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THE
HOLLOW GLOBE;
OR
A TREATISE
ON THE PHYSICAL CONFORMATION OP THE EARTH.
Presented through the Organism of
M. L.
SHERMAN,
M.
D.,
CHICAGO^
RELIGIO-PHILOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING HOUSE.
S. S.
JONES, PROPRIETOR.
1871.
-3ft* 1
.<=>
^
,
Entered according
to
Act of Congress,
In the F.
Year 1871,
By
Iff.
L.
SHERMAN,
and
WM.
LYON,
CONTENTS.
Introduction.
9
of History.
-
Chapter
i.
Scraps
19 33
its
own development.
its
An
event prophetic of
successor.
-27
Condition of Europe when America was discovered. 31 Mexican War, and Discovery of Gold in California. 37 The Rebellion, and Death of the monster Slavery. 42
The The
tide of Emigration.
necessity of
more Territory.
47 50
52
Warm
Temperate Clime
its
58 62 65
by
scientific
-
men.
-
Wonders.
The Maelstrom, and Corals in the Northern Seas. 69 Causes productive of the Open Polar Sea, Local. 75
77
81 Review of arguments offered in its support. Increase of Temperature in Artesian Wells does 84 not continue.
87
91 94
IV
CONTENTS.
Impossibility of holding the enormous quantity of
Positive Active Material within the Crust of
the Globe.
99
101
con-
scientific
-
men
Mass
of Molten Lava.
-
...
-
104
Ill
114
-
Explosives.
127
The production of
Fuel necessary
to
Coal.
130
137
Chapter
v.
Earthquakes.
-
138
141
Earthquakes.
144
147 153
differ-
Chapter
vi.
Material
Forces existing
in the Spiritual.
177
Aura
Empyria.
vii.
188
191
199
207
Positive Forces
may
Chapter
Gravitation.
No
CONTENTS.
Fire and Gravity overloaded.
-
280 234
236
Chapter viii. The Sun and its Influences* The Popular Theories of Light considered.
Neither of the Theories would supply the extern
Planets with Light and Warmth.
i
238
249
258 260
265
Chapter
Inherent
all their
-
con-
stituent elements
267
-
272 279
282 286 288 302
all
the
Powers of those
in the
most advanced
state.
The Development of Worlds. Method of Lighting the Interior World. The La Place or Nebulous Theory unnatural.
Chapter x. Who are the World Builders? 307 309 Vague Ideas concerning the Infinite Being.
Man composed
Infinite
of Elements in Minerals.
in the
-
Construction of Worlds.
Worlds Built by the Spirit Inhabitants of the 342 Planets to which they are attached. Impropriety of placing all the labor upon the 347 shoulders of one Personal Being-
vi
contents,
xi.
Chapter
The
Moon.
its
354 355
All
....
-
359
built as Satellites.
Method
Chaptr
xii.
The
Moon.
Construction of our
Moon connected
More Moons
necessary.
Tidal Phenomena.
Chapter
xiii.
Vision.
... ...
-
with the
399
403
408
scopic Vision.
Men
living in a
World
of Deception.
PREFACE.
This book is addressed to the reasoning intelligence to all inquiring and reflective minds, of Humanity, everywhere upon the earth.
We
ment concerning the ideas advanced, until he has carefully perused its pages when he may be better prepared to form his opinions, and offer his criticisms.
;
We
work are
more
authoritative manner.
original, natural
contains
and
startling ideas,
which are of
size, that
its
made
its
appearance
in
modern
times.
We
of the
therefore
commend
it
modern
may open
mind new
fields
of research,
thus tending to
We
its
perusal
may
save
multitudes from
many
superstitious beliefs
and shadowy
Vlll
PREFACE.
minds.
We
much towards
they have
so
long
;ntroductign.
The
work and
is
is
beautiful world in a
is
may
may
sail or
crooked channel.
And we
globe
er
it
is
and inner world, or two worlds instead of one, and might be proper to present a brief sketch of the
its
10
this
INTRODUCTION.
at his
business, attending to
tleman made
him
to
be seated,
attention.
and
in a
few moments
to scan
my
He
seemed
been searching
me very closely, and finally among You are the man that I have after; the very man I was to find, and
amount of business that we must trans-
we have
a large
am
myself.
will
it
is
to
be
so, I trust
it
effect,
but
his
my
announcement did not make a vivid impression upon mind, as in my experience I had heard things of a
nature previously.
similar
only
by
my
seven
months
our
first
introduction
to
be a
hour
to be widely
known
probably not
of his
life,
and
phenomena, would of themselves fill a volume, and arc by no means admissible in tin's exceedingly brief sketch
of an eventful career, but
we note
as
prominent among
to the
them, that
lie
was
for a
spoke
in a
:;.
and
satisfaction
INTRODUCTION.
to
11
his teachings.
But
in
in process of
nounced
time,
in public, ideas
so
much
advance of his
so firm, and somewhat harsh and severe in his language, that, as he says, his speech was confounded, or he was unable to give utterance to his thoughts in public, and of course
But there seemed to be another like Paul and Swedenborg and many other seers, he was called upon to make his personal survey of some portion of the spirit realms,
he ceased lecturing.
field
and
the most vivid experiences that he was capable of appreciating in the spiritual spheres.
drink except a
little
days each, making over forty days in days of this time he was to
all
and
for four
so that a prominent physician of the town pronounced him dead to all intents, with the remark that they might use his head for a foot-ball if he ever breathed again
it
who was
man
of
some
influence, to
him to a premature grave, thus adding another to the numerous human sacrifices that have been made in this manner by people ignorant of some of nature's laws.
Yet, notwithstanding
all
and
assertions,
he
12
INTRODUCTION.
any kind,
his spirit
came back
from
its
earthly tabernacle,
and he lived
condi-
and published
"My
Experiences
in Spiritual
Phelive
nomena." and
for
to all
many
years to come.
its
was
minds
or-
trammels of old
is
book will be re-published, and properly appreby those who are attaining to a clearer perception of spiritual truths and philosophy, than was enjoyed twenty years since by the most enlightened perciated
sons.
Up
to the 1st of
made use
of
duced himself.
when he first entered my office, and introAbout that time, however, we discovinto his presence,
when
came
is
man who
voyantly
many
among which was one of by him, sealed with five seals, three in a book, seen front and one at each end. It appeared to be a largo,
finely
it
in-
structions that
was
to
At
INTRODUCTION.
beautiful
13
and writing materials generally me and among many other things it was finally told us, that through the Doctor's mediumship we were to obtain the general ideas,
inkstands,
and that I, in my room, by the aid of my own impressional powers was to mold and fashion and weave them
into a book,
to
be entitled the
and
its
contents.
were of such a character that we were very slow to receive them, and, in fact, it was a very tedious process
upon
their part to
their ideas.
and apparently dark and mystified manner, but they urged me to commence writing, for it was no matter
where and how
the book for
I
find a place in
my
may
be,
book by the
affair
first
of November.
all,
The whole
and I doubt not these pages may appear somewhat novel to the reader, and if he will go through them with some little attention, he may arise from their perusal
quite well convinced, at least, that old things are passing
many
I have
times
when
and
felt
very
much
book, and would get up and leave the room, almost involuntarily.
At
14
quite generally
INTRODUCTION.
ing
how
it
was
to terminate.
that was
first
written
the remainder
is
just about as
it
was presented.
The
by no means arranged as they were written, as some were partly finished, and laid aside, as there were times when I could write upon one subject and not upon another.
They informed us
an indirect manner, or
to transfer the ideas to
at the
commencement
that
the
my
me
in
my own
history.
web which
They remarked,
make
the
these revealments,
and they,
they termed
Key
or
Keys
this
in
book, and
they had
for the
do not claim
much
of the time
it
all the mental energies that I possessed, and although the prominent ideas wore given to us, yet
manner
that
it
is
this
form
INTRODUCTION.
15
We
ings,
had
allusion to
we
dwell,
and
its
va-
The
first seal is
is
terior as well as
it
by an extensive
spirally
and that
this
aperture
may
be
seal, is
supposed to reveal
in
a mechanical structure,
which
is
and that
who are
correct principles,
ditions below them, in order to have attained the needed acquirements, or the wisdom and power that would
16
INTRODUCTION.
and further, that worlds are not created from nothing, by a self constituted infinite being who has never
passed through
all this entire
and power
sufficient to
fiat,
produce
all
by
his
own
as the
human mind
entirely incapa-
The fourth seal w ould seem to disclose to our view, a number of facts concerning the inherent powers contained in our globe, by which it performs its axial and orbital movements, and manufactures its interior light and warmth, and is destined to unfold to that higher and more independent and matured condition, that will
T
ultimately enable
it
to
take
its
And
will
human
vision,
and
that subject.
When
commence
pages that
its
would
conflict in
settled scientific
opinions,
and I supposed
but we
to
most
which
was
all 1
to write, science
was
and that
of
their
opinions upon
matters
be
brought
ually.
to Light, so
That
if
INTRODUCTION.
truth concerning
all
17
it
these matters,
would be quite
what was already written, and and instead of being particularly enlightened by scientific theories already established, I have
by a vain
repetition of
well understood;
many
men
of the pres-
in
examination; and we have every reason to believe viewing the matter from our standpoint, that these pages will
prove of no
little
It will not be
very surprising,
if in
treating upon
subjects of such vast magnitude as those introduced into this work, that
works de-
pathway
we could
18
INTRODUCTION.
presents upon its face but few characcame within the reach of my interior visIn ion, when I consented to commence its authorship. fact, I had but little idea concerning the matter, and it
itself
The book
teristics that
my
view during
its
progress, part-
by the teachings given through the Doctor, and partly by the vivid impressions that seemed to be made upon my own organism, and I cannot exactly determine how far the work had progressed, when I became fully
convinced that the views promulgated were substantial facts,
and
principles
existing
realms, but I at
my own
rea-
my
will pass
many
work, will be seized upon in the future by other minds and elaborated, so as to become of great utility to the human race, and I must be permitted to entertain the
thought that the elucidation contained therein, concerning the great positive and negative forces existing in nature, will ultimate in their
final introduction,
and gen-
eral application to
mechanical purposes.
Wm.
Sacramento, Nov.
1,
F. Lyon.
1870.
RECONCILER.
CHAPTER
I.
exact order,
and
and
known
rec-
ord of
human transactions,
tifully progressive,
its
proportions.
human
and
in the accumulations of
human
in
experience, events
we
see
it
human
and semi-barb-
more
advanced and
And
thus
we
human
20
race
is
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
in perfect
human
ad-
The people who lived even a hundred years since, could not by any possibility, have enacted the most commonplace events that are occurring every
vancement.
where
in
civilized society,
at
cause they had not the means, and the appliances that
to-
coast, scarcely
walk a block
gentlemen, who
homes
being boarded
and
bedded and dined and wined, in flying palaces that are fitted up and most elaborately adorned, with a luxurious
magnificence unknown to our wealthiest ancestors in
their private residences, a century since;
while only a
in the
approach of an ox
And
thus
we
find
phenomena, unknown to the college professor of a handFormerly, history lagged and raveled red Years ago. Bluggishly in lumbering vehicles, upon the common
i
highway, or
it<
it
t<>
fill
the sails of
diminutive,
shapen crafte,before
it
could
move on-
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
21
all
ward
still
in its journey.
Now
it
making
washing
accom-
moves on
in the
plishment of
its
measured tread of the ocean steamer. Formerly, history seemed to be working out
of
all its
it
and performed
comparatively
little,
but now
it
the most wonderfully complicated machinery, set in motion by powers unknown as such to our ancestors, and by the aid of steam and electricity, it may now rattle off a volume in the same time that in ages past, by their
simple appliances,
it
As we have
must have had a perfect correspondence with the condition of the age to which it belonged, and must comport
exactly with the experience and advancement of the
human knowledge;
use of gunpowder, must have been a very different affair, in all its details, to
time,
and
all
the nu-
If old
Homer
22
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
some of our modern implements of warfare, they might have planted their mortars and Parrot guns, and bombarded, and battered down the walls of ancient Troy in
a single week, taken the fair Helen, and returned to
and wasting
counters,
so much time in hand to hand enand the whole history could have been given
arrived.
next morning after the steamer But then a great amount of fine poetry, would have subsided into a small matter of fact, so we
to the
age
that gave
it
birth,
by a perus-
ian
And we
ages
is
gradually changed
forms,
among
have advanced
present day,
till
at the
religious organi-
those which
we
are compelled
we must ad-
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
that were found in the Egyptian, which
23
prompted him
same
modes of worship, and are supposed upon their advanced spiritual set days, to listen to the most highly cultivated class of divines, who thoughts of that
different
officiate
as priests,
in
And
earnest,
and worshipful,
as
is
the
more
is
cultivated
and
refined citizen of
New
England, who
his
a constant and
and though
served him
in his
and doubtless
the powers to
whom
it
was
The same
disparity
must obtain
different ages of
men,
in reference to their
One
discov-
ceded another, in
that
regular order, as
it
was necessary
men
So we perceive that
it
for
24
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
all
occurrence, upon the one that preceded, and thus on down through all its recorded pages, each occurring in its own appointed time, in accordance with fixed, un-
changeable laws.
foreseen
We
in a
all
has been
was
and
er
est
is,
pow-
directs
all,
all
This
may
or general Providence, or
er
it
what you
will,
but we considT
and wisdom
hend
tion,
all
undertaking, from
its
its
r
ultimate completo
and that
w as designed
work
of
human
history,
into ac-
count, and that these events have been, and are transpiring in accordance with the direction of the powers
and
destinies of humanity.
certain condi-
endowed with certain faculties, and peculiar organized mentalities, and this fact has been followed by the
events of history.
into life,
and
up<ii
upon the
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
the conditions
25
bear
upon thern
it
and under these peculiar circumstances, can be supposed that individuals have exerted a great
;
amount of uncontrolled power, in producing the history It must be conceded, that we as indiof the world? viduals can do little else, than to watch the progress of
humanity passes on from its lower to its highadvanced conditions impelled forward by and more er by which we are surrounded, and varied influences the
events, as
,
Men may
tion in
conceive that
our eye
ele-
are found in our own, yet with what very different re-
Our
these multitudinous
changes
their
hence
and
and yearnings,
of a different
joys
sorrows, were
all
all
character.
People doubtless in
somewhat beyond
their possible
attainments,
so
that
own
26
of their successors
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
:
of progressive
men
by
a later generation,
and thus
it
upon
attainable, or
its
it
may
be prophetic, and
instance,
precursor of
realization.
For
when
cry for freedom, and were joined by the fervent petitions of all liberty loving souls, everywhere,
it
was pro-
infinite
them
in
bondage
to pity
would have
his
attention called to
moved
in
and extend
their
his
procuring
had
arrived.
in
dered
their
waa
premonition,
and
silently
yed the information, that their release from bondage must follow as a natural
result, not
because of their
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
that event
27
all
just fulfillment;
in the
If
we turn our
advancing pro-
own
country,
we
an advancing
civilization,
demands of the
age,
and we
to bear,
and stood
ship,
molding and
up of a great and
earth.
remembered that when Catholic supremacy and intolerance, over-ran all Western Europe, that an obscure young sailor was deeply impressed with an idea
that finally resulted in the discovery of what they termed
new
world,
because. they
supposed then as
all
now,
that
their
of
the world,
that
could
possibly
exist.
The
idea to
them
there was any more, beyond the bounds of their research, was quite as ridiculous, as
it is
to-day, to sup-
28
pose that there
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
is
till
the set
who
had within
his
mystery, and
fact that a
as
an inheritance forever.
to the people,
As Columbus
an-
nounced
importance
to
by
a national expedition, so
we announce
to
to-day, to the
people
of the self-same
may
be found
to the
in his
some
confi-
dence,
if
with patience,
we
will
may
ease,
We
.shall
icule than
comparatively
its
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
not succumb to ridicule, nor yield to the
difficulties
29
and
we may be encouraged
to follow his
exam-
research,
it is
no greater stretch of the imagination to supbe an interior surface to the shell that
pose there
is
may
was
a vast continent to be found away in the unexplored regions of the western waters, for
it
ultima
and that there was nothing of great importance be found beyond. But not so thought Columbus, and he most obstinate-
own
cir-
and then
to the public;
and
to different
what appeared
to him, doubt-
tain the
tion, that
And
let
of
darkness that
clouded the whole subject, as viewed from his own standpoint, the brilliant hopes that led
it
might be
a misconception,
warm
inter-
What
vivid, strange
and complicated
man
30
nies
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
from
city to city,
to court, present-
haps
to those
theory ?
It
is
own
had
in
view;
and
it is
first
germs of up
to the
his mentality,
hour of the discovery of San Salvador, he could not have said he possessed
entire, absolute,
unwavering conthat
it is,
men who
expanded
sometimes
darkness;
by almost superhuman energies, they are enabled to materialize, and demonstrate their highest thought,
thus the great discoverer, though he could not absolute-
were
were
many
years
in
his life.
into
all
pathway,
con-
and
impeded
progress.
The unwavering
experienced, doubtless were the prophecy that a great event was about to transpire, that would be
of
trasl
victions he
importance
to the
human
race,
and the
set time
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
31
had arrived
in
human
ed page to be recorded
the sublime record.
make
And
if
to
Western Europe
at that period,
we may readily
discov-
manded
with
its
American continent,
should be
varied resources,
and
capabilities,
made known to humanity, at the time of its discovery, and thus we see that an obscure vouns; man, an Individual from the ranks of comparative poverty, but endowed
by the peculiarly
dis-
tinguished success.
j'ear
remembered that in the 1492, Martin Luther, he who was destined to occuIt will be
in revolutionizing the re-
and
discord and
inharmonious
Zwingle, the shepherd boy of the Alps, but subsequently the distinguished Swiss reformer,
was already
in
32
security,
in their
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
to
worship
own manner, and under their own vines, and in accordance with their own conscientious opinions, and And how readily large numbers of these sufbeliefs.
ferers,
availed
themselves of this
privilege,
and
this
left
cherished
attachments,
and came
to
new
a
the
foundations
of what should
more exalted
rights to think
tablish
opinions,
concerning
man's
inherent
and act
for himself.
And
in order to es-
new
institutions, then,
as
well as
now,
it
was
new
established, that
new
societies
of a combination
of elements,
unsettled
new and
And
states,
European
has from
and seek
this
much
It
to build
up and establish
new forms
ideas,
more advanced
was new and unformed, than in the old all their ideas and opinions were running
and where
thers.
deep grooves, worn down by time, customs and usage, aristocratic and pecuniary interests were mincivil
and religious
And
SCEAPS OF HISTOKY.
nated in the emancipation of the people from the
justice
66
in-
is
no
less
singularly prophetic,
the
whole civilized
that the enfran-
And now
it
became
a necessity,
civil
and
religious,
they
had
and
so clearly inherited
up and
giv-
all
if
we could pause
here,
American
and
history,
to gird
on their
liber-
swords,
ties
but perhaps the halo of glory that does, and will sur-
round
memories of such
men
as
vilified
we
we
offer,
from hearts th
rights of
may
be wafted
to the spirit
34
in
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
the
so
we
re-
now
abundantly enjoy.
-we
And, now,
markable occurrences
American
history, to
show most
still
more mar-
and
its
European States, and have caused many monarchs to tremble upon their thrones. The American people, being direct descendants frpm the different states of Western Europe, whose fathers fled from religious intolerance and political oppression,
the natural result of long established institutions upon
and na-
an outgrowth of that
many
European
stances.
nationalities,
circum-
energy
to leave
home, and seek a refuge in a new country and many times in an uncultivated wilderness, they have
exhibited those remarkable energies from the earlier set-
tlement
to the present, in
making almost
ing
the necessities
of an
advanced
civilization.
We
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
35
onward
until
it
portion of the
And
it
American continent in order to be prepared for circumstances that must oc~ For although our peocur in our progressive course. ple had experienced unexampled prosperity, with trifling
sible, this
politic,
it
contention
for
many
years,
waxed
And we
tice here
American
many
long years,
in the
Less than forty years since, the idea was seized upon
by
they conceived
and possessed certain inalienable rights," and this idea meant something; and that it
be enjoyed by
;
ought
to
all
or condition
they
made bold
both
termed abolitionists, for it must be remembered, that there were then nearly 3,000,000 of colored people in the Southern States, enduring the most abject bondage.
Their masters of course, took the alarm, and hence the
36
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
the rostrum,
and the
if
pulpit,
Southern people.
at first
Government
so that
it
became intimately
connected with almost every important measure that agitated the public mind,
National Legislature.
to the sisterhood,
Not
increasing
fires
by the
country
Compromises. But
in process of
and during
by the announcement that there was a war in progress between the United States and Mexico, and although it was very difficult, at the time, to ascertain by what authority, we were involved in a war with
was
startled
it
proved
to
be a very
ened
to
and
tliat
now
to
be de-
bated, and
if
possible determined.
And
that question
in the halls of
Congress, in
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
37
among
and
vio-
upon the
in
lent acrimony.
Demre-
more intimate
and
mingled
in the transaction,
and were
to
fully impressed
and pro-
moters of
this war,
was an intention
of African slavery.
Mexican invasion, like all other wars, came to its end, and terminated in the triumph of the arms of our Government; and those inferior races were compelled to acknowledge themselves conquered by a superior people, and doubtless were happy to enter into
until our so-called
to
defray their own war expenses, granting entire immunity for damages sustained, relinquish a large debt which
was held against them, and then pay them $15,000,000 besides, and only receive in exchange for all these gratuities,
as
which we already heM, the territory of New Mexico, and California, all of which was at that time supposed
to be about worthless
;
by the masses, 4
and more
partic-
38
ularly,
fairly
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
of the toil-earned
money
But
it
lo
of the dream,
and very
were
dis-
this exciting
news back
to
Saxon
race,
began
to
fares both
by sea and
land,
spirits
crowded by adventurous
many
we have never heard an American citizen, of any party, breathe forth a single lisp, in relation to the horrible injustice of the Mexican war, or hint that our
present,
and conglobe.
we
sities
the deep marks of design, and that the parties that were invested with power at the time, were only agents
in the
in
is
sactions,
and
every intelligent
man
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
39
admission, that the exigencies of the case, and the peculiar condition of our people at that period,
and since
this vast
demanded
that the
key should be
American people, in order to aid our Government to march on, in the fulfillment of her great destinies. Who, now, that looks backward upon the line of this strange concatenation of human events, and examines
the prominent occurrences that have culminated in the
the Pacific slope, but must acknowledge that each successive link in this connected chain of history,
was but a
all
But while
far
energetic inhabitants
west of the
Rocky Mountains,
its
and
in part
golden
country,
time
was
effecting
wonderful
citizens,
to stay or avert
any
serious difficulty
that might arise from this slavery question, yet the contest
still
warmer; although
let it
the
in-
remain
opposed
extension into
new
territory.
It
was
also
40
discovered
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
that North of
from Europe, and that the large portion of the accessions to our population, were attracted thither; and, again,
it
to
was
population. of distrust,
in wealth and was of course, a great cause and fear upon the part of the people of the
if
that state of
opponents.
Hence,
it
became
states,
and
its
establish a
government of their
The prom-
dictation,
or
inter-
whom
Thus
far,
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
41
and in the election of the Executive Officers, and of men, to fill prominent stations under appointment the and they boldly declared that when Government, the
lature,
their
and
their
power declined,
and
a President should be
elected,
who
representpro-
ed the
clivities,
Northern
idea,
or possessed
abolition
they would
and
embodying
It
and principles
in its fun-
damental laws.
was impossible
in
of our
when
these
men
and
would seek
in
every sense a
man
of the
fill
the
many
Senators
left their
places in Congress,
in
number
and more
any
of national events.
its
mark
so deeply
had become
governmental
institutions,
that
and
escutcheon
from the
42
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
from view by
all
and
liberal principles
equal,
and
may
never experience
its like
much
to
this nation,
But
would
not
have been
a Pacific Railroad;
r
no
such easy and speedy means of communication w ould have existed between the East and the West; no opening up of the great territory lying upon both slopes of
the
Rocky Mountains,
bringing
all
those
vast re-
gions comparatively within the neighborhood of the older settled States, enabling their great
to
commercial marts
in
sources,
is
said
"The
that
mills of the
but
and
electric telegraphs,
so suddenly,
in their
contemplation.
It
in its
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
egraphic speed, so that the great denouement
43
may
be
That
in
although
When
Jefferson
that
how little did he know what would be the result movement he was so desirous to inaugurate.
made an
many
after
come.
How
struggle
through so
many unhappy
occupying
that any per-
office,
Chamber,
to-day
filled
by a black man
in the
sist,
He left
his place
to the
utmost of his
this
ability, in
chains
upon
honorable
Senator
and
his poster*
44
ity forever,
tion,
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
so that neither he, nor
might hope
in
He
left for
of aiding
the establishment
of a government
-would entail
in
ing off the shackles, and bestowing that liberty upon the
oppressed, for which they had so long sighed, but sighed
in vain.
Not only
that,
raising
them
suf-
frage,
and
thus making
men
of them, in
term, and placing them upon the high road to intellectual growth and advancement.
Now,we
We have
and a number more in progress, and in contemplation we have a million of enterprising people upon the Pacific
slope;
natural
inquiry
is
now
what
next?
Perhaps
the
most momentous question of the present century, that can be propounded by an intelligent mind, after all that what next will be the great prom. has transpired, is
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
inent event that shall startle the world, with
its
45
magni-
We
have seen
its
"Westward the
rolled
in
its
star of
way,"
has
onward
has urged
its
way through
mountain ranges
until
it
looks out
in
The
tides of the
of emigration,
which
will
it
Thus
less
globe,
which
self
ities
can continue
in its
up
some other territory upon onward course, or else coil itown body and die for want of those activits
exercise; hence
we
be
die.
conclude that
some new
field
still
broader, shall
in
and give
rise to
becomes
46
evident there
is
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
something about their mental organisms,
constitutional element in their interiors,
some peculiar
This has
all
and a general
homes of
their ancestors,
early friends.
We
itself to
the
and the larger portion of earth, would remained an uncultivated green have God's unadorned by the labor and improvements wilderness,
narrowest possible
limits,
crowded
itself
into
compact
cities,
them for the want of So far from this being the case, the very opposite has seemed to prevail, and a large portion
room.
of the
human
race,
settling
Such has been the case to a wonderful extent in the and peopling of the American continent, where,
its
inhabitants.
element, or the
new
this
continuous influx of
respect
it
in this
cannot be
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
47
denied, that the children have done full credit to the fathers, for not a
its,
few have adopted almost nomadic habto place, with scarcely a fixed
habitation,
frontier life, moving on still further when the population became too numerous to suit their tastes. Thus they have continued to spread out, and extend their borders, impelled forward, and gradually surging onward, scarcely heeding, much less comprehending the great problem, they were assisting to work out, until they have reached, and are now standing upon this extended line of Pacific waters, and the important query that we have propounded what is to be the next move? demands a reply. Emigration, like revolutions,never moves backward, it has manifested thus far, no inclination to return, and recoil upon itself, but onward has been its watchword heretofore. We doubt not, such must of necessity, continue to be the case, or we might conclude that this tide would roll back, and fill up all the unoccupied territory, lying between this and the older settled portions of our coun-
try.
But, such
is
Men
may
employment and means, and there sigh and wait, and some other inviting land that holds out
they cannot, they
is
will
not go
back.it
is
as a general rule,
some principle in their mental organizations, that forany return; a something within them that speaks in language too plain to be misinterpreted, and says go forward; and they must obey those imperative commands, or remain at this their journey's end.
bids
48
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
to
with the
full
among those
scenes with which they had been familiar in their earlier years, but
how very few comparatively have carried The larger number did not acquire
and those that did, found fortune tardy in answering to their earnest appeals, and proved it a work of years instead of months, to obtain what they
considered sufficient to supply their wants in the future,
and when that period arrived, they found themselves surrounded by circumstances that rendered it extremely
inconvenient to leave, and they have discovered so
attractions here, in fact, they have
many
to re-
had no desire
turn,
to their
their
to these shores, as
to their
newly acquired
tastes
in
Europe, and
it
come and take possession of the when the waste places are built up, and filled to overflowing, as they will be in a few years, then emigration must roll onward from there; and the query still urges itself upon
vast unoccupied territory of these States, and
and transportation
will
it
go?
It
may appear
to
many
this question
is
there
is
all
SCEAPS OF HISTORY.
that
49
may come
how
to our shores.
But
it
may be
well to in-
quire
the matter
may
pages
to
the
by our Government.
retary of State,
What
Wm.
American Continent,
less desi-
lands, that
would appear
ratified,
is
the appurtenances
and whatever
else,
this extensive,
far-off region
may
contain of value.
Doubtless
it
own
way house, or resting place between San Francisco and the new world, that the extensive steamship lines which
must be established
supplies of coal,
at no remote period, would require and numerous articles that might be
50
found upon
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
this territory,
and that
it
was absolutely of
was; thus giving
it
key that
will
new
world.
we go ahead
for one
hundred years
Our population
pose
it
since
we may sup-
upon
100,000,000, and
25 per
shall
cent,
numbers will swell to nearly we then suppose it may increase each succeeding decade until 1970, we
And
in
view of
is
occupied.
that restless,
what is to be done with uneasy mass that have always been going ahead, seeking out new territory, and preparing the way
In the meantime we inquire
for the
in the
class
who only
follow
We
must occur,
either
new
territory
may
ex-
its powers, or this element existing so prominently portion of our race, must die for wa t of the need-
ed activity, and
that condition,
to
moot
the
will
is
impossible
for
it
want
of
now
be occupied.
hi
Then
'-ally
be found that
Divine wisdom
failed
in
SCRAPS OF HISTORY.
arranging mental organisms,
for,
51
find within
we
them
the
American or Anglo-Saxon
man
and
all
activ-
must be found of
necessity,
maybe
will
an accessible gateway
be discovered that
territory
we can occupy
for
many thousand
perceive
years.
We
by
cursory
is
not far
when this Polar Sea must be explored, and when the new territory must be found where this most active
distant
find ample scope for and we dare predict that years this grand discovery will be
to the world.
may
CHAP.
II.
SEA.
This sea is a circle surrounding the North Pole, of some ten or twelve hundred miles in diameter, enjoying a temperate clime, and thus far in our history, almost
shut out from
rier
human
observation,
by a formidable barbelt,
of cold, -where
may
be found a
or zone
of
by a climate so rigorous, that none but the most advenWithin urous and daring will attempt its exploration. this frigid belt, seems to be a charmed circle that possesses a sort of fascinating interest, as well for the scientific
explorer
as the
enterprising navigator.
It is
we
trust at
no distant period,
it
will be entered
upon the catalogue of those problems that have been solved by long and unwearied exertion, and the enlightened researches of a steadily advancing
civilization.
Maury
to
new and worthy the highest consideramay be compelled to differ with him we however,
POLAR SEA,
in
53
sci-
some of
his conclusions.
He
men have been guilty of very serious blunders, and do not always make the proper deductions from the facts presented, because in many instances, other facts may be connected with a subject, that are obscure and hidden from view. Very possibly, this may be the case
entific
must be room
many unknown
facts,
of that
for external
phenomena,
little
to
hidden within
its
recesses
hence the
may
it
However,
is
all
made
in
hundred years,
different
zeal for
new
it
no
less untiring
than
while so
many
expeditions have
life
and that
inis
and
will
efforts, until
the mystery
entirely explained.
in
series of exper-
54
POLAR
SEA.
made
extensive
Oceanic current of
of the
warm water
probably
more than equal in volume and influences to the Gulf Stream, and appears to subserve similar purposes; that
in its
northern course
it
passes to
From
thence, he supposes
it
makes a
direct
He
thinks a passage
or gate-
by keeping the track of this warm current, which may be done by continuous thermometrical observations.
He
passage way
may
be
at
one com-
mon
will
highway may be opened through the Arctic Ocean, that wonderfully shorten distances, and prove an incomparable benefit to the commercial intercourse of the en-
tire world.
There
is
will at
some
we
of the
belt
North by which
will
it is
surrounded, and be
are driven to
is
wry
much
enlarged.
In
globe of ours
whole icy
will
bell
and then,
when
passed
away, in the
POLAR SEA.
far North, as
it
55
did at
ern latitudes,
all
and doubtless long before that period, they may be traversed, by passing through the warmer currents, that extend into their borders.
if
We conclude
that goal
is
by Capt. Bent.
to
tofore,
expedition
is
bound
to
pass
We
now open, and may be navigated, whenever a party with a suitable craft may make the attempt, and indeed, before we heard of Capt. Bent and his theory, or the contributions of Prof. Maury to Putnam's Magazine, we received information upon this subject, and
had arrived at the same conclusions, and announced them to a public audience in Sacramento.
of the
from seventy
is
and most
and particularly
is
anic currents.
Within, or north
climate
either in winter or
its
summer, and
it
climatic
56
POLAR SEA.
extent,
upon those
by which
it is
surrounded.
if this
For
is
it
will readily
be discovered
it
polar region
encroached upon the temperate latitudes, thus extending their area and depth, until the w aters upon the
T
and
tem-
the solar
in the
For
if,
and which
in
to
immense icebergs, that come floating to the south what would naturally be the condition in a latitude still
;
if
no other causes
and pre-
We
lations,
must have increased until they would have towhad not the great presiding mind ordifferently,
dered
it
and arranged
this
globe
in
such a
favored latitudes.
And we
POLAR SEA.
57
that
if
a portion of the
water
was
would
all
be drawn thither.
But
as there
is
no percep-
may
ice,
and hence
it
would
seem
sea.
be established
if
men
ing
all
hidden in
Europe
to India;
and nav-
lat-
They have made what discoveries they could, but evidently the time had not yet arrived in the history of human affairs, when all the secrets of that mysterious circle should be made known to the world. There
seems thus far to have been a barrier that has kept nav-
in the
Some
58
ties
POLAR SEA.
from pursuing where the road lay open before them,
their successors
in
still
re-
It
known
seeing
any traces of ice; aud whalemen who have visited the harbor of San Francisco, state from -personal know edge, that it is much easier when as high as latitude
1
seventy-two
find
degrees, a
little
moderate weather
in
which
by going
lat-
Capt. Parry in
Wrangle in 1820,
and
saw no appearance of
lost
is still
pre-
in re-
whole subject
may
be found
in
Dr. Kane's
Dr.
