, or in its never missing agency in combi- 
nation, as I have shown in all organic formations ; and these 
are by no means slow processes, as I shall prove. Excepting in 
the zoophyte formations of the coral family, they are slow ; but 
their slowness consists in the minuteness of the size of each individ- 
ual of the multitudinous coral formations. The deposit of carbo- 
hydro-silicates (the latter absorbed from the ocean), is not slow 
in the petrefaction of those vegetative zoophites. The slowness 
of the processes of forming each succeeding stratum, affords to 
us a clue to some (though not very correct) data, since the close 
of the fifth creative period, that furnished sufficient muriatic al- 
kali for a salt ocean, and the vegetative elements for coral. 
I saw in immediate prospectu, the feasibility of dissolving a 
ton at a time of this pure white granular quartz, or silica, in 
water, making a thousand gallons of liquor of flint at a time, 
as colorless as spring water; then, introducing several tons 
of the sand along with a crystallizing agent, and casting in 
molds in the same manner that gypsum is cast. White flint 
statuary and all kinds of architectural designs can be cast, that 
would be white as snow, and defy the hand of time for thou- 
sands of years. 
And that is not the acme. I know, by practical experiment 
that by casting into a molded slab of this white flint, the desired 
colors of mineral oxyds, the most beautiful appearances of a 
fossilized flower garden, is produced. 
It is not necessary to enter now into the interesting history, 
classification or anatomical formation of the zoophyte polypi 70 
and coral family, and the similarity of their framework to 
the framework of all the higher grades of organized life, not 
only in plants hut in all animal organisms, only stopping for 
a moment to correct the almost universal impression taught 
in the books, that all the coral reefs are limestone, instead of 
their right name, viz: “ Silicious carbonate of lime.” Hence, 
you can raise any quantity of Indian-corn in Florida, where 
some of the books tell us that there is no silica. But what I 
am coming at is the age of the world since the Adamic period 
(not since the beginning of the Tertiary period). The latter 
may be reckoned by the time it must have occupied to form 
the coral islands, peninsulas, etc. The reader is referred to the 
calculations of the world-renowned Agassiz, as well as the never- 
tiring Sir Charles Lyell, The latter named, wide-famed author, 
in his last work entitled “ The Antiquity of Man,” page 14, and 
from “ Nott and (Hidden,” page 352. 
“ Professor Agassiz has described a low portion of the peninsula 
of Florida, as consisting of numerous reefs of coral, which have 
grown in succession, so as to give rise to a continual annexation 
of land, gained gradually from the sea in a southerly direction. 
This growth is still in full activity ; and assuming the rate of ad- 
vance in the land to be one foot in a century, the reefs being 
built up from a depth of seventy-five feet, and that each reef 
has in its turn added ten miles to the coast, Professor Agassiz 
calculates that it has taken 135,000 years to form the southern 
half of this peninsula. Yet the whole is of post-tertiary origin, 
the fossil zoophytes and shells being all of the same species as 
those now inhabiting the neighboring sea.” 
In a calcareous conglomerate, forming part of the above-men- 
tioned series of reefs, and supposed by Agassiz (in accordance 
with his mode of estimating the rate of growth of those reefs), 
to be about 10,000 years old, some fossil human remains were 
found by Count Pourtalis. They consisted of jaws and teeth, 
with some bones ,of the feet. I present the latter account as 
being connected with the foregoing as cited by Howler and Doc- 
tor W. Usher (without offering my humble opinion here as to 
the question of how long a time has elapsed since the beginning 
of the Adamic period). I refer the reader to the able reports 
of the investigating efforts of those industrious authors to whom 
I have referred for the metamorphic changes of the rocks, and the metamorphosic changes of animal and vegetable organisms 
since the Adamic period. 
Mine lias been a task far anterior to all of those, and far more 
responsible to my God, and mjself, and my fellow-men. 
It will] have been seen by computing the six accumulative 
processes or creative divisions, in accordance with the foregoing 
scientific calculations, that I have presented six of these divi- 
sions of about 200,000 years each, which count about 1,200,000 
years, up to the Adamic period. 
Anything like a correct calculation is beyond human power ; 
or, how long a time has elapsed since the first Mammalian period 
down to the present day or year or century, is also beyond our 
power to know. I humbly present an opinion formed from the 
results of such reasonings upon post-Adaraic changes, as come 
within the range of grounds for computation. 
