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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe East Huron Gazette, 1893-02-09, Page 5X93 ts this lino. RIES. s we F000 AND TOLSTOI THINKS__.i=LESH EATING LEADS TQ flti MORALITY. 'petitions; and mere parts l ''oral Perfection Can` Only be Attained the 1. different . whalers gerluoh's bot ensu©ss year' traverse -much`: of the northern IfiAVERSt. Lelia 'Fnca s#to tTe days of +ran The experience that down .- from ttta ° various e-6 tit:64# o dret,`c ez Upon a Vegetarian Diet -Abstemiousness icy -yeas, has infused an, ele• ment of cer- as the First Virtue in the Pursuit of Mor- tainty into Arctic navigation -which could hardly have been realized by 'the, heroes of a period twenty-five or thirty iter, Tol- years ago. The capture by the MelVl`ile eview of bay pack of McClintock's Fox in the lata ter part of August, "1857, could-- scarcely be paralleled to -day, according to Scrib-, n er's, except as the outcome of ignorance or disregard of every day knowledge. In an average season Melville bay can be traversed about as readily as almost_any large body of water lying southward, while its earliest seasonal passage can be predicted with aprecision almost akin to mathematical calculation. The bard pack -ice which has- accumulated as the result of the winter's frost, and has to an extent been held together through the large bergs which are here and there scattered through it, usually shows the Rist signs of weakness between July 15 and 20. al Perfection. The distinguished Rnesian stoi, thus speaks in the New animal diet in its relation to conduct and character. "I only desire to establish the proposi- tions that, in order to lead a moral life, it is necessary to observe, a certain sequence in good actions; that if a man is serious in his aspiration to lead a good life the practical manifestations of that desire will necessarily unfold themselves in a certain order, and that in this order the abstemiousness (self-mastery) is the first virtue . which he will have to culti vats. In the pursuit of the virtue of ab- stemiousness he must again observe a certain definite order, and the first step therein will be abstemiousnessin food - fasting. "In the practice of fasting the first thing from which he must abstain, if he really and truly aims at leading a good moral life, is animal food, and this for the intelligible reason that, not to speak of the passions it engenders and fosters, the consumption of animal food is plainly immoral, because it demands an act which does violence to our moral senti- ments—viz., murder—and is encouraged and kept up only by men's greed of gold and their appetite for savory food. The reason why the first step in fasting and. in right living is abstinence from animal food has been admirably formulated, not by one man only, but by all mankind in the persons of its most accredited repre- sentatives during the course of human history. "But why, one may ask, if the illegal- ity—i.e., immorality -of consuming ani- mal food has been recognized _by man- kind for such a long period, have people nevertheless persisted down to the pree- ant in ignoring this law? This Question naturally suggests itself to those who are prone to be guided less by the light of their own reason than by public opinion. The answer to the question, however, is that all moral progress (and moral progress is the essence of all pro- gress whatever) is a work of time, is ac- complished slowly, but that the sign of genuine progress, as distinguished from casual advance, is its uninterrupted con- tinuousness and its ever-increasing rapid- ity. ..The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon earth, not because vege- tarianism itself is such an important step toward the realization of this king- dom (all real steps are equally important or unimportant), but because it serves as a criterion" by which "we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of man is genuine and sincere,. in- asmuch as it has taken that form which it must necessarily assume, and has truly begun at the very beginning. `It is impossible not to rejoice at this, just as it would be impossible for people not to feel glad who, after having vainly endeavored to reach the top of the house by attempting to climb up the walls from various sides, at last meet at the bottom step of the staircase, and, crowd- ing together there, feel that there is no way of reaching the top except by as- cending that staircase and_ beginning with this first and lowest step." Words Misspelled Mentally. "I suppose," said a man who was look- ing in the dictionary, "that many of us arrive at mature years with a wrong impression of certain words. There is for instance. a word which I wish I could recall, but I -can't, which was in some way originallyimpressed upon my mind, with an added letter ; it is a word that is comparatively in common use. I grew up carrying that additional letter in the word and never thinking but that I had it right. I have no doubt that I had seen this word in print time and again in its correct form, but the absence there of the letter which Lhad in the word in my mind had never struck me. One day, however, it did strike me very plainly, and the word then looked so different from the one to whieh I was mentally accustomed, that at first I thought that it was misspelled, as I saw it in print, but I very quickly dis- covered that it was spelled . there correctly. I remember now that for some little time hereafter it halted me whenever I encountered it, but it soon ceased to appear strange, and the proof that it was right, as I now saw it, was so overwhelming that it made me smile. I had no difficulty in erasing from my mind the old spelling and substituting the correct form "An acquaintance tells me that for years the impression upon his mind of the word repugnant was repungant. He didn't discover that the word was repug- nant until he had occasion to write it, and then he could at first scarcely 'be- lieve that he had had it wrong forse long , time. The simple explanation of most difficult of modern critical prob- his Mistake was that he had transposed lems, viz., the date and authorship of the letters in a harried reading. the. Gospel of John. The Apocryphal "Another acquaintance tone me that Gospel of Peter, was discovered about for some time in his youth he carried• five dears ago in a Christian cemetery of the word dislocate in his ' mini as tis- Ekin im, Upper Egypt, but the trans- colate. He says that always it almost legion has only :recently been published. Laree cakes or pans of ice have by that time succumbed to the powerful oceanic currents that are directed against them, and detaching