I.
I.
Hayes
in his
Open Polar
Sea,
sec that
added much
to
Morton, the
steward
received
POLAR SEA.
great discovery he personally
59
in relation to the
made
Polar Sea.
Capt. Bent feels quite
confident that
some Dutch
Nova
Zembla; and quotes from the archives of the Royal Society of London, in support of the idea; but there are
in
made
ignorant.
Navigators
puzzled to
find
whereabouts
unknown
sci-
by Capt. Ross
and
in
1832, and
if in
longitude,
how can we
confidence
We
to a
common
phenomena
we may
hereafter
seem
the
immense
glacial formation,
in those
frozen latitudes, have produced increased chilling influences upon the w^ater; and that of course by the processess that are continuously going forward, the com-
filled
and bays
still
colder.
In
all
those explorations,
;
60
which
POLAR SEA.
may be
clude this course has been fatal heretofore to the success of the arctic discoverer; for there can be
it
no doubt,
from the
would be wisdom
upon these
will
be found as far as
The German Arctic expedition that was heard from some time since upon the eastern coast of Greenland, and almost upon the track of Henry Hudson, are experiencing the same difficulties, a great deal of mist and
in 1868,
because
influ-
ad-
That expedi(if it
does
return,) unsuccessful.
said already,
what
is
necessary
upon the phenomena of the polar climate, the fact of an open sea, and a territory of great interest to humanity, at the far North; if not, the reader can find a great
fund of information
in the various
we need not
little
"And
I,
my
communication
President
of the
Geographical
Society of
New
Gulf Stream, and the Kuro Siwo, are the prime and
POLAR SEA.
only cause of the open sea about the pole, with
its
61
tem-
perature so
Prof.
its
latitude."
opinion,
and claims
fifty
that
the
"warm
which rushes
off in
under currents
to the south."
latitudes,
and forced
polar circle,
of
to the northern
non-
"The
all-potent
in-
months of
year," also
"Heat
radiates
upon the
scientific
experiments, to equal
"The
by these two
friction at-
and form a
rily
sort of
The
to
be equal to incandescence,
the earth's
and
as miners,
would be easy to
62
POLAR SEA.
condition,
and brought
to a white heat,
and that
in con-
by about thirteen
miles,
than any other portion of the globe," and thus the Pro-
makes his case. It cannot be doubted, the most mind will be compelled to admit, that the array of causes are truly formidable, and ought to be entirely satisfactory, if they can be brought to bear by any of the laws and processes that are used in accomplishing the great purposes of nature, upon this particular porfessor
sceptical
He
warm
at a
temperature of
fifty
more
with
is
needed
warm
to produce an open sea, than to fill it up water and keep a constant supply running
it
in as fast as
cools,
and passes
out.
It
requires no
great stretch
own
theories,
by enter-
ing the fields of scientific research, and bringing meteorological and internal
POLAR SEA.
assisting a cause,
to
63
entirely
which he
makes
adequate
produce
all
made known
to prove
It is quite as
damaging
its
to
any hypothesis,
too
effectually as if the
evidence presented in
and authority.
we simply wish
an open, unis
all
We
only need to
effects
exist
The fact that two immense warm oceanic currents are now running from the tropical regions, carrying up
large quantities of vegetable food for the Arctic whales
to a
warm
all
the waters of
extremely doubtful.
We
doubt also
warmed by any
terrible
Cyclopean
contiguous
earth.
in
unex plored Polar Sea, where navigators have never mark their effects, we can but wonder why they have not operated upon a grander scale farther to the South, where very many travelers have been, for
this
penetrated to
64
several
POLAR SEA.
hundred years,
searching for a pathway.
It
upon
way
it
as wide as one of
warm
These currents,
is
said, rest
upon
so,
of cold
much
and
sea, all
off
during the
Again, the
is
very
may have
one-half in the
colder waters
warm
of the ocean.
"As
vision
affected to
is a bad conductor of caloric, it is not any considerable extent, and this is a wise proof nature, lest the stream should come in contact
cold water
and
in
no place during
to the
velous Gulf
learn some of the wonders of this marStream during its journey northward, as It radiates caloric sufrepresented by scientific men.
to
We may now
ficient
produce
mouth.
It
renders the
cheerlesSj
climate
that
and
POLAR SEA.
balmy and genial almost
rives after a
its
65
entire distance,
and yet
arall
changed
in
temperature that
Polar Sea.
face;
it is
This
is
it
what
mark what
does beneath.
Although
it
never
cold
its
its influ-
ence
is
such that
it
in the
and Lapland
there to see.
It is
and what
it
may
do when
it
gets to
its
some doubts concerning the isothermal influence produced upon the western coast of Europe, as the climatic temperature does not materially differ from the same latitudes
this continent,
where
co-incident,
either continent.
The coral specimens found by the fishermen of Norway and Lapland, require more than a passing notice, "A beautiful coral so we give the author's own words
:
in the
Norway,
in latitude sixty-seven,
have brought
it
their lines."
These
66
silent
POLAR
SEA.
of
the
earth,
ever
speak a dumb
language of
their
own,
though
may
at times, be misinterpreted
by men
attainments. Our author says: "It is a commentary upon the power of the Gulf
transfer
climatic submarine temperatures,"
Stream
and
still
to
further,
is
"As
Gulf Stream
at or
reain
nowhere permitted
sea.
There is every where a cushion of cold water between them and the solid parts of the earth's crust.
Where was
found?
In the warm,
currents
of
the
Gulf
to that
kind of
By
no means.
It
where, in
in accord-
and doubtless
its
in fact,
no way
in-
We
dis-
Nor-
way and Lapland, produced by the Gulf Stream, they would more likely exist far to the south, where the
stream must be warmer, and approaches quite as near
the land as
is
Faroe
[sles,
and
off the
coast of Ireland,
where
this
POLAR SEA,
cause must exert a far stronger influence.
places being destitute of such
67
All these
pelled to conclude
We
lime
may
be in
to
its
operations, as
it
pursues
its
majestic
pathway
the
the North,
belt that
may
/
be found
it is
to exist in the
We
do not think
can possibly
warm
Norway, and
it
is
because
that
from
its
influences.
Prof. F.
M. Maury,
in his charts,
Gulf
his
Stream considerably to the west; and we suppose, charts must be received as authority, until they are
perseded by something more accurate.
su-
So we think we
tion in
will
shall
some other direction, in order to find a cause that explain the phenomenon of the corals, and it is
from
their native climes within the
light
now
lies
involved in mystery.
remarkable
fact,
68
POLAR SEA.
to the north,
and
is
in
There
some-
a remarkable co-incidence,
and would
them than has been supposed. In the absence of thermometrical observations, we must make the best use we can of the rays of light that are dawning upon our minds in regard to these marine vortices that occur in the higher latitudes, and there can be no doubt, they
are
numerous
in those untraversed
seas,
both in the
The Electro-Magnetic currents are known to exist upon every quarter of the globe, running from north to
south, or in a
longitudinal direction.
all
They permeate
impediments are found, guide the magnetic needle. Being longitudinal they must as they approximate either
pole, converge towards a
common
upon each
continued
other, they
these currents
the
pole.
To avoid
this
danger,
cer-
wouM
Now, we
per-
POLAR SEA.
69
ceive if these currents are continuous, they must pass from the exterior atmosphere, and then on to the
south, near
shell,
passing
uing the circuit, and they form the warp of numerous webs
that
seem
to
doubt
through the
of attraction, as
we have said,
in lower latitudes,
There
is
but
little
the
if
you
will find
no
We
presume
men
for their
to
children.
look out into the realm of causes, and find any other
shadow of evidence.
It will
ous at times
activity.
when there
is
any considerable
electric
We
work
com-
70
POLAK SEA.
wish to do
with those
so,
we are endeavoring to support, and hence, in our opinion, untenable. So we are perfectly willing that
all
any one wishes to send, however difmight seern, from the point we occupy, to get it
most needed.
across the icy belt, during the cold part of the year,
when
it is
We had
perature usually sixty degrees below zero, was quite unfavorable for such purposes of transportation, but
will go,
if it
tions.
any disposition
concentrate
to
sea,
and
all their
to that
we
still
it
let their
with
from year
to year.
better opportunity
upon the
icy
And
their
if
radiate
gions,
all
virtues
re-
we submit; though we
POLAR SEA.
er
71
that source,
all
why
warmth from
parts
of
globe alike.
causes
to
We
whelming, and
why
down
trifle
of stellar
in placing,
by accurate
We think
exists
difficulty in
vast
really
there will be no
there
it
may
from boiling
and perhaps
It
if
little,
we may
contemplated.
becomes necessary
theory
more ex-
way
we have devoted
"to
we
shall be compelled
this connection.
eight
7,950 miles in
fifths
fifty-
of the solid
superstruc-
72
ture, leaving
rial, in
POLAR
one
fifty-fifth
SEA.
of
all this
vast
body of mateis,
so
much
and
so on,
soil to
produce
life,
this
scene of animal
this
and
activity.
We
hesitate not to
pronounce
theory
more
intelligent
and enlightened
known
facts
and
phenomena that exist. They claim that this immense mass of molten lava
sufficiently
is
and
if so,
there
lava
is
how
orig-
of this
We
ob-
in
any length of
heat, and
exhaustive
of
its
own
forces, a continuous
POLAR SEA.
T3
provided, else the fire will go out, and the heat discontinue,
If philos-
the bowels of
why do they
upon the
fortunes.
earth's
make
their
But we
upon
of
this subject,
its
where he
considered in
many
in the
the
come to the knowledge of men, but causes must always when found, be commensurate with the effects produced, and the intimate relationship betweeen the one and the other, will be apparent. If
effects that will ever
we should
we should not
it
would
we should ascertain
surface of this
globe, certain
else,
could
When we
by
the
we must conclude, that some causes are operating within warmer circle, that do not expend their forces upon the surrounding frigid zone; for most assuredly, any
ice,
and ren-
der
its
climate
warm and
genial,
result, if
74
globe.
ist
POLAR SEA.
We
its
must look
beyond
acter,
ens," or in the
For
it is
circle,
polar sea.
We
mon
com-
complete
circuit,
and
produce
thus
and
agitation,
sur-
rounding waters, as
strom
off
Norway, and other whirlpools Seas, near which the corals and other
productions are found.
Northern
marine
tropical
may
rial
duce certain results, and quite generally heat ensues where there are any considerable Electro-Magnetic activities, and we readily discover, if all or most of these
currents or
in
ever}
portion of the
nverge
polar circle,
solid earth to the
at or
near
turbances must
exist,
POLAR SEA.
75
than
is
warm and
cheerful,
light
magnetic element; then he .might find a open polar sea genial and temperate in
also assist in presenting to the
climate, but
human
vision, those
grand
mind with such profound astonishment, and which are so little understood by the
auroral displays that strike the
philosophers of the present age.
I think
we
two local
causes will
may
fluid particles
76
POLAR SEA.
;
and consequent
friction,
we may
terrible,
and the
frictionizing
sufficient to
We
warm-
produce
circles,
and
at a distance that
We notice
all
other machines,
researches into
able to supply.
to inform us
No
scientific
qualified
rolls this
earth upon
its
notwith-
in
mechanical
ability, will
of
Electro-Magnetism
in
through a
axial poles,
must be product-
IGNEOUS THEORY.
ive
77
suffi-
if
must
necessarily ensue.
in its
We
treat further
upon
this subject
appropriate place.
to
It is
have from
time lain concealed within this well guardpossibly induce "the powers that be " to
and
if
we can
appropriate the
the Pacific side,
sum needed to equip an expedition upon we doubt not that this sealed book maybe
opened, and the problem that has hitherto eluded the combined efforts of the entire civilized world,
in less
may
be solved
his ut-
most
and
let
us inaugurate as soon
;
exploring expedition
for
re-
when
all
is
CHAP.
III.
solar system
was conceived by the elder Herschell, that our was at one period in its history, an extend-
ed mass or spheroidal globe of nebulous matter or gaseous substance, larger in diameter than the orbit of the
that, this
in the
78
past,
IGNEOUS THEORY.
and
for
commenced
a revolution
quence of such revolution, the exterior particles became off from time to time
entirely detached from the great orig-
has
been
formed.
In
consequence of condensation,
great heat has ensued, and these young globes have be-
so
much
suffi-
process
unknown
to
man
these
and hence,
it
is
Laplace Theory.
It has
at
present,
globes in
seized
all
planetary systems.
liberal
upon by many
and
it
is
sup-
phenomena
main of nature, which were onty mystified by the called revealed history given by the inspired Moses.
There
is,
LaPlace may have entertained incorrect and very erroneous opinions, and possibly both may have enunciated
some valuable
truths; and
it
IGNEOUS THEORY.
79
on record,
It
the chaff.
of truth
upon
man,
until
by education,
spirit or
he
is
brought up
to that
ceive
possible,
how much
of
explain
phenomena
that exist
upon our
globe
and
knowledge
not safely
It
is
concerning the physical formation of this grand superstructure and whether the
;
cer-
may
still
be made, whether
marvelous mechanical
bomb-shell
filled
it
brim
full
the future.
from twenty-five
mean
They bring
in
we go downwards into the earth, either in mines or artesian wells. The evident igneous formation of granite; the supposed action of hot water upon the lower sedimentary rocks; the very large extent of territory affected by
evidences, such as the increasing temperature, as
The
vast
amount of
lava,
80
IGXEOUS THEORY.
to
age,
proving their
re-
common
origin.
The foregoing
ments we are
by the ablest
to notice, in
scientific
and that
places a vast fire orb within the globe, that contains thirty-four thirty-fifths of the entire material, composing the
whole structure.
That
is,
may
contain
one
the
and
If
if
uid
fire
in diameter.
men can
which worlds can be constructed, and that there is no other mode by which they can be formed in a proper manner,
poses,
set in motion,
this
and made
skill,
and that
extent of mechanical
to
adopt
this theory,
and accept
as correct.
But
as long as there
competent intelligences might introduce in the construction of worlds, the same as in the buiding of ships or
dwellings,
we
shall be compelled to
adopt a
less
clumsy,
less horrifying to
We
deem
it
quite sufficient to
years, to
have been
compelled for
ical hell,
many
long
in
we penetrate the
IGNEOUS THEORY.
degree in
fifty
81
year 1869.
It will readily
be perceived,
if
same
rate, then at
some depth,
in a state of fusion,
and so
far, theorists,
few
to
sea-level.
They have
found as great an increase of temperature, by penetrating the earth in mountain ranges, and in localities very
far above the level of the sea,
it
as in less elevated
its
approximation
to
it
any great
inter-
we approached the
this has
been found
sea-level.
six,
and even
seven
miles
below the
Prof.
his chart
and we
to
learn, that
half mile.
While the ocean had given us access to a point 37,000 feet nearer this terrible imaginary furnace, and that tremendous depth failed to present any indications of increasing
the
We
good, the
whole
82
all
IGXEOUS THEOPwY.
would eventually pass
off,
in
we are
were
in the early
The advocates
of this
different mir.es,
and
ing that
first,
it
diminishes as
we go downwards, rapidly
at
to this
earth's crust to be as
moun-
We
see
surface,
if it rests upon this igneous mass, is regulated by the surface bottom of the ocean. There can be no possibility that any such effect would be produced; but the interior would necessarily be smoothed off by the
attrition of this
heated mass.
duces
influences in mines,
to
and
bottom of arteexistence,
prove
own
why
does
it
and
of
bow does
it
so
little
IGNEOUS THEORY.
83
But, since
all
all
we have obtained data that has completely overturned all former calculations, and that
the ocean.
The
feet,
and by
so doing,
have settled
this
increases; so that
of this superstructure
is
composed of
inactive, frozen,
and
positive.
Instead of placing as a
controll-
and serve
as a basis
upon
We
amount of wisdom
or which
if
you
edifice that
would require a
all
I think
84
materials, and can
IGNEOUS THEORY.
it
and
and
materials that
have ultimated
yet
in this
we
grand blunder
is
only one of
great interior
It
fires.
was found, in
this artesian
phenomena of increasing heat attended increasing depth, until they had measured 3,029 feet, where the temperature was one hundred seven degrees Farenheit. If we may
suppose the temperature at the surface sixty-seven degrees, this
difference,
or an
however
it is
statement
during the
2,000
feet,
and no doubt
it
but
little, if
any increase of
temperature, and
it is
of no
little
range
at
number
of the carefully
It is
made
unfortunate that
made and
is,
been recorded, prove most conclusively some very important facts, and one
that the highest temperature
IGNEOUS THEORY.
of one hundred and seven degrees, was found a
85
little
is
little;
we may
it
safely conclude
that near this point the increasing heat of the earth ter-
very gradually
six de-
as they
No
other observation
marked one
hundred and
ished two
we doubt
not
if
made more
frequently, they
Taking
their very
meagre record, we
arrive
at the
imating 3,000
feet,
hundred
feet.
Now,
if
we should estimate
this
we
will
doubtless,
we should
find
foundations of this globe, in that frozen negative condition that will induce
them
pro-
gramme of
We
in this
earth's sur-
86
face.
IGNEOUS THEORY.
We
now propose
to notice the
comparative mag-
We learn
fifth
much
material to
be cooled and
solidified, as that
through
this process,
away before
this
amount of
fiery materials
sufficient
would be radiated
years; that
If such
is
to
is
must so exsuffiits
eternity, for
to
it
cient
heat
make any
if its
perceptible difference in
magnitude, and
thickness,
its
we
to
fixture.
that
manufacture of
other
eternally
and
to
which
it
their
These philosophers have been prodigal and reckless in extravagant waste of materials, out of which
IGNEOUS THEORY.
87
worlds are constructed upon higher mechanical principles, by incomprehensible wisdom, and we defy them to tell us, of what possible utility, this great burning mass can be in the interior of the globe, locked up forever, or to show in any manner how it can be of any practical benefit, and further, we say they have not proved that it is
there,
fact, in
is
so constituted in its
organism that
its
we have no power
this universe
of all
is
too
we wish
to
of
we
rower limits
must bring them down and present their forms in narand, hence, if we can diminish this globe,
;
and place
of this
it
whole matter.
we construct
a globe, or sphere
miles,
it
at
four-tenths of an inch.
rial,
We may
crust,
hollow,
liquid
Hitchcock,
the rocks.
we could not find an intelligent perwho would not arrive at the conclusion that the shell would soon become a liquid mass also, as its entire conI think
son
We
and make
88
IGNEOUS THEORY.
shall then
we
overwhelming influences.
will
in
check
and
if
the
fire is sufficiently
it
heated to hold in
would melt
all
the
granite contiguous.
We
2,112
resist
feet in thickness,
would be entirely
insufficient to
we have
material, over
7,900 miles
in
which
It
it is
enclosed.
is
difficult to
so
much
is
so indeed, that
we cannot be brought
to sup-
that
gs also,
and called
all
we have
been permitted
arcanum, we
in
have found
all,
perfect ac-
IGNEOUS THEORY.
89
and this is one of the means we have given us, by which we may discriminate and judge between truth and error.
Truth
is
it is
a part of ourselves;
be, in order to be a
we are
a part of
all,
and we must
if
microcosm.
We
cannot,
we
credit
to the
this
moment, that
of
dom and
faced,
full
constructive
skill,
and ruined
interiorly,
by being
filled
brimming
of incandescent lava.
We
up
where
it
is
said in
consequence of
great internal heat, the earth's surface produced a wonderful prolific growth of vegetation
tions,
of gigantic proporsigillaria,
and numerous
formation.
have
remains
There
in
is
no doubt but
is, was it produced or any way influenced by a vast internal fire? was it germinated and brought into existence, and was this
species, in-
in
any manner by
this internal
enormous growth and accumulation of vegetables and semi-ligneous products, the material from which
90
formed?
IGNEOUS THEORY.
If so, these accumulated forests must,
at a
duced
to ashes, but
coal,
changed into
lignites,
minous
bago.
and
finally
much
of
it
by the action of
it
into
plum-
and
this
it
some
may
be
offered.
appears
that
immense
above another of
fossil-
had been the residence of organic livuntold ages before this growth existed.
stratifications
in possible thickness,
below
it,
from the
all
with the
fossil
remains of animal
life;
and the
dif-
ficulty
seems
to be, not to
coal,
and animal
life to
continue.
As
it
sufficient to
to a
coal,
and
it is
very
evident that
many
when the
forms of
much
all
thinner, these
the paleozoic
Cam-
source, must of
IGNEOUS THEORY.
cooling of the erust, an d
its
91
have been under such circumstances, steady and progressive; for the same
very
ers.
We
amount of heat continued, with the by Fourier and othperceive after we had got the crust so cooled
produce vegetable and animal
life,
it
down
as to
would
be impossible
many
produce a universal
into bituminous
coal-pit,
and change
coal.
all
these grand,
and anthracite
We
think in our
researches,
we
some other
now
steamboats and
dwellings
What
many
long
ages," to sustain
ature, sufficient to
change
all
anthracite,
cations
We
shall
change
is
all this
to coal,
such as
produc-
tion of vegetable
tirely suspended,
and animal
life,
and have
so remained;
became
might be
92
IGNEOUS THEORY.
;
for cer-
by a
As
nature in
all
The
phe.
them from the melting influences of that lengthy, anthracite-burning period, when caloric reigned supreme, and smoke and blackness covered the wide landscape and all was one dark scene of desolation and death.
this geological
Such must have been the carboniferous period, if, view is correct, and if these vast Devonian forests were converted into coal by the influence of the great reservoir of internal heat, and those stirring scenes of life and animation that must have existed during the growth of that immense flora and peculiar fauna If so, nature were succeeded by universal destruction. must have been compelled once more, to reproduce thoso
forms before
all
the performance of
;;
IGNEOUP THEORY.
their great duties.
It is
93
difficult
extremely
upon
this
ganizations, then
carboniferous,
and a
perate
little later,
and were
finally
succeeded by a more
till
the present
lived,
scientific
a por-
at a particular period, as
fields
conclu-
sively proven,
of ice, of a
many
ages.
In connection with
this subject,
well to keep in view, the great fact, that there are well
with,
and per-
appertainings;
that certain of these elements exist from the inmost central portions of this physical superstructure, to the farthest
verge of
its
atmospheric surroundings,
are
all
perform-
distributed
where they are most needed to carry out their purposes, and that each one of these positive and negative powers,
such as
activity
life
and death, heat and cold, light and darkness, and repose, expansion and contraction, magnet-
ranged
affinitizing principle,
side,
Thus we have
cold, dark-
94
ness
death,
IGNEOUS THEORY.
inactivity,
sleep
or
repose,
contraction
and
electricity, all
molecular
down
in the
life
and
light,
activity
it
and expansion,
will
be
but they must have their abiding place near the superfices, so as
for
we may
easily
and where sleep and inactivity find an eternal resting place, all locked up in the frigid embrace of a cold, that
knows no change
investigation,
in
We shall
see
upon
the absolute
may
be arranged,
whether
in a solid
globe or spherical
all
shell.
Where nature
and
stability,
requires
which are contented to remain in undisturbed repose through the everlasting ages, that a world may be safely
constructed upon them as a foundation that shall prove
sure and steadfast, modern science has placed an overwhelming amount of the most active, uneasy, terribly a huge mass of intensely heated disturbing elements
material.
We
State of Virginia,
IGNEOUS THEORY.
tro-glycerine,
95
neath
its walls,
Hence,
For the
up
embrace of these
and
activity,
come
very quint-
We
to
depend upon,
in support of the
but as we have said, fortunately the energies and people of St. Louis, have also come to
activities of the
96
ity,
IGNEOUS THEORY.
upon the
we
we must
attain a
heat that would melt the most refractory rocks, and leave
all
But
it
them
less
than 2,200
feet,
and
brought to bear
ternal
fire,
to
in-
when extended a
And
fif-
Louis artesian
at least
it is
atmosphere.
changes
and then
and
or-
central por-
ganizations; because
are required to produce and sustain such living organisms, exist in greater abundance,
more
extensively, in
Here
is
exist in
IGNEOUS THEORY.
orated and perfected condition, and here
97
life
is produced and animation, in all their varied forms ; and we plainly see it would have been but a reckless waste of those positive materials to have kept them locked up in
all eternity.
We
will
scientific opinions
more
ers,
in
now proves far more conclusively, and far harmony with phenomenal facts, the existence
and
now saying
to this
huge
may
activity
disturbing
by these savans, that he produces all the phenomena in the form of volcanoes and earthquakes that are known upon the earth's surface, that he produces the wonderful heat of Thermal springs
are told
We
and Solfataras, also the great increase in the temperature of artesian wells, ejects all the substances thrown
so firmly en*
closed within
98
crust, that
it
IGNEOUS THEORY.
does not radiate sufficient to melt scarcely
a single year.
If so, then intermin-
an inch of
able
ice, in
must pass away before this great monster can be removed, as we must discover that
millions of eternities,
7,900 miles in
sufficient,
must remain
dition,
and
eternities
to
it
would
lose
sion.
enough
be perceptible to the
human comprehen-
this
radiates or
parts with
it
its
heat,
and
it
cools,
operations,
and
very nearly
internal heat
its
is
a fact,
cor-
rect,
concerning
diation, then
we may consider
ished,
main
who would
condition.
an amount of material,
IGNEOUS THEORY.
crust, or the
99
;
it is
composed
and there
all
they propose to
inactivity.
remain
this
to
all
eternity, in useless
They say
the
duce
all
They say
it
is
it
primeval,
is
unevolved, homogeneous
They
fire,
mass of
all fires
are
exist,
is
supply
is
must discontinue,
how
they manufac-
mass
in the interior,
all
the sub-
stances that have been ejected from the craters; and yet
all
100
IGNEOUS THEORY.
any evolution
be surprising
or manufacturing whatever;
and
will not
have a tendency
them
their own.
The reader
is
it
no aspect in which
this
by another
God's
unquenchable
in
fire
which
who did not look at all things with the same vision possessed by themselves, and we humbly think the day is not far distant, when both these grand delusions, together with that disreputable personage who is said to
children,
have exercised a general supervision over the theologically heated dominions, will be consigned to the bottomless pit,
journey
CHAP.
IV.
VOLCANOES.
Among
globe, perhaps,
and
characteristics,
and sometimes
destructive
in
their influences,
and
derstood,
it is
carefully studied
It
by men of
it
scientific attainments.
could
be found
ances,
sufficient
cause for
all
and
sufficient material to
supply
;
the vomitings
difficult
some persons that are always raising obopinions, and thus the world
moves onward. These volcanoes are supposed to be vent holes or chimneys that reach from the surface to the great fire within,
contrived for the purpose of safety valves that
may
per-
immense amount
We
102
VOLCANOES,
000 square
renheit,
miles,
about forty
neys that are known to exist in the shape of active volcanoes upon the globe.
times,
It is
supposed that in
eai'lier
lit-
when the
and the
fire
orb a
r
more numerous than at the present; in fact, that they numbered hundreds, if not thousands to one, and that
vastly
more chimneys or vent holes were needed than at present; that the crust has now become so extremely
and the internal
fire so
thick,
limited
number
the
purposes required, as
will
eruption,
upon the globe. Others are in a state of more or less frequently, varying from a few
1,700 years.
difficult for
months
It
is
to
extremely
us to determine,
why
since,
this
much
it
less forcible in
was ages
or
why
needed vent
distributed,
hoies.
It
would seem
to
an ordinary mind,
more regularly
in
VOLCANOES.
103
we can
see,
would be compelled
Isles, or to
to travel to
Mount Heela
It
whether such
We
it
why
be-
came necessary to place Vesuvius, iEtna, and Stromboli, and other volcanoes, all upon so contracted an area
while such large extents of territory,
embracing very
many
renders them
necessary,
universal,
and comes
in
this
We
architect, if
crust,
universal element of disturbance, that required apertures through to the exterior, for the escape of danger-
all
from exposure
to those
dangerous elements.
But
as
number, and
to concede,
so generally inactive,
we
shall be
compelled
that there
is
to
produce
elemental disturbances.
If there
is
104
VOLCANOS.
downward
now
called active.
that ever had an number a hundred to one What has closed up these
rendering
it
number
kept
first
open? while
For what
this
fires
manner has
won-
A
less
made
to this
query by Prof.
in a
fully
competent
most
He
volcanoes, are contiguous to the sea shore, most probably those that are extinct were similarly situated, and that nature has at sometime provided some aperture,
through which the waters of the ocean, might communicate with the crater, and extinguish the flames. To
prove that he
inite,
is
serious,
and
to
in
def-
upon
this point
he says
to afflict
mankind with
their
VOLCANOES.
105
to bear,
and daring of some bold, energetic men will be brought and they will contrive means that will put a final
fires
He
men
in
New
compensation, undertake to execute and construct a subterranean tunnel, from the Mediterranean to
suvius,
Mount Ve-
famous volcano.
is
ous, or else he
ers,
and as
his
may
all
We
are
somewhat
and
their
terrible effects,
often calamitous
by
becomes
amount
a well
of caloric
is
accumulated
in the boiler,
and
it is
known
fact that
of electricity, and
confined
in
your
in sufficient
quantities,
no
amount
106
ences,
VOLCANOES.
well
if this
uisite
and you must have an explosion. It would be subject was better understood, and the reqsafeguards placed in all steam boilers which would
in
this
enormous mass of
quenching the
fires
He
ative
power called
in
it is
found
immediate contact
ceed
in the
whole fabric
is
will
bo
less
time than
usually occu-
He
is
this terribly
Electro-Magnet-
manner, he
have
most
It
VOLCANOES.
107
Mount Vesuvius,
of sufficient capacity to
amount of water, and if this crater or chimney continues down and opens into any such vast
large
down a
this sen-
that portion of
would be torn
to fragments,
and
to
say the
least,
surface,
and
yet,
by these means, our learned author concludes the fires of all those numerous dead volcanoes have been extinguished, and for this cause, they have
ceased their activity.
And
many
volcanoes have
It is a well known fact that very made iheir appearance in the midst
phenomena, and
fire is
it will
be seen that
if
course be
made between
interior
the great
nothing to
down
these
chimneys in overwhelming torrents, thus causing an explosive power that would be utterly destructive of all
terrestrial things.
when
an opening
is
of any of those dangerous elements that have collected beneath, or from any cause whatever, that the waters
do rush in and
fill
this is the
108
great efficient reason
short duration.
Is
it
VOLCANOES.
why such
and
scientific
men who
can
superior
mental
abilities,
sourc
of volcanic action, by
directing small
main
in activity,
and
been the
fires
of
those of the past, that are now silent and dead, which
number as thousands, to the tens that still continue acHowever desirable it may be, in accordance with tive.
the eternal laws of progressive development, which seem
to
permeate
all
human
life,and, that
r } et,
we
shall
re-
moved.
tensive in
If that cause
its
so
proportions, as to
time, after
all
possibility,
phenomena,
and
its
results be
no more experienced.
When we
it
means
VOLCANOES.
anything,
all
it
109
fires,
means
to
quench
all
those
and remove
means an
may
be
There
is
not an in-
man who
of
all
stops to reflect,
nine-tenths
their activity,
must conclude, that the causes that produced those which are extinct, must have ceased to exist, and that all the
resources from whence their surging fires were drawn,
else
they
would continue
neous theory
is
in the
same
state of activity.
If the ig-
occupies, with
its
raging,
and
this
the
exhibit themselves
living,
moving
exterior sur-
face
upon which
to
tivities,
volume, or con-
little,
and then
inclos-
and feeble
10
crust,
breathing holes?
110
VOLCANOS.
and
stupidity, to
form any
is
if this
their
as originally existed;
require nearly the same amount of room in which to operate; yet, our
hedged
in the internal,
to
We
and, that
it
much
so, that
it
substantial truth.
for
many
but we have
to
and we doubt
day
will
speedily arrive,
when developments
made
will
only be re-
membered by
VOLCANOES.
Ill
still
further in relation to
We
are told,
and no
cinders, scoria,
falls
which
in
Rocks of
thrown
to
it will
be noticed that
many very
different varieties,
from
the primary
up
to
formations.
Also lava in enormous-quantities, and it is somewhat remarkable that the lava is not very thoroughly melted."
Very many
amount of the
different
dif-
ejected
from show
volcanoes, but,
and varied quantities of material substances, must have proceeded from reservoirs, where they severally had an
existence, for, assuredly, they could not have been brought
exist.
also
fire
theory,
fre-
that
if
quite
been thrown from volcanoes, should be taken from the immediate vicinity, or from underneath
quently have
the neighborhood of the crater, then the mountain would
112
VOLCANOES.
certainly be swallowed
up
in the
and,
if
have happened quite frequently, they prove most conclusively, that the origin of those volcanoes
was located
at
"In 1772, crater, from which the eruption proceeded. Papandayang, a large volcano in the island of Java, after a short and severe eruption, fell in and disappeared, over an extent fifteen miles long and six broad, burying
forty villages.
isle
disappeared, and
its
place
is
now occupied by
a lake.
Many
same
been
result
made by
filled
had no connection with a great central body of molten bottom of those lakes would have
and the waters of the ocean would be drained
through the numerous submarine chimneys, and we leave
the reader to imagine the succession of explosions, that
wonld nec-
and
all
chaotic confusion.
We may
now enquire
VOLCANOES.
supposed
to
113
ascertain whether
be
filled,
and
if possible,
we can
ejected
find
from the craters of the numerous volcanoes. The nebulous theory pre-supposes, as we have said, an
the most rarified condition
that, this vast
material in
more
or less dependent,
them
to per-
bodies.
