62 On the Zodiacal Light. 
** Man himself might spring from ocean, 
e down the skies the bellowing herds might bound, 
Or from promiscuous earth the finny race and feathery tribes ascend.”* 
If these inferences are correct, it follows, that in all the 
complicated series of existence, and in all the changes which 
chemical and other agents produce upon matter, the hidden 
principle of life has never been revealed. - 
Even galvanism, which has almost imposed upon the cre- 
leave the body an example of the inettieney of 
matter to revivify itself, or to furnish any clue to the mystery 
of its animation. 
ife 
is equally hidden from human sight. 
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Art. VII.—On the Zodiacal Light. 
ane in (Communicated by David Leslie, New-York, March, 1828.) 
went hg 
_ Tae Zodiacal light, generally ascribed to the sun’s atmos- 
_is nothing more than those beams of light, seen a 
ae from the sun through the interstices of dense 
phere, 
times to. 
2 
ROG 4 * Lucretius. 
* The author appears not ea adverted to the fact that innumerable an- 
y s¢roscope in and upon almost eve ing, 
animation of inert matter may arise fen a 
~ eee ce, Whee agie sic ia 
shough singular processes of life,—Ead. ongin is doubtless by the regular al- 
