lines and ellipses be open to injury by man. Surely the scholar's difficulty is developed in matter, by perfect scales of power and wisdom in Jehovah's hands, and can be so seen on the ultimate atoms filling space with constant variations of all but the times.

All the universe must be accurate to its connection over the man's world's division of day and night. The philosopher who would build a theory of closing our planetary system, as not connected with the colder regions above, is simply unable to grasp the consistent means and operations of nature's scale, to the harmony of the whole. He knows not the Scriptures or natural forces in the power of God. Yet he may bask in the sunshine of popular applause, because he fits its general level by a lean false system. Every true geometer and practical chemist must know, that where matter touches it must be either a negative or a positive, a retainer and check for vital healthy circulation, or a conductor; it must be a poison and a choke-damp, or a vivifier.

The grand general principles on the laws of Natural Physics we attain hereinto are these, with many inferior branches.

First. That the power of matter, by being substance, is its retentive hold in space to its finite occupancy, and its constancy to keep it, until by its superior in that quality, it is displaced, whether acted in by other properties connected with dynamical force or not, as aids to displacement.

Second. That the rule for all immaterial properties embedded as the apparent causes of motion, and assistants to variations in matter, is their submission to the pure law of the scale, or perfect square root on line, and pure cubic sphere on the circle, by which all correct calculations and principles have been ever made on them by all experience, and hence all points of rest are not in spaces but points of matter.

Third. That no practical experiment in nature can reach the perfection of a pure sphere in form; every experiment on earth, in nature, every observation on the heavens above, and every experiment in the laboratory, harmonizing with the first objective law, that matter must swell from the pure circle to the ellipse in all forms and motions, by the law of "rehoboth," or room, needed for entrance and liberty. Thus the first law of motion in liberty, as a moral type, is, that the inferior must give way, and submit gracefully to bend to the superior, which again admits the force of the same conclusion on its just value in its inferior, either of the one great one over the smaller, or the heavier united force of many smaller over one heavier, according to the just law of a divinely worked scale. Yet the heavier is seduced to motion by the lighter to restore the balance.

Fourth. That the Creator who gave, and alone supports this power of simple dignity in "To be," has wisely done it, as it becomes the means of axial formations, and pillared arms, bound as wheels, subject to the overflow of the vital fluid thread to constant lines, although with variations between equinoctial points or apsis; and, thus, it is the foundation of power and variety, with grandeur and refinement, to develop under the pure virtual law of time, or life motions, a universe of such marvellous variety, between the great and small, as our system presents, from a glowworm to a constellation or a nebula. From the animalculæ organic to a comet inorganic.

Fifth. That the only means ever found by experience and observation, for full vital health and vigour in a system of chemical actions in dynamical solids, is, full outward circulation, which of necessity must be subject to the same elliptical lines of minor and final flushes with the law of

matter as of solids, and this is not possible to be in any known fact of nature, or experiment, without the constant sufficiency of a ruling force or new thread over the body experimented on. The virtual perfection of all properties, as of the pure square and sphere, involving the certain death relapse by the real solidity of matter toward this, as of the equilibrium of rest in collapse. All the experiments ever read differently, having been only imperfectly collated in the practical means used for their continuance; it being also in theory opposed to all rules of matter in gravity without hope of rest or order.

Sixth.—Hence, as all velocities of the vital flowings of material nature do maintain their elliptical constancy away from the vertex relapse to a pure circle, whether considered for the great ocean gulf stream and other arterial forces of the earth, and above of the planets, and fixed stars in any degree to be observed, and the decline, by nature being left alone a year or an hour, must be of a result according to the universal pressure increasing by her full mass. It follows that astronomy joins issue in its highest branches of discovered facts and known governing law of attraction, with the voice the study our one globe raises. That the beneficent Creator is scientifically proved to be scientifically in perfection at work, not only in the body of the universe to do all its work, but, as Moses intimates, by His Spirit's aid, for the earth's laws and generations of the first three days, when the earth was alone, and so given as a study to the general principle for ever, sustaining the constant "To Be" of a stream at first so needed over all direct from Him, and in the proportion to extension of the universe; the more so, as a river of light and delight. So for the law of universal

exhaustion, (and the danger thereby, to collapse, otherwise,) the scientific Psalmist could say

Thou makest the out-going of the morning and the evening to rejoice,

Thou visitest the earth and watered it,

Thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God—full of water.

Here the law of universal danger to decline of power every evening and morning, was seen in a purer reach over the laws of physics than our most vaunted names have attained, as well as the only means of safety. May the blinded bigots of false philosophy, who will not see, be yet delivered to the repose of all true light and faith, that they may no longer be the most powerful enemies of themselves, their country, mankind at large, and their God.

NOTE. In the annual motions the astronomers had the advantage of correct observation on the fixed stars for all the annual times of planets, while they can only have the same aid for diurnal motions in that of the earth's surface points; yet this will be enough when the true powers of mathematics are brought to bear with the variations in the angles of the annual ellipse, to secure the same certainty on distance and diameters for these primary results of the force centrifugal."

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APPENDIX.

WE shall be aided in comparing the attainments of the sacred sages, with those of men of the restoration, by the study of a recent paper, which only came before me since the other parts of this treatise were sent to the printer.

In the January Number of the year 1867, in "Good Words," we have an account of the meteoric shower of November 14th, 1866, from the pen of the Rev. C. PRITCHARD, M.A., F.R.S., President of the Royal Astronomical Society.

This gentleman by his office is to be supposed fully acquainted with all the most perfect ideas in progress belonging to his science, made to that hour

he wrote.

The shower he watched and describes with great clearness, so that any non-observer has ample oppor tunity of seeing it as far as the pen can assist him.

When he draws his conclusions respecting this spectacle, and its witness to other phenomena, there are three grand ones spoken of, and linked into a sort of chain of causes. On these points we shall claim our liberty to comment.

They are The shower-The sources from and over the sun for the zodiacal light—and the rings of Saturn. It is suggested by Mr. Pritchard that as a great number of smaller planets have been discovered, (livingly, as regularly in ordered times, sweeping around the sun in the same laws that the larger ones move) there may be innumerable

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