I will state here that the present is one of the intermediate 
times of rest, so to speak, and that from the time of the last univer- 
sal volcanic change that closed the Carbonic age and began the 
Tertiary accumulation, to the next universal destruction by vol- 
canic action, another 200,000 years will have expired. How 
near we are coming to this final consummation, we are, I think, 
learning something about, if we attend to the subject. We are 
hearing of earthquakes in divers places. They have been in- 
creasing in an unparalleled ratio the last two years, as I predict- 
ed in a former publication. 
The thoughtful world is waking up to this subject. A discon- 
tent and dissatisfaction has been caused by the extremes, from 
the literal teachings of the translation of Moses—(six-sevenths 
of a week) to the wild extremes taught in this city, viz : 
“countless millions, many millions,” etc., as the age of our 
earth, these discordant, vague, random conjectures extant— 
not only flying upon the chemical breeze, but these geological 
fallacies are being taught by the savans of the present age, 
guided by a theory of “ Moral Chemistry,” that I cannot com- 
prehend; and it is a difficult task to eradicate a once grounded 
error, taught by the distinguished Professor of Geological 
Chemistry, and much more difficult when the learned student 
shall have been dubbed 11. d., and d. d., and installed Rev. Dr. 
ten years ago, and contended for any longer time than six- 
sevenths of a week, he would have been waited upon by Dr. Scalpel and have his head shaved, and a blister pnt on the 
back of his neck, to draw down through foramen magnum 
the new heresy, which so sacrilegiously conflicts with the 
Mosaic account, as is said. 
True, “ a day with the Creator of worlds is as a thousand 
yearsand, I am willing to admit, that there is no limit or 
time with the Creator—God. But we do contend that while on 
the one hand it is very easy to say, and for the hand to write 
the words, “ many millions of years yet, that mind that can 
conceive of operating changes, or of any progressive ideas in re- 
lation to physical facts, transformations of things or of progres- 
sive anything, by the operation of progressive laws, must pos- 
sess wild ideas. I heard one say to three thousand auditors, com- 
posed of the savans and literati of New York, at Cooper In- 
stitute, “ countless millions.” The processes of petrefaction 
afford no data. 
The change of animally organized beings as well as woody 
fibre, into the hardest silicious or quartzose stone is slow or sud- 
den, according to the amount of silicic acid in solution in water, 
and in accordance also with the presence of the above mention- 
ed agents, most active in these chemical phenomena. I say phe- 
nomena, because they have so been considered hitherto, for want 
of a correct understanding of Geological Chemistry. 
I was called upon years ago, (ten years since), by a chemist 
in a neighboring state, to account for the petrefaction of a hen’s 
egg, in one year; the said egg having been found in a heap of 
horse-dung intermixed with cow-dung and the straw litter. I 
answered that the quantity of silex separated from the oats and 
corn, as well as the hay, and held again in solution by the sol- 
vents and processes of digestion, and finding their way with the 
straw litter along with the egg into a warm decomposing heap, 
the rapidly accumulating carbonic acid percolated the shell, 
and let in the silicic acid among the albumen, etc., of the egg ; 
the uric acid aiding the reciprocal action, and the egg now (and 
for ages to come) presents its correct, precise ovoid shape, 
of what ? Silicate of albumen, combined with silicate of 
lime. 
But fossils or petrefactions may not, neither do they in some 
of the most spontaneous developments, except in limestone re- 
gions, contain but slight traces of lime. The most extensive 
spontaneous developments of petrefaction are almost entire silicious formation. The forests of Egypt, cover the whole 
distance between Cairo and Suez, (eighty-six miles,) with silici- 
fied trunks of trees, sometimes forty or fifty feet long, and one 
or two feet thick. Brest, states that “ they lie in all directions ; 
and is fully confirmed in his opinion that they were silicified on 
the spot, etc.” 
The history, time, how, why and wherefore—the origin and 
processes of ourselves; together with the inorganic as well as 
organisms of animal and vegetable life in all their multitudinous 
varieties; and, when we say multitudinous, we are reminded of 
the labor of the late Professor Bronn, of Heidelberg, who re- 
viewed and classified more than twenty-four thousand fossil ani- 
mals and plants, referring each to their geological position. See 
contributions to Natural History of the United States, Part 1, 
Essay on Classification, page 108. 
