, 1842-08-20

0''"uSc lorsooth the Philosopher
| OF Missouri had not yet arisen, 10 point
'len 10 the paths in which they should
tread, cruelty ~concealing his light under
a bushel, until just che year before the
end OF the world, according to some VIII
ters, or DR.. MIXERS millennium. which
Is to commence in l643, when it will be
too late TO renounce our foolish opinions
II follow the lights of truth, to which
The learned author promises to point us.
lhIS is a book-making age. Every
event from the birth of Berkshire pig,
or the marriage Of Queen Victoria, to the
downfall of an empire must have a histo-
Ran to perpetuate its memory. The man
whose t no other way of gaining fame,
turns in 10 book-making, in order if pos
sibie, TO save his name from helpless and
hopeless oblivion.
Ills pleasant sure to see ones name in prirt.
- "'"n . JUN, dItbOuIn tnefe : HuthIlp IN n
Whether the work under c~onsidera-
lion is made TO re read, or like Peter Pin
der's razors, TO be sold, | know not; but
certain 1t IS, If the chapter which we
have read is a fair specimen, the author
had much better have rested the sale of
1t upon its imposing title, than to have
rlsked the loss Of subscribers by publish
ing what he has done.
But 10 the matter of the book. The
sixth chapter seems 10 be devoted 10 the
subject Of dreams; and as far as the au-
thor deals in the philosophy of dreams,
he has taken most of his reasoning from
Tom Paine. So much has been written
in this 18th century upon all name of
subjects, that We cannot blame an author
for borrowing occasionally from other
writer's who have gone before him; but
that any man should attempt, at this age
Of the world, to upset long established
theories, by the republication ofwhat has
been written and rewritten, read and re-
read by every Il who processes 10 read
at all, is too absurd.
The belief in the Christian Reli.ioa,
says the author, is based solely and en-
phatically upon 4 dream. Now Tom
Paine said the same thing, in almost the
same words, years ago;' but whether
our learned author has stolen his asscr-
ton from Eoltairc, Hume, Nolncy or the
Devil, it is Totally and cmphatically UNI
true. Is the miraculous birth of Christ
IA" only thing which induces Christians
to believe in Lis Divinity? Where arc
the numerous miracles which he per
formed? oil he not heal The sick and
no afflicted; make the lame TO walk and
the blind 10 see? Dill he not preach 70
The world 4 pure a"d spotlcss system Of
morality, which breathes ,Lc very cs-
sence Of Divinity itself, Independent Of
any extraneous proofs Of its divine orr
gin? And finally, are we not told that
his crucilixion, he was seen to arise
from the dead, and in all the majesty Of
sp!cndor, 10 ascend up into the
abudcS Of eternal bliss? Not ore alone
but all the circumstances combined have
mankind 10 believe in the divini-
" OF Jesus Christ. The author must
certainly have been under the Influence /;
pf those morbid Authorizations which he
peaks of, when lie pcnncd this chapter.
Speaking Of the brain he says: when
Ter habitation, her food and her tools be
come vitality cxlinguishcd, and enter into
/ state OF physical decomposition,-what
hen becomes of the brain l profess an
liter ignorance, barely observing Sc
profess no acquaintance with the SCI
nee of physiology, but | had been fought ,
0 believe that the brain was a materia, -,
ubstance like any other part of the hui
nan frame, and returned like the rest Of .
he body TO It's kindred dust. The au-
hor ifhe meant any thing must have al y.
uded 10 the mind. -
should like to say something about |
he authors wonderful dream, in which |
&c desccnds some fifty millions of miles {
nto a cavern, which he finds out in the ,
TO be Hell; turning summcrscts as c
C descended, until he finally stumped |
is toe, broke his neck, and satisfactorily a
ch'' himself dead, which proved to be [
after all, for he HAD only lost hi S
but for fear of making this commu t
ication tediously long [ shall draw it to t