MAN FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE
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We have seen the interesting Lecture de-
lvered by DIR. Goldman, Professor of Anato-
my and Physiology in the Rutgers Medical
College. 1t is characterized by good deal
OF ability, guided by refined taste, and does
honor to the author, both as writer and a
gentleman zealously attached to his prctes-
SION The lecture opens with beautiful
and ingenious view and comparison OF the
different stages of human life, from the era
die to the grave, considered principally in
relation to their physiological character.


MAN, who eventually becomes Lord of
Creation by his superiority of intellectual
endowment, enters upon the field OF future
greatness the most feeble and helpless of liv-
ing beings.-He is too delicate to sustain
the changes of the air he is to breatbe:-his
hands, those admirable instruments, are
useless and unmanageable. The capacious
mead, the future throne OF intellect, is too
heavy to be supported by his own strength;
ana MS expressive eyes are incapable OF be-
ing advantageously directed towards any
OBJECT. Without the loving and unwearied
assidulty of his tender mother, death would
speedily silence his feeble walings; for the
mower OF the fields, which blooms but fol-
Az nour, and then withers away, is not more
uencate nor susceptible of destruction, thar
- Nhe LIE OF the human infant. But, clasped
W maternal arms to that fountain of susie
aahse, which may so justly be termed sa
srea' from its constituting the first and mos
s ssnuearing link in parental and social feeling
is i"an drinks in llie and warmth; his eyes soor
;ust sIn 10 distinguish objects, his strength i.
tn,.e:ased, his senses begin to demand his at
wh;I, shh;;loh, and that education commences
moua malea IS to fit him for assuming his rank a


nk .sEl rational and intelligent beings.


a,sr. "ess successive changes very gradual,
s,s;... lie requires parental attention ant
IN ih.ahce n. long after he has ceased to nestle
aa se ss,o bosom Of his mother, At,this periot


3afis are all susceptiAse and vigorous