However unnatural
this
process
may
to arrive, in
114
VOLCANOES.
elements of
the
coal
Geology informs us that granite rock contains all the all that is found above it, in the secondary,
measures, the tertiary, the alluvial deposits,
in the vegetable
and was
that
If
all
have
this
huge reservoir of
shall
fiery
material,
we find there,
that
crater?
We may
vast Cyclopean furnace, and not find a vestige of any of those substances that come to the surface
the
re-
although
all
may
be nearly 8,000
but
the result of
consuming
combustible materials;
is
remains in
unelaborated
condition.
If
rials,
to
we enquire into the nature of combustible matewe shall find that they are those that are subject being consumed by fire; sh all we find any such in this
If so,
produce flame,
why have they not been The matesmoke and ashes, are comr
.
paratively few in
VOLCANOES;
the granite rock, before they can be produced.
115
You
it
to
Yet granite may contain within itself the latent when developed, may ultimate in material that will produce flame, smoke, ashes, and cinders. But how many long ages must pass away, before this
coal.
element, which,
elaboration will
may
result in
coal,
wood, or peat,
ble gasses.
upon by that
all
can b
dissolved
in their
own consumption.
in all this
development,
great laboratory of
We
might
as
well
undertake
to
extract
the
full
grown
to extract the
the craters of volcanoes, from this supposed mass of incandescent, primeval, latent material.
of the full grown chicken
tent,
may
116
VOLCANOES.
you can
and
so
must
all
processes, before
arrives
up
If
you cannot
we
be,
to find
vapor in
quant-
tain, or
mud, a mixture
and water,
for certainly
neither
mud
or
heated so intensely.
craters in
Yet mud is ejected from these vast quantities, and there are so-called mud
little
else,
We
this
reasoning, for
is
it is
self-
generated beneath
all
these vaforce,
overwhelming
must originate in the vicinity of the materials that are ejected, and further, that this vast explosive force must necessarily be backed up by something permanent, otherwise these projectiles that sometimes are thrown from the mouths
of the craters several thousand feet above
tremendous
18,000
its
power.
summit, and,
one time,
in
it
VOLCANOES.
nine miles.
117
There can be no doubt, that the explosive power that projects the great rock from a volcano, must act in the same manner as the forces that drive the ball from the cannon, or the shell from the mortar. In all these cases, the explosive forces must be backed up by
a permanent resisting mass of solid material, entirely
sufficient to receive the recoil, otherwise this force could
not be communicated to
the
projectiles
hence, the
breech of
all
and surround-
made
of great strength,
and such of necessity must be the case, in order to impart the entire power of the explosion to the ball projected,
jectile
and
is
it
must be conceded
that,
manner.
In either
effectual in
case,
you must
it
first find
make them
sending
to its destination.
Hence, when
a
an
officer wishes to
bombard
and,
we
perceive, if a rock
of such
dimensions, was
to bear, in a
manner
anal-
be seen at a glance, that the vast exploding power that projected that rock, and
from these
craters,
118
masses of matter,
coil, in
VOLCANOES.
sufficient to receive the
may be imparted to
jectile.
in question could
have been
and
magni-
farther,
making a distance
somewhere
in all, of sixty
paroxysm
reacted with a power equal to that which hurled this vast missile against the resistance of gravitation, over
sixty miles,
and
The annexed diagram shows a section of the earth's crust upon a scale of forty inches or one half inch to a hundred miles. It represents the crust as forty miles in thickness, and the craters of the volcanoes reaching
through the entire distance, into the supposed mass of Thus at a glance we get fiery, unevolvcd matter below.
an idea of the igneous
theory concerning
volcanic
where no smoke
exists.
The reader
will
VOLCANOES.
119
supposed
sec-
that great distance, without destroying the entire fabas the necessary conditions in which forces are ap-
plied for
mense
magnitude,
except
by an extravagant waste of the powers so applied; as Hence, it is they w ould be expended in all directions. clear that volcanoes must have their origin amidst the great fires that are kindled, to produce the smoke and flames that belch forth from their summits, and they must burn where they can act upon the kind of matter that
7
is
if
when burned,
will leave
it
can be thrown
out,
and
of
all
come forth. If vapor or mud is ejected, there must be some causes that will produce those articles, and place them in the w ay before they can be vomited from the
T
crater.
origin of all
volcanoes,
is
neous matter,
formation, and, that allthematter ejected from the craters in all portions of the
this
grand
reservoir,
fact
120
VOLCANOES.
come from
diversified localities,
and
cavities
have
already
sufficientlv
all
that
may
exist cavities of
huge dimensions,
in the
overarched
by vast rocky concretions, there is no good reason to doubt. Although Mount iEtna may have thrown out a
quantity of matter, from time to time,
times
its
five,
or six, or ten
bulk.
meet
this
so
of every
For
from the
to
top,
matter
thrown
out.
Com-
bustible or coal formations are found in veins or stratifications; as these burn out, avenues are found through which lava and other substances may be urged forward by the continuous forces generated in the rear. It will
also be noticed that materials of this character which are
brought
expand
and greatly
VOLCANOES.
enhance their bulk, so that they might easily
crater below,
fill
121
all
the
and
mountain
top,
exude
from the mouth, or be thrown with great violence by explosive forces that are most naturally generated in the
this
absurd theory
we have
it is
to satisfy
the
reader that
any well established facts, or sound analogical reasoning, and we proceed to show, since neither the materials thrown up by volcanoes, nor the explosive forces that project them forth, can possibly exist in this vast interior, that there is ample room for both to be produced
within
the
it
confines
of this
hollow,
spherical
shell,
whether
It then
why
these
vast inte-
some rational
We
have discovered already the absolute necessity of constructing the foundations of this globe, upon which the
entire fabric rests, of the
ele-
We
designed
is
negative coldness, or
all
magnetic or pos-
and consequently
in a
in a state of perfect
symp-
tom of
up
in this
manner
11
122
VOLCANOES,
made
se-
cure,
and
it
is
Hence, we begin
may produce
by no means go down
we
we may suppose
and the
this shell
or spherical globe
is
may
which
to
dis-
phenomena.
Doubtless in very
many
places, far
underneath the surface of the earth, causes exist productive of heat and
fire,
but, as
we have
it
said, if fire
must have
it
to feed, as
can no
more
exist
in
the
depths of the
earth,
and produce
ashes and cinders, and melt the solid rock into lava, unless there are combustibles to feed those flames, than
it
and
if it
combustible matter
result,
at hand, a volcano
might be the
carry
because
this
in
positive
it
find vent,
and
doing so
to
with
it
way.
VOLCANOES.
123
Here we
cause,
find the
perfectly natural,
common
sense
why
so
many
the exhaustion of the combustible and inflammable materials that originally fed the fires that
produced them.
have been ex-
fires
might be considered
difficult
to find combustibles,
suffi-
many
keep them
in activity
from age
to age,
and
be
produce
all
many
of the burn-
however successful we
may
thrown
We admit
demands of iEtna, and Skapta Jokul, of Cotapaxi, and Popocatapetl, and all the other two hundred and twenty volcanoes of modern times, with the requisite fuel to
feed their eternal
to eight miles
fires,
of this
from the earth's surface, or that portion hollow sphere, to which we say the magnetic or
element
all is
is
active disturbing
confined, as
we aver
that
is
all
of matter
is
slumbering
Hence, all must originate nearer the surface where such elements can be found, and it might be proper for us
activities
to inquire
to light,
what materials,
fires.
scientific
that might
contribute
towards a supply of
124
VOLCANOES.
number of volcanoes are constantly active. Stromboli, upon one of the Lipari islands, has been observed for at
least
activity,
probably longer
but the lava
this class,
In Lake Nicnearly
is
never quiet.
Popocatapetl which
is
1,800 feet high, has been pouring forth smoke ever since
the conquest of Mexico, and also Kilauea in the Sand-
With
haps
all
many hundreds
or
may
be thousands of years.
So
it
fur-
by any means be supposed that earthquakes or volcanoes are mere mishaps or casualties, that they occur outside the great programme of events by mere accident that was unforeseen by the minds who were actually responsible for the projection and construction of These phenomena must have been perfectly the earth. understood, and are as necessary in working out the
It cannot
There
is
evidently as
much demand
for them,
as any others with which we are acquainted, and they cannot cease to exist, until all the purposes for which
full-
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est extent.
125
means
requisite,
ate
to
not
most probably,
would
distance,
the
all is
some great design, and for the accomplishment of some exalted purpose and it is idle to suppose that these phenomena will cease, until all their
in obedience to
;
"We find opposing elements everywhere, as far as we have traveled and explored the universe of causes and You may realize the positive and negative, the effects.
male and female, heat and cold, light and darkness, fire and water, caloric and vapor, magnetism and electricity,
and thus on to the end of the chapter, if we can find an These antagonisms exist, coming into belligerent, end. and amicable contact, the one with the other, and thus
producing the varied
activities that are
126_
VOLCANOES.
in,
working
and permeating
all
that
is
active
from the
Can we conclude
tagonistic elements do not exist beneath the earth's surface, within the limits of six or eight miles, in sufficient
quantities to
produce
all
the superficial
disturbances
is
finished
among
and
that
if
we can discover
find
forces of that
that
places,
be
difficult to
those
may
and
dense
from time
great
to time,
the
womb where
is
these
that com-
and atmospheric
and
has
we perceive
man
become acquainted
tasted or smelled.
with,
is
One quarter
supposed
to
be
silica,
flint.
Thus we have three-fourths of the material of this globe, two elements, and the greater portion of the other fourth is composed of fourteen othas science teaches in these
er elements,
nitrogen, carbon,
Take these
in
in different proportions,
VOLCANOES.
127
composed
We
ele-
ments,
all
and negative forces of which we entertain the least knowledge, all combustibles and all explosives, all gasses and
chemical compounds,
all
fluids
and
solids
mingled and
All
commingled
erine,
and forms.
and
all
its
hidden
What
of the
ton,
is
little
harmless
swamp
carrying
dis-
may and
struction
their arrival?
They were a
in
an
may
require, in pre-
128
cisely the
firp or
VOLCANOES.
nitro-glycerine
no
difficulty in
exploding these
it
necesis
and
it
fully
equal
to all
be contiguous
to
to the earth's
surface.
We may
appeal
made concerning
plainly
listen
with
of bygone centuries.
The
secondary or
ors,
asunder piece-meal
ele-
They teach
also, that
gathered together
in the
upon
high
its
many
instances mountain
in
terrific forces
nature,
have raised them from their quiet resting-place, and exposed thein to the view of inquisitive
in
work
for all
the data he
may
This work
VOLCANOES.
is
129
of the
who have written upon this department of human knowledge both in Europe and America. We learn
ablest authors
may
We
also
petroleum,
have
entered
into
extended investigations,
and, very
many
of
satisfactorly,
rich treasures,
for
not
tom of the ocean. Prof. Denton remarks that they existed and performed their immense labor from the bottom of the Silurian to the very top
and authors
miles, thus
who
live,
or have lived,
Sad above this, a coal formation that may be another mile or more in depth, that is, the coal may exist in layers or
stratifications alternately wdth shales or underclays, for
that or even a
still
greater distance.
w^e
Now,
to
if
we look
all
about
us,
we think
may
produce
130
VOLCANOES.
Denton who has taken great interest in the "The oil bearing rocks are of great thickness and vast extent, from the base of the Silurian to the top of the Devonian, is, we know, veritable
Prof.
oil
territory
the
oil
in all
the
As
one-half the continent, the possible oil ground immense extent; we shall burn it for fuel as well Steamboats will cross the ocean by as for illumination. its aid, and locomotives run more swiftly than before, nor does the free flowing wells give us any idea of the amount of this material which the earth contains. Many limestones and sandstones are saturated with oil. Bituminous shales abound from which twenty to sixty
is
of
gallons of
oil
may
I saw
bed of bitu-
minous
and
contains
much more
oil
We cannot
suppose that
up these deposits,
America, where observations have been made, are so impregnated with coral oil, shall we not conclude that
and
may we
formations of
this
under the
depths of the sea, undisturbed by any paroxysm of nature, are equally well supplied
by
this oil
product of the
VOLCANOES.
coral insect?
131
As we have
compelled to
ist
what connection
ble materials.
It has
may have
production emanating
from
coal,
but
it
may
as
it is
conceded
in
very
many
properties in the
stance.
tities
oil,
it
Although
may
vegetable
by no means precludes
an animal product,
may
also be
you
find
certain processes,
may
why
Here we may be permitted to quote in support of this idea: "Although it is generally the product of vegetation,
it is
not invariably
is
so.
In Albert county,
New
coal.
Brunswick, there
feet
wide which
is filled
It has
fifty feet,
depths.
petroleum, and
uct.
of,
132
VOLCANOES.
There
is
in
in Col-
The
New
Brunswick.
The bituminous
discovered yet.
We
the ground that future generations must waken/' All this would indicate that the bituminous properties in
the animal
oil, is
designs.
made
etable
to
amount of
this
much needed
article.
If the
minous properties of this animal product which has been accumulating through the interminable ages that have passed away, since the commencement of the Silurian
deposit.
The
single
page upon
VOLCANOES.
133
But these
little
liv-
and
to
depositing their
modicum
of
these deposits
incumbent
this
territory.
if
It is
they
must be limited
said
is
logic period.
Red Sand
Stone, and
its.
all
It will
and narrow
extent, and
in
to activity in
the year
of
ashes
and cinders
that
cities,
Pompeii
and they
period of remarkable
12
134
activity,
VOLCANOES.
ejected
the
mind with
in
The
roofs of
in,
crushed
houses at forty miles distance, were and rendered uninhabitable by the weight
fell
of ashes that
upon them.
fell
It has
been calculated
upon
this occasion, to
have cov-
depth, or
made
mountain
Mont Blanc.
Many
other volcanoes
those sub-
ing
We
feel the
utmost confidence
in
men
will
be compelled, at no distant
and they
tity.
coal deposits
But
measures
it
has been
cav-
discovered by
observation,
may
exist interminable
bituminous shales, or clays equal to cannelite or any other coal for burning, entirely sufficient to supply all the
demands of all the volcanoes that ever did, or ever will Although we modestly express an opinion that exist.
petroleum has had very much
to
do
in the
formation of
to
seem
be of
VOLCANOES.
135
however that may be, there must, without doubt, exdeeply buried and scattered
The palpable reason why we are not better acquainted with the exclusively animal coals, is the fact of their lying deeply hidden by the
the earth and under the sea.
It will
the req-
all
the volcanoes in
make
we
utterly ignore
of animal
oil
or petroleum
for
it is
utterly impossible to
fire,
and then we have only charcoal or lignites, and they must remain such forever, unless saturated by some more
powerful bituminous product than exists in wood; and
will
it
Carboniferous period,
mod-
ern forests.
When
this
matter
is
by the petroleum
is
itself,
why we
of coal beds,
that
it
it
deposits, or that
136
tion.
fields,
VOLCANOES.
It is
in the coal
its
and overcome by this mixture of shales and clays, and subjection to magnetic and electric action, during
And,
as
we have been
it
told, that
Si-
we
be-
territory.
in activity
from the
inter-
work
has
been during
deposits.
all
the vast
sedimentary
to
get some
which
supplies
self-same
in activity.
by no means solid, but vast cavities may be found, some of which have apertures that reach the surface, and may be explored for very long tortuous distances; and it is quite possible that the smoke that issues from
may
it
originate
in
the
dis-
and that
finds its
way
to the
chambers
past.
that
in
VOLCANOES.
137
some means, become closed up while the fires were burning, gasses would necessarily accumulate that must find vent, and fearful disturbances would doubtless ensue.
That there are great unknown
.
cavities
beneath the
earth's surface,
is
also
West
Indies, Lisbon,
it is
if
ing below,
to
earth or
had been
solid,
cavities into
which
We trust
it will
of lava, and
which come
tinct.
must cease
to
He
amount
of fuel
ful
must necessarily be provided before such wonderresults can be produced in any portion of the material
It
realms.
to present this
in activity a
raging
fire
within
the bowels of our globe from age to age, where no particle of fuel of
any
was
first
kindled.
We
have
138
devoted
ject,
all
EARTHQUAKES.
the space
it
we can possibly
by no means exhausted, but we doubt not other minds will seize upon the few ideas presented, and elaborate them to an extent that may ultimate in
and find
throwing an increasing flood of light upon
difficult
this hitherto
matter.
CHAP. V
EARTHQUAKES.
Earthquakes have been of such frequent occurrence
and
so destructive
and wide-spread
in their influences as
to receive a large
minds, and
it
amount of attention from scientific would seem that those who have had time
for this line of investigation
and
for
extended research into the various physical pheof the earth, ought to be able to give us a clear
nomena
and lucid understanding of the causes that are prominent in the production of such terrific superficial
turbances.
dis-
But we
some
treat-
upon earthquakes by the learned, will give the reader more than a lengthy catalogue of those that have
from
time
to
occurred
EARTHQUAKES.
139
the waves of motion or vibration, the amount of buildings shakon down, and general
ies
damage done
all
to the cit-
num-
any, and
is still left
any knowl-
Even
mind,
upon earthquakes to a description of the phenomenal phases, and scarcely ventures an opinion concerning their producing causes, or any of their varied
treatise
operations,
his
own
vision, or of
those from
as he
ries
whom
Deeply
had penetrated by his researches, into the mystethat abound in the realms of nature, he was eviterrific disturbances,
ophy of those
self
their visible
We
it is
many
very extended
Our
friends
who endorse
the
fire
field
and
know
of none ex-
fire
140
rily
EARTHQUAKES.
conclude the cause must originate in that.
arise here,
But
query might
ety
if
our friends
may
much
for if the
by
enveloped as a kind
what should have hindered those earthothers from being universal also, and
quakes, and
all
Can they
crust,
tell
us
why
to a superficial disturbance
earth's
this dis-
which
turbance originates,
it
so
tire superficial
upon which
it is
its
pow-
ers
We
will
be to give a reason
its
should be
is
limited in
homoge-
repose; or
why
all
if this
equidistant from
the
all
vibrations of the
earth in
San Francisco, or
at
some
and we know nothing of any such disturbance in Sacramento and Bucfa is the case in any portion of the
:
world where
slight
EARTHQUAKES.
occurrence, and
it
141
to
will
fully established.
The conclusions of these learned men are really very curious; one author considers " Thecrusttobe brimming
full of
molten lava,
upon
would be
Anothcrust,
may
and from contraction or some other cause, vast impending rocks of 100,000.000 toris in weight, may become detached and fall into the boiling flood below, creating such a terrible commotion in the molten mass, as to be experienced upon the exterior surface in the form of a
fearful earthquake."
It
thor meant this for a grim jest upon a very grave subject,
Which
of these
is
so
brimming
who
If
tells
we
are
bound
all
to
the
grand source of
ties of substances that have been thrown out since the formation of the crust, must necessarily have produced very extensive vacancies; as, the overwhelming quanti-
ties
142
time,
EARTHQUAKES.
must have required a largely multiplied amount of
combustibles to produce them, and the vast and continuous clouds of dense
and other elements that have escaped, and, we must conclude in that case the vacancy beneath the crust
must have assumed very enormous dimensions. We further discover, if rocks fall from the superincumbent
mass, by the force of gravity, then
all
materials de-
geometrical
center, which, in
that case,
crust.
it
However small
compelled
would be
grand
to equalize itself
upon
ail
hang suspended
if
these tremendous
into
may
fall
the great
the au-
would be interesting
to
know how
We
do
we should be glad
to the
to ascertain
float
We
fluid,
of molten
EARTHQUAKES.
the crust, and
143
we think our author must arrive at the same conclusion, consequently, it would not float, but sink, and this might interpose a difficulty in the early
formation of the infant crust
It
immense
formed
at
one time
it
if
we admit
by contracit
tions
cific
and
would sink
center,
It
would form
itself.
in the
these
As
very
evils
many
charge
the seeming
ir-
humanity endures,
regularities
fa-
whom
they consider
and have
so
the
it is
fearful
miseries
that
are
en-
between these unhappy effects, and the personage upon whom they are charged. So, when scientific men
144
learn
that
EARTHQUAKES.
a
an earthquake occurred at Lisbon, which city, and extended over into Af-
upon that
territory
the Atlantic,
many
West
Indies,
extending
to the
its
and south
ef-
and
and quite
likely if
existed
it
permanency of
We
purposes, and
to
perform
all its
its
propulsion in
orbital
as
we cannot
If
we
abundance,
in
the super-
curred.
will
It can by no means be doubted that forces that move a world at the rate of 1,000 miles per hour
its
upon
axis,
when properly
applied, to
its
cause a
little
motions in
EARTHQUAKES*
crust,
its
145
fissures in
surface.
It
is
may
be
many
elements in the
if
we would have
it is
the meat
if
in
which
contained, and
is
there
ly shell that
must be
If
brought
there
of consequences.
men
#ay where
the
workmen
are engaged
in this unfin-
That
world
is
no person who looks upon it with an intelligent If we take a eye, can entertain a shadow of doubt. survey of its exterior superficies as it appears to-day, we
shall
find
erts,
cliffs,
or in a
more
inferior
to
flourish.
We
is
man needs
to take
When we come
may be
13
146
ligent
EARTHQUAKES.
in im-
Men seem
and
to
establish in their
wander out into the mazes of darkness, own minds many an imaginary hyfor the
many books
come
little
by more
intelli-
After Dr. Harvey discovered the fact of the circulation of the blood through the arteries
and
veins,
he
that
may be
possible that
men
the
human system, and it would seem very probable the human organization had inherited all its powers and
this
functions from
earth.
If
we
many
of the puz-
phenomena now
so
embarrassing
to the student,
;
may
and
of the
known
EARTHQUAKES.
facts
147
and principles in the great and universal realms. Earthquakes and volcanoes very frequently seem to
for
act in concert,
tionship
each
and possess a sort of sympathetic relaother, and hence they have been
attributed to
one
common
cause
that
is
considered
It
production of both.
effects
they are
entirely dissimilar
and rock suddenly with violent shocks, sometimes opening its crust into yawning chasms that admit towns and
islands,
activity, a variety of
min-
eral
are,
no doubt, gen-
erally
As
a cause in the
pneumonia or nervous affection, and the cause of paralysis might not produce vomiting, yet it is quite possible
that a patient
ties at
may
be
afflicted
by two
might seem
of the other.
the most
dif-
diagnose his
be surprised,
or quakes
if
we need not who attempt to feel mother the earth, when she groans
afflict his
patients; so
consequence of
still
internal
disturbances,
should experience
These causes
lie
148
EARTHQUAKES.
all
their
most carefully
truth.
We may
as all other
them,
may
be found in abundance
They
who seem
to
earthly things.
work connected with these phenomena than with the operations of any other portion of the realms of nature. It is not by chance that spring and summer, autumn and winter, succeed each other in the periodical revolutions of the earth, or that the lightning flashes are be-
fire
our dwell-
to its foundations.
Ey
no means; these and other like phenomena are simto satisfy the
requirements or imperious
is
demands
stantly
con-
may
be found in
another.
If the old
EARTHQUAKES.
ish
149
needed
kingdom;
subsist,
may be
es-
among
It
may
be oxygen, or nitro-
some other life-giving essence that is partially exhausted, and we discover the means are amply provided, by which these life essences can be ob-
pre-
must be the
said,
element of
all
negative properties
existing undisturbed
by
we have
and
when
positive forces
and enter
it
to
continued
change.
We
called electricity,
its first
is
resolved to
it
principles
and
all
150
EARTHQUAKES.
to control the
and atomic
particles that
Thus we
see, if
produced from
electricity,
must
structure, but
we must keep
and
ment, magnetism,
conjoined,
is
any
active result
Now,
pervade
it
will
all
surface,
and from
thence to the limits of the atmosphere, but, in an inactive state, only so far as the positive
element extends.
influences,
Where
we
may
stillness
and locked
in the frozen
em-
Here we
find a
permanent
we may
positive
activities,
down
basis
in the
upon which
be disturbed or endangered.
It is a well
everywhere
EARTHQUAKES.
tion of the magnetic needle.
151
We
;
down
to the
lowest depths of
all activity
for,
what
else
produces
any
activity,
down
in these
positive
their
the various
phenomena
surface
?
that
men have
It
would seem
not.
But, we have
still,
in
addition
the offspring
and
this
diffuses itself
exist,
interweav-
ing
its
etherealized threads at
and atmos-
all
tendency to dissolution.
Explosions of the Electro -Magnetic elements are not
of unfrequent occurrence in the atmosphere, as almost
and
effects,
not only
human
lives,
152
EARTHQUAKES.
to
expend
their fury
upon the
Not long
in the
was witnessed
T
by which large quantities of rocks were torn from the brow of the mountain by the force of the explosion, and scattered upon the
highlands, upon the
river,
Hudson
some small
vessels
we have
explosions that
may we
still
stances result in
more serious
effects, as
we may
may have
sults,
terrible in
its
consequences.
we cannot come
to
an understand-
in
the Elec-
elements
may
EARTHQUAKES.
153
and scattering these forces in every direction from the We point where the concussion or explosion occurs.
express the opinion that the Electro-Magnetic forces in
a state of activity, unattended by any other explosive
element, are silent in their operations, and never accom-
may be
partially pro-
One method
are
enemy
that
to
approaching the
harbor of a maritime
city, is
place a number
of torpedoes in the
channel or as nearly
may
ments
in the atmosphere,
and
in the earth,
which cause
destruction.
those ele-
ments
154
EARTHQUAKES.
come
in contact,
and explosion
at
any time,
we readily discover
it is
that there
may
our globe.
the
ample room
and marvelous strength of these forces to expend themunder such circumstances they cause
we may
not be surprised
if
and cause
distance.
all
We may
all
the
power of
all
and darkness, and of all positive and negative powers from which they are eliminated, and if nature in working out her grand purposes, has anything of large import to perform, she must call upon these two great powers; otherwise she certainly
would
call
to
superior to
fire,
because
it
penetrates where
magnetism
superior to
caloric
EARTHQUAKES.
for the
155
same reason, and operates in a field that caloric So is steam more powerful than water, and exerts its influences in a manner that is impossible with the aqueous element from which it proceeded.
does not enter.
Electricity
is
fore remarked,
ments
in nature, that
may
accomplish
all
those feats of
aston-
why
for
unknown
wherever they are needed, and what forces can you find in any portion of the broad universe, that will prove
their superiors
?
you you
will
be compelled to
upon them
for aid.
If
pose an earthquake
is
necessary,
we may be
fully as-
We
it is
pos-
may
be enhanced by other
agencies,
with,
and as we have noticed by coming in contact and igniting and exploding other elements.
that spiritual essences which have been
We apprehend
156
to the surface,
EAKTHQUAKES.
be confined in the depths beneath.
We
take
conclude
ite to
if
place at that point which released such essences or etherealized matter that requires exit, then such essences or
forces would
come
forth, even if
it
and
as forces
and elements of
different por-
we may
ail
we have upon
powers amply
sufficient to
produce
We
that
and the effect would be comparatively trivial, but place amount beneath the earth's surface in an extended
and ignite those explosive materials by an inconpowerful Electro-Magnetic battery, we
to
cavity,
ceivably
then
be very terrible.
that such
When we
consideration
elements exist in
the inflammable
ities
maj be found
in
and explosive gasses, that large cavwhich they are stored away, and
currents
are
that
the Electro-Magnetic
permeating
that
we have
occasional trem-
surface,
we be surprised
we are contem-
EARTHQUAKES.
that
first
157
tivities
but
all
There
occurred.
All we require
is
to
become
familiarized,
and
around
to
truth.
to discover
how an
intelligent
man
operations
of the Electro-Magnetic
them make an attack upon a sturdy oak of the forest, and in the twinkling of an eye, rend it from its topmost branches down to the roots in a thousand fragments, scattering them to the four winds, and
still
why
re-
none have as yet been more extended, or shaken more territory, than is occupied by the Electro-Magnetic currents, and if there is any wonder, it is that so
many
we
of the shocks
terwoven by others of the aural element that are crossing at right angles,
making
a complete
all
web of interwo-
and that there are very many of these webs both above 14
158
EARTHQUAKES,
real bolts
and beneath the surface of the earth. They are the and bands that hold the entire superstructure
together, as
tion of the
we have
mighty
said,
fabric.
we not
liable to
extend the
as
an
to
electric
shock
may
be communicated upon
wires
maybe
all
and
and produce
surface.
their disastrous
consequences
upon the
Thus we discover that the disturbances do not origand earthy particles of our
in the spiritual essences of the
is
dom,
whole fabric
If
and
when such
bolts
any of the
and pre-
intact,
vent
we may
fearful cracks,
and that
cities
lowed up
in the cavities
beneath.
We
may
discover that
within reach of
if
all
EAETHQUAKES.
159
pendous work that can present itself tion, then we shall be compelled to
to
human
observafeeble,
call
upon
puny
children, to perform
is
We
r
is
utterly impossible
mind
to discover
upon the
with
all
the various
phenomena
to
physical disturbances.
It does not
seem
all
an exposition of
theory,
phenom-
we have
their production.
to present
purpose
some
mighty problem
fications as
who have
character.
We may
say in conclusion
when we
arrive at a clear
160
EARTHQUAKES.
exist-
and peculiar
we may
many
Every an-
all its
peculiarity of construc-
and
if it is
must
have something of
this character,
for
it
assuredly could
did not possess
it
an eminent degree.
it
Then we think
ical structure must
will
be
phys-
endowed w ith a mighty nervous system permeating every portion of the alluvial and
also be
enwraps the granitic frame work in the same manner as the bony frame work of the animal is covered by a complete envelope of fleshy or muscular fibre. If any little disturbance of this nervous network in
terior,
the animal or
human
structure,
is
attended bv tremors,
ele-
why
ments
sults?
We
many
trust
may
phenomena
scientific observers,
and
al-
we
throw a flood of
reflective minds.
many
CHAP.
VI.
exist everywhere,
and negative, the male and female eleand permeate all things throughThese elements pervade and the animal kingdoms
all
they exist in
the complicated
ma-
chinery that has been brought into activity, in the production af our earth, with
all its
varied appurtenances.
in
The impon-
But
for a continuation of
its
revolutions,
itself
and
rest
in the
quiet embrace
of
eternal death.
all
permeate
all
in,
spirit-
parcel of the great w hole of spiritual and material existence from which
all
162
FORCES.
I
ments, and in
all
and inquiries
in
in her labo-
much
that
is
idea constantly
that
all
done from
all eternity.
Whenever
we
lose sight
liable to
may
all
known
and
all
all facts
phenomena originated
to
called immaterial,
results
is
Hence,
it
im-
we would reason upon, and understand clearly those things we do see, that we should by some means form an acquaintance with the realm of causes, that we cannot see, and become familiarized with the
spiritual essences in
which
all
these causes
lie
hidden.
people
many thousand
years
in
FORCES;
tal
163
powers of their elders, the children of a larger growth. There was evidently a desire upon the part of some persons in the long ago to answer the queries, and solve
some of the
present
difficult
themselves to
minds have early learned to inquire who made the world and themselves, and how and why they were left to
drift
its
God
our father,
made
it
in six
man from
upon the But the mind still unsatisfied, queries who is God, and who made him and endowed him with power and ability to build worlds, and people them with And the inquirer has animals, and men and women? been put off with the remark that hidden things belong to God, and revealed things to man, and that it is wicked to ask questions that are beyond our understanding, and that we must be satisfied with what is given us to
find ourselves here as the result of that act,
part of God.
know.
We
it is
it
matters,
in
which
interest, for
causes and various forces that were brought into activity in the
its
multitudinous inhabitants.
So every question
is
perti-
164
FORCES.
if
any manner,
life
with
us,
all
possibilities.
Therefore,
if this
God made
and
own
likeness,
why
should we
also, or
any
whom we
It
why
whom he formed
in his
own im-
why he
esting
subject of our
it
origin
inter-
We
make much
his,
claim
as
any and
as
it
all
concerning
in the
coming ages,
will ex-
push
and researches
in all directions,
and use
available
means
in
mind
we can
we need go no
effects
back
some of the
problems presented,
the present age are
to a satisfactory solution.
still
We
of
FORCES.
posite questions,
165
all this
pano-
rama of magnificent
forms.
the..
theological world;
same unsatisfactory answer comes from God made them; and the philosfield
of
mazy
darkness,
more spiritual causes that have been productive of such grand results, and so each succeeding generation in their turn, offer us a new set of opinions in relation to many of the facts and phenomena of which the human vision
takes cognizance.
We
male or female
may
we
exist separate
it
and
trust
will
be found that
aggregations of matter
molding
all
The
to the ac-
may
may
visible,
material
forms, then
it
such forms
or aggregated
atoms do not add to the original power of the pre-existing spiritualalized forces.
Thus we see
all
forms or
es-
166
spiritual essence or
FORCES.
taining
as
all
now
we have
globe was
and being
we
trust
we
magnetism and
electricity are
essentially
forces,
although they
may
be a
If we admit that material atoms are eternal entities, we may well suppose that the more etherialized essences
that
may
exist independent
eternal
also,
which being
jectors and builders of our world, must have been spiritual beings
now seem
permeate
and giving form to the more materialized elements. Hence, there must have been previous to this visible, material globe, a spiritual structure of the same form, and
FORCES.
similar dimensions
167
and dimensions
is
composed.
In other words,
must have used such materials as they could handle and control, and with which they could come into contact;
they must of necessity, at
first,
have constructed a
es-
more
that
atoms.
Spiritual
workmen
better, they
may
more powerful
they
may
all
They may
and
all
other
they
may make
a complete nervous
network or skeleton of such materials, and no human any such world was in existit might contain all the forces and powand movements, that it ever would contain, after this nervous elemental framework should be completely
ence, although
ers,
It
contained
all
the
life
it
came
materialized,
168
that
life
FORCES.
all
other opposing
elements,
might
elements, as
we have
in
may be
tred,
kept
activity.
There must be
life
and
death, cold and heat, light and darkness, love and ha-
joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure. Each element must have its opposing force, each positive must have its negative, and each male its female, or all things would stagnate, become torpid and die.
