Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1885 — What Man Is Made Of. [ARTICLE]

What Man Is Made Of.

Chemistry has demonstrated that man, this very highest specimen of the animal kingdom, is really formed of condensed air, or solidified and liquefied gases; that he lives on condensed air as well as uncondensed air, and, by means of the same agent, moves the heaviest weights with the velocity of the wind. The strangest part of the matter is, however, that thousands of these beings formed of condensed air, and goiDg on two legs, occasionally, and on account of the production and supply of condensed air which they require for food and clothing, or on account of their honor and power, destroy each other by means of pitched battles in condensed air, and, further, that many peculiar powers of the bodiless, conversing, thinking, and sensitive being, housed in this tabernacle of condensed air and moisture, are the resimply, of its internal structure and the arrangement of its particles or at ms; while the science of chemistry supplies the clearest proof that, so far as concerns this, the ultimate and most minute composition, as well as structure, which is beyond the reach of our senses and power of science to determine, man is to all appearance identical with the ox, sheep, bird, or fish.