The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1845-08-21
NOTES on NEW BOOKS.

l P-AA1~Ao~ q me .ozy. Baron huHboldff
kolnosr : spoken q a. folloxss
Abroad. Il win hare been perceived.
IRON The last liter of our Eu.opean cor.
respondent that The main scientific sen-
sation az the day has been produced 81
Baron Humtol,ll's "a Kosmos. or he
book and lis subject or spirit. we can
derive, from what we have vel seen Of
foreign mention. lilile more Than q conisc-
lure. lis title and The sayanl's own lax0rile
walk Of renown indicate !, be an eGori To-
wards sysIem Il Speculative Geology
"a plan Of aeaElh-forma;ion, as the pre-
sent Germanic school Of Tie English
language would style tia cosmogony. =
they called i in Hesiod's Time AM Ovid's,
when III y wrote beiierpneiry. md neahy
as good philosophy about il. For oar
parI, we respect The Great Builders Sc
cret, and doubt. after all. whether he will
have 10 file his eareai in the patent Office.
and lodge hi, model. TO prevent The great
Baron from infringing Jpn his insen,
lion. The Baron. by the By, is among
those who think chemistry and The Firsl
Cause are the same. and that The Creator
is a SORT of immense blow-plpe, we sup
pose: farhe IL vulcahian. AT any event,
his book appears Ia be OF decided sker.
teal tendency. In science, VIC should
certainly not think of placing one so allie
upon the level Of him who la. lately pub
lished his geologic speculations under tide
of" Vesliges Of The Creaiion;" but per.
haps, after all. the distance between phi
losophy and the most presumptuons igno,
rance is. on such subject. but span,
As to the "Vesliges," al least, we mus
say, after glance into them, that Milton.
account OF Ci aos, &c. appears 10 US Z
good deal more reasonable. We are per
fecily willing that Baron Humboldt shoult
find out as much about tile nannfaciurs
of worlds as he Can put 10 any human
use: but the axiom that know ledge i
power" is wise enough 10 carry in il ;
truth beyond the vulgar one on iis surface
and should teach men that what men can
MT do, they cannot know. God has pu
the same limit upon human science ant
: human strength; and all these daring sys
q tens. from The lime OF him who was chss
D ed from Athens for saying that the SUI
j was a mass OF rei-hot iron as big as Pc
: lopounesus, down 70 the more Tecen
7 gentry who have taught that the earth j
one OF the joints thrown off from CONT
/. tail, or an oxydized pellet shot from III
! sun, are but &; To make their century cape
i and then 10 pass into the list Of thing
h Of
] Vain reason all, and false. philosophy.
II has happened to us more than ono
: 10 remark that life affurds one confirm;
: proof Of the tendency of all unbelief to
u credulity Of its own--a creduli,y whic
= doubts OF God only 10 believe in man, 8
! capable of nearly every marvel, or in Nj
. ture as the clumsy substitute for the ID
. viniiy. We have once mentioned IN;
= the most determined, 'philosophic. an
! perhaps mos, virtuogs in6del tn t we hay
ever known, o,ien amused us by his e,
IRENE facility Of faith in every thing b,
Revelation. Any impostor could taxi
: him in, provided only he did not come
the name Of Moses. The Jacobin e.
1t ligh,enment of the present age seems
I. US every where marked with this singul'
d aptitude-as if the weakness of hums
r. nature must always find something
d lean upon--to compensate itself in som
d other superstition for each venerable or
!, that it surrenders. Prophets swarm an
% sects spring up more ridiculous than Apo
J. lonlus Of TyraHa. more hair-brsined tia
!, the Gnostics, more mischievous tn
s John of Leyden. Political specula,is
& as mad as Plato or Sir Thomas Nor
ID make proselytes by the myriad. an
l. threaten the whole social earth with SUI
% version. A medical quackery that wouI
y have shocked the times of Hippocratt
a. RACES in the very face of all the piogre:
IN of experimental ply siology, cures peop
(, by motions and contor,ions OF the hant
A. and eyes. or, with doses powerful in pr
portion as they are small. and flou,ing
a systematic inquiry aud knowledge, b.
is lieves men great doctors because the
lie say the arr of healing is humbug. Tol
m rant France and beral Switzerland ca
,e not suffer few feeble people in soap
ID laries to keep school within Their border
A Gaul is too humane to endure servitude
r. her West Indies; and she burns six hundr'
a Arabs at crack in Algeria! King Jane
~ and Glanvil, and Aubrey, and Wierus, al
W Cotton Ma,her, with witchcralt and Il
Re Invisible Word detected" and the Sale
COMPUTATIONS; the !. Second Sight" u
+" Cocklane Ghost" and all the train
er rawhead and bloody bones, are thin
r. which this wise century holds iudlcro
oy proofs of the absurdities of other time
be And yet here we have before us, iro
la the "light-diffusing" press the Harper
in the " Seeress of Prevorst," the last gra
Of revelation of Mesmerism, delectably co..
Iul pounded with ghosts, aud spells, and ir'
Ter ces, and Swedenborgian visions, that !
mi magic to shame, make the Rosicrusla
hit dealers in truisms, and would have sho'
II N -, n,,.wc,,Ss pt,nost INSANITY. We