So we perceive
entirely de-
in
which
it is
they
of these
concomitants.
There can be no such thing as centrifugal force, until you first give some body of matter a tangential motion
it is
by no means an
also entirely departicles,
and
no gravity,
it is
istence entirely
inertia, or the
called vis
power of lying
We
little
to
do
FORCES.
the configuration was a well established
fact.
169
If
til
we
we
shall
be com-
more potent in producing results, and in our researches we shall, no doubt, find the above named forces acting in a less important capacity, of which we may speak
hereafter.
It
would seem that a clearer understanding of the all the great forces and powers, the laws
exist
all
ma-
and open
to us
causes,
grand discovery, will arrive at conclusions with vastly less labor and study, and with increased assurances when thus found, of their correctness and greater proximity to real truth. Reasoning from the material plane, we are continually involved in the mists and shactows and clouds that are thereunto attached, because we
are only in the realm of
effects,
away from
more
spiritualized
We come
now to
170
FORGES.
may
we wish to obtain the alcoholic essences from the grain, we must bring some solvent to bear sufficiently powerful
to separate the spirit;
tion,
this is usually
done by
is
distilla-
and
caloric
is
brought
Caloric
is
to bear.
A
is
somewhat
known
vegetables.
or heat
vapor which
by a
It also
man
or
woman
escapes
by
spirit.
We may
primates and ultimates, simples and compounds, have existed in the granite,
it
will
and
may
by
rock.
that at
some period
was gran-
FORCES,
ite,
171
and that the sedimentary deposits could not have been formed unless some powers or forces had been
brought to bear
sufficient to tear those rocks in pieces,
and dissolve the atomic particles of which they were Such being the case we very readily discovcomposed. er that this operation would have released those finer essences or gasses that we may term the spirit of the
rocks.
is
it
plain that
in
an eternal
prison house, unless the atomic particles of the granite could have been entirely decomposed, and when that
all
essential elements
might
this source,
stratified
made
their escape
from the
dis-
be seen, or tasted, or smelled, and that are not recognized in any manner, by our unaided sensuous nature
and carbon, and those gasses or essences evidently bear the same relationship to the mineral kingdom, that certain forces existing in the
posed, and
all this
that
it
172
FORCES.
it
the animal or
human
endowed with
spiritual es-
were
received,
an analogous character
also,
endowed with
and negative, the male and female forces are essentially the spiritual powers that gives the great superstructure, life
all
and
activity,
to
perform
earth's history
mind should revert back to that period in the when all the elements and essences with
so beautifully clothed
which
it is
and enveloped
at the
we
No
mountain ranges
No
We might
undisturbed harmony held universal control, and nothing would have greeted the vision but a smooth contin-
io
the future.
FORCES.
178
to this period
expended
their
position
that had been accumulated and placed in by the spiritual mechanics and workmen who had been engaged upon this grand superstructure. But the great positive and negative forces were increasing in their influence and strength, and evidently preparing for the mighty struggle. Had some of our modern conservatives stepped upon
elements
be
Still,"
slumbers.
But
as progressive
development
an
eter-
during
all
and march forward in the terrific work of dissolution, and until the exterior portions of this rock-ribbed shell
succumbed
left in
Out of
this
upon the
glory that
surface,
began
to
As
upon the earth's surface, many mated elements, among which are
remarkable
fire
subli-
174
FORCES.
to yield to
and the weaker is always compelled the stronger whenever they come together.
fire,
simply told us of
formation
its effects,
without giving us
constituent
concerning
its
essences.
much inThe
would
and
it
little
farther.
We
may
call it the
may
be considered
of
electricity.
The one
so little
its
understood, yet so
operations
may
be con-
may
spirit
seem
to be scattered profusely
Water
forces,
is
acted upon,
and
in
positive
as gravitation,
or perhaps
atmosphere.
may produce
destructive.
violent agitation,
it
and
activity
in
ex-
gravitation
combined with
Heat conjoined
it
in suffi-
a solvent for
much
and
it
becomes destructive of
all
forms of or-
FORCES.
175
it is
ganized
life,
qui-
organisms.
But from
is
this
element
which
is
negative forces,
may
it is
and we
find that
disappears, hence,
power
in such a
manner
as to
eliminate this
element called vapor, which when evolved, is so much more expansive and powerful in its nature, for vapor when found in conjunction with the requisite amount of caloric becomes exceedingly active and forcible. It has risen entirely above gravitation, become superior to that subordinate force and knows no up nor down; it has become an etherealized power independent of all more materialized elements and acts upon them in a manner that renders it of immense value to the human race.
It
is
which
upon
it
this
only
of
expansion in consequence
particles, but
the
sublimation
of
its its
conjunction
think there
We
is
an
upon some subjects that seem to need illumination, and perhaps we may claim the indulgence of the
176
FORCES.
in
our exposition.
relationship exist-
in
different conditions.
It
is
if
latter,
it
will
common
fire
result
is
obtained, to
"find
a solution of the
whole matter.
elements,
We
that
must terminate
er.
and the
neath, and
we perceive the
iron
is
a perfect safeguard
between these two contending parties; tbey cannot possibly injure each other, and no result would follow, but
for the fact that
from
this
is
so-called
fire
which cannot
es-
an element whose
integument
more sublimated,
FORCES.
that enters the steam boiler,
177
is
now performing
an
amount of the necessary labor of humanity, and contributing so largely to supply their accumulating wants.
We
ity,
upon, at
the one
tent of sublimation,
gradually
which
it
element by which
er,
was enabled
state.
more etherealized
after
it
We find
its
quite inactive,
and steam
has performed
labor,
and mingled
it
its
power and
activity.
We may
all
inate steam
so
we elimby a dissolution of the particles of water, we may by dissolving the particles of steam, obtain
is
but
the
is
known
as electricity.
This
may be
is
for, it
may
electrician
who
there
to
178
which
is
FORCES.
now brought
of ways in
promoting the
and
the
subserving
the purposes
other
of enlightened
humanity.
of
Upon
the
hand
by
dissolution
sublimated
spir-
particles
of caloric,
positive
itualized
magnetism,
the
its
character,
is
the
We
now perceive
that these
all
other
more gross and materialized, and consequently occupy a condition of inferiority, and
may
We may
positive
er in
and negative forces which rise, one above anothspiritualization and power by a sub-division of
becomes a solvent, capable of
dis-
FORCES.
179
in a similar capacity
upon the
va-
electricity.
On
we may
fire
anni-
thority
when properly applied, and exert positive auover that more subordinate element, and that
same authority over
caloric,
and that
in
are
magnetism
in the other.
What now
an explosion?
little
understood at the
present time, for occurrences of that kind are by no means unfrequent, and certainly men would avoid them if they comprehended the subject, as somewhere there must be a remedy, and at some time the danger of exIt is found plosions must comparatively cease to exist.
that electricity
is
steam
boiler, as
power
erate magnetism.
requires
is
suffi-
that
incompetent to
we think that
science will sometime reveal the fact that Electro-Magnetic forces produce the
explosion,
may
will effectually
a catastrophe.
much more
rapidly
180
FORCES.
or placed
upon some non-conducting mamanner the aural element has been produced bj artificial means, from magnetism and electerial
;
when insulated
and, in this
tricity thus
It has
re-
also
ceiver or chamber,
and cut
off
and that
it
cannot be condensed, as
it
becomes simply
which
the same
may
manner
So we
it
gasses, namely,
electricity.
is
the
the
is
also
and power
to steam.
For
experiment has proven that you cannot increase the expansive power of steam, after you have attained 1,200
of heat, and further that steam and electricity are both
requires both
to
produce
through
We
by
that
spiritual
essences
all
which takes place at the death of the human body, and which permits the spiritual essence to take its departure,
and leaves the material form
to dissolve,
it
and
affinitize
belongs, so the
FORCES.
positive element or that spirit which brings
activity to the steam, departs Avhen
labor,
it
181
power and
its
has performed
and passes from the cylinder intotho atmosphere. The mineral kingdom from its earlier or primeval
and chang-
The
to a
and hence the earth has progressed from a lower to a more advanced and spiritualized condition, and hence it is changing form at the present by the same universal law, and will until all of matter, becomes more etherealized, and less gross than at the present. How far this spiritualization of matter shall extend, we leave the reader to ascertain by his own reasoning, but we say, if progressive development is a universal principle, and all things come under the influence of this law, and we are
convinced that original gross materials have been refined
to a certain extent, then we may expect work will go on through the eternities of the future, and each one can form his own conclusion w^ith It w ould certainly appear, taking regard to results.
and purified
that this
this
all
in active operation,
We
called
sal-nitre,
ten of
182
FORCES.
,
sulphur, and fifteen charcoal which
is
we have manufac-
character.
least,
said to have an
explosive force of at
and
I believe
science
Would
the
if
fire
Would
produce any
such result upon charcoal or sulphur or sal-nitre, separate under ordinary circumstances?
it is
by no means. Then
er
and
may under
proper
when
let loose
we
shall
energies
of
spirit of the
gunpowder passes
was composed.
Science
quantity of powder
FORCES.
183
it
and that
all
was composed,
will
it
may
be commingled by a
little
left
the mass
by
the explosion.
to this objection,
we
say,
has
left at
is
till
then,
be proven that no
spirit or
would then
also,
for saving
We simply say
tion,
to its destination,
ments
will
same material, but there are plenty of the same eleleft, that may enter into and take possession of
if it
office.
Thus, we think
itive
will
in
in
and negative forces mingle with all inferior powers nature, and they are constantly brought into activity
for
But
magnetism and
electricity,
would have no life, and gunpowder and other explosives would possess no
expansive, active force, because
184
FORCES.
and
it is
all
the wonderful
effects.
We
have
in our researches,
seemed to arrive
in
all
at
one
prominent
of nature,
fact,
the realms
in
that
activity,
more sublimated or
like granite rock,
become
refined.
in the
embrace of
you ascend
and
more
life,
activity
Yet the
in the
there
is
universe, and
might have
past,
it
would never-
be found within
its
precincts.
difficult to find
Hence,
it
will
be
there
is
any
where matter terminates and such line, commences, or which is matter and which is spirit.
and
tell
spirit
For
it
we
shall
find
whether we
call
it
matter or
spirit,
is
is
and
tin;
material
is
spiritual
undergoing
FORCES.
eternal progress.
isting in
185
The higher or more sublimated exand permeating the particles of the lower, the lower being acted upon, and controlled by the superior power of the more spiritualized essences that dwell in
them,
might be interesting
some of the
been made subservient in supplying the wants of humanity, for we dwell in the midst of these spiritual
sences, a combination of which enters very largely into
it
will
be perceived devoid of
life for
a single hour;
As a mechanical a variety of ways to our support. power the atmosphere has been made use of since the first windmill was erected, and successfully applied to
grinding and preparing food for our ancestors, they
this
al-
applied to
many purposes,
though
it is
Wind may be
force, yet
it
doubtless,
ively,
is
this
too fast
to
tain
and
fickle winds.
is
Water
able,
entirely superior as a
it is
cities
186
entirely
FORCES.
upon
this
power
as a basis.
Immense manu-
ment
water
to
is
amount of
activity,
it
seeks repose
We
ascends
elemental
as
we
find
this
so-called power,
is
property that
attached to
gross matter.
In
this
age of advancement,
to
men have
particles
resorted
more
or
generally
the
sublimated
of water,
to
vapor
in a
great
activity;
used by mechanics
many
purposes; be-
ary or
It
may
continent.
chanic,
may
their labors
The farmer, the manufacturer, or the mecall upon this force to aid in accelerating in an endless variety of ways, and find it a
in the
ready assistant
of arduous duties,
and were
humanity
to
be de-
necessarily
visit
could
our
We
exceedingly
dependent
FORCES.
187
upon this power for the production of a very large number of the necessary articles that are required for
lifeless.
so
we perceive that
in the appli-
we
not far
when we
shall be able to
make an
application of
machinery
will
and
men can
learn to gener-
many
men have
in
such a manner, as to
the performance of
in
mes-
Through these agents they hold ready concities, buy and sell
to all
manner of
trans-
so
may we
188
FORCES.
and the means by which they may procure their aid more economically, and control them more successfully ? We have learned that all these forces are composed of fluid particles, and that their power and activity depends upon their sublimation or fineness, and that we
better knowledge of these universal powers,
have
not
etherealization
of matter,
particles of
mag-
more
somewhere
is
in
spiritual,
material
atoms attain to
entirely be-
yond the comprehension of the human mind. In fact, it is extremely difficult for us to comprehend that matter
may
it
has
we may conclude
produced
that
still
exist,
in a similar
mansu-
Aura
named
forces,
more sublimated
cles,
it
in its character
and
acts
in
and
electric
fluids
that the latter forces have duties to perform in the physical organization,
They may
assist in the
life
digestion
of the
currents, in the
FORCES
tion of those
189
Bat
it
more
and
has
human
organization was
his
such matters,
we remark
that this
is
we
and other refined and etherealized elements is it is this which constitutes us living,
off
covering, throw
that subject,
while there
itual
is
no change whatever
or
more
refined organizations.
Men
will
some
190
the material, then
far less servile
all
FORCES.
fears will cease
in our world,
and there
will
be
bondage
and
less
reverence
This etherealized
essence which
is
the offspring of
by the male
in
frequently displays
this
its
glories
it
of
exhibits itself to
any con-
close interrelation
is
It
enables the more distant or exterior planets, and the interiors of all globes to enjoy a sufficiency of genial light
and warmth
There
is
to
supply
all their
solar influences.
this
work, we
may
pro-
elements
in refinement,
is
which
is
next
order below.
is still
particles,
to
to
and duties
be
performed
in
Nature's vast
realms,
beyond the
ability of
any of
FORCES.
the forces heretofore named, and hence one that
perior,
is
191
su-
all,
must be called
into requisition.
we pass the Electro-Magnetic, and arrive where we find a fluid so refined and
its
entertained within
embraces.
That
is,
at this point
and female
will
may engender
aura
is
in possession of both,
It is this
and
so
is
empyria
this
more
refined offspring.
trum
in the
colors.
This element
others that
many
colored rainbow.
If
earth,
we look abroad at nature's realms, upon our own we shall find vast multitudes of living organizait
tions, for
192
FORCES.
is
organic material.
to
ac-
and we cannot
is
capable of
in ex-
istence, a
may
be
formed,
life
and developed
which animal
can
be sustained, then we
the animal
may
conclude that
life
We have
various
effects are
is
produced upon
this earth,
and that
when such
adequate
to their
bringing
all
things by which we are surrounded, and which are so grand and beautiful, into their present condition, and each of nature's great powers or forces that we have
FORCES.
noticed, has acted in a separate
193
and
distinct capacity.
Now we
cupy a prominent
ing,
animated
great laboratory,
is
to
nomena
life
and permeates
ganized living forms, and this sublimated, most spiritualized fluid that diffuses itself through all nature, en-
life, is
and eminently
su-
power, to
earth.
all
known to
upon the
We
that out of
activity,
by an application of positive elements, come life, and light, that gradually and progressively, the
is
gross material
in
ele-
mental
Thus rising upon a graduated scale through the grand pyramid of positive and negative
its
own
distinctive duties to
treating,
tion
to infuse life,
animainto
and
come
the proper
fluences.
and
are susceptible
to its in-
17
194
FORCES.
fire,
caloric; on the
other hand, steam has more power than water, and elec-
all
these forces
seem
to
act
in
The
more
refined
its
and sublimated
to accomplish,
and we discover in the realms of nature, particular fields in which these several forces must be brought to
bear, in order to perform all that
is
necessary in the
still
great
mundane
is
work shop.
But we
discover
around us amidst
this universal
machinery, a higher
work that
being performed daily, at all times and in by some other power that must act in this superior capacity, and we are driven to the conclusion
all places,
is
that nature
to the
accomplishment of
and
still
more imlife
portant labor.
We
in
and scans attentively her pages, can deny the fact that her domain there must be a force which operates in
department.
this particular
We
show
their positions
and relationships
this
in these
pages, will look out into nature's open book for himself,
FORCES.
195
where he may observe the whole machinery in active operation, and where he will doubtless discover in the
varied departments of this earthly sphere, that certain
labor
is
to
produced.
provided to do
sults;
and these varied operations are being carried on continually, in the most harmonious manner. As, for
instance, the springs which are the sources of our rivers,
in the
water are found, enters into the constituent elements of the fluid particles, and performs his official duty of destruction
and
dissolution,
ascend and
float
away
in fleecy clouds
may
the mountain
side,
condensed
in a colder stratum,
and
descend again in the form of rain or snow, thus continually resupplying the waters of the mountain streams.
If
we wish an agent
but
it
by no means form
the
his desti-
combine
with electricity, and cause the vivid flash and the glar-
196
FORCES.
death in
its
rapid march.
The Electro-Magnetic
produce
this
ele-
in order to
marvelous reIf an
earthquake
is
necessary, and
them in this conwe may be asnection, even if sured that devoid of the great positive and negative forces, this mundane machine could not have been put
it
would be impossible
to present
we had the
ability; but
it
The
own
particular provits
own
enters
those
realms where magnetism can scarcely approach, and you will find this element displaying his wondrous powers
upon a
scale of
unequaled grandeur,
in the frozen
make
and burnish up the Arctic skies with the richly painted Neither glories and splendors of the Aurora Borealis.
can any other force enter into your physical system,
as-
sume the delicate duties it come at the bidding of the monarch that
throne of your intellectual kingdom, for
upon the
it is
well-known
we cannot
lift
a finger or raise an
arm
is
or a foot, unless
this ethereal
FORCES.
tion.
197
or
We
know
also,
derangement of the wires or system of nerves upon which this force travels and performs its varied duties
within us, that
we begin to
circulation
suffer,
is
and
so continue, until
a harmonious
restored
by a returning
element
is
wont
We
still
by the action of
be brought to
may
bear that
produce activity in the limbs of a dead frog, or of a dead man, although the nervous activities thus produced, are extremely transient; however, from
will
is
produced
to any extent whatever, we must conclude that the nerves are permeated by something analogous to the vitalizing fluid, or activities could not
And,
if
by
it
artificial
means,
this life
body where
there
had been
a power
it is
may be
all
amply able
to diffuse this
element
through
proper time, in the entire vegetable and animal world. Nor is it surprising, where we discover forces equal to
the performance of
all
may produce
this
grand
198
result,
FORCES.
vitality
We
this
scientific
whom
work
will
be able to
be performed,
may
be found in
cases
and the production of those effects and results, and that there must of necessity exist such a power in Hence, w e find this most this particular department.
T
negative forces,
summit of the grand superstructure of positive and whose potency is not only sufficient
under proper conditions,
make an
exhibition of
its
existence in the
fluid
atoms of white
light,
and paint
their constituent
defi-
ance of
This
all
life
its
grand insignia
in
remembrancer
will at
to
some
time,
and
vital essences
ried forms,
and
hausted
in
For
if
it
FORCES.
material has been etherealized, and contributed
199
its finer
beings
who have
lived,
to
inhabit
may
still more of the material world shall be applied in the If we pursue this train of reasonimg it same manner would seem possible that our globe at some period in the eternities of the future, might become so sublimated and
expanded
whole a suitable
things
Thus
all
may
con-
and
still
know no
We
apprehend that we
may be
far, if
all
we
cases
spiritual elements,
essences,
as
and fluid
particles,
being
permeated by
spirit entities,
positive ele-
of activity, while the negative are a mass of such entia condition of inactivity or rest; and, that the
we behold in the
its
hosts of
solar spots
evolutions
and
200
idea, as the reader
FORCES.
may
learn
by referring
to
page 104,
The eminent author could not conceive how evolutions of such immense magnitude could take place so rapidly by any of the ordinary forces that had come within the reach of
Celestial Scenery, in his great work.
human
comprehension.
He
evidently entertained
vague idea that the marvelous display of rapidly changing spots upon the sun's surface, or in
its
apparent
at-
We
making the assumption that this view of the subject is far more rational, and will furnish the world a clearer and more intelligent exposition of those strange phenomena, than any that have yet been presented for what but spirit intelligence with their wondrous activities, could perform evolutions so rapidly, and upon so grand a scale, as exhibited in those vast, moving spots
;
upon the solar surface many of which evidently larger than our globe, have changed positions, and disappeared
;
Then we may rationally conceive by the temporary absence shining host who inhabit the spiritof portions of that ual spheres of the monarch of day, and that in consein a
We may
and come
is
in
This
the
FORCES,
201
whole interior natures with admiration and reverence for those powers that have been competent to establish this magnificent and orderly arrangement of
heavenly bodies throughout nature's universal realms.
realis,
movements of the Aurora Bomarchings and countermarchings of intensely active, spiritual beings; and we
The rapid
transitional
would
tent,
have no
atmosphere or
many
times, previous to
some
Hence, they have been considered as portentous of war, and as human wars are not mere accidents, but are all planned in the spiritual
spheres, with great precision,
in the
it
may
management
of these
human
conflicts,
they find
it
necessary to practice some of the various military evolutions that are sometimes presented to the inner vision
it is
movements of
spiritual be-
becomes
However
all this
may
and
202
busily
FORCES.
engaged
in
and
if
much
is
to
be
accomplished.
For, as
we have before
stated,
every
and
if
these spiritual
to adjust the
ma-
terials in
may
safely
We
far,
before
we
human
manner
in
When we
we may
well
wonder how
leaf,
occupy
and we may very safely conclude that some intelligent power has had the supervision, and attended to the disposition of the multitudinous atoms of which the tree
is
composed.
nity, an infinite
all this; that,
The devout religionist says in his solemGod has watched over and supervised
by his all-seeing eye and the might of his wisdom and power, he is able to accomplish the minutia We think, of all this immense labor upon all worlds.
FORCES.
203
all
infi-
who must
necessarily have
and that
from the
Then,
conceded that
all
and
by competent spiritual mechanics, it will certainly become necessary that the mechanics or workmen should begin their labors at the time of the commencement
of the structure.
We
then perceive
it
quite possible
which seem
be real
of
to
may
of
spirit
in the construction
the time
and are
placed in full possession of every function that properly belongs to a perfect animal or
human
organization.
production requires
and
its
material,
labor be required in the construction of the most intricate and complicated piece of machinery that has ever
been produced in our world. For, by the most caretul scrutiny of the anatomist and physiologist, who employ
a lifeiime in the study of the various functions of th6
animal or
human
structure,
it is still
impossible to arthat
is
all
contained
204
in this
FOKCES.
complex piece of mechanism, and to acquire a knowledge of the manner in which the various materials have been aggregated, and brought together in their
peculiar forms and organizations.
Strange as it may appear at first view, we are driven by a process of reasoning, to the conclusion, that invisible essences which we call elemental forces are pervaded by spirit entities, performing their activities and wondrous labors, and that intelligent beings, perhaps
extremely diminutive to our
infantile living forms in the
vision,
coming.
workmen
its
confer upon
ical, vital
in that condition
after
coming
life
and animation
in
any
and never in
it
to
bestow
life,
with
all its
various
FORCES.
organization.
205
discover a sort of in-
Hence, we
may
may have
been
its
soul," as
it
is
become
vital portions
How
singular that
life
elements, or recu-
We
said
upon
this subject of
natural forces
in
wide
fields that
may
servers.
The few
scattering suggestions
to
to present
them
in a far
more
it
lucid
and
satisfacevi-
We
doubt not
will
appear quite
as
men
with their
18
206
of
FORCES.
uncertainties
and shadows.
principles,
may
many of
their former
by newer and fresher demonstrations of truth. For we cannot suppose by any means, that scientific research has reached that point where it may be said, "Thus far, no farther shalt thou go," or that the numerous opinions formed by scientific men in the different departments of learning, are all absolute verities. We must conclude that change, whose sacrilegous hand is continually making its mark upon all things, will enter the sacred temples erected by the most eminent minds, and lay her destroying hand upon the highly revered and long cherished ideas of these votaries, and
trampling under unhallowed
ceptions, will build entirely
feet, their
new
fabrics,
and establish
on, un-
new
til
theories
man
when
he shall be able
understanding of truth, as
all things.
CHAP.
VII.
GRAVITATION.
Gravitation, to which allusion already has been made,
would seem
as a
to require
it
notice, for
power or force
men
of great eminence,
and when the discovery was made, that such a power had an existence, and operated in accordance with fixed laws, science seemed to take a long stride, and marched
on thence forward with more rapid pace.
But, we are
of opinion that gravity has been rated too high in the
scale of those forces that appear to have been brought
into activity,
in
the production of
that more, very
able to bear.
We
think
it
will
its
power
is
entirely depend-
by the density or
it
seems to
exert an influence.
no attachment
particles that
to, or affinity with, or power over material become more etherealized than our atmos-
208
GRAVITATION.
it
seems
to act with
such potency,
upon grosser forms under certain conditions, yet if it may be termed an absolute force, it occupies but a low
and very subordinate
position.
this elemental struc-
We
substances were
more or less active in accordance with their grossness, and as v>e have said, gravity only keeps company with the more gross particles, and it will be seen as activity ceases, gravity usurps its authority and assumes control; for this
little
company with
has
little
its
and
affinitizes
So when we
is
gravity exerts no control; its more an impassable boundary, and its domain evidently finds power, a limit beyond which it cannot go. We discover then, that this great power only assists
etherealized,
it
exerts a
seem
and
to require; for,
inactivity
and rest;
all
this force to
carry
such
rial
M ible,
the
GRAVITATION.
209
and
rest they
where they
need.
may
seem
and,
to
it
was acting
in the
performance of
this
duty,
when
it
which resulted in
to the
his
His theory,
arrives.
It
not in possession of
and that all these movements are governed and controlled by no such subordinate power, but by real, active, positive and negadifferent planetary bodies,
tive elemental forces that are
We
torrent
and leaping from rock to rock, until they find a position in the more placid river of the valley, and still under this control, they urge
declivity,
down the
their
way onward
this
to the
is
But
same water
its fluid
is
taken
mountain
tops,
and again
fall into
his embraces.
So
we
in its
own
and harmonies
210
GRAVITATION.
that everlasting round of ac-
things.
We
all to
are informed
gravitation, aided
by science that the plastic hand of by centrifugal force, has had much or
its
present form,
and
in
shaping
its
by an eternal law it has rounded the earth in the same manner as it renders globular the dewdrop which may be suspended from the tip of the leaf. They say nature's great laws operate with equal
force,
whether in
we observe
that, if
to
ing out both, carries them to the ground, and very materially
interferes
shape.
Now,
what
like
this force
circumstances,
impossible to
tell
because our
end of a
leaf, or
Again,
it
if
gravitation ex-
it
and
if it
and forms
so universal as to
it
But, this
for, in
fluid
GRAVITATION.
it
211
universally flattens
surface.
Gravity
is
arm
of those
which is provided for the purpose of reaching out and conducting all ponderous bodies that are gross and inactive, and inclined to rest, to a place upon the bosom of the earth, where they may repose until acted upon by
ture,
some other superior power. It simply acts in this subordinate capacity, and here may be found the limits of
its
influence.
Gravity
is
no
traveler,
the contrary, he
is
tleman,
own domain, or
his far-off
Philosophers have
moon,
to
come
to the earth,
by the
re-
this
come unmanner as to keep them still and quiet, it presses all things down to the earth, and expends its power in preventing any movement. It
does exert
its
der
control, in such a
still
as
212
duce an agitation.
stillness
GRAVITATION.
It
would hold
if
it
all
nature in solemn
place
lie
substances under
may
as quiet as possible,
all
and that
power
holds them in
possession.
the
in its
not even so
much
moon and
respect.
It not only
the opinion of
some of the
momentum
by operating
confines
by a reciprocal attraction, acts in a them to their pathways, and holds with a steady arm, the whole machinery together. Not only this, but the gravity that comes to us, all the way from the moon, they say, reaches down the right arm of its power, and to a certain extent, drags the mighty waters from their ocean beds, and causes periodical
gential forces, but
maimer that
tides
from three
It
is
fortunate
quality of gravity to
moon has this quantity and spare, for we certainly have not
any of the
such wonderful results.
upon our
gravity as
Our
we have
said, is
by no means a disturbing
eternal quiet and repose.
hold
all
moveable things
in
GRAVITATION.
213
mighty
in
God,
and the other an Atheist, assumes that vis inertia, gravitation, and motion, are the three essential elements in
the orbital
of matter, were under the control of a governing mind, or a supreme power and will; and that these causes
no
to
call
upon
to
the
controlling
or
governing
mind
all
Dr. Dick, who says of the planets and their motions-, "That the law of gravitation pervades and governs the
whole," remarks that, "The laws of motion originally impressed upon
all
re-
motion would
"A
presiding Divinity
is
exerting
his
attributes,
and
impressing
214
ist,
GRAVITATION.
who though
life,
Spiritualism,
it
was
itself to
produce the
it
movement
a
required
continually from
to last, the
eternal activities of
it
God behind
to
produce
the planetary movements, and continue the varied evolutions of the universal worlds.
its inefficiency,
Newton
had instituted
to
perform
this
part of
whom
to
they denominate
construct a self-
moving machine, or one that would generate the requisite forces for its
own
the machinery
in that imperfect
in motion,
and that
vis inertia,
gravitation,
and mo-
tion,
not a very
difficult
lo-
comotion.
streets,
We
find
the
We
men have
con-
that travel
GRAVITATION.
215
in obed-
they carry their own power with them, and do not de-
forces.
Can
it
be supposed that
men
machinery contrived by
in the globe
upon which they exist? Again, can any mechanical forces be brought to bear in the construction of the animal organization, by which they perform locomotion, that was not perfectly understood,
in the
We may
we
call
gravitation
all
for,
is
We
think
it
will
ton and
Compte have
founded conclusions
the planetary bodies.
are
The former,
acted upon
by Divine power
to
ulti-
216
the
GRAVITATION.
movement of material
objects,
independent of any-
intelligent
quite as far
problem as the
For we cannot conceive that an intelligence endowed with sufficient ability to build worlds, would undertake to propel them in their orbits by proximate or
insufficient forces; neither
would build themselves, that the atoms of which they are composed, could be aggregated in an orderly man-
and that the forces by which they perform their movements, could be collected and applied independent
ner,
of intelligent direction.
We
it
will
be plain to
when we
and subsequent movement of a world, we shall be compelled to find those that may and do exist independently
and previously,
is
composed.
We
must
in their activities,
and rendered
Compte
school, could
have an
existence.
acknowledged
by both
GRAVITATION.
conditions of matter; hence, being dependent
ter for their manifestations, they
their character,
list
217
New-
ondary.
matter
that
lie still;
them
is
to rest upon.
consequence of superior
state
real,
Motion is and being but a or condition of matter, can only be produced by absolute elemental causes that exist independent
size
and density.
of motion or matter.
In view of
ing
this reasoning
it
will
be quite impossible
momentum,
or in guiding
orbital
has exerted
in
But by a
careful
it
we have
said,
we
shall
doubtless find
it
only
Gravitation
is
ev*
idently confined in
all its
is
by no means
a disturbing eleit
exerts en-
Doubt-
rior to gravity,
218
to this world, or
GRAVITATION.
an article imported from some other
rest
su-
in eternal stillness,
preme.
When
particles of
take
their
respective
bottom, and
all
enormous roots or
of the structure.
feet, in
engaged
in
in
the vegeta-
ble
remote
those avenues, to
its
There are
also,
channels of
communication
from the
tip
of the roots to
the various
twigs,
all
form
por-
structure,
and
the
GRAVITATION.
formidable element, gravitation,
these varied processes.
It
is
219
set at defiance in all
in
af
all
we observe
which are
exist
scattered in such profusion around us, upon the surface of this physical
globe.
an
be a part and parcel of the earth upon which these organizations are found, and from which they are constantly drawing a supply of the necessary powers which
Hence,
will
all
upon
its
its
surface; and
if so,
had an abundant
to
own
curves,
and
finish its
round
all its
architec-
with
its
varied activities;
its
movements, including
axial
and
is
orbital revolutions.
The
scientific
world
must soon
it
become
acquainted
with the
For
movements and
it
220
GRAVITATION.
army
that
marshalled by
its
globe.
this
We
work that
all
material
aororre2ations
and
or great,
may
Each
spiritual
form has
materials by which
eyes of
men and
;
contained
all
and
it
placed in position
is
composed, and
reach
it,
it
may
act.
Now,
let it
and
extended mathematical demonstrations of Newton, Kepler, Galileo, or any other philosopher; we only propose
show that those mathematical calculations, arrived at by such arduous labor, are applicable to other and
to
we only
pro-
GRAVITATION.
power, and tha^
it is
221
this system,
and
are
all
several positions,
all
and brought
seem
to act to this
end and
and beyond
It
how
influence,
and
it is it
also im-
any one
does ex-
For
it
is
tween
beyond which no material substance would be attracted to the earth, and we doubt very much whether this power extends beyond the limits of the fluid particles
of air
is
enveloped, but
in the future
If gravitation acts
upon matter
of holding
largest
all
body of matter would atract all things, within the circle of its influeuce, to itself, and that it would exert a power over smaller bodies in proportion to its size and density, and that this attraction would exist, reAs we plainly disgardless of its shape or formation. cover, this power aided by cohesion and molecular
222
attraction,
GRAVITATION.
to-
would
substances on the
surface, in a general
without regard
to the
acted
We understand then,
is
is proven by pendulum experiments in the vicinity of mountains. Hence, as far as this force is concerned, it makes no difference what the shape or form of the body may be, all substances that are upon its surface, will be held there with all its power, whether the body may be a solid globe, and have but an exterior superfice, or a
concerned, as
much
as
of a solid globe.
who
isms
who
surface
We
to
which
things upon
GRAVITATION.
223
geometrical center ot
the globe,
is
gradually
being
men; and the* more common sense view that the power exists in, and is confined to the gross material particles of the globe and
scientific
its
many
in its place.