We can readily account for variety of fossilized plants deposit- 
ed at the early Carbonaceous period of the world’s history. The 
rapid increase of carbonaceous organizations, both animal and 
vegetable, and their rapid decomposition and reproduction, 
increased the alternate geometrical developments of the 
same genera and species; and we also take into account the 
animals and plants of the new type, new genera and species; 
the result of new phenomena, produced by the universal vol- 
canic action, (heretofore described,) fossil remains of which are 
now being gathered in cabinets and museums, along with varie- 
ties of others whose formations indicate a subsequent existence. 
Albeit, there was, no doubt, a vast variety of species of the 
same genera, as well as those of a new type and new species, 
which gradually came into existence during the prolific carbonic 
period of perpetual warmth and moisture. This fact, may be 
in a great measure, exemplified by the now existing phenomena 
in the moist valleys of low latitudes. Professor Agassiz, de- 
scribes the land vegetation as so dense and profuse along the tri- 
butaries of the Amazon, that they are compelled to travel by 
water. 
While we are speaking of the animals and plants of new 
type, genera and species, produced by new progressive action 
through the agencies of new materials, the result of the first 
universal volcanic period, fossil remains of these as well as 
those of still more subsequent ages are now gathered into cabi- 
nets and museums. The variety of genera and species during the first Carbona- 
ceous Period, may be exemplified by existing similar phenomena 
in low latitudes, where warmth and moisture are uiform and 
perennial.* 
Prof, Agassiz reports the aquatic plants so dense along the 
margin of the Amazon that it is difficult getting through them 
in a canoe or peridgua, and the density of the land vegetation is 
great in variety, interlacing in “ heterogeneity ”—“ scarcely ever 
two plants of the same species found side by side ”—and when we 
consider the uniform heat and moisture, never varying more than 
15°, the minimum of the waters of the Amazon being 18°, and 
the maximum 84°; the fecundity and rapid growth of the stalk- 
formed palms and other trees, the leaves of some of the former 
measuring from “ thirty to forty feet in length and ten to fifteen 
in width,” I am struck with the similarity evidenced in the 
fossil proofs which are gathered from the lowest carbonic de- 
posits, and this similarity is evidenced also in the animal organ- 
isms. It requires but little reflection to understand this simil- 
arity. In the stagnant waters of those hot latitudes we find 
rapid spontaneous production and reproduction. But we find 
only the lowest grades of animals, and a variety of these of a 
genera and species similar to those of the Carbonic Age. And 
the low grade of the native mammalia is also worthy of our 
speculation as to cause “ The aborigines, or the present 
inhabitants of Brazil, were transplants from Portugal and Spain, 
and come under a specific classification,” and will be treated 
upon in my coming lecture upon Ethnology. 
ETHNOLOGY—MIND—SOUL. 
To understand the causes which mark the infinitudes of grades 
of intellect or mind of Man, presented to our common observa- 
tion all over the world at this present age, we have to look to 
other causes than those of individual education, or individual 
chance, or accidental circumstances. We have to look to trans- 
mitted qualities, along with influences of climate and consequent 
surroundings. I have said that Man was originally created a 
'* Tho hairs of dead horses, under like circumstances, develop the life and 
motions of reptiles. perfect compound being. His perfection consisted in the sym- 
metrical physique of all the entire man, so indispensable to the 
development of a soul—such a soul as God required from such 
a perfect organism. 
“ What? ” says some theological friend of our present conser- 
vative day. “Do you say that the soul is a variable attribute— 
that it is not a superior attribute, given to all men alike?” I 
say that such was the case before “ God repented that He had 
made man.” Here is another mistake in the Hebrew transla- 
tion. God never “repents.” Neither do His immutable laws 
change. God created man a progressive, probatory free agent. 
“Well,” says one, “you have told us all that before. What 
about the soul ? Did you ever see a soul.” Yes, thousands. 
“Well, sir; what is its size, color, form—you say that you have 
seen thousands.” Yes, I have always been a close observer of 
men and things, and of souls in particular; and, in order to con- 
vey my meaning .on this all-important question, I must answer 
by comparative figures of speech. The soul vouchsafed to the 
first perfect Adam was a spiritual attribute, to be progressively 
magnified to the size and splendor of the sun, embracing a har- 
mony of every conceivable kind in all the neutral tints of colors, 
as seen in the rainbow' prism, or exemplified in the richest plum- 
age of birds, “ whose beauties languish half concealed till mounted 
on the wing. Their glossy plumes expanded, shine in azure, 
green and gold, and their beauties brighten as they take their 
flight to” regions above. Adam and Eve closed their eyes against 
the black night and all deeds of darkness, and the present habits 
of turning day into night, and the worship of false gods, in the 
present forms of fiddle-faddle, flummery, or “ enlargement of 
phylacteries,” in either church or theater. “ Color.” Yes, we 
have the greater number of green souls, that never get ripe. 
