The Maddening Mechanism Of Thought

Uur braioa are sevetity year docks The Angel of Life wiuds ihem up once for all, tíien cluses the case, and ivcs the key iuto the band of tha Angel cf the llesurrection. Tio tac! lie tac ! go the wheels of thought ; Oi:r will canco stopt hem; they cauuotstop themselves slet-p caniiot s.ül tlxm; maduoss ouly makes them go faster ; dtath alone can break into the case, and seizing the ever swinging peudulum, which we cali the heart, ttfleüOè al last the ticking of the terrible escapement we have carried so long beoeath our wrinkkd ioreheads. If se could only get at them, es we lic on our pillow and count the dead beats of Ihought after thought and irrjage af ter image jarrincr through the over tired organ ! Will noboJy block those whcels, uneouple that pinion, cut the striüg that holds these weights, blow up tho infernal machine with gunpowdcr ! } hat a passion comes over us some times for a silence and rest - that this dreadful mechanism, unwinding the endless tapesiry of time, embroidcred witb spectral figures of life and dcaih, could have but one brief holiday. Wbo can wonder that men swing thcmselves off frorn beains in hempen hsaos? that thoyfump ofl' from parapeïs into the swift atfd gurgling waters beneath? - that thc-y lake couDsel of the grim fisnd who has but to utter his ono peremptory monosyllable, and the restless machine is shivered as a caso that is dashed upou á marblefloor ? Under that building which wo pass every day there are Btrocg. dungeous, wlicro neither hoofc, nor bar, nor bodeord nor driuking veísel from which a sharp fragment may be shattered, sball by any chance be seen. ïhere s nothiag for it wheu the brain is ou fire with the whiiling of ita wheela, but to .spring against the stono vall and silenes them with oue crash. Ah, thcy remember that - the kind city fathers - aod the walls are uicely paddcd, so that one can takt euoh exeroise as he likes without damaging himself. If anj'body would rcally contrive Bomo kind of a lever that one could tbr tv t in among the works of this horrid automatou and check them, or alter their rate of going, what would the world give for tho discovery '! JIcn tre very api to try to get at the machine hy 6O1U0 indirect sjgtsem or olhcr. They clap on the brakes by meana of opium", they ehange tho maddening motion of the rhythm by moaus of feruiented liq uors It is beciiuso the braia#is locked up and we eannot touch its movc-meots directly, that we thrust tho.-e coars iools in tbrough any crevice by whicb they may reaoh tio interior, alter its rato of going for u wblle. nud it laat spoil tüo machine-