We
it
at-
make
is
to
any
We
gravitation must necessarily be an element that permeates all ponderable bodies or material particles,
fluid element,
it
and as a
must be of the most sluggish character, nearly destitute of activities, or of any power that will
in a single direction,
which mo-
by the
dimensions.
It
must
body
also, so that
we may, with
element.
The
by
gravitation, evidently
seem
to
They must
ex-
224
ist
GRAVITATION.
itself
mother,
as well as in the
mother
herself, hence,
we are compelled
is
to a cer-
For we perceive
if this
power
body of the
it
cles,
and independently of
their
conditions,
and the
become subjected
and
it
an extraneous force.
distinctive attraction,
to
we
shall,
no doubt, be compelled
conclude, that
influence,
to
above
its
immediate contact.
So we discover
it
if
the
would exercise
than
it
bullet,
would
as
the
and outside the material particles which are attracted, and in that case, all substances of the same dimensions, would have the same
exists in the earth,
power
weight.
But we discover that all substances do not have the same density and proportionate weight, and that the power of gravity is to a great extent, dependent upon
GRAVITATION.
225
the character and condition of the substances over which it exerts its control ; hence, we see clearly that
this
stances,
and that
it is
ing force.
But
as such,
it
be obtained, where
its
lays
its
heavy hand on
it
all
sub-
stances under
forever, unless
control,
and there
some extrinsic force superior to from their position. Hence, them remove should
be clear, since gravity
in the cohered
all
is
will
things to
itself,
its
body of the earth exclusively, attracting but a force found in all substances
control, in accordance with the peculiar
subject to
may
trol
case
and existed
body of the
earth.
There
is
now, no
difficulty in discerning
why
refined
as,
composed
power.
of
sub-
The atmospheric
is
particles, although
an entire column
to the
pounds
square
influences,
and impart
226
towards the earth.
in the
GRAVITATION.
Place the hand upon an aperture
bottom of an exhausted receiver and the pressure would be the same as if upon the top, proving that
gravity has not the least control over the fluid atoms of
this
The atmos-
phere not only exists independently, and operates regardless of this element, but
it
material substances to do the same thing, by giving them a resting place within
its
its
arms
in defiance
of this
power that
is
said to
own move
much
as saying,
By
It
and be utilized
in the future,
and perhaps
if
at
no
distant day.
gravi-
by the
placed in this element, can by no means be overcome by any mechanical contrivance that human ingenuity
can invent.
It will
strongest
in'.lu
which have
and remove the and mist refined substances first, and then othof greater density and weight, as its powers increase,
GHAVITAT16N.
22?
same
if it
likely do the
was an
Our philosophers
as
waters
the
ocean,
and
this
power must, of
upon the
earth.
come
of
it
in the conflict.
be
much
own
planet,
and
is
correct,
tidal
established
theory concerning
phenomena, must be materially modified, if not entirely superseded, and one more in accordance with
the harmonies of nature built upon
its
ruins.
La
tronomer, pronounced
difficult
prob-
So we perceive that the present theory concerning tides, is by no means well established in the minds of eminent philosophers, and doubtless, when the subject is carefully and critically examined by scientific minds that shall
rise
up
in the future,
it
will
The moon
is
said
228
GRAVITATION.
is
supposed
to
and
bits
tire
all
and imparts continuous tangential forces to the enmachine; yet somehow our philosophers have given
an attractive force on our
tides, three
whole system.
This superior influence exerted by the moon as re-
is
little satellite.
is
However,
it
not
itself,
and whatever pow er of this character it has to spare, must travel out from home 240,000 miles, before it can
come in contact with those bodies of water situated upon our globe. Now the earth, being about fifty times larger than the moon, and supposed to be possessed of gravitating power somewhat in proportion to its size, and proximity to the waters of the oceans, that rest upon its bosom, it would become absolutely necessary that this force coming from the moon, should neutralize all the corresponding power existing upon the earth, before
it
could exert
its
tides in
If the earth
phenomena
GRAVITATION.
229
upon either of their surfaces, they must do it by some power that can be mutually interchanged, and not by
forces that
And
unless the
moon
that
is
is fifty
it
more
forcible
and
efficient
than our
neigh-
own,
little
The moon
is
than the moon, and of course, would exert a proportionately greater attractive influence, and
it
will
it
to exert a
much
upon the
Again,
if
the
moon
exerts this
why does not the same influence upon the land, and why does not the moon as-
sume a proportionate authority in defiance of the sun's power which seems to control not only the earth's movements, but the moon's also, as well as
all
other planet-
ary bodies?
It
our
little
moon, that
Again,
230
GRAVITATION.
For, as the earth
is
moon?
nearly
fifty
times larger
than the moon, and the gravity of that orb raises our
tides quite generally six to eight feet, then the gravity
is
so
many
hundred
feet,
thus destroying
all
maritime
cities
when
We
relation to tidal
phenomena,
is
a dynamical error,
and
by any such
cause, but
by
and that
so
many
it
to carry loads
they are
and
to traverse those
realms in
If they desired to
puny
force,
and delegated
it
to
perform
to
all this
wondrous
labor,
be
still,
GRAVITATION.
231
ing
still
all
Fire has also been called into requisition by the philosophers of a later period, and placed in a very conspic-
so
much
so,
that
the present most popular theory concerning the formation of the physical globe,
is
fire
theory.
keep
and they
tell
us
it
is
incon-
within
it
seems likely
burning on forever.
fire
element
in
exhausted resources.
is
formed
in the
whole range of
celestial
and
terrestrial
mechanics,
if it
There
ing
is,
power
this universe
which acts
reciprocally
among
their
power performs
gravitation.
to
and perhaps
still
more
in regulating
to
282
duties ot the
GRAVITATION.
and hence,
that are
labors.
forces
to bear,
If
we should take
and
momentum, and
and
orbital rev-
If
we can
is
su-
performance of
found,
if it
stands su-
preme
at the
very summit of
all
most subis
lime operations
human mind
incain
position
we should
it
is
this
power
at
aside, giving
tro-Magnetism.
We have here,
for, if
will
be
GRAVITATION.
in
233
lesser
others of
magnitude
to
accomplish the mighty achievement. When the mind contemplates the great fact that
the
all
stupendous globes in
are
moving
idity,
tremendous rap-
per minute, the one being the velocityof Uranus and the
other of Mercury, and, that Jupiter, which
is
500 miles per minute, we may well conclude that no secondary forces can perform all this immense labor. We shall perceive, also, this power must be positive and absolute, and have its existence entirely inrate of
control.
If
we
and moes,
tion, to
be simply
effects
we shall,
to
them
and negative
those more exal ed powers that must be called into requisition in the
la-
be observed as a principle
all positive
in
the realms of
to the per-
nature, that
forces
when applied
and
must be
true,
The
be suspended, and we
may
234
their orbits, they
GRAVITATION.
Now we
erate
its
own
forces within
itself,
independently of
all
when
so generated, are
all
Most
brought
there
is
than
For we must
must have
re-
set
them
in motion,
we
own
must be generated
in a
somewhat analo-
gous manner.
We
realms, and which have apparently been overlooked by very many men of scientific attainments.
First.
All forces that are brought to bear in the perin the various
departments of
sufficient to con-
Secondly.
GRAVITATION.
235
in activity, hence,
they must
effects
inertness, unless
combined with
particles
per
The
and
their
Sixthly. There
essences from
we cannot say
spirit,
with propriety,
is
matter exclusive of
or that
spirit exclu-
sive of matter.
Seventhly.
in their
Each one
must act
own
commensurate with the magnitude of the duties they hence, the most stupendous
;
now be
several
site in the
236
THE SUN.
by which they are
en-
upon a planet
regulate the
in their
human
mind
in its contemplation.
We
CHAP.
THE SUN AND
The
VIII.
ITS INFLUENCES.
nected with
much
is
to
day
in
passing notice.
By
so
doing,
we may
possibly
make
some
discoveries,
we are
daily receivto
There seems
be
great ruling
varied
monarch of light, and very much of the phenomena that are found upon the surface of
THE SUN.
the world
237
we
inhabit.
It has
been thought by
many
learned men, that the sun was not only the bountiful
dispenser of
all
it
by
which we are propelled in our great annual revolutions, and it is no marvel that this conspicuous member
which seems
planetary
to
occupy
that
so important a position
in the
family
system,
When we
of this
his gilded
King
were,
and
life,
his brightness,
and innumerable blessings to all who behold we can but wonder with increasing aston-
prehensible results.
We
in the
it
erence,
and
offered their
Very
many
by which he
is
gov-
They wish
this
means
by which he extends
238
ings, over such a vast
THE
SUtf.
to supply
and
tances,
distributing
life
and
animation
and
vigor
and
the
some inquiries
also
for
we are persuaded
all
monarch of our
is
whom we
have
scientific
more than probable that our philosophers and men are somewhat at fault concerning this
many
phenomena; and so much time and attention have been expended by very many eminent persons in its consideration.
We
is
this great
come to our earth; and some of the learned men of a rather modern age, have adopted
the so-called corpuscular or emanating theory, which
teaches that light consists of extremely minute particles
of a fluid essence, that are thrown off from
bodies,
all
luminous
and which travel the whole distance between such a body and the eye in a very brief space of time. That these particles upon their arrival, may strike or
impinge upon the retina of that organ, and produce the
particles
thrown from an
THE SUN.
odoriferous substance
239
come
of smell.
all
known
somehow produces
mass of
ether,
by throwing
in a stone.
they reach
membrane
vision.
or retina, and
This theory
is
said to explain
is
many
of the phenom-
ena of optics,
and
now
quite
generally received.
will
It is
much
to
be feared that,
when we undertake to supply the inhabitants of Uranus or Neptune with light and warmth, upon the principles adopted by either of the theories presented, we shall meet with an entire failure, for, it cannot be presumed
that either the solar particles,
or the undulations
of
any
beneficial results.
As
it
is
a well
is
understood
fact, that
240
to
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its
dimmish
As Uranus
is
nineteen times
sun
square
of
nineteen
being
three hundred and sixty-one, that planet can only receive about 1-360 part of the solar influence enjoyed
by
obtain 1-1,000 part of the light and heat from the great
is
Thus, we
some of the doctrines of the theologians, for instance, the vicarious atonement, they become extremely
and are entirely inadequate, even,
if
frivolous
we barely
minary
in their
wide extended
orbits.
Philosophers
time, learn to
and theologians
will,
doubtless, at
some
will
Our
little
world, though
it
may seem
pendous
to us, is but a
upon
this
and
in,
in
harmony
with
all
and governing
to
behold
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them, can possibly have an existence.
useless,
241
Therefore,
it is
la-
idle, to
bor in the elaboration of theories which will not harmonize with principles that are of universal application^
to
moving
in their
ample rounds,
theory,
One
that,
first
named
is,
the process
of continuously
throwing
off fluid
re-
particles,
how
contents,
and
sending
it
away not
to return,
;
would
and the great luminary would disappear, having distributed itself among the And they, after receivdifferent planets and satellites.
fountain to the very bottom
ing
this
all
source, their
is
The sun
large as
said to be
all
the
own light and heat independently. more than five hundred times as planets of our solar system, we shall
off
and send
supplied
those planets
but
very small
they would
par.t
all
of his fluid
particles
of light, before
be
sent out
lost,
So we are compelled 21
242
cles
THE SUN.
cannot be arriving in such extensive quantifies from
those particles are coming to us in that
that source.
Again,
if
Hence,
and there
as
in the
immediate shadows
;
we
per-
would be
light in the
regions of
all is
not
known
planetary bodies.
It
found contiguous
So we
we
own
globe,
be of no
gions
avail.
We
perceive clearly,
of the re-
of space
Bhaped shadow
full
whelming amount of
light existing
upon
of
th.e
243
its
would penetrate
borders
and entirely overcome any considerable influence arising from the absence of the illuminating Again, we should at any time be able to look body.
at every point,
out laterally from the shadow, into the broad light en-
joyed beyond.
please,
this
matter we
only
we
two
where
As
in
manufacturing light
all
of country.
it
understand that
away, to would be required for their own use; and, we must conclude that all the light that ever did exist in any portion
of the universe, has by some process been manufactured.
Men are usually smart enough to would be time and means thrown manufacture a thousand times more light than
We
are competent to
manage
we enjoy
such a bountiful supply, are any more reckless and improvident, or less shrewd than
earth,
and
it
mind
many
generally re-
244
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we are
some serious difficulties, and, perhaps, fatal objections; and we feel almost to regret that we are obliged to deviate so far from the beaten path which has been traveled by men of science. It certainly
compelled
to notice
to
deemed worthy
of notice.
sented,
But we are persuaded that new ideas must be preand new theories must arise, in relation to most
and those that have the temerity to present them, must probably become the targets, against which the shafts of conservatism will be hurled, and, perhaps, we having no well-earned reputation to
against
lose,
can stand up
them
as well as
any of our
fellows.
We may
the
fact, that
compact
to
be influenced
by
lumin-
and
these
bodies
communicate
inconceivably
retina, thus
We
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245
existence
is
a bare assumption
There may
limits
of
by numerous
is
delicate
ex-
many
of their
phenomena;
all
medium
from
still
remains to
be proven.
Of
is
said to be transmitted,
known
vis-
we
trust
we
Now
tion, of
suppose there
may be
ficiently
what could
it
come
directly
from
atoms must
For, were
lie in
we
to
and
246
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and
un-
by absorbing
all their
more violent agitations that would We necessarily be caused by its revolving wheels. think by examining the matter carefully, we shall find that similar disturbances must exist in this vast, universal body of space ether, which our philosophers have imagined, was placed between us and the sun, as well as
dulations into the
throughout
all
space.
We see
effect-
For
one thousand miles per hour, and she carries with her a
certain portion of this space ether, while the remaining
contiguous portions are stationary; and wherever this moving orb of material particles comes in contact with the concave mass that is stationary, there must be a terrible grinding and clashing; not only that, but a disturbing agitation that would entirely cut off and absorb any wave motions coming from the great luminous body in
the center.
Thus we
its
see, in this
case,
there must be
an immense globe of
earth with
this
atmosphere
an
its
rolling
upon
mass of
ether, in direct
The reader
collide, a
will
now
discover, that at
the point of
must necessarily
distant planet.
THE SUN.
is
247
earth, said to
another
still
moon
orbit.
with
it,
all
and perhaps
mass of
fluid.
and
phi-
to the earth,
and that
ity,
this
immense globe
is
with astonishment.
into consider-
immense region, w^here the convex surface of this moving body comes in contiguity with the concave surface of the stationary mass, we are still more astounded. But when we learn that scientific men have attempted to bridge this awful chasm of agitated and disturbed fluid particles, and convey the most delicate waves of motion or vibration from the stationary to the moving mass, we can but wonder at their stupidity. Again, the sun has an axial motion which is said to be over 4,500 miles per hour, and it must carry with it a certain portion of this space ether, and hence, there must be another chasm of disturbed fluid element to
that
248
great stationary body.
THE SUN.
It
is
a very grave
question
gri rid-
and making
fluid
their
way through
so
atoms, of
many
millions of miles.
to the
However,
it
must certainly
appear conclusive
sta-
our earth, or
in
accordance with
this
absurd hypoth-
It will be distinctly
rel
Our
objections
against
the
mode
atmosphere.
Against the
filling
up
the vast hiatus, with an imaginary space ether as a meto convey an imaginary motion or by no means comes to us all that long There is little difficulty for those who devote distance. attention to the science of optics, to frame and time their
vibration,
an hypothesis which
tion of the various
will
afford a mechanical
explana-
phenomena of light, as it exists upon more hypotheses than one have been the earth, because most of the phenomena can be exwhich imagined by
plained.
Still,
notwithstanding
all
regards
its
its
communica-
THE SUN.
tion to the
249
we adopt a
theory,
it
must
be one sufficiently broad in its scope to reach out and embrace all the planetary bodies in the system, for in
their different
all
equi-distant
in the
of the
same
age,
and
same
all
mode
of manufac-
But the various planets are scattered throughout an immense region of space, from Mercury whose orbit is only about 37,000,000 to the far distant Neptune who maintains the respectful distance of 3,000,000,000 miles
all light.
We
perceive
all
and conditions of development, and it follows that there must be various modes of manufacture and
rious ages
We
also
very clearly
distribution which would give the earth just the required amount of light and heat, would furnish Mafs too little, and Venus entirely too much; and it would scorch poor Mercury to a cinder, while it would leave the outer planets in the cold embrace oi eternal frost, and their icy domains would contain little but sleep and death. Hence, the requisite amount must depend to a very great extent upon the condition of the different planets
themselves.
250
THE SUN.
think the reader will here recognize the great
We
fact,
powers, and
that
one
is
older
and more
other.
How
came
influences,
so destitute
evidently in a
Why
and governor of
this solar
means them what they required, to a very great extent independent of him, and by influences
the sun's
lighting influence, unless
warming and
to
were provided
give
inherent in themselves?
When we
fall
all
systems of worlds,
if
all
organ-
ized living forms that are found upon their surface, and
is
There
that
is
kingdom
is
world
in a state of
in
maturity, but
existence
It
is
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is
251
all
opment
spare.
to
first
had them
to
all
commenced
regards
and heat, very gradually developing out of that condition to a more advanced state, and hence it is, that
globes or planets in
all
all
more than
Thus,
we
just the
upon the planet Mercury are in a condition to receive amount of solar influence required by that body
and
so of all the others
It
wherever they
may happen
all
to
be located.
things are
and yet she is in a position to receive seven times the amount of solar influence that comes to the earth. Then we must conclude that the development of her
inherent powers are such as to modify their solar influences,
and consequently
needed amount
and
its face,
would exhibit that more ruddy glow, and those warmer tints that seem attached to more advanced heavenly bodies.
sophical to
We
must consider
it
idle
and unphilo-
suppose, that
new
252
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upon the earth from the great central orb, soon after he presents his shining face upon each and every morning, either in the shape of
emanating
fluid particles, or
we
from the
earliest
period of this
mundane
existence.
has spread
in
itself
it has never been withdrawn moment, since the morning stars sang together at its birth, and the sons of God shouted forth their welcome exultations over a new born world.
for a single
The magnetic
tric
rest of
energy and
ences.
activity, in
capabilities of receiving
influ-
and only changes its position relatively to the earth, which rolling upon its axis once in twenty-four hours,
brings nearly every portion of
its
der the influence of this positive mantle; for about onehalf the time, while the
other
half
is
turned away,
and
is
consequently
in a
more negative,
inactive condition.
an equal amount
light
THE SUN.
253
and darkness, or a positive and negative condition of the elements by which the surface of our globe is
enveloped, and the positive or active condition of the
superficial or
more
it,
refined
contiguous to
formed
by the exceedingly magnetic activities existing upon the sun's surface and the negative in the more electrical inactive elements upon the earth. This highly magnetic and positively spiritualized luminous body which exists in the center of our system, has evidently come up to this largely developed condition,
through
other suns
may
take their
own systems,
and dispense
which
all
to their
have received
We
more
positive extraneous
influ-
upon them,
to
in-
certainly left
known
fact to every
earth, before
254
THE SUN.
fossilized
stratifications,
show that
and
in a
activity,
Living organisms were of the most inactive and sluggish character, and confined to the very lowest species.
star-fishes
and those creatures known as zoophytes, or half plant and half animal, are all that can
coral polyps, sponges,
be found belonging
The animal
higher charac-
more
to
and
and
o*f
finally
man.
We
the sur-
rounding elements,
life
existed,
all
the
elements were
the surthe ele-
when
all
their extinction.
apparent, that
man
the
life,
commensurate with
all
his
that
by which he is surrounded, Thus it becomes evident, thore must be a very different state of things upon our
extent, unless
THE sun.
earth,
it is
2bb
particles
and
by which
ages of animal
first
made
their appearance,
solar influences
must operate
manner.
All
things have
negative, to a
if
more
and
find
we should
we should
We
that
we
in a latent
upon the great orb of day, because we are developing all their magAnd if it is conceded that we have nificence and glory. unfolded in any sense of the word, that we have traveled a portion of the journey from the electric condition
of the
to the
resplendent magnetic
for light
We
when
it is
conceded
that
that
we are
in
amount of positive, active element, than we once had, we furnish this excess by the unfoldment of our own latent powers, and if so, what shall hinder our entire independence, when we are completely unfolded or
developed.
If
we
institute
256
THE SUN.
find
fire,
and heat may be manufactured, we shall be apt to carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen, also
caloric,
and magnetism
seem
to
"with
electricity
and aura;
all
be in abundant supply.
Somehow
use of some
men have
in the
make
warmth
to light
and warm
and the
darkest night,
doubt but the wisdom and power that contrived the machinery of the solar system, can ultimately furnish the
means
for lighting
ets independently,
We
if
we should
travel out to the sun, and take a survey of his vast do-
we should find no elements we havo upon our If we have the very same elements, as are conearth. tained upon the sun, what should prevent, when their latent powers are sufficiently unfolded, and we have gathered the requisite quantity, using them for the same high purpose, and what shall prevent using them now
as far as they
Now, we think
importing
all
wavy undulations,
all
the long
THE SUN.
257
is
this subtle,
mag-
wakes into
activity the
more bountifully supplied by the interminable procwhich that central orb has
clear,
its
passed, during
lengthened existence.
we may again
state
means
ism
is
in
to remain in an unchanged must necessarily be entirely negative, which that condition, we call death, and that magnetlife,
a synonim of
heat,
and
activity.
Hence,
to
any
immediately subject to
for,
be material in a purely
from magnetism.
So, if worlds in an infantile
condition are
almost
purely electric
little
which the great fountain head of these powers, can aflfinitize, in order to produce those activities and frictionizing processes that result in the light
and heat ex
258
THE SUN.
developed,
cold,
is,
of course
more
electrical
and has
more of
less positive,
in point of distance,
and that
and heat
to
and
so of all the
produced by vibrations,
make
results,
is
erected.
It
ments
and
tery
change or disturbance
the
in
harmonious
activities of
the instruments,
and of
We
and quality of
clusively
and
upon them, instead of the sun which acts as the great central Electro-Magnetic battery. Darkness and cold
THE SUN.
259
more posiand heat, of course, occupy that half of the globe directly opposite the great magnetic mantle, and these two different conditions are continually changing places from east to west, as the earth
lent frictionizing activities that produce the
tive
conditions of light
rolls
upon
its
The
fluid
and contiguous
more nearly
in the center.
While the same elements upon the other upon the vast, cold, dark, negative
movements.
assimilating
the unlimited
The reader
son
why darkness
is
which
aura,
active life
and that
in
oped condition we
billion or
260
THE SUN.
more years have passed away, and our orbit is extended beyond the one in which Jupiter now travels, and the
annual revolution of the earth shall equal twelve of our
years instead of one, the feeble light producing
ele-
ments upon
tion, in
which they
power
to furnish the
side, and become comparatively independent of the central luminous orb, and enjoy a beautiful mellow light adapted to a more advanced condition, which shall be continual, and diffuse itself upon all portions of our globe, in such an equable manner that the torrid heats of the tropical, and the terrible frosts
in all latitudes.
We
shall
unknown
to
the inhabi-
When
all
shall
to the end,
various elements in a
manner
seems
to
be conceded upon
all
the
vibratory motion
manufac-
Now,
we
emanating
particles, or undula-
tory waves can come from the central orb, and that an
activities of the
is
one grand
THE SUN.
Voltaic battery, such as
is
261
grand and beautiful results, then we may consider that the great mystery has to a certain extent been solved.
It
is
all
the ele-
to operate,
and
it is
no marvel then,
.whole machine.
Our
limits forbid
any extended
discus-
date to
its fullest
extent, but
we
feel
volumes
We
light
all
must be manu-
exhaustive of their
own
re-
be in nature a variety of modes by which these elements can be produced. It can by no means be supposed that the exterior planets are
summer and winter, should only alternate in such lengthy periods; for, it would be extremely difficult for us to conceive how
a race of living beings could be sustained where the periodical harvests only occur once in twelve of our years,
to
But when we go
still
farther out, and find that there are planets that could
262
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of seasons oftener than
it
then
becomes conclusive that some other plan must be introduced, which will provide for their seed time and harvest,
Conse-
light
ele-
ments must have arrived to that positive condition, in those remote and far more ancient orbs, that they regulate their
tions
of seasons, and
pendent of
worlds
to-
ciable conditions
by the peculiar character of the visual lenses through which we behold these different conditions, and if we had no eye we could not discover the difference, so that both are relative, and depend upon the peculiar characMost ter of the vision with which we are provided. probably if we had the eye of an owl or a bat, we
should look upon the whole thing very differently, and
prefer the shades of evening to the glare produced
the mid-day sun, and our day would only
by commence after
hills.
We may
duced that would render our light extremely dark, and our darkness agreeably light, or that would enable us
THE SUN.
to see
263
when
all
by which we are
sur-
rounded, are in a state of inactivity and rest, instead of this active vibratory motion which we call light.
So
after
all,
we perceive
eye to
seems
ation,
to us to
we
is
pends entirely upon the eye or the peculiar vision. Doubtless we could just as easily have been provided
with lenses that could have discerned
all
objects in the
its
been adapted to a negative condition as easily as to a For we very readily discover that the lenses positive.
used in a spiritual condition, one step
independent of
to us,
all
all influences
in
advance of our
and that our darkness to them is resplendent with the effulgence and glory of an eternal day, simply
is
more powerfully
intensified,
its
and
penetrat-
arises in the
mind
we
trust has
answered
in the
preceding pages.
We
ments
light
exist inherently
upon our
and warmth
for the
exterior surface.
We
also
264
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more developed condition
and
to
own
activities independently,
an extent entirely
aura and empyrial light of the interior world, must necessarily be soft
exterior surface.
It is by no means difficult for the ordinary reader to comprehend that light and heat can be as easily manu-
factured as anything
else, if
all
pro-
we learn
all
amount of
those
is
nec-
solved and
it all
becomes
plain.
in
in
all
them to generate the requisite amount of animal heat, and that it is done entirely independent of the temperature by which they are
surrounded.
We
it
very well
know
of any character in
ceive from
possession, that
if
why
and
mam
CHAP.
IX.
It
is
we
upon which we
its
live,
move and
great parent, both male and female, our father and our
mother
not
also.
human
It
man
a microcosm of the
parcel
we compreand
relaits
variously
complicated machinery, we
zation
may
a specimen in miniature.
we can propwe physically possess, is received from this source, then we must hold these elements, properties and attributes, in common
If this intimate relationship exists, and
erly call the earth our parent,
and
if all
with the
parent.
If these elements
and
attributes
23
266
INHERENT POWERS.
have ultimated in
this
physical
constitution
which
may
why may
of vastly
larger
dimensions.
The earth
of the
evi-
dently
possesses a
superabundance
to
elements
She has an entire sufficiency for her own purposes, and enough for all her children and if the earth does not perform some functions analogous to the animal race, for what purpose does she use all this vast store house of elements and attributes, that she is con;
How
to the
can
this
to
her children,
could she give
How
analogous to
all this in
How
could
she bestow upon the animal race, an apparatus for inhaling and exhaling the atmosphere, and extracting and
How
The
up
infinitessimal,
many
INHERENT POWERS.
tions
;
267
element from the
this
parent.
so
much
to impart,
and
shall
Philosophers
upon
the
its
axis,
rate
of 1,000
and that the exterior surface moves at miles per hour, and that it has
that enables
it
to
perform
these
We
perceive,
we
cannot possess any power or material in our physical organisms, we did not receive from this great parent, and
we
if
she has
impart
to us,
suffi-
So,
we think
it
will
all
these dif-
which
exist,
were evolved
from the materials and elements belonging to the earth, and that we may trace back the parentage clearly and
distinctly,
all
we can
ing in our natures, the earth did not possess before us,
and
this our
enough
all
to
supply her
own
dom.
her numerous
Now, we
268
INHERENT POWERS.
we
shall find a perfect
harmony
and analogy, existing all through these various organizations, and where we find peculiar organs and functions in the plant, or the animal, or in man, we shall find something somewhat
analogous
in
Do we
is
travel-
orders
monarch that
sits
upon the
We
also
corresponding net
proper functions,
Do we
is
passing and
re-
passing through
We
in
also
which
it
travels, both
upon the surface and far below in the depths, and she has also a means of transporting this,
all
The winds
are
made
active
agents
the smaller
INHERENT POWERS.
lakes,
269
stirs
them almost
to
rolling tides
are
are
running
and again the voluminous oceanic currents hither and thither regardless of all
So,
that
there
is
more or
less
affected
bj
those
is
numerous
dissolved
currents.
by
caloric,
in the
there
We
and oxygen, and that they require a constant supply of this element in the interior, and that without this con
tinuous supply, they perish; and also, that our earth
is
in this element.
It is said
in depth,
be
forty-five,
and that it weighs fifteen pounds to every square inch of the 200,000,000 square miles of the earth's superficial area.
we not suppose
some analogous
or-
270
ganization.
INHERENT POWERS.
If
we cannot subsist without atmospheric how can the parent subsist without a similar condition; then, a supply of the same element in the interior of the earth, must be imperious, and a demand which nature must furnish, if we inherited all physical characteristics, and are composed of material, and moved by forces, drawn from this great parent. Can we have a general organization that the parent does not Then, we begin to in some analogous form possess ? see that the earth must also be supplied with those elements, oxygen and nitrogen, in the interior as well as upon the exterior.
air in the interior,
We
ism,
is
the channels
run deep and many of them very near the interior surface,
find
it
Our
drogen upon the exterior, and as we must conclude, also, upon the interior surface of her spherical shell. Now,
why
all this
it is
unless
own
use, in a
it is
manner some-
what analogous
sive currents,
in
which
We
and quite
as
much
circulation
and
activity
the atmosphere, as
we
and there
same
exists
activity,
as manifested
upon the
this
and dependent upon a variety of gasses, essences, or elements and forces for its continuance, and but for these, it could not exist for a
in the midst,
INHERENT POWERS.
single day.
^71
must have nutritive elements that come from the earth or mineral kingdom, and they come in the shape of vegBy this means the earth furnishes etable productions. with nutrition, all the animal race; they must also be
provided with hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen in the
form of
air
caloric,
and a
vari-
ments of the mineral kingdom, but which are absolutely Magnetism and essential in supplying their wants.
electricity are very
them
element we
life
call
principle,
and which
able to maintain
it
as long
as
it
forces
all
and
As
of years before
it
was
and was
in possession of
forces, to a certain
extent
therefore,
she
must
have
had use
for
them
served her
own
individual
purposes.
The elements,
now
and which are provided for subsistence, must have been used by the parent for
the whole time of the earth's history
similar purposes,
272
else those
INHERENT POWERS.
elements possessed by the parent would have
utility for all those
lengthy
dancy of
also
all
the
own
use
of
all
animal organisms.
Go down
much
is
all
you
ant.
One
oxygen
of
there
is
a great gasses
and overwhelming
caloric
sufficiency
the
other
distributed everywhere,
Now, we
all
trust
it
must become
plain,
that
chine,
and
and
by a parity of reasoning, we must conclude it holds good through the entire organic arrangement. If everyone of these animal productions are locomotives, and generate the power within themselves by which they perform their movements, then the great parent which is known to be a locomotive also, must generate the necessary power within herself, by which she
performs corresponding functions.
oeophical to suppose the earth,
if
It
is
entirely unphil-
INHERENT POWERS.
this necessary
273
other similar body
Would
attend
is it
all
to their
own
why
make one
of these
upon
the other, as they have by so doing, only involved themselves in greater difficulties?
It
seems
to
losophers
who
the prominent
part in giving propulson to the planets in the solar system, were entirely insufficient to produce the required
momentum
start the
in the outset.
arm
force that
natural universe.
this
men
in so
and
call
in motion,
upon an omnipotent power, to set the globe we might as well have let him run the ma-
chine himself.
Most
cient in
mechanical
ability, that
command,
which would have started the various planets and set their machinery in operation, it would certainly be
able, unaided, to
all
its
sublime purposes.
So,
it
274
IXHEPEXT POWERS.
must be somewhat
at fault, as
no
keep
ages,
many
long
by natural
to
causes,
competent
causes also.
have brought
is
upon the
istics of
principle,
We find an abundwher
,
scattered
life,
that
we can examine
locomotive.
culiar characteristics
And we may
by the use of
cer-
con-
to
if
view in relation
ttf
anything
is
want-
We have this
which
is
possible order:
we have
all
Secondly.
We
INHERENT POWERS.
275
The small machines are supplied with inteand by their aid generate the forces, using the same elements, which are carried by suitable avenues to the interior for that purpose. Now, when we
Thirdly.
rior organs,
*
all their
organ-
make
would seem
to
be nar-
rowed down to the smallest possible number. It must be admitted also, that, if all small locomotives are hollow, and have their organs in the interior,
then large ones must be hollow
also,
we
most
infinitesimal.
to take
Permit us now,
rials for
from
about thirty- five other globes of similar dimena spherical shell of nearly
sions,
two surfaces.
at
Suppose we furnish a suitable breathing apparatus the north or positive pole, and from the abundance
in nature,
ments
water, and
all else
interior, as
276
INHERENT POWERS
weight of
our globe, built in accordance with the highest principles of art; comparatively light
by the philoso-
We may now
conceive
it
generate
all
the necessary
and
being compelled to
aid, or
influ-
in
all
such pur-
to obtain that of
which
we have an abundance
this or
for our
own
a
use,
and of which
demands.
cerning the
We cannot entertain
skill
and
ability of those
jected, and set in motion the great self-moving mechanical structure that
we
inhabit.
We
connected with locomotives, quite as well as the engineers of the present day,
who seem
to construct
and run
success.
marked
in
Every principle connected with locomotion has been existence from all eternity, and it can hardly be sup-
INHERENT POWERS.
277
by which these various machines are successfully operated, have eternally existed also, and we can by no means suppose that a proper application of these forces, would have been neglected in the propulsion of the machinery of a solar system, where they would seem to be
of such absolute importance.
the
would seem
able.