Some blue. Did you ever see a man have the blues ? Many 
yellow souls. 
“ His reptile soul on filthy lucre bent. 
Always calculating cent per cent.” 
Some as hlack as soot; others as white and pure as a sheet of 
virgin paper, or “ Tahula razaP 
Then there is the red (sanguinary) soul. 
“ On I avengers on ! . . . . 
Strike! till the last armed foe expires!— 
Strike ! for your councils and your fires!— 
God 1 and your native land ! ” 76 
We have many chameleon souls, who change both position and 
color, in conformity to the popular breeze; conservative souls, 
and many who have no soul at all—only a gizzard. 
I will now rapidly mark upon the black-board, with this large 
square crayon, the gradual departures from the orginal perfectly 
formed human head. Which as you see here, as I mark the 
outline configuration, a perpendicular line of the face, forming 
with the base the angle of a square. “ Why by the square ? ” 
You will see this fully explained both morally and physically. 
I will now draw an outline configuration of the extremest de- 
parture from the square to be found of Genus Homo. You see 
that there is a fall in the angle below 45°, when I draw a line 
from the centre of os-frontis to the top of the os-ocoipitalis. 
This is in consequence of a long-continued neglect of the use of 
the anterior frontal hemispheres; and a cerebellum soul or ani- 
mal mind, so to speak, is the result in the low latitudes at the 
torid zone. This has been the case to a complete dereliction of 
all the moral cerebral functions of the brain, until those func- 
tions have ceased to exist. This has been from the fact of gen- 
eral listlessness and languor, caused by the heat, the spontane- 
ous productions of food which fostered absolute indolence of 
both thought and action; and finally an entire dereliction of the 
superior, sublime, ideal, or sentimental, or soul faculties; and so 
you will find in all the radii of this departure from the perpen- 
dicular as aforesaid; and these have been the causes of the pro- 
jecting jaws and lips of the Cannibal of the Feejee Islands. It 
is the falling off aloft that has exhibited this mark of distinc- 
tion. Nemember it has been the work of long ages—near 150,- 
000 years—but no “ millions ” about it. There have been periods 
of educational interferences and interpositions of the Creator, 
God, by His retaining power of acting upon His “ chosen few ” 
in all ages, by His holy inspiration. Out of every kindred, and 
tongue, and people, and nation who, though as “numerous as 
the sands of the sea, a remnant shall and will be saved ”—I mean 
such as have souls. 
The doctrine of universal salvation seems to not be recognized 
here. I wish it were possible to be so. But the truth is, it 
savors too much of the “ Demon-kratos,” or Demon-ocraey of 
this present day in New York—l mean New Cork—which is 
fast generating that kind of “ infallibility ” that dictated the 
secret murder of men, women and children of those good, exem- 77 
pi ary Huguenots, who have “ kept the faith ” since the Christian 
era, though hunted by infuriated demons in human form, whose 
leader was the “ Vicegerent ” of his Infernal Majesty, claiming, 
as now claimed, infallibility 
The sound of “ Hot re Dame Bell ” gave the infernal signal, 
at two o’clock at night, in Paris in 1571!.. . Let the remem- 
brance of that precious specimen of the now claimed infallibility 
illustrate my description of the present combination properties 
of the blue, green, sanguinary souls before mentioned, and cited 
here as further evidence of the truth, as well as an illustration 
of this part of my subject. 
I am ready, if time permitted, to prove, by historial records, 
that Man, morally, as well as physically, has taken two steps 
backward and one forward, and his promise of moral and intel- 
lectual progression will prove the maxim, that history repeats 
itself. This wras not God’s purpose with Man. 
It is Man’s choice, which he will serve of the two prerogatives 
—the true God, or the priest of Baal, the Devil, and his vice- 
gerents. 
Having thus briefly submitted the foregoing facts, together 
with what seem to be evidenced in cause and effect, to satisfy 
the careful reader of these pages, that God, the great Creator of 
worlds without end, works through means of immutable laws. 
The times, ages and progressive processes through which all 
must invariably pass to the completion of his final purposes, are 
subjects for us to investigate with wonder and gratitude, as we 
find them to have been completed for the probationary life and 
action of the human family, whom he has in his wisdom en- 
dowed with probationary susceptibilities to a greater or lesser 
extent, of His own intelligence. Yea, even of His own 
holy intelligence. Yea, of His own, own Spirit, that we may 
be thus qualified to grow in grace, as we advance in the exercise 
of our intellectual faculties, “ before those that look out of the 
windows be darkened.” 