themselves from the parent mass float off to find new havens of their own. The weakening process continues until most of the ice has been either removed or melted away, and before the close of the fourth, week of July little beyond shore ice(ahorepan) remains to indicate - the barrier- ;<which but a few days before rendered,. a pass- age all but impracticable. The trend of the ice is northwestward through the bay, then westward to the American side, and finally south to the open sea. It was the purpose of the relief expedi- tion to reach the southern boundary of the Melville bay pack on or about the 20th of the month and there ° watch the movements of the ice until the - oppor- tunity for action arrived. An earlier traverse might possibly have been made through persistent "butting" of the ice, but the dangers incident to this form of navigation were such as to render slowness a prudent measure of safety, A past French Electrical Scheme. It has long been prophesied . thatthe electric motor is destinedto revolution- ize the factory system, and the recent accounts of the past electrical scheme of the shrewd men of Lyons would indicate that a distinct phase in such a change is about to be entered upon. The rapid current of the river Rhone is to be util- ized for the generation of electricity, which will be distributed in the city _ of Lyons and its suburbs. The waters of the.riverwill be tapped about seventeen miles above the city, where twenty tur- bines, representing 1,000 horse power each, will be established. These tur- bines, operated by the water precipitated upon them from a convenient height, will work the dynamos, and the elect -lie current will be conveyed by six cables to distributing stations situated at various centers in the city. The special olct this undertaking is to benefit the sTnaller industrial enterprises, and with that view the supply of power to any single sub- scriber will be limited to fifty horse. Of these smaller industrial enter- prises, that .,of the: silk weaver is by far the most important. . The other uses to which the project contemplates the application of electrical power are too numerous to be indicated separately; but they include the mixing of bread, the working of saws and other tools of sewing machines, printing machines, lathes and ventilators, the working of fans, elevators and coffee mills, hair cut- ting, bootblacking, the purification of sewage and the charging of baths for the cure of nervous and other affections. Electricity will also be largely used for traction and lightning, and a system of irrigation is already being planned. In fact every industry in the city will be carried on by electricity. The flow of water to the turbines is to be regulated by means of a system of sluices, locks, and compensating reservoirs, and when the stream has done the work required of it it will return to the Rhone by a special canal. The canal, while borrow- ing rgely from the Rhone, will not in the 'least injure the navigation of the river. Very much to the -contrary. From the point where the canal leaves the river, and onward to Lyons, the us- ually too fierce current will be : greatly slackened - in force, enablingvessels to pass up and down farmore comfortably than at present. and keeping the navi- gation open -during ..the greater portion° of the -year. The -whole of the necessary' capital hap already been privately sub- scribed, chiefly by merchants, manufac- turers and capitalistscof the 'city of Ly- ons.—Chicago Times. - The Apoeryphai'Gospel of St. Peter. The recent discovery.of the Apocryphal Gospel of . St. Peter is \attracting very wide attention among scholars, and not unnaturally, for if the present theories concerning it aretrue it will . have a direct bearing on.at least one of the seemed to him as though there was something the matter with discolate, and yet he thought it must be all right. It seems funny that he didn't look in the dictionary. That is what he._ dict as last and when he discovered his - mis- take he set the word.'hi -his Mind, and in Paris. It is a fragment, an oo: a narrative of 'the crucifixion -and the resurrection. In substance it. - e groes with the gospels in"their descriptions of these events; One noticeable difference is the use of the exclamation, `.`My power, he tells me that it hasn't been out of my power, why hast tholtforsakent instead ofhas "My God; my God, why hast joint since."—New York Sun. Thou forsaken me?" •This phra8e is held The Tireless Stormy Petrel. clearly to indicate 'that ` the frag- During a recent trip across the Atlan- merit is of Docetic ' origin. The concln- tic the passengers on one steamer had a sion concerning the newly discovered vivid illustration of the endurance of document is thus stated in the Guar - the Stormy PetreL gortiy after the than" by Arthur C. Headlam' "The ship left the Irish coast . two orthree of newly published Apocryphal' fragment.. these birds were sighted at the stern of contains a portion of the last Gospel -Of the ship. One had been caught at some Peter; it was written: probably in Anti - previous time and its captor tied a bit of och early inthb`seCond century,;andlvas red flannel or ribbon around its neck used by Justin Martyr; and it is a Gnos- and let it go. The bit of red made the tic cohpilatton?which' makes use of all bird very conspicuous. and it could be four canonical' Gospels." ` This is` the easily identified. That bird with others prese it-belief.of thecrltlds; and is beaded. that could not be so easily distinguished, - on the best of reasons: Two exceedingly followed the ship clear across the ocean. interesting griestions are in part answer -- Rarely, during the daytime at least, was -ed by<this document: (1) If the Gospel it out of sight and if for an hour or two of John existed;prior to this document, it was lost to view while feeding on the as it plainly did, and if this belongs to refuse cast overboard, it soon reap- ; the first quarter of the second century, peared, and the last seen of it was with- then the reasons' for believing that John in a few miles of Sandy Hook, when it -wrote the Gospel which `bears his nine disappeared, perhaps to follow " sone' are greatly strengthened; and_ (2) here is outward bound steamer back to Irelandel another aistiiibranswer to the oft -re - When the fact is considered that they peace d infinity whether any other writ'' ship day and night went at an average irigs of those early times contain an RC - speed of 20 miles an hour, the feat per-' count of the life and death of Jesus formed by the daring ocean traveler Can] .Christ, for ; this fragment in its . state= be better appreciated. 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