It is quite
to
at-
tainment which must have become perfectly indispensobvious that the forces exist in nature by
must have been applied by competent intelligence and power, and further, that the requisite forces are applied
to each planet distinctively.
more propriety
be between so
family.
in a reciprocal
many
animals, or
members
of a
human
ent, self-moving It
may
generated and
brought
sity
to bear,
locality
tions,
we open up to view a amply sufficient for their most extended operaand also show that our mother the earth is in pospowers which
will
enable
most arduous
24
278
INHERENT POWERS.
upon any other heavenly body opening up this
for assistance.
If
we
shall succeed in
we
to explain, or give
tia of all the vast
it
work out
in
accordance with
all
ary bodies.
We
now have
enormous load of
to this world,
of equal dimensions.
this character
ciples
vast proportions,
and
it
reflect the
nent
skill,
We
should
utility with
of our old
brimming
full
The
calculated
shock
the
all
leads
mind
institute a standing
inquiry,
if it
INHERENT POWERS.
2 9
J
might not have been constructed upon some more philosophic and harmonious principles.
Before leaving
this subject,
we
is
founded upon
fact that a
for, it is
a well
known
its
proper func-
The surrounding elements must be constantly had in requisition. The animal must be supplied with the required amount of nutrition, out of which to manufacture blood, fibrine, and
all
all
the needed
are evolvto enable
all cases,
interior forces
An
had
to
perform
is
performed.
no matter whether
this labor is
its
accomplished by
its
hound
that
pursues
the laboring
man
its
upon
its
axis,
and pursues
rapid course in
its
mighty
orbit
luminary.
own purposes
and all must generate them and one globe can no more degenerating and
for assistance in
man
own
food,
280
INHERENT POWERS.
and elaborate the elements that subserve those purposes by the use of the organs that are inherent in their natures, and thus we see our globe must have
for himself,
also.
When
this
philosophers learn
all
mother earth
all
contains,
the
all
organic
and
is
capable of elaborating
own purposes, and is continually exercising her locomotive power, in a manner perfectly analogous to those of her children who have drawn upon
her resources
for all the
to
varied func-
and
duties.
all
solid
bodies
to
be
in-
and that
to
solidity is
synony-
mous with
hence,
extraneous force
brought
became necessary for philosophers to call it upon some outside force to propel the planets in their various movements, as long as they recognized the solidity of the earth and other heavenly bodies. If the planetary worlds are solid, or contain no machinery by which they may generate their own self-moving powers, they would be so many dead weights suspended in the universe, and require the continuous exertions of all the
spiritual forces in
existence, to
Even
then,
we
are
apprehensive
machinery
consequence
if
could
be found in
sustain
the
spiritual
realms,
to
propel
and
our
own
ponderous
INHERENT POWERS.
it was solid to the pend upon such extraneous
281
it
globe, if
center, or if
force.
had
to de-
The most
in
g arrangement, and
will
own proper
functions,
in
laws,
would be an extremely clumsy and unmechanical affair. It would be a mere botch, and as useless as
and
it
its
So we perceive,
may
by answering
signed,
it
all
may
be de-
must be
or in
the form of an
orbicular shell.
in building
one
with an intensely
raging
fire,
or the manufactory
both must
is
And
it
if
the powers of
all
locomotion are
other
more advanced
its ability to
condition,
its
must be inherent
light,
also.
That,
life es-
furnish
own
warmth and
all
and
forces that
may
282
INHERENT POWERS.
up
to
itself.
ly
flective influences, in
light
and heat.
Yet,
it
has in a
may at
some future day be elaborated, so as to subserve all the purposes of this planet, and not only that, it will be
able to furnish such beneficial influences, to the satelites
by which
it
may
be surrounded.
if this
is
We
might inquire,
which
it
it
seems to be endowed.
its
Can
it
be supposed that
did
all
not
and develop
itself
it
up
may
dispense
all
younger and
less
developed children
makes an examination of
in
earth
we
inhabit,
of
elaboration or unfoldment.
the sun
is
that
in
possession of pow-
INHERENT POWERS.
ers far superior to the earth,
in
283
the earth
is
and
also, that
a far
higher
condition
than
As,
the
moon,
and,
that
the
ilar relationship to
edged that
it
has required
time to
different planets,
bodies,
and development of the heavenly and recognizes the idea that the younger preis
cedes, or
thrown
off
in a
very une-
volved condition.
In
fact, there
can be no intelligent
without recognizing
theory
some such
sufficient
foldment, for
the
same condition of
development.
If the planetary bodies are subject to evolution and
advancement
in
anyone
particular, then
it
may
well be
to evolution
and unfold-
ment in all particulars and, that all their inherent elements and powers are gradually changing to a higher condition. Hence, we are driven to the conclusion, that those which seem at present in an infantile condition, and manifest only feeble, inactive, negative forces like
our moon, will in process of time unfold their latent
powers, and shine out with
all
the positive,
magnetic
their
284
latent inherent
INHERENT POWERS
powers are inactive,
to a gloriously inde-
shall
We
period,
influ-
ences, to impregnate
warmth
or
we approach
There
are,
of the
and
is
therefore
upon the
However, there are evidences which are undeniaphenomena depend upon conditions found upon the earth, still more than upon solar influences; else, how could there be an open Polar Sea with a temperate clime in the extreme north, beyond the
frigid belt of perpetual ice?
during the
this
portion
had not
tropical clime?
INHERENT POWERS.
to
285
be the great beneficent fountain of the essential elements that we require, we shall no doubt discover that
there can be no difference in regard to temperature, between the equatorial and polar regions, because of the fully developed condition of all the positive magnetic
active forces.
selves
They have
all
upon
his
portions of his
and spread
around
electric
and aura,
highly
itself
upon us with such astonishingly resplendent beauty and But, that there is still an opaque negative eleglory.
ment within
fully proven
this brilliant
is
by
upon
his
penum-
bras, with
that
are
filled
with
opacity and
darkness.
It would be impossible to take the most casual survey of this broad universe, which can come to the notice of
all
by passing through
elab-
of succeeding ages.
We
riod, unceasingly
pendous designs of the supremely wise architect who projected and set in operation the infantile planet which
has so long been the central apparent luminary of this
magnificent solar system.
286
It will
INHERENT POWERS.
be observed, then, that latitudinal distinctions
upon
all
its
elemental powers
must be
in
a highly
various
No
it
scientific
mind
will
is
and which
is
it
evidently has in
its
own
It
own elemental
forces
without
any extrinsic
aid,
those
must
its
superficial
We
men
is
so obviously
Hence, all planetary bodies must evidently possess every power within themselves in a more or less advanced state; and as a sequence, the period must arrive in the history of all worlds, when their powers become sufficiently unfolded, so that light and warmth must diffuse
themselves to
all
arrive,
when
they, like
when in their spiral orbits they attain immense distance from the parent luminary, that
their own inherent own requirements in those
INHERENT POWERS.
respects.
ficiently
287
For,
it
now becomes
would
its own light and heat, upon all portions of the exterior surface, and that there would be a very gene-
developed to generate
ral equilibrium,
and that
all
there could be no
all
would.be
is
and
and
So,
we
must be blessed with perpetual day and eternal summer; for there can be no influences we can discover, that would produce the rigors of severe winter, or the scorching heats of a tropical season, where all elements are brought up to that harmonious and elaborated condition of self-dependence that assimilates to
duced by an inharmonious condition of antagonistic or positive and negative elements; and doubtless where
those elements are properly evolved and equalized, a
will prevail.
At
the
present period in our earth's history, we find great diversity of temperatures in consequence of the unelabo-
we have
and of
course correspondingly
warm weather; on
the other
electricity predominates,
288
it
INHERENT POWERS.
But,
we
enter*
tain
manage
it?
attains
its
own wants,
will
be abundantly compe-
necessary for
continuance, until
it
accomplishes
all its
Although
by no means
complete, yet
we may
the
mind
of the reader,
when
we
inhabit.
more highly finished condition, than this exterior surface which we occupy. The query of course relates to the manner of obtaining illuminating and warming influence, in the absence of the great central magnet of our solar system. We simply remark concerning this matter, that all will become plain, when it is conceded that worlds possess the latent powers within themselves, which enable them to generate those elements, when sufficiently advanced
too, far
A world,
or unfolded.
The
own
light
and
The
INHERENT POWERS.
circle,
289
all
attempts of scientific
minds
light
up a great portion of
and concealed from the minds of men, in the darkness of Egyptian night. Very many observations have been
made by men
of learning, in order
to
penetrate this
little
facts
in connection
with
concerned.
more powerful upon our earth than the elements that produce the aurora. The aural element, when in activity, displays a softened and mellow light; but still, in the extreme north, even upon the exterior surface of the
globe, one that
is
we
If the aural
how
strange that
25
290
INHERENT POWERS
how
Here we may
One
our
is,
that
globe,
may
be found that
produce a
that
human
;
practical puris,
and another
is
them
to
it
be lighted
and warmed
from
that
source.
to de-
Hence
pend upon
ating their
own
illumination,
and producing
their
own
warm
We
conclude
it is
not too
much
is
to
say,
and we ven-
already unfolded to
independent planets.
magnetic
lights,
produced
by the more advanced inherent powers existing within this shell, and that the aural polar lights are to a great extent generated by powers and elements that exist in
interior world.
We
hesitate not
there was
no
with
there
INHERENT POWERS.
would be no such grand illuminations
in the
291
in the north, or in the
south, to
mind
of every beholder.
particles, frictionizing,
lights,
the poles,
we may
upon
interior influences.
We
ture
is
all
of na-
may
be produced upon
upon the sun, and that he cannot possibly possess any more advantages over those that are younger, than the fully grown and developed man possesses over the child
or mere youth.
Another great
is,
fact
we
learn in connec-
we are impelled
to
conclude that
is
they
revolve.
If
solar
systems
292
INHERENT POWERS.
arrangement of worlds, we
may
well institute
we take
we
in various
they revolve.
four,
Our
is
little
while Neptune
astronomers
absolutely know,
may have
numerous
family of attendants.
much
like
and
it
would evidently be
one of the
far easier to
produce a solar
his
system from
satellites,
terials, or in
planets
with
attendant
can contemplate.
In fact, are they not
solar systems, in the proper
They
certainly look, to an
much
all
like
such, and
seem
to
contain
within themselves
ties of the
all
;
they
and,
require
is
we give them
in
is
sufficient time,
The
now
said to be nearly
INHERENT POWERS
293
Now,
it
if at
some time
by
satellites also.
It will
in
purely a
tele-
it is
by the
formed
in-
moons.
distance
is
no doubt the
grand reason why our astronomers are not better acquainted with the operations of the outside planets, and
the systems of worlds revolving around them.
is
said to
be 1,200,000,000
still
beyond the
may
This
no doubt occupied,
to a certain
by other
all
of satellites,
of astronomers, and are probably beyond the reach of the most powerful lenses yet manufactured by men>
Now
as
if
we have shown, contiguous to, and within the lieus of this larger one, then we may well suppose
purthat
have become independent of the great parent sun. Now, it cannot, upon any principle of sound reason*
294
ing,
INHERENT POWERS.
be supposed that the sun, the great central lumi-
earth or in the
satellites
moon, and
in
in
all
existence,
and elaborated
universal law,
but
all
are evidently of
ages,
and
it
in different
is,
conditions of develop-
it
cannot be supposed
that
it
power
to
gene-
own forces. light and warmth for possesses very much dependent upon him
rates
its
it
apparently
to
existence.
No
dependent upon
in the sidereal
in himself.
If so,
we must conclude
he
an
state,
precious gifts.
where he may be a bountiful dispenser of these Then, we may well inquire in relation
INHERENT POWERS.
295
The quantity
upon Uranus, is three hundred and sixty times less than that upon the earth, and yet, Dr. Dick, after making this statement, offers many frivolous arguments to show
that such an
amount might be
sufficient to
all
supply the
the purposes
at the time of
had
of Neptune, which
is
revolving in
an orbit so
many
we
receive
world?
warmthem-
and positive
be
ready
to
developed when
circumstances
required.
We
then discover,
it
is
the
exterior planets
in
should furnish their own light and warmth, not only for
296
INHERENT POWERS.
and
And
planetary
system.
Consequently
all
orbits
of
all
in the infinite
when our sun was young and preponderatingly negative, electric and cold, and dependent upon some central orb, for its light and warmth, and when it made its
orbital
revolution^
about
its
Evidently is period
it
has
almost beyond
human
conception,
in their
So
has been
possessed
it
from
its earliest
existence.
sun
re-
would
make
a single revolution,
its orbit,
and that
it
With
this
wonderful fact
in view,
we may
some central
orb, as the
to
INHERENT POWERS.
297
And
if this
is
relationship, which
is
recognized by astronit
omers,
a living fact,
it been arrived at and produced by the same great law of progressive advancement that ulti-
growth, or has
mates
in
all
Can we suppose
ter or Saturn,
tral orb in a
that our
of
moon
or the
some
distances,
commenced
who
requires
We
moons and its own; that from became a primary, with a family of satellites about him, and from that condition, it gradually became the great central luminous body we behold, after our system had in its spiral revolutions, traveled beyond
the present state of those
it
a secondary
Now, upon
doubt the
to eight
we may suppose, which is no Neptune has her full quota of six moons, which, though entirely beyond the reach
this theory,
fact, that
It has, as
wo
also
for, if this
298
is
INHERENT POWERS.
warmth, as
very evident the amount they can resun, must be an infinitesimal quantity,
and entirely
insufficient to -produce any beneficial result. The planet Neptune being at a distance of 1,200,000,000 miles beyond the orbit of Uranus, it will be seen, that there is room for a solar system, of 1,200,-
000,000 miles
satellite
in
diameter,
larger in diameter than that of Jupiter, without interfering with any of the neighboring systems.
if
But,
may
it is
length so
known much as
it
a minute in
all
time.
Neither can
it
be proven that
no accurate observations could have been made previous Copcrnican theory, which was
presented
to the
it
will
bo impossible
to establish
400
revolusuffi-
INHERENT POWERS
cient to
in
299
longer.
One minute
beyond
in ac-
400 years
a very small
amount of
we
we assume
in
receding from the central orb, just the same as the sun
its
grand center
until
it
requires over
There
is
our earth has not passed spirally outward from the sun
one or even
Neither
is
forma-
We
be,
claim that
all
may
and
satellites
or moons,
from materials taken from the central planet about which they revolve. We claim further, that all have
commenced
slowly
miles from the parent planet; and, that they have very
moved outwards
in
have
Thus we find the interior satellite of Saturn but 120,000 miles distant from that planet at the present, and there are doubtless some others invisible to human eyes much nearer than that to their parent orbs. Now, for
purposes of computation we
may
300
INHERENT POWERS.
400 revolutions might add
one minute
tion,
to
may make
this calcula-
good as far
We
should
find, if
our
in length at the
rate
years,
one day of
time.
billion
the present
We
might
something over a
in
which
now performs
performance.
his
When we
who manipulate its forces, have never been niggardly of time; when they require it, to accomplish their purposes, they
whether
it
may
If tho
mind should revert back through the eternities past, to any conceivable, or computable number
turies
of the
of cen-
or millions
of centuries,
it
would bring us no
in the future
approx-
in
order
INHERENT POWERS.
that
301
a matter of no con-
move worlds
in their orbits,
it
is
sideration,
and whether
one
who know no
be-
eternities
may have
It
passed away.
to the
mind that
gives this subject a thought, that our sun was once but
secondaries pre-
same
its
journey
in its
own appointed
its
orbit
vastly
We
any
any very
different proit
cesses
were introduced
its
in its
by the same general mode of procedure, upon the part of those who engaged in its production. Neither can we suppose the exalted intelligences who superintend the construction of planetary bodies during a comparatively more modern period are any less competent than those who projected and set in
commenced
career
motion
all
this
that
the
It
26
302
INHERENT POWERS.
and be confined
to
narrow
is
limits,
not a
moon
but
may
changes, and
the
Reason,
common
we
sense and
all
is
the most
human
mind.
The
by the word of
and set the whole machinery work by his fiat, in a single week, has become too absurd to be received by enlightened minds of the present day, unless they are still bound by the triple chains of an old and decaying theology. The Laplace or nebulous theory, is clumsy, unnatural, and open to a great number of grave and fatal objechis power,
of the universe at
tions,
fall
to the
ground, by
it
its
has received
since
it
was
sun
is
all this
numer-
singular manner.
positive or
The
INHERENT POWERS.
his
303
cordance with
theory,
is
perfectly unique,
and
universe of nature.
It presupposes that the
They
and equamaterial,
when more condensed exterior could not possibly cling to, and be held by the more rarefied inteHence the vast parent orb in its earlier rior mass. etherealized condition was subject to these periodical peelings, and in this manner, from time to time, gave birth to new planets, which formed themselves into such, by rolling or coiling up somewhat in the manner of a
naturally produced condensation of particles, and
this took place the
broad ribbon.
The
coiling operation
and this movement was continued until the new planet was formed into a globe, and received the requisite impetus to move onaxial motion of the original mass,
wards
upon
its
We
or
discover,
upon
in a
of course
proceeded.
For very evidently condensation was a part of this process of evolution which all worlds must have passed
through in order to arrive at the condition of solidity
304
INHERENT POWERS.
find
and materialization we
upon our
all
earth,
and which
or peeled
must necessarily
exist
upon
planetary bodies.
Now,
off
the
might become difficult to same peeling process, and hence the production of moons becomes quite problematical, and a doubt arises whether they could possibly
densed than the parent,
subject this offshoot to the
It might,
however, be contended by
tion of the
dition.
young planets in an extremely rarefied conBut we remark, if material for the new w orlds
T
was detached
into rings
it
in this
gaseous condition,
is
quite strange
how
the planet
Uranus came
to
all
it
was prepared
world.
to
throw
another infant
The very
sively, that
fact of
ditions that
before
it
must be attained by the great nebulous orb, could give birth to new or infantile planets;
from whom they proceeded. For the parent must, during all this lengthy period,
off that portion of itself
which was
INHERENT POWERS
mained
in a static condition.
305
for the
own unfoldment,
until
it
gave birth
Mercury, or
primary
shall be
thrown
the
off,
and
it
its duties.
Admitting
all
gaseous
thrown
off or
came
any
it
composed, are
al-
solidified,
to a final close.
also
remain in
much
smaller
We
become obvious
to the reader,
its
clumsy
Its
by
filling
them
to the
306
INHERENT POWERS.
We
to
to the
among
all this
For,
all
so,
all
magnet of
solar system.
All
many
and
in-
comprehensible revolutions.
How
To behold such an
all
harmonious order
all
to a
higher and
higher destiny,
elaborating and
is
exalted condition,
sufficient
overwhelm the
awe.
reflective
reverential
mind with astonishment and But, how much more glorious and
INHERENT POWERS.
807
who
similar exin-
who
are
now
mazes of
of those
that
this life,
may
who have projected and launched forth worlds, are now shining in all their regal splendor and
If the principles of eternal progress are
is
magnificence.
admitted, this
living fact, that
no vague chimera, but an absolute must necessarily take place in the order
of universal nature.
It is to
upon the
this subject,
and elabowould
them
in a systematic
facts
and principles
commend
itself to the
it
Quite certain
at the present,
its
in
all all
different phases, a
harmonious interblending of
All
uncertainties.
And we
we have
so briefly presented
less
cum-
CHAPTER
X.
We
this
recently
met a fisherman one day, who, apparently, had wakened to the fact that there was much in wor^d to be learned, and manifesting a desire to
inquired,
to confess
in-
commence near the beginning, he directly "Who made God?" and we were compelled
formation
subject.
However
it
may
really
know anything
in
regard to
"so
this
infinite intelli-
gence, about
prating.
likes,
whom
they are
They
tell
gratify
and please
him, and also what will be very offensive, and excite his
We
things,
are told he
is
self-existent,
all
and hence there must have been a time, when nothing except him, had an existence; when he was all
alone, a unit, in this vast universe.
We
are persuaded,
know,
so
much
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intelligent reply to our fisherman
;
309
also per-
and we are
suaded that,
if
these wise
men
whom
they seem to be so
The various
in
sects evidently
tions
Surely the
worship
as
if
so, their
and simplicity
We
trust if
we could carefully examine the mentalities of all the people who claim so much knowledge concerning this being, we should be led to conclude, there existed a
profound ignorance upon the whole subject; and that
each individual possessed a
God
of his
own
creation, in
previous to
rial,
creation of worlds,
and the
wwld
We
have been
power, because, he
310
would have had
the whole,
if
WORLD BUILDERS.
all
the
in
But
when we
wisdom
and power,
it
is
extremely
difficult to
understand how
it all.
to possess
in possession
more
or
this
it
all
wisdom and power which can possibly exist in all If it is acknowledged that globes or worlds are mechanical structures, and that it requires wisdom and power to produce them, and there
are almost infinite hosts of intelligent beings
sess a certain
who
pos-
amount of the
requisite qualifications,
what then, the necessity or propriety of calling upon a single individual, however wise and powerful, to perform
all
all
verse?
built
For,
if
of intelligent
beings, in
by some
all
living
may
arrangement of
the materials
of which a world
composed.
"What
know?"
confusion,
and uncertainty.
infinity exists
assume that
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in a single personality,
311
infinite
identity, of
to those things of
whom
they choose to
fiat,
call
his
omnipotent
produced
all
they are then out in the depths of an unknown sea, enveloped in obscurity.
living being
For, there
is
not an intelligent
upon the earth, or above the earth, who possesses the least substantial knowledge of that personality, who, they say, is the author and creator of all
worlds with their various appurtenances.
In
this
and
eifect
who
answer
special
favorites.
Thus
all is
cause we cannot
know where
and
we know
outside
how
and when we
shall get
Hence,
in this
condition,
and with
this view,
it
be-
comes necessary
now
and knowledge, as all things have commenced, they exist, and must ultimate, where reason and knowlThus faiths and beliefs came into edge cannot extend.
requisition, as they can extend into all possible conditions,
ignorant, far
and they can be enjoyed largely, by the most more easily than by the learned. We are
312
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and
must follow
gressive
substantial beliefs.
The human mind is entirely incapable of conceiving how any living sentient being can obtain wisdom without experience and observation, or unless he obtains it by the same processes, which all intelligent beings who
have
acquired
knowledge,
have
necessarily
passed
by we can entertain an idea, must be identically the same when underThe only difference there stood by an ordinary mortal.
through.
certain kind of knowledge, possessed
is
that, the
to
one pos-
a larger fund of
knowledge
consequently has
become a superior
may
beyond any conceptions we are able to entertain concerning a God; and it must be admitted, that the power which can grasp and comprehend this problem,
is
Then, we
must conclude that the most exalted intelligent being must at some period in his history, have acquired the
ability to
in the
same manner
by the exercise of the mental powers. If a knowledge of any given subject, is the same in all portions of the universe, and all knowledge may be
as the child;
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found
in
313
it
follows, that
also,
whether
What can we
to plan
World ?
We
know s,
r
in precisely the
same manner
;
as the one
who can
Paul found
at
Athens an
"un
invisible
being
whom
they igno-
But did he do so? He simply told them what their own poets had told them before, that in him we live, move and have our being, and that we are also his offspring. Thus he left the matter shrouded in the same darkness as he found it, and with all that
his successors
said,
it still
remains
The
unknown God."
No
higher idea of a
God
modern times by the most intellectual Christian, than was taught by a Grecian heathen. Parmenides, who
lived before Plato, said,
it
was not
generated,
it
is,
will be,
and
it
is
infinite, for it
This
was a part of
much
as Paul, or Spur-
The human
intelligence in
its
27
314
little to
WORLD BUILDERS.
do with that which
it
is
entirely
ceptions
can entertain.
It
commencement
of the eternities
to base
of the past,
it
any
we might
Any
of their
we
shall
be
much
all things.
But, on
we
template a universe
engaged
some
and others
importance.
Suppose now, we come back nearer home, and base composed of those
Perhaps, we
v>hich the
to plan
we may acquire some definite knowlmay discover some method by exalted intelligent beings who are competent
in
har-
mony
ral universe.
We may
it
being to project
think we are
and
set in
We
portion
and
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315
entirely accomplished
may
possess
all
the re-
have
said, a
attributes
exist.
any proper sense of the term; for, as we is infinite must possess all the and characteristics of all the beings which
being who
live within
They must
all
is
him, and
if
they are
finitely bad,
good; because,
as well as what
bad
is
good.
He
must be the
and
infi-
as
personality can
that
is infinite.
If
all finite
characteristics
and personal
attributes
except he
if
is
Consequently,
must be an
infinite heathen,
He
must be
as well as harmonious,
and
all
all
wars and
conflicts
of
in him.
In fact we
for.
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if
Now,
such an
we cannot
by which
infinite personality
have very good reason to doubt, whether he has an existence; for, the
human mind
is
in
which such a
some knowledge.
human
research,
when
beliefs
and
do not
suffice.
suredly
it
is
all
to
certainly gain
nothing by going
outside.
Our
mentalities can in no
way be
benefited or
unsupported by evidence.
Doubtless
all
will
all
admit
men
exist
as
intelligent
of
a physical or mental
possess
of this
must
from some
It
must be admitted
also,
beings
possessed of
spiritual organizations,
must be similar
spirit
is
in their
natures
finer.
As
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317
the 6iie who cbmprehends a larger fund of ideas, is only more progressed and exalted, and has had more experience
under
favorable
conditions;
similar opportunities
may
arrive at
is
There
who
is
able to
may be
made from
We
are forced
now
be visible to
substances
us,
If
so, spiritual
we have
said, involves
same
We find the
up
to a state of
until
much
spirit
of the organism
wasted away.
May not
the same
Physically
man seems
organism
and has
in his
is,
a part of of
all
the material
his physical
all
through
tions,
he
is
the
grand culmination of
318
organic
life
WORLD BUILDERS.
for
his
existence,
as
well
as
continued
sustenance.
the vegetable and animal kingdoms; and most people are in the habit of using
food.
more or
less of this
kind of
In doing
so,
they swallow so
much
of the positive
and neg'ative elements which existed in the mineral kingdom or in the earth, and which have been extracted for the use of vegetables and animals they have eaten, The vegetables and animals as well as for themselves. were composed of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen, together with all other elements needed to build up
the
human
structure,
and sustain
life.
If thev eat an
may be
If
fluids.
We
should find
you add
cheese,
much
Those are precisely the essences 73r substances which exist in the earth in such
what we require
to a repast of
to
to sit
down
to
sili-
make them
pala-
We
would not
desire, either, to
down
to a dish of insects
WORLD BUILBEES,
they might be prepared, but we do
sit
819
down and
insects,
relish
upon worms
and
and has
much
satisfaction.
We
ing from the snake that crawls upon the earth, and the
garbage that
is
seems
partially
We
convert
into the
and privies
dis-
we may
eat or drink
what we
that
we
find
But,
man
has arrived at
production; then
it
follows,
particular function.
His
been in the
exceedingly dimin-
or eternities, he has
come up
to his
For,
if
820
WORLD BUILDERS.
some supernatural forces have intervened, when could the miracle have come in ? at what period in the history of the race, was this remarkable supernatural interposition of miraculous
power introduced?
If such power
was necessary
in the
why
life,
not
forms of organic
and
So
in that case,
reproduction
brings
into
it
existence
is
animal and
human organisms
all
to-day,
and
an eter-
commence
its
operations?
its
Bechar-
ing like
acter,
it
all
atomic
have existed.
And
positive
and
negative,
result.
Is
life,
any miraculous
in the one case more than in another? But this subject has been treated upon extensively by numerous authors, and it is unnecessary for us to reproduce their views, that prove most clearly, we came into
in
and
inherit
all
in
the
more
difficult
question of the
inseparable.
We
notice
WORLD BUILDERS.
and
size,
321
properties,
particles
attributes,
and constituent elements, as well as form, affinities, etc., and what are these but the spirit
and aggregations?
all
of the particles
All
atoms
are
they
may
affinitize;
an existence
and come up
still
more apparent
life
attributes
'
have
and locomotion, and are sensuous; they taste, and smell, have desires, and fears, with
all
intents
paring for
and are evidently prea higher condition, and what should hinder
this
their occupying
no
it
found
spirit
it
to possess,
and prepared
this condition
preparing for
further advancement
and growth.
When we
322
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key that
in
^vill
we
shall find a
a volume, to
show that
variations,
by natural
and change of
condition.
spirit
had power
to
phenomena
much
and given a clearer explanation of the whole subject; because, upon this hypothesis we readily diseasily,
more
cover
how changes
place.
The spirit in its upward progress demands a higher and better form for its residence, than it had previous, and nature provides means to satisfy that demand, in a superior being of the same species, or else it must advance to some form in a
sarily take
necessarily
higher species.
must progress to a certain extent during their residence in any and every form of organic life they inhabit;
hence, a form precisely the same as the one occupied
previously, would not answer their purpose.
We
have
noticed that
spirit,
finer, exerts
power over grosser material; so, it must have aeontrolling influence in modifying and changing the materialized forms into
which
it
enters, to
adapt them
to its
improved condition.
WORLD BUILDERS.
323
we
it;
and further,
atoms
it
is
We know
exist,
nothing,
and we cannot conceive, that they were produced from by any power or principality above or outside
of nature, and
we can
entertain no conception of
any
might be attained.
We
by corresponding
spirit entities,
which fact
is
very gen-
and attributes
form, are too
is
human
palpable to be denied.
The human
spirit, if it
able
much more
easily
comprehend the
number of simple
and homogeneous existences, than to grasp the thought, that there sprang into being, or that there was one
single
complex heterogeneous
in
sonality.
it
is
because
more
and ultimated
The
its
first
conception
the latter
is
is
contem-
mind
and
darkness.
We
is
not such a
324
being,
WORLD BUILDERS.
somewhere
and who
is
in existence,
who
it
exercises universal
all
control,
sal
capable of supervising
the univer-
would be a hardship
his shoulders.
burdens upon
all
general supervision of
his
and
must be
infinite hosts
all
of spiritual intelligences,
of ages
in a
all
seem
I
to
be existing in a state of
shall not
hope we
we
and power,
to construct
and take
the
entire
supervision of the
affairs
it
of the world
we
is
It
hence,
we may conclude,
still
that
it
would
we should be
compelled
who was
and supervise
its affairs
successfully; although
we might
many
still
greater
to construct
and manage.
WORLD BUILDERS.
Moses
and
one
if
325
and Joshua, David, Daniel and Paul talk God of Gods and Lord of Lords,
higher, and exercises
God
others;
used
be far from an
upon
this
point,
to
be deficient in very
many
respects.
He made
He
He
could
human
rental care
all
and
his
as
to do.
But we
learn, this
He made
use of his
We
perceive
it
a very exalted
its
God who
infinite
is
pages.
So
for
far
from being
28
326
WORLD BUILDERS.
would
there
numbers of beeves, and sheep, and birds with which he like to regale his senses, and we must rise from
the perusal of that history, with the conviction, that
is
if
an exalted being
whose
attributes
We
we
culiar
call
we find certain material organisms human, possessed of spiritual entities, with peand very numerous attributes, which we discover
notice, that
might
exist
independent of
this particular
form through
spirit
called imrriortality,
is
particles
and not at all dependent upon the gross material composing their organisms; attributes that may as well exist in some other and higher condition. We clearly perceive that joy and sorrow, love and hahope and
principles,
fear,
tred,
an ability
to
and
and
to discriminate
entities,
we cannot doubt the continued exindividualities who have in posspirit those istence of session, characteristics and endowments of so sublime a
nature.
We
WORLD BUILDERS.
327
had brought
and
as
no such injustice
live.
and cruelty can exist, then the spirit personality must It must also live because the numerous attributes it has in possession, of which the spirit is composed, are
eternal
with, grasp,
and cannot die; and also, because it can cope and comprehend, and make its own, everand solve problems that have existed and
will so continue.
living principles,
from
cause
all eternity,
it
and cannot be put outside of the realms of nature, and changed into
is
nothing.
we look along down through the lower forms of life, we shall find some living entities who can safely lay claim to a portion of the same characteristics
If
organized
human
organism.
We
have learned,
marked feature in the spirit individuality of the human, was the possession of attributes which distinguish
it
and
fall into
to the
decay. The query now arises, with regard number of those attributes and endowments that
spirit entity in
We
man
beings
who
possess vastly
attributes, than
will
be admitted
the imper-
men
or
undying
spirits.
women Then we
upon the
living
or individualized
with
certain
328
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in
common
with the
human
race,
number
is
law of progress
will necessarily
carry
all
these spiritual
We think,
ments and
admit, there
if
we
shall
be
compelled to
to the
much
in
human.
friends,
and
care,
patience
interests,
and
and
wonderful sagacity?
Has he
and an organready to be
all
may
require?
Volumes
might be
filled
common
with
when exhibited
in
the
human
race.
Some
to
of
bow
many
of them
for
possess
spirits
too large
and expanded
upon their
journeys.
We
being?
call
when they
possessed
If so,
exist in
man, and
why
We
attributes.
WORLD BUILDERS.
he
329
must become an individualized spiritual entity. Such being the case, how can we say, this entity has not been prepared to enter this condition by passing through all forms and organizations below him. If we are driven to the conclusion, that the dog has within him, a living spirit entity because we see in him qualities and characteristics, distinct from his material form, and perfectly analogous to those in man, then we shall be forced to admit the same of all forms and organizations below the dog, both in the organic and inorganic realms. Suppose we examine a grain of sand, we find
about one-half
silicon, the
other oxygen.
It has form,
and though
it
has
suffi-
form,
make it a spiritual entity, as well as a material as we see the silicon is the visible materialized
while the oxygen
is
portion,
a part
of the invisible
exists in this
particle of matter,
entity,
and
This
when
the silicon
its
is
dissolved.
spiritualized entity
it
may change
changed
If
we admit
that there
life
must be
spirit entities in
any
form of organic
attributes the
same
as
shall
we
find
this
side
side they
Eternal
shall
we
be
330
WORLD BUILDERS,
is
the grada-
journey,
to the highest
entertain
a
all
We
must adopt
abandon
up
to a given
point,
commenced, unless
highest?
if
we
We
answer,
beings,
that
intelligent
who are
manipulate
ponding
spirit entities
may be moulded
sufficient
evolutions.