That we may understand his laws physical and divine ; seize 
upon every surrounding index that points “ from Nature’s 
course to Nature’s God!” Keeping our watchful eyes upon 
that great beacon light that will progressively open through the 
“ septum lucidum” to a brighter and brighter halo of intellectual 
holy intelligence that will light us home to our intended Para- 
dise in the mansions of a higher abode for the redeemed believer 78 
throughout a never-ending eternity, when all the present physi- 
cal elements shall have melted with fervent heat. When that 
event shall take place “ no man knoweth.” 
That an inconceivable amount of latent comhustive ele- 
ments were deposited in the way and manner I have described, 
together with the additional accumulations during the long 
ages of tertiary and continued deposit of latent heat by terres- 
trial electricity since the commencement of the Tertiary period, 
admonish me that the great coming event is comparatively 
near. 
The theory, however, now extant, that “ our earth is an in- 
candescent mass of liquid tire or burning lava, save only of a 
few miles crust,” is not true, as-my creative theories prove. I 
have said that there exist fissures, and ignition in some few 
places, and that they are increasing. 
Oxygen and sulphur and nitre, with iron and other combus- 
tive mineral and metallic combustive elements, saying nothing 
of the carbons, viz.: coal, asphaltum, etc. The hydro-carbons in 
the form of petroleum, olefiant gas, etc., and all the inconceiva- 
ble quantities of latent combustive agents, only waiting the 
match of electricity, in obedience to the sure fiat of Him whose 
immutable laws give to each world its exact age, and when all 
in the great universal magazine shall be ready for the sublime con- 
summation, a sudden signal gun,and then th& final bursting forth of 
a universal volley from the thousands upon thousand"of the long 
pent-up magazines, when God’s artillery shall have responded 
to the commissioned angel’s last warning: “ Hark ! ye mortals, 
hear the trumpet sound aloud the mighty roar! Hark! the 
archangel’s voice proclaiming, Thou, oh time, shall be no more! 
“ His loud trumpet rends the tombs, the dead awake ! See 
the purple banner flying, hear the judgment chariot roll! . . . 
Tears the strong pillars of the vaults of heaven, breaks up old 
marble, the repose of princes. Seethe graves open and the bones 
arising, flames all around them ! Hark! the shrill outcries of 
the guilty wretches ! Lively bright horror and amazing anguish 
stare through their eyelids, whilst the living worm lies gnaw- 
ing within them! 
“ Hear the sound of Christ victorious ! Lo, He breaks through 
yonder cloud—midst ten thousand times ten thousand saints 
and angels calling his ransomed sinners home, quick and joyful 
to the palace of their God !” 79 
Here any further liberty of human description must stop. 
But it is not sacrilegious to anticipate a new progressive spiritual 
advancement into sublimer and holier spheres of existence as 
long as immortality endures. 
It will now have been seen that we are in possession of all 
the elements of Vitality ok Life-power; and that in addition 
to the first created elements conducive to this power, we are 
supplied through the great spontaneous volcanic action, a vast 
supply of chemical productions, wflthout which man could not 
have had or can now continue to have an existence; these are 
chloride of sodium and sulphur. I could write a volume upon 
these substances. So spontaneously disseminated are these sub- 
stances in the attenuated form of etherial vapor that we inhale 
them along with our oxygen and nitrogen. Suffice it for the pres- 
ent to say that with sulphur and chloride of sodium and iodine, 
together with a vegetable extract, compounded with three other 
substances, which use as a nervine cordial anodyne, that haVno 
opiate reaction, together with my other hygienic agents to repro- 
duce wasted tissue; and as I have abundant proof of the results, 
I will name a case to which I was called, viz.: Mrs. .* 
The case was abandoned as hopeless by her several physicians ; 
a living death skeleton of unceasing pain night and day for the 
preceding 15 years. She was 53 years of age. All the skill and 
ability of the ablest in the profession had been exhausted. All 
the gelatinous fluids in the husky remains of the bones had 
been taken out with “ hydriodate of potassa ” and minerals. 
In seven weeks I produced periostei and all new tissue; re- 
produced the healthy secretions; reproduced good gelatinous 
bones ; and Mrs. R walked out into her orchard to live 
to a good old age as healthy as anybody. 
