from those which decided naturally, and yet in God's pure sovereignty, the fall of a sparrow to its death sod. Chemistry, therefore, by the action of electricity, generated under the stream of light is the superior function of physics on circulation; inertia and attraction being its forces for the solid scale. Burning gas in corpuscular fractions, as of the generous and humbly associating new and old sympathies in atoms of light and ether, the means of rise and velocity: and these being the laws of material conduction to the human body, then work on the brain its memorial changes and impressions which again act and react on the nerves and blood by the common sympathies as taught from the covenant of the cross in revelation. Thus the changes and laws of order, power, and progress, phrenology declares to be those of a true science, and found perfectly consistent to the quick electric forces of universal corpuscular weight of all atoms, as relieved from oppressive pressure by the flow from the centre under radiation, by an equalized power to the pressure (because, as of the universe, the both are the produce by the same ratios) with gravitation, are all of the good in the solid. But if, as has been erroneously suggested, but quite apart from, and opposed to the evident bearing of the whole light of revelation, this universe has other globes than our maternal sphere (to which and for which, all other parts were added) peopled with responsible creatures, as moral agents, then, like two dogs, or a pack chained together for a hunt, each must help to ruin the other by their contradictions to the laws of true fellowship in right, as sinners against safety, while they could have no just moral over each other, or common hinderance in justice to the inheritance of the certain ruin; no mutual bond of control in morals as also required. The Scriptures, indeed, speak of other

creatures as angels, and other habitations, but of the one, as a body, whose state was sealed to eternity before man's began, and their introduction as God's servants for good or evil is clearly made above the physical of this universe, while acting faithfully on it by the mind under God, and therefore not interfering with its necessary due isolation on law, truth, and grace providentially.

The evident object of Paul in quoting the 8th Psalm in Heb. 2, is to shew, that to pervert a divine testimony of elective purpose in love from God to any other, as of a common, or not sovereign purpose, is to produce a depreciatory feeling towards that peculiar act of love. And no man who has made such a distinction for a son is ever pleased, under some special profession of shewing a larger philantrophy, when his end is made common beyond the unit he desires to draw thereby in election nearer his heart. The community of song in the 5th chap. of Revelation is perfectly consistent with this importance of this universe being the appointed field as in a scale of operative sufficiency for man over all. Nor is any thing gained by peopling the planets as to numbers, for as it is plain the finite cannot fill the infinite, so there must be a space in God of "room," for new constitutions by the innumerable demands of his glory, as creator, without burdening one universe with two half connected systems of responsibility on the same law of attraction in the atoms of the body where the results of evil were required finally

Let us suppose the Creator wanted systems of respon sible creatures as innumerable as the sands on the sea shore and all the stars put together, it would be needless to God to unite them with this universe, which for the moral trial on physical fruits under the cross needs to be isolated. "Rehoboth."

to settle in law and judgment by death. Divine ethics are only taught consistently in the Word of God; the narrow minded are those who want inconsistent plethora to help God to fulfil his glory; they have no true idea of his infinity. The grandeur of this whole universe, however much it may stretch over our horizon and poles beyond the discoveries of Herschell's astral explorations, was necessarily created as a testimony of God's elective love for the first struggles and demonstrations of the Word, in revelation, on the human conscience. It is not too vast for God to do. The electric refinements of activity, observation and experience are acquainted with, demanded its most refined fractional division of matter for its scale of trial as fruits on the body; and the glory of the vision in masses, with the expansion of its depths to science demanded it also for a full impression on the human heart and mind, and must be of the same need and value over man's proper education had not even angels and cherubim been existing. It was all to advertise God as omnipotent in love. If all is wanted for man why should not all have been created for him?

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CHAPTER X.

Weighing the Earth and Planetary system.

THE subject of this chapter would not have entered this work, as it is more immediately the business of the practical astronomer than mine, but that an objection has appeared in print to my general theory on Light, and which a friend drew my attention to.

Of course I am called on to meet any apparently just objections, founded on experiment, which arise in the course of my expositions on science, and which may appear to have force, if only from the nature of the authority, and the general influence of the objectors. I am not aware that any other person has ever suggested that the interior of the earth is reached by light to the centre; indeed I am persuaded no published work of a date earlier than the period, when the first parts of mine appeared, except the Bible, had even the least suggestion that material light was the centrifugal power by which globes are whirled around their axis, and through space; but on the contrary, it had by considerable authority, been held proved, not even God's prime mover of smaller bodies on surface aspects, although needed for climate aids over this earth; and only as an acknowledged new stream from outside the universe is the centrifugal force discovered. Many have supposed her a body with only a crust of solids

floating on a volume of calorific resources sustained by interior combustion; hence, had the term used in the passage I quote, been heat instead of light, I might have supposed some other person's theory was alluded to, but as the point in regard to the earth's weight and dispositions of matter would be the same, I should still have thought it requisite to take up the subject, it being desirable for all our future progress to be assured on the point, how the original law of gravitation will admit of the theory. I must therefore trust to the magnanimity of the celebrated experimentalists connected with the report, that they will consider my remarks on the basis of the general good and liberty on science.

In the June number of the Leisure Hour, 1862, is a paper on the above subject, by Edwin Dunkin Esq., F.R.A.S., superintendent of the observing party who made experiments in the Harton Coal Pit with the Pendulum. The Astronomer Royal and several other eminent men being the associates.*

It will be evident, therefore, that if they have, by such experiments openly decided against my theory, or of any other person's on Light's generativeness, that unless I can prove them wrong in their own basis, I have but little reason to expect my views will find way, however powerfully they may appear to be supported by science, as otherwise known. At least, unexplained apparent contradictions in experimental science can only make the original thread leading to

NOTE. In a lecture delivered at St. Ives, Cornwall, Professor Hunt taught the theory that electricity is generated by the light of the sun, and passes on and through the earth; that being about two years after the first parts of this work were published and sent to him.

* The Astronomer Royal, was, I apprehend, the scientific leader for decisions, although Mr. Dunkin had the superintending management.