With these
conditions,
may
be accomplished,
to their
comparative maturity, in
But, we are
asked,
how
all
infinite
unless preceded by
quite
WORLD BUILDEBS,
831
is
and philosophy?
Now, what
fact
is
personality does
now
who holds
all
in his
individual possession,
wisdom and
power?
Not
and
among untold
millions of intelligences,
is
We
it
would
worlds.
That
might be
so,
but there
is
for,
human mind.
Such an
all
Should we look
knowledge and power, without previous experience, who framed and enacted all the multitudinous laws by
which nature
is
governed, in
its
various departments,
and surely
all
We
who stand
whom
they have
becoming reverence.
being
But we
whom
must find
332
WORLD BUILDERS.
him outside the realms of universal nature, in some imaginary domain which they will scarcely reach during
all
all
there
is,
worlds.
Infinity
means
it
all
of
all
it is
may
all,
be in unity or trinity, to
while other individual enti-
possess and
ties
comprehend
possess anything.
If they have
power
to
move a
all
When
earth,
(if
he said
it),
that
was a
for,
mistake;
its
to
prove the
fact, that
he was in possession of
power,
The
history establishes
amount
of
by higher powers.
He
government
at
Rome.
not have perished upon the cross an unwilling victim He surely would not of Jewish hatred and prejudice.
have erected a cross for himself, and nailed his hands and feet to its timbers, or provided any other means for
such a death;
for,
He
by a power and authority over which he exercised no control; and he evidently did not acquiesce in the arrangement, for if so, why was he agitated
died, then,
WORLD BUILDERS.
in
333
Why
did
let this
cup
but as thou
it
was not
and that he only manifested that resignation, which thousands of others, both before and after, have evinced
in their trying
to a fate
moments.
He,
have done, inside of the domain of naSo far from having all power, he had not the least power or influence in any one of the civil governments then in existence. Does any one pretend that he possessed wisdom or power sufficient to superintend the
do, or could he
ture?
moon upon
he could
tent to act in any such capacity, or perform any labor of that character.
could,
We
and he never during his earth history, accomplished anything which would indicate that he possessed
abilities
powers and
sufficient
to
and
that,
trifle
whole.
The power required to project and set in monumber of solar systems in the broad
334
WORLD BUILDERS.
beyond what
would be required
to our central sun.
to
Then how
all
it
individual,
infinite
wisdom and
and give
zation,
any
God!
If infinity
means
all, it
comprehends
all
there
is
of
matter and
of positives
spirit,
and death, and individual and collective forms, and if there is such a personality who embraces all these things,
then
all
myth and
if
tained.
Again,
there
an infinitely omnipresent
personality,
who
fills
alike the
there can be nothing in space but that omnipresent person, else space,
be,
filled,
which cannot
and
if this infinite
being possesses
all
the knowledge
and
all
and has
so possessed
them from
eternity, then he
is
by lower
spirit personalities.
Because, with him there could be no change, and consequently he has no enlivening hopes or bright aspirations
WORLD BUILDERS.
3B5
nous round eternally, destitute of the cheering expectations that animate the souls of all intelligences through-
There can be no
may
be.
The
ample rounds.
be added to-morrow.
it
death, because
is life
is
a cessation of
where there
when any
prepared to
live with-
down
into Belis-
rests
till
he
is
ready
to rise
and go forward
come back within nature's domain, where and forces requisite to prowe duce the mechanics who can construct all the worlds that
let
Then
us
unnatural means.
Why
are
men
so willing to go
when
it
Evidently, because
has been
to
But, however
ignored, she has
much our
existed,
great mother
silent processes,
work-
836
ing
all
WORLD BUILDERS.
tbe time that
disregarding her
atoms,
teachings,
spirit
infinite
and
entities, that
way
from
may
rise
up
Mark, now, we do not say man has been an ape, or a we do say that our spirit entities have progressed from a lower condition, and if so, in that low er condition they might have been w ell adapted to occupy the physical form of the ape. But then, it was not man it was a part of the same living entity less developed, and of course not then in a condition to exist in man, so that man could not have been a chimpanzee or anything lower, although the living spirit within him might have traveled upwards through that common highway; it might during its prodog, or the moss upon the rock, but
r
T
The fact seems pretty well established, that we have some forty different faculties of mind, and about the same number of organs, and that we possess many of
them
in
common
Some
may
evidently
come up
in
development
in the
in
many
human, and we must admit, they are identical in We look out upon the face of human society, and both.
find multitudes
of people
who have
evidently brought
WORLD BUILDERS.
837
than above
some of the animal race, and prove too clearly from whence they came, and what is their inheritance. Doubtless if we were the immediate offspring of a
perfect being,
we should
we should be
propensities, no combativeness,
evil
passions;
because we
our compo-
we
all
nent elements would have come from him, and consequently we should be like him, good, just and holy.
As we
discover
we are
full
of
all
manner of
so-called
we must
and
as
be no apprehensions, but
sufficient
Yet the
affairs of
its
earliest history,
must have been under the supervision of intelligence. But, we must conclude, it was an intelligence which was
acquired in accordance with the general law governing
it
conditions below.
understand
ing to
all
all
laws appertain-
29
338
alted
WORLD BUILDERS.
lengths,
and gloriously supernal heights, and depths, and and breadths of knowledge and power, that enabled them to undertake and successfully accomplish
Suppose now,
it
moon
where do we expect
to
would be competent
under-
take
its
construction
Is there a
spirits,
who have
made
it
this
study,
abundantly able
again, in all
its
correctness.
Or
even,
if
our world's
spheres do
not produce those that have sufficient age and experience, there are plentyof other worlds,
immense cycles of ages longer We cannot apprehend any serious than our own. trouble in obtaining the necessary skill and wisdom to
superintend such a structure,
of
spiritual
all
millions
spheres.
be
little
doubt but
may
be found at home.
Suppose we reduce the world to the age of the Mosaic history, and allow an intelligent person five thousand years in which to obtain a knowledge of the forces and
materials found
in
That would
and
be equal
to
500
WORLD BUILDERS.
339
they can see, and handle, and thus become familiar with
those spiritual essences and
sublimated
materials of
Even
period,
would be amply
which
to acquire all
competent
to
tion of a satellite or
mate
the of
all
in a planet, or
He
first
knowledge
as
an assisstant
in
For,
upon no principle of philosophy or common sense, can we suppose, that all this immense and inconceivable host
of planetary bodies were constructed simultaneously,
but,
will con-
these
as the eternities
solar sys-
and
would be 2,400,-
340
vision at
WORLD BUILDERS.
that age.
many
asteroids have
been discovered
swell the
vision, to
in
From
of greater
to reveal
new
power are produced and applied, they serve glories and wonders, and increasing num-
bers of worlds,
we must suppose,
amplithat,
it
the
work goes
on,
and must,
will
be no
would
die.
Can we suppose
constructiveness,
is
prominent
attri-
upon the earth, in this rudimental and preparatory condition? This organ has evidently been developing to a remarkable extent in the lower
animal races; the bee builds
purpose designed.
its
cells
The
WOELD BUILD1ES,
841
in
If so, then
we may
find an
ample
upon
for
under them, no
The Doctor
of
sciences*
will
be interesting
He
evidently
like scientific
would
to
we should be
able to
come
an
But,
we
more prac-
tical
is,
that
we may
aid
For we
in variety,
is
composed of
mechanical principles,
have
342
performed
all this
WORLD BUILDERS.
overwhelmingly vast amount of labor.
is
There
is
constant
earth in
The
all
things
upon that
orb.
Then
it
It
and
it
some
intelligent being
was necessary
interested in
and important.
Who,
much
built
They have
their
had
managing
own
and Uranus, with its six or eight satellites, must have given sufficient employment to the spiritual mechanics that have found an existence there, without coming to do our labors. Our moon evidently would not have been built, unless for a purpose, and doubtless
affairs,
it
in
accordance with a
adhered
to
and
its
it
commencement
would require
until
it
was
;
so
far
completed that
very doubtful
less attention
for, it is
if
WORLD BUILDERS.
the
343
human mind
all
is
Like
when
became necessary that our globe should be provided with a lunar companion, or we may say offspring; and there must have been great abundance of intelligent
beings
there was a time arrived
who were competent to understand that fact, as when it was necessary that a steamship line should be established between San Franand China. When that occurred, there were great numbers who understood the necessity, and some were found who had the ability to construct or procure the vessels suitable to place upon the line, and although it was a project involving vast expense, enterprise and
cisco
to call
means and requisite skill. So, when it is found that any of our planets need attendants, it will probably not be necessary to import from any distant orb, the ability requisite to construct them in accordance with correct principles, and to manage them successfully after they
are so constructed.
It was,
ice
when all that vast amount of and water, which had accumulated upon our globe,
their purposes,
ice fields,
it would be necessary to and large quantities of water, so and cheerful homes, and a busy pop-
had subserved
remove the
spread desolation.
formation of a
They
by the
satellite,
'844
WORLD BUILDERS.
electricity for the
use of the
young world and benefit the one by the operation. Hence an immense extent
cold
filled
life.
The new
in
its
and thus a
satellite of
ages to come
may
numerous
retinue.
elements in the
fields,
which exert a
chilling
and to a great distance from those population of the world increasing and the icy zones,
of the arctic regions,
requires that
those
of habit-
So the intelligences of the spheres that have a perfect understanding of this matter, are engaged
at the present time, in constructing another lunar world
to
This
will
add one
comprethe
more
number
number
that
is
hended
It
is
said with
much
all
the
WORLD BUILDERS.
345
steamships had been constructed by one master mechanic, there would be clashing
quite as
much
room
there
is
well un-
if they expect to run them and those laws are universal, and when
is
no
difficulty in
can be no
difficulty,
all their details, and then, there and unless they are built in con-
same
as
is
a necessity for
a world,
and a
sufficient
amount of knowledge
men, what
is
and
plenty of materials, with the requisite number of workthere to hinder building a world, as well as
What
have
sufficient
Why
many
all
the worlds,
Is
it
mark
of goodness, vir-
which
is
346
v,
;r,LD
builders.
in nature.
We
are
intelligence should
and the
all
would
to
some day
in the
engage
means
suffer.
On
and human
ideas, con-
mind of those
How
elevating
and inspiring the contemplation, that at some period in the future we may rise to the most super-eminent condition,
feebleindi-
we have
own
may
enable
accomplish.
We
are
apprehensive
would do more
from debasing
their
from the
is
earliest
not to
WORLD BUILDERS.
present the moral view of this subject,
347
we only
desire to
find the truth, the moral aspect will take care of itself.
to
show,
all
is
attributes,
impressing every
Now
we
see, if
ject, and no doubt he does, that in addition to the immense labor of constructing all these worlds from
all
the various
compelled
the
to
turn
all
momentum
that sends
phenomena that takes place upon wonder that, with all these arduous and unremitting labors, he became wearied and exhausted, and needed rest after the six days' work required to complete the little world we inhabit.
and
all
other
It is little
difficulties
One
is,
they have subjected to unremitting labor and care, without a moment's cessation, from eternity to eternity, the
348
very being, of
WORLD BUILDERS.
all others,
upon whom they should confer They have appointed him to perform the very arduous and continuous duties, that might just as well have been done by some finite entitranquility
and repose.
ties;
eternal
and without
is,
employment.
Another
more
serious difficulty
fact, that
any
skilled
mechanic
abundantly qualified to
it
an apparatus that
will
own
is able to perform an immense amount of additional labor. Then, if the globe we inhabit, and the others we behold, are moving bodies, we
who
w^ould construct
is
T
motive power.
If our world
machine
so that
it
would generate
go
its
own
forces,
and
by hand
it
off the
and chaos."
infi-
How
to such incon-
who do
much
better,
by making very complicated machines and placing the required power within them, that will do the necessary
labor.
If they cannot
conceive of an infinite
intelli-
would be far
WORLD BUILDERS.
who have served an
through
all,
349
apprenticeship,
from the lowest atom, and consequently had an experience that would prepare them for such an enterprise.
proper position.
They would
which would
off the
provide
the
necessary safeguards
possibility of
entirely prevent
any
running
tracks
The
rials,
materialist
must admit,
built
mechan-
ical structures,
and
by the use of
forces
and mate-
If there
is
an intelligent control
in the
engage
built
any such
enterprise.
One
planet cannot be
mid
to
assist,
who can
and perform
Therefore,
must be
We have
so
never heard
make
produced?
30
350
WORLD BUILDERS.
contestants
The
who have
modern
was
self-existent
self-constituted
infinite
agement of
all
and
in
so
Both
management
to
of either inorganic
and
faculties
advantage
in
any conscien.ce,
fight with
was found that science carried too many guns, and that her batteries could by no means be silenced,
as her armament was constantly being strengthened by new and valuable discoveries. A portion of the belli-
that theology
should
own domain
in the supernatural,
where they
all
natural realms.
rial to his
mate-
heart's content,
and extend
WORLD BUILDERS.
the present.
Still
351
To
tell
which
that
from that
infinite
father, in
answer
is
to the
multiplied
and which
governed by estabnor
seem
to
and
duties, in
and
their
men
shall
neither
call
an
God, watches
all
the
of
all
worlds,
who
have lived upon our earth, and who bear a sort of natural
relationship to the things of the earth, are everyto give attention to all the details
where delegated
and
material and
all
spiritual
realms.
these
352
different
WORLD BUILDERS.
capacities,
sits
upon the
And,
it
there
is
labor,
whether
the
performed by
spirits or
men.
manage
The
time cannot be far distant, when large masses of individuals shall have discovered the fact that all
intelligent beings
human
all
And
may
may
They may
and
in
existence,
away
it
must be occupied
in those
more
rior
intellectual
in
the
may engage
in
the proper
exercise of
and
dis-
powers.
The
long since
WORLD BUILDERS,
covered, that there can be no mistakes
353
or casualties
There must,
of
in
means
strict
failure,
When we
in
then we
may
more surface the more extensively this There can be no doubt that
become
now
are
own
CHAPTER XL
DISSOLUTION AND RECONSTRUCTION.
For
more per-
machinery, perhaps,
component materials are operated upon by such it might be as well to contrive some means by which the beautiful fabric may be taken to
the
pieces,
and resolved
into
its
original elements, so
its
we may
separate wheels
carefully, that
we may
If
you
would learn the young apprentice how to construct a watch or a clock, or any other intricate piece of machinery, you would pursue
much
him
to
the
of the
you would obtain an accurate idea of the workings human structure, and acquire a competent knowlit
performs
its
varied
machinery
human
organization, doubt-
DISSOLUTION.
less,
355
apart, to dissect
and
anatomize
May
it
not be
pos-
become
all
huge structure? May they not in this manner gain a more accurate knowledge of the secret springs and wheel work which produce the varied activities and effects that
we behold
in
such profusion,
in this
consummation?
who
such
sufficient
and consequent power, can as naturally manuour mechanics can build steamships, or any
And
in
would be
requisite.
Secondly.
sufficiency of materials
Thirdly.
The necessary
where they
positions.
in
will
forces to collect
which
And Fourthly. The requisite amount of time the mechanics may perform the necessary labor,
856
which
have
will
DISSOLUTION.
will result in the
in view,
or edifices, or
requisitions
all
these
We
must receive proper attention. cannot open our eyes upon the objects by which
we are surrounded everywhere, but we discover that materials have been aggregated by certain forces, evidently controlled and managed by superior intelligences,
and that there
is
in operation.
to conclude,
and modifica-
inception to the
present
when, we seem
to
in a
manner
course
how
a dissolu-
clude that
it
is
somewhat
was
to take
them
in that
condition,
into a mechanical
structure:
is
Men
them
many
building or
DISSOLUTION.
in destroying
357
matter, that
may be
learned during
home
of the spirit.
Yet they
they
make
it
by sea and land. Men have also acquired no inconsiderable knowledge concerning that more sublimated element, electricity; they control and use, to a certain extent, this great etherealized force for numerous purposes; they call upon this subtle fluid, and in
of labor, both
obedience to their
will, it
travels
aid they
and
in
positive
element,
magnetism, they
perform
all
may
find
a motive
power
world.
sufficient to
They have
analysis that
also
is
kingdom, there
may
has,
And
now,
if
man
vast fund of
knowledge and
358
experience, what
increased
DISSOLUTION.
may
spiritualized
in the
attain
It is
after having
by no means too much to suppose, that it would be within the bounds of their possibilities, and that they might possess knowledge equal to the task, and solvents of sufficient power, to subject this huge globe of ours to a kind of analysis that would decompose its every particle, and reduce them to their primeval condition; and why not? It is a living,
been ages
higher realms.
absolute truth, that the globe exists as
structure,
a mechanical
in the
less
knowledge
commenced
It
will
its
its
doubtless be conceded by
parties,
that
by
is
confined to a
millions.
to the material
worlds
those
condition
we may be assured that those beings can is a law by which it may be They no more exist and perform their labors
;
for,
independent of natural laws, than ourselves, and whatever they do, must be done in accordance with the imperious behests of eternal law.
all
world material
and that
it
materialized state,
It
DISSOLUTION.
359
if
must be processes
original
state.
also,
which
reduce
it
back
to its
We
are in-
may
all
terialized again in
complex, for
some other form, more beautiful and we behold that is grand and attractive,
The
were
at-
and the
materialization has
taken place in
in a similar
and
invisible to those
who
eat.
Were
there no such
all
progress
Had
be etherealized, then
in the
materialized condition;
and continuance of the vegetable and animal kingthen discover, that, with a solvent of sufficient
doms.
We
flee
solid crust
360
DISSOLUTION.
vision.
Doubtless
are even
now
in
gradual operation,
that
may
ultimate, at
some
The contem-
gradually, nevertheless
may, during some of the ages of an unappreciable future, render our earth and its surroundings the happy
that
abode of inconceivable
one of intense interest.
billions
of spirit entities,
is
now
certainly
more
now
does.
Just as surely
keep on, until all that is now material shall progress, by various modifications, to a more etherealized and
elevated
condition.
human woman
race.
The highly
man
or
produced from
to
more refined
materials.
It is
by no means visionary
who
live
to-day
will
more
in
spiritualized,
to exist.
and
If
which
we carry out
reasoning we
exist to-
DISSOLUTION,
361
its
present form
its
primeval elements.
we
may
ive development,
fact, that
we cannot
earth, since
when it was set in motion. For, we have already become quite well assured, it did not
that eventful period
many
by the most
"the elements
is
If this
correct, the
if
atomic particles.
we consult
the oracles
of science,
tively
we
composed of comparais
by no means
solidi-
Much
of
great temperature.
ists
It
may
in that
have
their researches in
any given
by no
31
362
DISSOLUTION.
last
much
that
is
of rare value, of
skillful
nothing.
However, they have found degrees of heat that approximate very closely to the decomposition of the most
refractory elements in nature.
It is only necessary to
and
is
obtained,
suffi-
dissolution
may
be accomplished.
There can be no doubt but magnetism, the concentrated essential element of heat, might be so manipulated by
who have the power, as to utterly annihilate, as far as human vision is concerned, all substances of a negative But magnetism, even then, materialized character. notwithstanding it might become a power sufficient to
those
dissolve
and destroy
all,
necessarily exhaust
its
own
As
all
their labors,
expend
own
forces
We behold
positive to
all else
within
its
influence, but
its
reach,;
to-'
destroyed
by
its
is
own
gone,
terrible energies,
it
and
morrow
cold
its
strength
and dead, and no more to be feared. So we discover, even if we should find an element
power
to dissolve
all
of
sufficient positive
natural things,
DISSOLUTION.
that element would finally
363
magnetism, after being thus exhausted, would resolve itself into the opposite element of cold, which is electricity,
and
this
power would be
all
and
in all;
queen of
we discover
must be
ness or inactivity.
elements, there
is
we
find
positive
Electricity,
all
must be the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and end of all things, and holds supreme control throughout the
universal realms of space, where positive activities have
We may
own
wandering
real universe,
to travel
and
find
ample room
away
for centuries, to
We
364
DISSOLUTION.
Then,
if
we ascer-
we may
in
an
But
little
can be found
realms
death
it is all
electrical.
The magnetic,
living, active,
realms of space.
Hence we perceive
Life and
and
all
have been
produced
overwhelming region of
competent
to
achievements.
all
are but a commingling of the two great antagonistic elements, the living and the dead, the positive and the
negative.
or take
its life.
If
we destroy
it
a world,
same
thing, deprive
of
life,
and both
will resolve
selves
back
The
solidified
portions
De-
positive,
DISSOLUTION.
includes dissolution to the farthest possible extent.
3bo
We
this result
intensified
heat,
and we apprehend
modern savans
It
have placed within the crust of the globe, would accomplish the
must appear
use
sufficient to
also
may
in
its
computation.
where no
spirit of life
and
their eternal
gloom.
We
and gladness.
366
DISSOLUTION.
may
accomplish
all
the
may have
in
bud and
and
is
own earth
will at
T
We
ing,
that they
are
clude,
commenced; but on the contrary, we must conas world building must have occupied the attention
all
of advanced intelligences in
and unoccupied territory must then be explored, and improvements of this exalted character must be made in the spheres which are only bounded by
unoccupied territory of our own earth shall ultimately
be subdued and cultivated by earth's inhabitants. Thus we learn that this element which impels men to seek distant countries, and which seems to be such a prominent organ in some natures, need by no means die for want of the needed activities in the spiritual realms, for
New
DISSOLUTION.
367
We
of
will
bear in
a dissolution
follows,
and returns
is
electricity.
Then
it
follows, that
by
same
relative
or negative condition
when
any
So,
if
we
tricity is
may
swallow up and
contain
all in
this
if
universal mother.
all
came
all
there
is
of
life,
and beauty, and Out of this eternal repose came all the activities of nature, and this negative condition of atomic particles is, and was, a necessary precedent to all that is positive, and that has become so replete with the living, active organism, which inspires the mind with so much wonder and astonishment; all that is grand and beautiful and calculated to adorn the various worlds, rendering them
this
light,
and out of
darkness came
glory.
from
by
a skillful application of
beings.
368
to
DISSOLUTION.
this vast
realm of
may be
done
in
and we may
mind
exercises
matter
in
negative
inactive condition, in
This
is
and handled by
their highly
by
which
is all
ready
to
demands.
its
And
this
in
now unoccupied
by planetary orbs
or progression.
When
that a
demand exists for the construction and development of new woi'lds, when emigration in those realms seeks to occupy new territory, or when the mechanical
genius of advancing, ever-progressing spirit intelligences
require
new
fields in
which
and
ability,
then
it is,
ether
may
and both the atomic material and the forces are called upon to perform their part in the stupendous drama that
brings worlds and systems of worlds upon the stage of
RECONSTRUCTION.
the universe.
36&
is
but
and must go on in all its sublimity and grandeur, through the endless eternities.
partially accomplished,
The
an
He
moon, where he
will find
No
who
completed.
there are
not forces and laws, principles, attributes, and phenomena, to be introduced in the construction of a world or
system of worlds, of
sufficient
magnitude and
interest, to
human
of research
modes, in
all their
particulars of constructing
all its
and
elab-
varied inhabitants?
370
RECONSTRUCTION.
You perhaps have obtained a knowledge of some of the sciences; you may know something of asmuch
of other departments
ted minds.
come to the notice of inquiring and educaBut ask yourself how much comparatively
which I
am
and how am
I
I to
become
pursue a regular
course of instruction?
How
earth-life, for
persons to
in that profession or
and
to
in
stand.
How
else,
we
ask,
knowledge which
comprehension of themselves,
relationships
men
complex pieces
whole
Do
bower of overhanging
roses,
eter-
RECONSTRUCTION.
in
371
By
some diminutive heaven, prepared for a chosen few. no means. The universe around you is not half finished work is to be done by brave hearts and willing
;
is
to
be per-
you
tion.
in
to receive
your attenremained
to
New
and unbroken
in the regions
be en-
to be aggregated
and disposed of
in a proper
and orderly
manner,
in
who
control
fill,
upon
this
all
things have
Yet there seems to be untold varieties of shapes, dimensions, forms and conditions of the worlds that have already been constructed, and hence it will be
absolutely necessary that the great master mind, the
every minuit is
for
what purpose
to
be constructed.
would be necessary
also to inquire
372
RECONSTRUCTION.
it
turn, if
what time
shall
it
revolve around
its
grand
in the
same
When
many
we cannot reach with our limited comprewe may begin to look around, if
w here
T
ness
tain
sits
all is apparently void, and where darkupon the face of the mighty deep, and ascer-
The Hebrew God said under similar circumstances, "Let there be light, and there was light," and if he said
it,
and
light
was produced
ing, then
and
light
must
for
appearance
generation.
be produced.
If
we should penetrate
light
its
has
penetrated, where no
ever exerted
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cheering influence,
exists,
373
propriety,
"Let there be
it
could be produced.
We
might use
match,
and other
requisites, or a lucifer
and apply a
light.
little
friction,
Can we suppose
that
we
possess
more wisdom
in
relation to
knowledge of
all
Certainly
them
if
to
We
are in-
magin the
no light
this
element
for
is
light,
and but
magnetism
cannot
possibly exist.
We
have
electricity
all
had
swallowed up
had
origi-
sits in silent,
undisturbed gran-
32
374
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When
say,
to
"Let there be
this
light,"
produce
produces
friction,
now we have
and
life
commence
their
work of constructing
new
earth.
engaged
bles,
evanescent miniature globes float away upon the atmosphere, ready to vanish into seeming nothing upon the
least disturbance of this element.
sons,
who
in pursuit of
find profound
ay upon their brief journey, they some of the sublimest phenomena in nature. They show precisely the principles upon w hich worlds may be commenced and established; they represent in miniature just the kind of superstructure we require to
for as they dance aw
T
exhibit
it
cannot be sup-
view
in the
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375
mechanical principle can be introduced into any structure by the inhabitants of a globe, that was not under-
is
not incorporated
be perceived that
all
bubbles, or of globes
rial,
made
those minds
who had
have ex-
the furnace, in
its
melted condition.
must depend upon the amount of force brought to bear, and the quantity of matter employed, and the expansion
to
which
it
attains,
all
those several
conditions.
This
is
method of
to
spiritual
be most and we may reasonably suppose that the great mechanics might resort to some similar process.
The
easily
materials
made use
managed
as those
his
materialized.
Although
view, yet
this
its
simple at
first
simplicity
its
its
chief comall
lies
mechanical and
extremely simple
all
We
now defy
ikb me-
376
to arrive at
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In order
ical
to
principle,
we require
a spherical shell
containing
we need
all
grand
all this is to
be accomspiritual
by
Now, we may
inquire in all
sincerity what
and carry
we may conceive
in
minds
produce a globe
elements, then
we may conceive
quite as possible to
make
Thus
in
superstructure
may
human
intelligent beings
who may
them
in future
mighty
grand
to furnish
so
a dwelling place.
It will be noticed, that this foundation or
back-bone
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377
may
not
lest
be used, which
will
For
it
is
des-
And
those
materials must
possible both
now be added,
disturbing forces
may
ages
is
to
substances, until
attributes
to be built as
dependents
in existence,
need of such
We
manner; and unless there is a necessity for so it is done for some high purpose, worlds will We perceive also, that the secondary must not be built. to a certain extent partake of the movement of the primary, and if the parent revolves around a great central The reader will orb, the younger one must go also. necessity of placing and readily discover the importance
doing, and
hoi-
378
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affinitizes
as
We think
an intelligent architect, who proposed to erect an important edifice, that was designed to be permanent and
make
likely to
remain in
period of time.
But strange
very popular
by a
frail
and feeble
They
flatter
all
are,
and the
because there
real
much
if
the architects
who went
not
out to
The igneous
or Laplace theory
some unknown power established the motion which revolved the huge mass of nebulous material upon its axis; and, if they built themselves without any intelligent
superintendence, then
it
would be no marvel
active,
if
they
should
make
disturbing and
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379
the fabric.
But,
if
we admit
we may conclude, that the foundations are composed of those materials that are permanent and secure, and that they will remain without producing
disturbance until
all
until
is
drama
of a world's existence
We
have
little
now
to do,
we have
sufficiency of ethereal
atoms that
strength
when
materialized.
if
We
should do precisely
we had
form by her
In order to accomplish
must be extremely negative and inactive, in order to be handled and controlled by spiritual beings and of course, to bring them out of that condition, and elaborate all
;
mass of electric matter. become necessary, in the materialization of this negative accumulation, to work a radical change to a
tion with this
It has
more
primary elements
380
existing in nature
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apparent.
So
in
by
a judicious
changed
to
known
primal
this
dis-
may
is
no marvel
them
to the
said
by modern
and influences
ditions.
in
its
present conall
erted their powers in modifying all material substances, from the gaseous or nebulous condition up to the present, when the earth is clothed with a beauty and magnificence Fire and that astonishes the mind of the beholder.
effects
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ditions for their existence.
381
a positive element,
Fire
is
and always when in activity exhausts its own resources, and would soon destroy itself if not supplied with combustible material upon which it may exist. We defy the combined ingenuity of all the scientific men who live, to devise any means by which fire can be kept in activity for any length of time, without the
needed fuel; and, if the existence of fire is dependent upon conditions, then there must have been some power or agent by which those conditions were produced, that
made
fire is
it
we
learn that
Again,
if fire
the millions
is
it
through
its
various changes?
Water
and
cause,
is
and of course,
in
power
it
subordinate position as
fire.
ments
but
it is
them
have been required to act upon rarefied substances such as are brought into requisition in the construction of
worlds, in order to transform those substances into a
more materialized
condition.
There seem
to
fire;
382
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solidifying of an interior
also
mass of
why
it
The
inquiry, then,
this
noes; as
is
all
the different
from granite,
sedi-
homogeneous mass mentary rocks. form the same substance when cooled upon the outside,
as
when cooled
Where
element
is
fire, to
much more
easily
We
is
the energies of a
its
Fire
is
very good in
place,
and
wide sphere
in
which
it
exerts
its
up a severe thunder-storm, or an earthquake, or manufacture or decompose granite rock, you need not call upon fire to accomplish those
to get
feats;
its
province.
positive
It will
be
found that
and negative
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forces,
effects
lie
383
and with
may
be produced with
much
ease,
because they
then,
we
shall find
many
of
existed
becoming more
case,
and magnetic.
this
more
positive
and mate-
globe,
T
it
work
had been so long engaged in producing. We think, upon examination we shall find that such was an absolute necessity; for if this granite had not been subjected
to the action of
it
would
all eternity,
and naught but one wide-spread scene of desolation w ould ever have existed. Thus we see the importance of a power that can destroy, as well as produce, and we
T
and from
all
384
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upon the
earth, in a latent
condition,
we very
clearly
its
So we perceive that out of this by a dissolution of the particles of granite, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon, and other spiritual essences, that had been confined, were eliminated and set free. Hence there could have been no atmosphere or water upon this or any other globe,
essences might escape.
life,
or
was dissolved
in sufficient
quan-
and the
only very
ficiently
much heated
in
consequence of
activities suf-
in the
work of
dissolution.
We
have
trouble, now, in
is
there any
animal
life
when
all
nature was
The electro-magnetic
fluids
were evidentlv
in
full
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of causes which would hold them in check.
885
It will
be
this
upon the surface of the earth. Consequently, nature would again begin to approximate towards an equipoise,
ribly active magnetic period
and we ascertain that the intense heat of the most terbegan to some extent to
abate previous to the earlier ages of the silurian formations, so as to
life
in the It
T
w as doubtless during this lengthy period, when all nature was convulsed by the terrific throes of those allpowerful clashing elements, to a great distance below
the surface, that the numerous mountain ranges and
various protuberances that are found upon the globe
were upheaved.
It
is
mentary
deposits,
may
upon the tops of the highest mountains. We remark upon this subject, that nature has no powers in her vast
laboratory, sufficient to
will
It
a somewhat
little
33
386
time, that
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we come
it
to the
drift or glacial
period.
He
will
discover that
est
was one
finally, in the
globe.
There
is
little
difficulty in
discovering
why
creased, until
glacial
known
to
have ex-
upon
globular shell
changes
and
the
accordance with
own
peculiar methods.
She has never turned to the right or left for the accommodation of the most eminent philosopher or theologian,
although they
ity
may seem
to
and power.
a record inscribed upon the tablets of nature's
We find
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387
must have been a period of intense heat, -succeeded by a gradual cooling process, until water and ice predominated upon a large portion of the world's surface, and
this condition has again been succeeded by an abatement of the waters and ice, until a large portion of the same surface has become temperate and habitable. When we find records of such a character, we may be
duce
all
We may
so
phenomenon
much
attention,
many misguided
huge
T
tion to the
fire
The w ell-established fact of the increasing temperature as we penetrate the crust of the earth, has been considered proof positive, that a raging
it
fire
existed within,
it
and
in all
its
We
shall
now
may be found
problem
is
They
are the
same
animal or
human
structures.
It
is
very plain,
that the
more blankets
of the earth,
more So
of non-conducting
388
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is
generated,
the more
it is
retained, until
activities,
we
tro-magnetic
again,
where
temperature
falls
and continues
to fall
until the
extreme of cold-
ness and inactivity are found in the deeper portions of the spherical shell. If
midway
we ascertain that
effects
an adequate
for
cause,
exists
we have
letic
We
workshop,
gravitation,
and water,
to
and important
they have
made an unwise
when they
CHAPTER
XII.
THE MOON.
It becomes almost a necessity, in connection with this
general
subject,
to
to our
may
through
all
during very
many long
its
The unwritten
to us the exact
first
communicate
period
when
it is
He
says that
quite as old as
any
But,
of the large magnetic orbs that shine out with such in-
may
be, there
is
own
earth,
and
it
390
MOONS.
impressed
is
itself
upon our
childish brain.
all
It
other things
we behold
structed for
vanced
in
and organize
ture up to
its
present condition.