Mistaken diagnoses as well as the popular treatment for 
pulmonary diseases, pronounced phthisis pulmonalis when no 
tubercular consumption exists, and pronounced, heart disease 
when no danger of that vital organ exists, and Bright’s dis- 
ease of kidneys where no such disease exists, have been 
brought to my notice recently, and where these mistakes and 
treatment are by men known to fame in this city. I am prepared 
with the evidences if 1 am summoned to sustain these charges, 
otherwise I shall let them pass by in silence, as this is called 
* It was Chronic Inflammatory Khumatism. 80 
professional etiquette—etiquette in killing our neighbors by a 
pretence to save their lives forsooth ! It is high time this busi- 
ness is stopped. It may be said that I am blowing my own 
trumpet. Yes, and I mean to blow it throughout the entire 
world. 
The theory and practice of medicine changes and 
in all time from one extreme to another, about as often as the 
fashion of dress. I remember when men and women were bled 
because they were supposed to be too robust on the one hand, 
or sick on the other. If a man fell from a scatfold and was 
dying, he was bled to death as the only means of recovery. 
There are, however, cases where life has often been saved by 
taking the vital fluid in the article of death. In 1846, I saw 
Doctor Beaumont administer a fearful dose of belladonna com- 
bined with other powerful narcotics. It was a violent case of 
hysteria. I reminded the doctor of Abernethy’s caution, and 
causes of death by violent spasms induced by such a dose. “ I 
understand my business,” said he reprovingly. In a half an 
hour afterwards two other physicians were hurriedly called in 
during the fifth and apparently last spasm. They pronounced 
the case beyond the reach of recovery; she was dying! “ Bleed 
her instantly,” (said I,) “ the spasm will be broken up in syncopy; 
then by gentle restoratives the vital organs may renew their 
action.” All were against me. I took charge of the case and 
saved another of many lives by my interference. -1 have a cata- 
logue of them, if I am provoked to bring out the record. 
I shall introduce a chapter of Hygienic suggestions into my 
next lecture upon the old theory that an ounce of preventive is 
better than a pound of cure. I must first give a word of pre- 
caution to that class of physicians called “ ISTerve Doctors.” 
I have described the materials and functions of the different 
classes of nerves, ganglia, etc. I have described the elements 
and power of electricity. It is a vast power. We hear its mighty 
echo above the mountain heads, and catch a glimpse of its all- 
searching eye in the lightning’s flash. And while this is burning 
the excess of carbon, sulphur and nitre for our well-being, we 
must beware how we concentrate it to cure hemiplegia. Chil- 
dren should not play with gunpowder before they know all 
about its relationship with and to vitality. I called to see a 
celebrated nerve-doctor in relation to this department of the 
practice. He “had no. time to talk abstract theories,” patients 81 
were waiting their turns, etc. I went there to tell him of my 
interference in one of his recent cases, who had been under his 
treatment for six weeks, and whom I found with amaurosis, loss 
of memory and every indication of a ’’giving way of the great 
nervous centres. I asked the victim of the mistaken practice if he 
had been taking “bromide of potassium” and “ digitalishis 
answer was, that “ the doses of bromide had been doubled and 
then trebled.” I advised him to stop it immediately ; take no 
medicine ; go down to the sea shore, take exercise, bathe, fish, 
etc. He is in the prime of life, very active in mind and body, 
very plethoric, and occasionally shows symtoms of valvular 
regurgitant obstruction in the seat of circulation, the heart. 
In all cases of this class of diseases, whether of “ fatty de- 
generation of the heart,” or, dropsical cases, etc., there are 
many innocent ways and means of throwing off the superfluous 
fatty fluids, without resorting to either bromide of potassium 
or digitalis, or bromide of ammonium. Before you get your 
intended diuretic or diaphoretic results from digitalis, or, by 
bromide of ammonium, it will (like bromide) so much have 
dilated the capillaries, that they refuse to resume their wonted 
action. There are many deaths of softening of the brain by 
the (now general) use of those drugs. 
The best “ Nerve Doctor,” is the one who knows what vital 
power is, and that the necessary quantity of electricity is spon- 
taneously generated, by the ways and means we shall know all 
about; not forgetting that the best of all “Nerve Doctors are 
found in my Hygienic Nomenclature, with special directions, 
etc., etc. 
I will offer here a few 
HYGIENIC SUGGESTIONS. 
