The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-02-14


purpose OF making vain boast, of exulting in our
victory but merely to sdduce their EXAMPLE for others
our church to truth and that they may be convinced
that that church which it IL 80 popular TO denomnate
idoiatrousn "superstitiou:" and . iliberai" has
which was bestowed upon her by her Divine Founder
and proves her claim to the sppsation Of the true
characteristics Of the true church and that church
wherein 10 unity must be the true church.. On next
Necessary for the preservation Of unity in the church
and that visible head Is the Sovereign Pontf the sue
cessor of st. Peter" E0l
with the greatest attention throughout his DISCOURSE
and the breathle silence that prevailed among vast
audience testified the interest felt by his the
SKETCH OF AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BY PROFESS
soR BUSH IN THE CHAPEL OF THE UNIVERSITY, ON
WEDNESDAY EVENING LAST, ON THE SCIENTIFIC
CHARACTER OF SwEpRNBoRa-The biographical
annals OF literature and science, exhibit few facts
more remarkable than the tardy acknowledgment
OF spe add talents, and the slow adoption Of bril-
liant discoveries. The stars, which eventually be-
come brightest in the intellectual firmament are Of
ten those which suffer occultaion in the outset OF
their shining. When we learn that the 'sParadiee
Lost" OF Milton, and the "Vicar oil Wakefield" by
Goldsmith, passed into the hands of the publishers
for the paltry consideration of q few pounds,
we are saddened and Inundated to think that fu.
ture generations were left award the mede which
should evince clear appreciation OF the genius that
gave them birth. The setcompacency which at
tends the consciousness of being able ourselves TO
assign more fitting estimate to such mementos Of
intellectual worth, is damped by the regrets we
naturally feel that their conemporarlesishoul have
overlooked their claims to admiration and homage.
Il may, however, doubtless be said, that it is CRATE
full service which is rendered bysubsequent ages in
Offering Its tribute to the memory of departed
talents: thus compromising for the neglect coeval
monuments Of great minds is attended not quent
ly by feeling akin to that Of the sudden acquisition Of
widely diused We leap to the opportunity Of recify
verdict when :sis;h Interest eSiiqSs
least afford to do Justice 10 the Dead when thereby
offer no derment to the living; and the know,
has ;ometmss been planted over the grave which the
The recollection Of my hearers will find easy appl
Names whose enrolment in the catalogue Of the worlds
not that that Of Emanuel swsdsnborg would be apt
spontaneously to occur in this oonpexion. His in
fact seldom associated with scientific abors because
he 10 little known but as the reputed founder Of rel
Credit on the Of lat q vision
which would be apt to be reflected upon by the innu-
As The they have embraced for the most part &C.
counted strange medley Of phanases and ctions this
r.
standard, il could hardly be supposed that to
look to this source for any striking exhibition Of the at
evidence which constantly accommodating in regard to
the scientific of Sweedenborg is such to pro-
at the intrinsic amount and value Of his dis
coveres only to be equaed by that excited by the fact
that they have SO long remained in obscurity
We areot shut up to mere hearsay report on the sub
jsct The scientific character Of this lustrous man
by his followers that there exists locked up in the re-
ceses of the Latin tongue vast treasury Of valuable
which ali ordinary Urinary access is pSrssiuded. ~
Swedenborg commenced his career as practical me-
chancian and Engineer having laid foundation in the
deepest study OF mathematics and general physics One
which was soon followed by various works on me.
In s ha se q he
appears the inventor of mode of transporting gal
TO distance Of "a miles under of which. at the
siege Of Frckershal the royal artillery was brought
:, bear =: ., 1.ss s 1.g r. .1
on physical science the very titles Of which fill one
with establishment at the unvsr.aiity Of his powers but
Opera Philosopher ct Mneraiias or Philosophical and
Mineral Works. in vols folio, illustrated with vast
profoundes into the domansof nature from
her prmordal elements TO her grandest organic pheno
ssmp, At Il The
Of the Elementary World" This has recently been
translated into English and published in evo vos pre-
sentng to the world monument Of genius worthy to
stand BY the aide Of the immortal Principia Of
large part Of this work devoted to the subjects Of
terrestrial magnetism and in this department very little
advance Ia. been made beyond the points which swe
with the objects Of popular lecture 60 into the de-
tails Of any philosophical sysem but may be proper
to state. in general that swedenborg makes the mag
netic element the agency which controls the planetary
movements. In other words, he resolves the power Of
gravitaton into magnetism and shows, moreover. that
omaer in its properties Of motion govern also all the
heavenly bodies in their orbitual revolutions.
81 Ss -
ing extract =" Elementary nature IL motive power,
yaIiously modified motive power, variously modi
geometry in action; for il must needs be geomstrca
Geometry Is the attribute Of substance possessing figure
%sss p.
both In motion and rest, 1t accompanies nature
Il. to is It r9.ss sS s n If
substances and in the least hence nature being motive
is exactly like herself in each extreme Of smaliness
grestness The grounds of this, in direction may
fths snowaske. where ali the forms are ssomstrcai
and in the other larger SCALE in the bassltc column
where the same principle holds.
the publication of his great work the mineral king
dom, to which have just alluded, his amazingly fertile
works on nearly every subject OF human knowledge
He wrote upon mechanics. mathematics, astronomy,
these owsS h%ss
the whele force Of hi. mind penetrate into
the great chain VI unversals being, and to trace up
everything IN an order agreeable to i nature TO the
Having sounded the depths Of the
mineral kingdom. to which his attention dorbtisss
first turned by his ocia duties Of the mines
Of Sweden, he now made HIS entire into the animal
realm and anatomy and physiology became his absorb
Satisfied that all animal organization and
economy was the immediate product Of the informing
life, soul his aim was continually TO compass the
!ure Of this mysterious power
to give any adequate view Of the gigantic grasp
Of intellect apparent In his works this subject,
Of the imense value Of the rcssoniDgs and concu-
sions founded the various structures Of the human
orw
And be IL remembered that the work was
written BY amateur Psychologist who came TO the
study when past the age Of forty whose previous life
had been devoted to mechanics mathematical astronomy
motive Of gain professional tciaE Yet this has
left all competitors behind him, in field illustrated by