We
cannot conceive
is
attained; and we moons would quite likely result in building worlds, for a moon certainly appears very much like a Avorld, although it may be somewhat diminutive in size. We think, however, almost any practical mechanic would
conclude, that
size of a
it
to increase the
moon, than
we
know
the exact
manner
in
which
said
such worlds
in the
may be
enlarged.
Very much
that
we
preceding chapter,
will of course
we must
pursued in
work,
the construction of
all
We
period;
have remarked,
former part of
this
that undoubted
that,
a large portion of
water.
MOONS.
391
its
surface at a
They
development,
of sedimentary deposits,
must
earth's
surface, or,
what
is
when such
be
any lengthy
upon
this
it
subject,
even in
Suffice
to
in the northern
subsequently,
it
lofty
mountain ranges.
892
moons.
the iee fields have gone, and the cause of
Where
propounded, but
in the
still
remain unanswered;
locked up
Howwhen in became
sister
ever,
we may
the
development,
it
was prepared
served
to
had sub-
all their
needed.
they were more we should be able to read correctly thin page of the earth's history as any Here other that has been recorded upon her tablets.
be transported
It
is
where
in
this
one
is,
deep
to
float
immense icebergs;
another
is,
that the
Where has
It
is
must have
left
we can
find no room, in
arrangement,
What
itself,
upon
moons.
the temperate zones for so
393
ages in the past; for,
many
while
it
sway.
life
that could
have resisted the frigid influences of this wide-spread scene of desolation, and while it remained, as a matter
of course the habitable, or that portion of the globe that
to a
diffused,
and a
furnish
life
and sustenance
for an
advancing and
We
know
any one upon the earth know exactly the age of our moon. We have no data that will enable us to compute the time by centuries, so as to ascertain the number that
have existed since the moon was projected, or since the
vast icebergs floated over
many
and
drift,
But we seem
records
from the
own
by an intimate
gathered
>
An
from
sys^nu
\M
394
tend
to
moons.
prove that our
moon
set
is
comparatively a modern
institution,
and another
gathered by observations
modern
geologic history.
The
after
seems
to
have existed
all
made
No
who examines
this matter,
can doubt
by
and
fruitful
populous
cities,
with
all their
we take a cursory survey of our we shall find that most of the exterior planets are attended hj more than one of these lunar bodies, and that they seem to revolve around the
and plenty.
if
And
s}
T
own planetary
stem,
distances, in
accordance
Some
of the
ing
in far
is
supposed
to
in
moons.
distant from that planet ?
395
if
and doubtless,
we could
be-
come
and
satellites
them.
It
make
any discovery concerning the moons of Neptune, which are so far beyond. Then we may naturally conclude,
that in the vast unexplored fields lying within the limits
of our a
own solar system, still beyond Neptune, may be number of far older planets that are surrounded by
for centuries to
may
come remain
entirely
beyond the
We
by
points,
which he
may group
together,
and arrive
at a
That all worlds are projected as or sateland that they are usually composed of negative or electric materials. Secondly. That our moon has a
Thirdly.
own moons
satellite.
That our earth presents the strongest indications, that, at a comparatively modern period, there had collected upon its surface, a superabundance of the most electric
material in the form of water and
this negative material, the
ice.
Fourthly. That
very
article that
was required
in the construction of a
new
some inexwhere
it
tern-
396
moons.
now
earth
in
We
think
it
will
to the
to the
all
be an attendant in
would seem
ratory,
forces,
may
influ-
seemed
to continue to
an unnecessaquantity of
its
lengthened duration.
it
forward until
had released a
future
we
harmony
of the arrangement.
would
for us to devise any other mode by which the necessary elements could have been engen-
be extremely
difficult
make
a start in
life.
Thus
moons.
397
their
we may partially discover how seeming evils destroy own power and influence, and finally ultimate in
positive good.
Had
brought to bear
passed through
in the dissolu-
it
all
the changes
and
by one
no proper material
moon
and most probably, we should have had no attendant to cheer and enliven the gloom of night, and render tolerable that portion of earthly existence; for this
new planet could not have commenced among the heavenly bodies.
its
career of glory
We
of our
illuminate
own
more
the arctic regions, which sometimes give rise to the foolish idea that the polar axis of the globe, as well as the
now exerted by
34
398
moons.
equatorial regions, and caused an almost entire destruction of all but those animals that
winter,
and
that, if tropical
animals existed at
during
row zone.
Thus, we perceive, there must have been extended
ages
little
influence
upon a
were not
in
to affinitize
and be wakened
into activity
upon the character and condiown inherent powers, much more than upon
to us
any influences that are coming directly great luminous body in the centre.
from the
Now,
in the
if it
away
a large
amount of the accumulatiQns of negative or cold element in the form of ice and water, then it will doubtbe necessary, in view of the future development of
off
less
very large
still
remain;
Any
map
North America, and vast portions of northern Europe and Asia, are rendered almost useless and uninhabitable,
moons.
399
by the cold and inhospitable climate that prevails, while perhaps the soil and other advantages may be fully equal, and in many instances superior, to the more favored and
temperate climes.
It
by
the supreme powers that seem to control matters appertaining to our world, to produce
little
fir
trees.
We have
to
suffi-
North America
supply the
if
but
Can we suppose
it is
remain in
?
opened, and
made
as the rose,
and
to
be blessed with a
happy homes
human
We
globe, that
supply the
if we look over the face of our we have negative element left, sufficient to wants of at least two or three more moons,
this
surplus electricity
is
We
the large and extended glacial formations actually existing at the higher north and south latitudes, and upon
a very great
When we
covered with
this ele-
ment, we
may
be
400
produced
MOONS.
in the ages of the future.
It
may
prove
dis-
away a thousand
It
feet
it
producing new continents where now are but a few scattered isles in the midst of the ocean.
of the subject,
view
we cannot
now
it
to the
human
race, as
this
wide
fields,
and most
effectually
Now, we may ask, with some degree of propriety, how this necessary improvement can be made and this
step taken in the development of our world, unless
by
some means this excess of electric material is transferred to some new-made globe or satellite; for, what else can be done with the large amount of water and ice, which
appear entirely unnecessary, even at the present time,
upon
is
this
our planet.
ment
frozen
embrace.
No move
can be made
in the direction of
MOONS.
magnetic and active.
401
and antarctic
as the
now
covers so very
The
an-
reader
may
not be surprised,
fact, that this
if
we should modestly
nounce the
for a
and
has already
moon
is
of course
ized to be discovered
generally
known
accompany her in all her wanderings, and to render still more cheerful the evenings of all the future generations,
until our great
mother
powers, as to be entirely independent of outside influences for the light her children require.
It
is
satellite
which
is
now
in process
of cold element
now
will also
all
coast lines
more
or less,
and bring
402
that
it
MOONS.
will
there,
when
it
theories;
also
we have invariably presented them because they seemed to our minds best supported by evidences
nature.
We
ation of our
in the solar
moon, and
system
to
may
exist
ply because
we conceive
to
We
we
claim that
plainly dis-
must be just
as
much
time
all
in
the laws
so productive
and must
must be quite
as the past,
into existence.
branch of mechanism
We
claim,
to repeat a single
subject,
that
all
movements, and
in the
and hence, they must have required a amount of mechanical skill and ability in their conIt
is
struction.
extremely
difficult
for us to discover
MOONS.
403
idea, that so
how an
intelligent
various modifications
and
differentiations, entirely
unaided by an intelligent
management
None
But we doubt
this
world
at
will
any suggestion of
The
faintest
infinite
Jehovah
to
be released to
infinite labor
of projecting and
down
Yet
all
the simple question and the only issue will be, have the worlds been constructed by a single infinite
intelli-
gent personality, or by
gent beings
?
infinite
numbers of
finite intelli-
We
We
ject, that
scientific
We
mean
the
our
present
widely
accepted
theory concerning
we have made some The oceanic tides are allusion in a previous chapter. supposed to be governed entirely by the power of reciprocal gravitation, which power is communicated from
*04
one planet to anther.
MOONS.
Thus, the gravitating force
at-
tached to the sun and the moon reach out the strong
arms of
wards themselves.
this successfully,
do
it is
tion
belongs to the
where the
tidal
wave occurs.
it
Again,
it is
high
it
is
also high
Hence we
learn, that
both directions.
But science accounts for this strange anomaly by claiming that the moon attracts the water from the earth, upon the side towards herself, and that
upon the opposite hemisphere.
she attracts the earth from the waters that are situated
We
very
philosopher or
real truthfulness.
One
many men
of learning have
and
it
is
do so
we can make
if it is
difficult subject.
We
possible
it
to find a
to find
to
Newton
conceived
similar
idea,
and
saw quite
MOONS.
clearly that the
orbit
405
in its
much
smaller task.
made an
in the
dynamic forces
in the other.
same error
Had
momentum
to the globe,
God
move-
more
We
phenomena
will
will
become quite
and the
difficult
problem
pro-
The two
batin
entirely distinct
and separate
their operations
and
We may
discover, if
we accept
more powerful influence upon the negative elements. Thus we perceive that the earth's reciprocal influence in connection with these two batteries would be to produce the larger tides upon the sun, and the lesser upon the moon. If the tides were absolutely produced by gravitating
406
MOONS.
sarily be
as the sun
five
all
the plan-
and
is
circumference.
How
men
little
The
tory solution.
magnetic force
brought
we
shall very
we
make
forces in his
own manner.
We
who
any
necessary elements
in nature's
may
be erected,
satis-
competent
shall
to
perform
all this
labor in a most
factory manner.
We
subject,
portion of our
will feel
dis-
not given,
during our
an existence.
We
if
it
we had, even
if
we could have
MOONS.
407
given by clairvoyant vision, or spirit teaching, an accurate description of an interior world, such as would be
it
would be found of
little
has been to
globe that
is
work thus far show that nothing can be found upon our
object of this
The
to
We
have endeavored
that
this
grand theory.
We
how
well
purpose.
We
acknowl-
who
sug-
CHAPTER
VISION.
XIII.
The
It
its
system.
It
is
contrivances of which
its
aid,
own wants, and would conseThe lenses are we that through formed them, without remarkably see
at all distances
any re-adjustment,
to
all visible
objects at those
we use any artieye and the greater or lesser distance of the object. However penetrating the human vision may be, there is a limit beyond
If
lens
f
suit the
which
or
it
down
vision.
409
We
have revealed
hitherto
unknown, both in the far-off regions of space entirely beyond the range of the natural eye, and also down in the infinitesimal realms where objects are so diminutive as to escape our most piercing glances, and
readily perceive, there must be
still
we
unlimited fields
may
exercise
its
increasing accumulations of
knowledge.
may
able unsurveyed regions out in the immensity of the universe, as well as in the infinitesimal depths
Can w e suppose
r
that
human
skill
and genius
That cannot
be.
further
field of
want
activity,
in-
410
ever yet produced; and,
vision.
it is
not too
much
to think, that
many
spiritual vision.
In
fact,
we may
all
germs
persons.
We may almost
own
we
shall use
life.
when we have
is
It
simply that
is
sees
under
different conditions,
it is
and
that
which comes
and
all
external objects.
Books of travel, history, and descriptive scenery, would be of little interest, were there no interior vision to be opened to the scenes described, and did they not make a sort of living impression upon those organs, we
certainly could receive no particular benefit from such
works.
vey mind-pictures, and transfer us back to the time and place of the transactions, and give us a view of the surroundings.
What
can a Livingstone or a
Du
Chaillu
and describe
so graphically as
What
dyke transfer
to the
they
portray so vividly,
And, but for the spirit they have discovered, and are, by their genius, enabled to place upon the canvas, their
Thus, all works of art, works would possess no value. ho would worthless, unless there and much of literature,
VISION.
411
was a spirit in them, and we have, within ourselves, a power of vision by which we can discover that spirit. This is one method by which we can appreciate their
true value.
to the
So,
we discover
that in spirit
we may
visit
travel
the re-
nowned
ancient times.
We
upon the eye. Such may be found already in profusion We a-nd we could not improve upon them if we wished.
are to take an entirely different view of this matter.
We
observe that
human
vision
range, and that the size and form of objects are very
similar, or present
There
is
little
doubt
but the house, the tree, the man, or any other object,
may appear
same, as to
persons
to
size,
form and
color, as they
do to other
who
endowed with this power must of necessity be adapted to the various conditions and surroundings in which this great variety of living organisms are placed. For instance,
smallest to the greatest, are
it
aerial
regions upon
its
in the pasture,
his
food,
conditions.
so con-
412
vision.
takes in a long range,
its
it
is
very short in
range, and he
may be
Change
it
its
it
had approached
Upon
We
vision
;
down
in the
realms of the
infinitesimal,
beyond which the unaided eye could not However, we find within the limits of napenetrate. ture's boundaries, materials from which may be manufactured lenses that entirely change and modify this
power, so that
lenses, are
this
objects
unknown
to us before.
became
known
that
overlooked by
men, even
up
and that
is
size
and distance
are relative terms, and are measured and computed upon a fixed standard, which
that of the
made
to
accord precisely to
if
human
vision.
may
will entirely
much
if
larger than
when beheld by
then,
all
eyes had
vision.
413
been composed of such materials, and constructed in manner and form like the magnifying lenses, it would
human vision would have it now is, and all men would have beheld all objects very much enlarged compared with the size they now behold them.
follow that the standard of
We
find, then,
materials in
when placed
in
men, from
all
had been compelled to have beheld things through one or the other end of this glass,
all
time,
ordinary
human
vision.
human
them through the other, and see them proportionately diminished, what vast differences of opinion would necessarily result
We think, then,
is
we
shall
very much
things that
if
not "all
in relation to
many
we behold
There can be no doubt but the human eye, as a mechanical structure, approximates as near perfection as
414
universe, but,
it
vision.
quite evident that the skill and wis-
is
dom brought
have pro-
Because,
it is
very
must exist, in which may be found very different lenses, and perhaps formed of somewhat different materials from those used in the human race. Ours are admirably adapted to our condition, but our conditions and circumstances are widely different" from that of the owl,
who
seeks
its
habitation and
can be recog-
human
vision.
The animalcule
is
said
by
among
which
may
the
human
eye.
As
principle well
adapted
little
human
race,
would
evi-
dently be of very
would have
to be magnified a
by no means answer the purposes of the little creature. They must be provided with eyes with which they can discern their food, which must be proportionately smaller
vision.
415
size,
Then, we learn,
may
sufficiently
minute
to serve
We
in nature's realms,
many
and has
all
from
all
eternity; for,
it
is
clear that
of the range of
human
vision,
It
is
by no means probable
life,
down
will
to the
then
it
beyond the boundaries of our microscopic vision, or that which we have produced at the present period. For the
power of the lenses introduced
cule that has been discovered
into the minutest animal-
must, in
power of the
malcule
itself, in
order that
vision
should subserve
that, if
it
Thus we discover
was
immense
416
below the
the fact,
if
vision.
reach of
our eyes
and
it
we must admit
is
vision that
of any
practical benefit
them,
then
such
quite possible
to
upon
the same plan, with the same material, and the same
fashioned
lenses;
and
all
if
then
we
discover that
appearance.
So we may
it
beheld.
scopic in
character
then
if it
some others
micro-
is
was telescopic
we
shall learn, at
are relative
seem proportionally nearer; some time, that size and distance terms, and that there can be no standard
through
We
ence,
we
inhabit,
is
is
many
lute,
and a foot
that no
so
a rod so
think
we
this
For
shall
such dimensions
verity, accepted
are
known
to
be a well-established
by
all
intelligent
men;
but,
we
is
measurement
based
upon the peculiar construction of the human Just take out this eye, and substitute a differlittle different
little
different plan,
and
vision.
417
to
it
an entirely
must
still
home upon
out
all
it
would
own, in which
it
it
could carry
is
designed, by the
power and wisdom that directs and governs. It would have as ample scope, to perform all its functions, in
that little flower, or
world of ours
upon that
see
its
leaf, as
we have
in this
as
we
by
the
is
power of seeing, and so would ours if we possessed same character of vision with the animalcule. "He that formeth the eye, shall he not see?" and it very generally supposed that a being who was compeits
must be
infinitely wise
all
and powerful, or
in other
all
words
must possess
beings.
But
this is
in endless variety,
and adapted
all sizes
to
an inconceivable numcolors,
They
are of
and
and the
cor-
it
might be competent
eties,
418
more complicated
conceded, that
it
vision.
in their character. But it must be would require a spiritual intelligence
form
to
not
not
known
is
supposed by so
many
Then
and
in
will
beings
who
skill,
it
was
not be abso-
It
the artist
vision in order
to
produce?
fall
wisdom
and
the
nature,
to
vision.
419
and
this vision
into
Now,
by an
infinite
God, would
we
wants of
all
such be-
infinite vision,
who
is
is
receiving
requisite vision.
and
invisible things,
is
entirely preposterous
would doubtshould be
endowed with
microscopic vision
of
an
exceedingly
in
the most
it
the operations of
if it
has any limits, and that any being that has come into
existence outside,
if
by no means get inside, for all that is inside must be subject to, and governed by, the universal laws that
predominate within the boundaries of universal nature.
420
vision.
We
There
effect
is
can be no power
in this
any change
in a
single
mathematical or geometrical
is
proposition, or
unen-
and did
came
than
all
into existence
it is
or law,
God, possessing
all
law and
things in accordance
provisions?
We
think, then, as
we make
so little
headway
in ascer-
any
existence, or out-
we had
better
for
its limits,
sufficient to
many
far
eternal
without crossing
its
confines
in
any
direction.
made
more adin
vancement,
tured
if
away
unknown,
vision.
421
pursuit of knowledge; for, in so doing, they have built up huge superstructures that are resting upon mythical lore and imaginary foundations, and which will all be
We may
among
have existed up
to the present.
life,
For down
in
we find absolute,
liv-
facts
and wonderful phenomena, we find eternal laws and principles which lead us to a contemplation of the most
exalted themes the
entertain.
human mind can by any possibility Our minds seem to be carried directly from
life,
lenses,
up
of
workmanship necessary
to
all its
We
must of necessity
all objects,
and
to
act in
their
all
numerous
and
duties.
may
422
vision.
produces
such
marvelous
changes in the
vision.
If
we can take
and mold
it
into
will aid
there,
human mind
well suppose
we may
to furnish their
own
need
several purposes.
We
all
any of the
arts or sciences,
when
we have
We may
manner.
We have shown
in
in these
pages that
all
matter increases
spiritualization,
power and
activity
by sublimation or
by division of particles; that steam is more powerful and active than water, and electricity superior to steam, because the atomic particles are more sublimated and Hence it is, that spiritual beings may, from the finer. spiritualized or sublimated particles of the same materials of which visual lenses are formed to suit the purposes of physical organisms, and which are used by them
or
are so
much
more
unknown
and
beyond human
vision,
also
down deeply
into those
vision.
423
life,
what, then
may we
extreme of spiritualization?
We
have endeavored
to
keep
in
and
and
also
man
and
spirits in their
it
sublimated condition.
rations formed in this
Were
life,
so,
we were
not, in spirit
life,
The connection
different
of existence, and carry out the great purposes and designs that have been developing within us
up
to the pre-
sent time.
Hence, we
fect,
see, in
order to
make
we must be constituted and organized in spirit life, with the same identical elements that we are in this, and being so organized, we may experience and realize fully
the most exalted aspiration that can possibly originate,
or be developed within us in our present condition.
cause, the elements of our natures in spirit
cisely the
life,
Be-
are pre-
same, only of a more sublimated character, and consequently possessing more activity and power,
424
vision.
to all
Not
all
is
and hearing,
life.
all,
must be
as
as
tion of that
appears,
philosophically,
entirely intangible
we
have, in
We
cannot
can we
satisfies
their
spirit con-
scious existence
to our conditions
earth-sphere;
they are composed of materials that render them most proper and advantageous
to us in this
form.
We
see,
state
higher condition.
that
We
to
entertain hopes
and
the
vearninss
seem
originate
somewhere
in
yond.
We
this life, of
know that we can have no realization, in many of the aspirations that we find existing
vision.
within;
for they swell
425
all
up and outreach
the provisions
that this
to the hu-
man
soul,
beyond
appertaining to
supply
And how
sensuous
organs
of
higher and
more
exalted
powers?
How
or lover, unless
is
capable of con-
how can you enjoy anything of spirit existence, unless you are possessed of such powers as will enable you to see, hear, feel, smell and taste all that is provided for
the gratification of
spirit life?
all
We
but,
we must
all
and
They must
for
it
must surely be
be
all
and we can
earthly enjoyments depends upon the possession of well and properly developed sensuous organs. Desolate and
426
vision.
the condition of that person,
unhappy indeed,
is
who
is
Paralysis
is
for no
of the senses.
We
smell something attached to the most exalted conceptions that ever entered the
human
realms, in which
we
and
their
aspirations.
We
their beauties.
We
are to taste
and murmuring
vales,
in the playful
and
feel
shall be
The
Jesus, feel his fond embrace, hear his voice, and taste
the sweets of redeeming love, and regale the senses upon the aroma rising from his garments, and be satisfied.
So,
we
of
human minds
chapter,
we
will confine
particularly, simply
vision,
for,
said of
may apply
all
to
some extent
they must
purpose of
spheres.
It will
vision, is
spirit
vision.
for all purposes of utility
427
vision
must be
sufficiently powerful to
spirit-eye,
and that
own
must have an eye correspondingly powerful, for, if they cannot see themselves and their surroundings, then they
cannot know themselves and their conditions, any more
We
cannot see
light,
and
known
to
Suppose,
now, those elemental constituents enter into the constitution of the spiritual form, such form would be entirely
invisible to us,
visible
it
might be
to
We
at
still
more
refined
and
dition
and
this
is
One
so
is
more
as
428
from
this
vision.
to the
next,
by a
escape or elimination of
powers.
still
more
We may
now begin
to get
almost infinitely multiplied powers they possess of opening the gates and avenues to
all
How reservoirs where knowledge may be found. comparatively has the man or woman enjoyed in
best estate, and
their
how
little
and how many thousand problems which are presented This to the mind are to them dark and inexplicable?
darkness arises from the fact that
all
our higher
Our locomotion
is
is
strength
extremely limited,
has but a single
taste
permits us to devour
if
we could
see in
would create
all
ineffable disgust.
There
fections
this
is
one door through which we may escape from death. There door groveling condition and
this
is
vision.
429
is
tion
sensuous organs
and
faculties
that will
and give us a
that
clear,
we
shall be
endowed with a
vision
may
which the
spirit
expresses
itself.
How
unspiritualized
and gross in his nature must have been the individual mind who conceived the dogma of the resurrection of the body, and how darkly sensuous and opaque must be
the minds of those persons, who, at this more advanced
age, endorse the
same
ridiculous doctrine!
What do
For what purpose can they use this restored material eye, ear, tongue, nose, or any nerves of touch or feeling? would they bring them in contact with spiritual essences? if so, why do not the same organs make us realize such contact now? If they are ever to require these bodies again, how very foolish to let them die and rot, and dissolve, and disperse in gases, to the
condition
?
Why have
all
body
for the
same
is
spirit?
dissolved?
But
this
dogma
of a piece with
relics of a
and are
still
430
vision.
light of eternal truth
The
will
is
and such
The
fields
come within
a great way,
the range of
human
vision, are
comparatively extremely
wonderful, and the eye
and incon-
human
eye,
powers
of one that
is
and probably
those powers.
fields,
of thought,
We
in
problem
We
is
may have
beyond the reach of external human vision. We never saw any of the imponderable agents or forces.
Very many
Neweffects,
ton did not see the gravity that brought the apple from
the tree, yet
lie
its
attraction.
vision.
431
as
The chemist pursues his researches in the dark, as far human vision is concerned he never saw a chem-
ical
affinity,
qualities
The astronomer
The attorney
senses
came in contact with any of his The clergyman roams amidst a labyrinth
He
never
not
test.
he so earnestly presents
jected to any such
These
invisible, intangible
blood of earth's children, that the soul sickens with the horror of its contemplation.
We
infinite lengths
all its
power
it
may
be brought
when the
What
are
all
432
vision.
we
inhabit,
and which
at-
much
What
human
we
all
are sur-
Science answers
they are
down
composed
those
if so,
must be subject
to the
Can
still
ualized vision.
We
scan
duced
to
vision increases in
rising
must be
shall be able
visible to
must become
is
And
now, we discern
this
if
range of spiritual
real essences, then
see,
and
as
all
our well-formed
may
and
If
ideal
precisely
the
same
as
we
see
in this
material world.
vision.
electricity
43$
and atmosphere, are must be subject to the microscopic lenses of spiritual beings, and the extent of the magnifying power of their visual lenses will depend entirely upontheir refinement, and the comlight
and magnetism,
composed of
We
think that
we have of
that possessed
by those that
we know
and that
theirs
must be entirely
more powerful
conditions.
their
a vision
so exalted
and powerful as
to discern all of
which we
We may
now
human mind,
not, they
that can
make an
were they
would be nothings.
As
unless
there
is
Hence we
and conceptions of the human mind which make an inscription upon the walls of our organs, must be real entities composed of particles, and must also come within
the range of possible vision,
and
not only
so,
but that
and
color.
Why
37
murky
434
vision.
why
should the
by which
colors?
We may
sible extent of
magnifying power.
particles are
tain
all
they con-
narrow
limits
embraces
tained in
all
Man,
then, being
a microcosm,
we may naturally
con-
man
is
In order
do
this,
water
Why
not, if
Again,
peer out upon the remotest orb that has come within the range of the most powerful telescope, and bring it within
hailing distance, and hold easy converse with
itants.
its
inhab-
Such
is
vision.
43&
and
still
higher
It will be discovered
and the
may
and unmistakably discovered, we see and discern the separate trees in our orchards, If so, then the or the buildings upon our premises. very thought-particles that line the chambers of our mentalities, must be as distinctly visible to advanced
particle shall be as clearly
as
spirit
hang pendant upon the branches. Thenj how short-sighted is man! How narrow the How feeble and vain our efforts limits of human vision in arriving at the real facts by which we are surrounded!
dens, or the apples that
!
How
unaided
human
questions that
is
come up before us
is
relative,
all
uncertain,
All
would be entirely
different, if
moment, the individual with a refined and delicate appetite, would relish the morsel he eats with so much gusto and satisfaction, if he possessed an eye that would magnify a million diameters, and
reveal
to his
Can we suppose,
astonished
monsters that
make
we use
and
436
article
vision.
extremely unpalatable.
eve, deceptive as
it
So we perceive that
be,
is
thfc
human
may
in this gross,
vision that
is
adapted
Suppose,
for instance,
we possessed eyes
exist in
and
ani-
malcule which
the atmosphere
almost
all
that
we
eat,
and
in
fluids
we
drink,
in length or
Who
of us
would
like to
ing, hairy
We
in length,
much
less of
one that
It
is
said,
however, that
human
and
skill
many
million times,
upon the earth; that would make the little fellows of the size above mentioned, which we are daily devouring in such quantities, enormous in length and proportionate and this only a lens produced from gross in breadth
materials by
human
ingenuity.
What
lenses that
may
common
endowed
repast.
intelligences,
ing and
much npparent
relish
and
vision.
437
is
enjoymont?
to gratify
You might
extraordinary entertainment,
really a very
my
the luxuries that the season and the country can afford,
in the
But,
my
is
dear
sir,
says
the
spirit,
who
which
so elaborately
may
or
be so intensified as to enlarge
times,
all
things a billion of
that
those fluids.
life
do not by any means partake of food Why, they are but one mass of animal manner of creeping and
sir,
all
things, reptiles
four-
If
you
all
your refined
sensibilities
You would
as no
is
repast, with
an unparalleled
man
?
has experienced.
Now, which
of these two
Ours, that
is
nar-
one that
is
more
of the infinitesimal
It
and
Through such a
if it
human
them
to discern them.
We may
inquire,
which
and
if
not
entirely regulated
and
govlenses
erned
by the character
We
438
such
is
vision.
the fact, and that the
human
govern the size of objects any more than any other, and
as visions
all
differ
so extensively,
we must conclude
is
that
size, as
we
before remarked,
relative
and depends
vision
entirely
Some powers
inferiority of our
lie
condition where,
to ourselves,
huge delusion, that is practiced upon us with impunity, and which, if we could behold with our natural visions, would cause us to curse
the hour of our nativity, and any such continuous existence.
sist,
For,
we should
and continue
in these
earthly forms,
it
would be
life
of
neath
us,
so repulsive.
And
most assurpos-
edly, if
we could not
Hence, the
this
controlling powers
This view of the subject presents another most indubitable evidence of the continuous progressive existence
all
forms
of organization,
from
vision.
439
is
below
us,
carrion that
is
who
have a spiritualized
lar
in a simi-
manner, when they behold us pouring down our immense throats, whole cataracts of fluids teeming with infusoria in all their various crawling and wriggling forms, and great mountains of solid food, filled with regiments of all manner of animal life, existing in* every
variety of unsymmetrical and repulsive organisms.
We
it
is
and that
it
is
is
in relation to vision,
sist, for, if
this res-
hood are
perform, that in this condition truth and falserelative terms, and that " whatever is is right,"
it
exists.
tell
a falsehood or an
untruth for his right hand, and that supposes his large
is
an accumulation of
verities, dwells
440
of the imperfection of
VISION.
all his
sensuous powers.
If he
them
tell
all
contact with
all
to deceive
him
in
tell
regard
to, the
They may
their
its
him
their standard,
powers
reach,
of discernment.
Ask
and
what
and
in
it
Ask
the ear, of
it
Hence
there never,
all
when we
may
are composed of the most refined and spiritualized material essences possible, until
they
may
be able to reach
and penetrate
discern
and
all facts,
and
all
may come
We
now
any chance
of,
for
improvement,
all
and appreciate,
attained.
We
freely
express
reached,
in that
an opinion, that no
such
condition
can
be
realized, for
case the end of existence must surely arrive. There could be nothing more beyond; all knowledge would be grasped, all hopes and aspirations realized, all
enjoyments experienced.
left for
vision.
441
his destiny,
and
his
conquered
all things,
own
and commence
journey anew.
during
We
also,
thoughts which
may come
or
as entities, be recognized
by the sensuous organs of more etherealized beings. We now perceive, that the more progressed the organization, the more of real truth it may discover, or the nearer to real truth it may arrive, by the use of the
sensuous organs connected with the varied faculties that
are their concomitants.
For we can
arrive at nothing
to
make
lowest,
life,
upon the mentality. We trust, if we commence at the and range through all the forms of organized
we
development
in this respect.
be in possession of the
five
and some of them have remarkable developments of some particular one of those sensuous organs, as the
intensified smell of the
must
hound and the piercing glance The minute animalcule taste and smell, and some one or
442
more,
if
vision.
not
all,
is
possessed
the different
must be admitted,
there can be
no
differ-
We
who
live to-day
all
of real truth.
ancestors
But we are
so differently,
were somewhat
lucination
religion.
as regards science
and
Are we
years from
this, will
to ourselves? this
May
to
conclude of
inhabitants
dwelt
under a
cloud,
to
may
land
be quite familiar
mundane sphere
how many
millions of periods
still
vision.
443
upon the inner consciousness of mind, our present ideas and conceptions of truth? Can we suppose the world is now finished, and that the present generation have acquired all knowledge, or that we have now attained to
that perception of
all all
all
that
and
need
We
The
world
rial is
is
refined
is
ocean are constantly passing through changes by entering into the various organisms,
the
carbon, oxygen,
Can we not
spiritualized,
see that
when
all
they must
produce a
444
conception of
all
vision.
the causes that have operated in pro-
in relation
and antagonistic
the
universal
well-defined
principles
pervading
realms,
and,
that very
eminent
scientific
men have
active
acknowledged
most
and
our
explosive elements
globe, in sufficient
known
It
to
man,
in the interior of
system
to fragments.
may
must be introduced
that, as a consequence,
ture
may
it
must
powers and
of the kind.
toothers
little
any other globe or mechanical structure For if not, it would certainly be inferior
its
it
credit
upon
and indicate
at least, that
they were deficient in some of the qualifications necessary in order to build worlds in accordance with the
most approved plans, or with the highest principles of Certainly a lighter, more buoyant structure, the art.
in the
form of a spherical
shell, as thin as
would be con-
sistent with
and
life
all
vision.
ical skill
445
formed
solid, or
with raging
fire.
We
more rational
system of Copernicus.
They
motions of the heavenly bodies were unnatural and impossible, nor the increased beauty, rationality
and har-
mony
of
all
by the
latter system.
making a world when one could have been made that would have subserved more
actually necessary,
We
ask
if
there
is
not as
much
different principles, as
there
is
in the
The one
is
gloom,
comparatively
beautiful.
It
light, airy
impresses
and pleasurable emotions in view of the wondrous utility and marvelous ingenuity and wisdom displayed in such
an admirably arranged superstructure;
38
and,
we
are
446
vision.
who could
and construction of our globe, as our minds are, at the astronomical construction and movements of the heavenly
bodies, recognized
much nearer
harmonious principles.
We
think
it
will
be conceded, that,
all
if
the opinions of
men concerning
been changing
these and
in the past,
much room
theories in the
coming time,
we have
established theories
which
will
Then, no one, have been demonstrated beyond a doubt. we trust, will pronounce our idea concerning the physical
vision.
447
and cold, shall open her profound secrets men, and, until from actual discovery
we
made
known
to
by research and
was planned and constructed by the very highest order of mechanical skill, and upon principles that can by no
means be improved
familiar
or excelled.
mechanical
has
been
may enjoy the proud satisfaction of knowing that ours, upon which we had our birth, existence and experience, was no whit behind, in point of symmetry, beauty and grandeur, any other that may be found in the broad
universe.
future,
For, whatever
may
we must always
entertain an affectionate
remem-
brance and regard for that world which was the home
of our childhood, and the scene of our more mature
reflections
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