Dame Nature is indignant when her blooming daughters mar- 
ry fancy young gentlemen, who don’t know beef. Albeit, she 
has taught her obedient, sensible daughters, all the important 
departments of physical education, that they may now be pre- 
pared for a happy supervision of household affairs. But, alas! 
the betrothed don’t know beef—and with Bridget, and butcher, 
and bother, and “ business down town,” the fountain of health, 
(like the food and the flowers), and the peas and beans have all 
assumed a dryness, despite the artificial formula of ambitious 82 
ambrosia to charm, at a time above all others, when the eye ofb 
dear Albert most needs to have been educated in what is good 
for the stomach. 
_ It needs but little common observation to discriminate be-4 
tween fresh and healthy vegetables, or of fruit, but a man 
has no common-sense-right to get married until he knows 
The meat of diseased animals is one of those “blind cases,” 
'where no prevailing “ lieinderpest ”is known. It maybe com- 
municated in the milk of a diseased cow, or rendered more con- 
tagious by herslunken calf, served up “a la mode de Paris” 
in city “Boarding-houses” ofJSTew York, supplying physicians 
with blind-fever cases, out of the pigmy, puny- 
pill-swollowers, who depend upon their “ consulting physician” 
for life—and the word “ smart ”in a bargain for muscle; their - 
tailor and minister for a substitute for a soul; their bootmaker 
for the quality of corn j and for his (fusel) oil and wine upon the 
imparted label, and upon chance and accident for his judg- 
ment of healthy food, as though it were of “no consequence.” 
Were Ito introduce here the whole catalogue of causes of the 
deterioration of the present race, in addition to the causes I 
have already set forth, I should occupy much more of my 
precious time than I can reduce to three (or a half-a-dozen 
lectures.) < 
I will briefly not only suggest legislative interference for the 
correctives of those universal evils aforesaid, but seriously recom- 
mend a law to prohibit the marriage of any young man until 
-he could pass an examination before a commissioner thoroughly' 
honest, well informed by experimental knowledge, (who could 
not be bribed,) and could be depended upon to teach young men 
every kind and quality of meat. For you do not find one in 
-dive hundred that either know or care to know the ditference so 
-important to life and existence, saying nothing of his common 
happiness. 
Next to the latter is the avoidance of a residence near stag-? 
nant water. There is no evading the consequences of a mias% 
matic atmosphere. 
Suffice it for the present to say briefly, that, as proto-oxide of 
hydrogen was the primary element in the first formation of this 
globe which we inhabit, so also proto-oxide of nitrogen plays an 
important part as a life-power agent in all perfectly organized 
lung-breathing animals. It is upon thebe combined gaseous 83 
elements that we are every moment dependent, not only for the 
time being, but for a long continnance of a healthy existence. 
And it is for this purpose that these combined elements rush 
into the little bellows and begin the work of reciprocal action, 
, and with a defiatory tenacity from the moment we enter this 
! breathing world until compelled to leave the citadel, because of 
.malignant, unconquerable foes. 
Malignant yellow fever is not generated in the Northern* 
States, yet there is no doubt in my mind that yellow fever, 
yea, fever and ague are caused by the inhalation of thousands 
of those unseen parasitic animalculse which fill the 
.during the decomposition of vegetable matter in warm, damp 
localities. They attack and penetrate the tissues, and every/ 
other class of the secretive organs. According to the class of 
parasitic animalcule, so infinitesimally minute as not to be 
seen, excepting by a microscope, of the highest magnifying 
powers. Doctor Samuel K. Percy, of IST. Y. City, a very dis- 
tinguished scholar as well as a successful practitioner, published 
the most elaborate work extant upon this very subject in .1866. 
I have this moment referred to it, counted the number of the 
parasitic animalcules attacking each different function of the 
animal organism. 
Doctor Percy finds thirty-five different kinds of parasitic 
animalculse, attacking each his favorite function. But there afe ‘ 
other enemies at our door. 
The growth and preservation of our hair depend upon the\ 
daily production and reproduction of those fluids which pro- \ 
duce and reproduce the hair and nails. I mean the elastic 
healthy nails in contradistinction from the brittle nails (thtT 
cause of which is easily known). See my lecture upon bones, 
tissues, cartilages, &c The best of fresh nutritious 
animal food once a day, and oatmeal often, made palatable by 
those who know how to cook, that it will, when perfectly incor- 
porated in water, form an even gelatinous mass; also 
puddings, or with such syrups as are gently cathartic. Milk 
with some stomachs causes constipation. With others it may 
be used. There be idiosyncrasies in stomachs, as well as heads.: 
Avoid old or sour oatmeal. | 
The fresh Canada oatmeal can always be found in this cityT? 
It should first beimixed in cold water, then .cooked quickly &id it 84 
will not be lumpy, but assume a smooth gelatinous consistency. 
The “ Wheaten Grits,” so called, should also be fresh, and 
eaten by all invalids who need a greater supply of phosphide 
in their food. 
The Hygienic Treatment (of all- who may think best to apply 
to me) will be varied in accordance with individual idiosyncra- 
sies, as well as the greater or lesser degree of malignity of the 
type or form of disease of each class and character. The diag- 
nosis of which will be first defined by one of my associates. 
The most scientific skill and ability, as well as experience in 
practice, are the qualifications of my said associates. And 
should the case be of a blind, complicated, dangerous, extraordi- 
nary character, the 'patient will be examined by three of my 
ablest associates, who meet in consultation every day. 
They are chosen by myself out of the most experienced in the 
regular medical profession. 
It may be proper to mention the fact here that I obtained 
from the English Government a special diploma for my discov- 
ery in the successful arrest of the further breaking down of the 
Air Yesaels of the Lungs, and reproducing tissue in all parts of 
the system, (as I have described) especially a healing vapor 
for the lungs. The substance (vaporized) is obtained from an 
evergreen in a mucilaginous form, and most abundant in the 
first full moon in the month of June, when it is in transitu to 
form a balsam, or before it passes from a hydrous to a resinous 
state. I had it gathered and dried, and forwarded from parts 
beyond the seas to the house of u Milhau & Sons ” in this city. 
My mode of reproducing ligaments as well as tissues is fully 
explained elsewhere. In addition to what I have said upon 
this subject, I will mention here that albuminated silicates are also 
taken into the stomach when we eat “ green corn,” before the 
silicated epidermis of the kernel shall have carbonized into a 
thin flinty scale, in which condition it is too irritating to the 
human stomach and bowels. But an ounce of preventive is 
better than a pound of cure. 
Dame .Nature is very indignant when her rosy cheeked daugh- 
ters are charmed away by the capricious antics of human gascon- 
ade, “ that play such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make 
angels weep.” She avoids the very appearance of the thousand 
billet-doux invitations neatly put up and labelled in equally 
mysterious compounds of Latin and Greth, to produce at pleas- 85 
ure a flowing head of hair of any desired fashionable tint. She 
tells her daughters to avoid the company and conversation of 
the devotees of modern flash and flare up, with all her artificials, 
cosmetics, tight-lacing, tight shoes, and late hours; and every 
thing else of human departure from her old homestead, simple 
code and laws of early to bed and early to rise, and healthy 
exercise of body and mind, cool brain, dry feet, good food of the 
rio-ht kind, plenty of pure air and sunlight, cold water and fric- 
tion with a towel, avoiding a draft, and above all, hot air fur- 
naces, especially when recklessly managed. For while oxygen 
is a principal element of life-power, carbonic-oxide is a death- 
power. And as we have also shown that electricity is a result- 
ing element in generating life-power, electricity administered by 
the unscientific doctor may become a death-power. For I trust 
we begin to understand how sunlight, and carbon, and sulphur, 
and nitre, and oxygen, and water, and storm, and calm, and 
alternate tornado which rears up the water-spout in old Atlantic 
u to a foaming fury, and the red lightning, with a storm of hail, 
comes rushing amain down.” And we have also learned how 
our globe became a great magnet, acting as a positive towards 
its terrestrial centre, produced the law of attraction, of gravita- 
tion, in continual action with atmospheric electricity, originating 
the directions of shoots and roots, and alternating geometrical 
windings and entwinations of genus and species; all of which, 
with causes of alternate developments, we, I trust, begin to 
understand. And also how men and women become galvanic 
batteries; of changing from the alternate positive to the nega- 
tive, etc. “Ah ! it is the so forth,” that has taken the time to 
explain these subjects. 
But now that we understand all these laws, we feel ourselves 
ready at all times to assist Dame Mature in carrying them out. 
And we find ourselves ready at all times to interfere, as usual, 
in saving a life where there is the possible chance left. 
There will be no guess-work in any diagnosis. 
My associates are selected from among the most experienced, 
as well as most scientific in the medical profession. 
lamto be found at No.*T^4VcoHM-t,li SU'CeiyiVoiii 0-tfcluck, 
A-.--M. -tn 5- P. Mr- Benj. Hajedixge, 
Synthetical Chemist, and 
Hygienic Physician, 
New York City.