New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-08-03

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world. the Cai-voy ant commences by speaking of a
constant sntason.sn IN relation 20 the subject be-
tween Theology and PHILOSOPHY between Chi
moras sad Reason-to use his expression Hereto
fore general truth has been arrived az b. parsuiug
curved lines through the mythology and suporst
tion Of every ase and nation while the lines that
lead = truth. uuminrled with error. are perfectly
s,raglt Instead says the author. % passing
Of in sublime pere grinations into the fields o. Ma
ture instead Of cherishiug the inc. ssai aud spon
taneous inhovings Of thought respecting the foun.
dalton and magnificent structure OF the Universe,
AMI enjoying the steady unioldines Of light and
truth. the mind hs, left Nature aud Reason and
gone in search Of that which IS altogether unvar
raniable, AID exceedingly destructive TO the hap
pness Of the world. And thus man has lost sight
Of the true relation existing between Nature and
Science. aud Science and himself And so dcpress
ed and degraded has been the condition Of the
world. that language is Inadequate 10 describe IT,
and thoughts and feelings can only supply the place
Of expressions
In the whole Of the part relating 70 the formation
Of the Earth, one familiar with the scientific VII
ting Of swedeuborg cannot but be impressed with
the agreement between his Cosmogony and that
here set forth Ii IS not an agreement ~ words as
If one were taken from tho other but an agreement
in IDEAS Of the most profound and sbstruse charac.
ter We can scarcely undertake. to condense this
theory as it is stated in this volume. aud must re-
fer our readers 10 the book itself It's general pur
port is that the F. arth was formed at period too
remote for computation. from condensed PARTICLES
.lo hal IN Of
the sun The whole was IN a state Of gneous
/ hudity agitated from center to surface. like
mass Of molten lava and put into a rotatory motion
/ by the forces OF attraction ard repulsion. TIE
gradual formation Of the different strata Of the
f arth is then described, and the agents that acted
aud yet act upon Il are spoken Of such As water
gases electricity. Sc. The chemical combinations
Of matter in minerals is dwclt upon the author
seeming, through the whole, to be guided By the
law OF progressive development and Of forms as
cending in a regular series before described. The
origin OF life IS represented as a higher develop
mert Of the principle Of motion The doctrine Of
the mutation Of species and ascension Of higher
creatures out Of lower is next spoken Of not IN the
way OF argument The author does not argue upon
theories but processes to explain the simple truths
/
ferent stages ofminera vegetable and the lowest an
imal formation, varying somewhat from the order
laid down by biologists Speaking OF the Tides
he denies that the Moon has any share in their
production which is caused he says, by the rota
ton of the Earth. The creation OF mountains, aud
the great commissions OF the periods preceding the
formation Of the water into distinct seas, lakes ami
rivers are graphically described as 1t by an eye
! witness This brings 10 the period called by
biologists the Carboniierous Formation, which is
described by the Clairyoyant as the period " zen
motion transcends life and becomes sensation, Ind
when forms transcend plants aud become substan
tial species OF animals. lnthIs connection we Will
give q single specimen OF the style OF the work
lite not proper that anything should be considered
cred and holy merely because we have lost the period
of is origin among the revolutions OF unumerabe
Nor should an enthusiastic veneration be cherished for
the idea of the creation OF anything when In reality the
| term creation" has no adjudication inasmuch rs the
orzn OF every form principle and substance In being
is owing 20 Pri0r cause And Il should be under
stood that cause and effect etemaly inseparaole
that H. inseparable from the commencement OF all
causes 10 the accomplishment OF all effects aud thus
one age or period OF eternity compromised within
the cycle Of one eternal Cause and one seHdl Effect
Array no arguments therefore, against the truthful
and magnificent doctrine OF progressive development
For thsls overthrOwn. that very moment All laws and
nrinciple, become and Cause and Eject
no longer Do considered the agents Of breathing into
being the grand and sublime manifestations that beaut
/ fy the bosom OF tender and ceressing NATURE
He then goes on through sixty pages TO speak OF
the progress OF the Earth up 10 the time when it
was nearly prepared for the appearance Of Man
upon its surface, dwelling infinitely on all the diff
ferent phenomena using the scientific technology
of writers on the subject, differing from them in
many particulars, and enunciating views which
have not before come under our notice He insists
that the narrative OF the primitive history" by
which he refers TO the Book OF Genesis is essentially
correct the different days Of creation representing
different great geological periods, which he care
fully distinguishes
At the beginning Of the stage called the Sixth
Day the animal creation was So far advanced as 10
contain distinct types Of Mankind, all Of which sub
seauently disappeared. As the process went on
HIGHER and higher forms excessively produced
Until at last beings like the lower orders Of Jaofs
and Mandineoes tribes OF African Negroesl ap.
peared These were upon the globe without es
sential modification for eight hundred years. They
were succeeded by three distant successive orders
the highest OF which approached the more perfect
human organization. The most perfect OF these
inhabited Asia and came near the possession OF
human intellectual cndowments With them the
sixth Day Of Creation was as he says, brought 10
a point which was ,. 500 years before the commence
men OF the race referred TO in the primitive record
As the condition OF the earth improved, and
Nature became more refined and perfect, she pro
duced higher andhigher creatures till at last raised
in Asia and Africa 70 state Of fertility and beauty
appropriately described as the Garden Of Eden
under the influence OF the srea. First Cause she
brought forth Man complete. The author thus
speaks OF this new being
And will b. Understood from this that all the vege
table and animal productions ascend gradually and i'm
psrcepubly With the un0lclngs Of the law Of Mature
from the original gcsiiuOus cOmposton 70 ha creation
of man Al the present period. Ana again IL Is evident
that man vas formed IRON the dust OF the esrth-wss
rendered man only by the congregation II nnumersole
living forms which assumed orders degrees. species
associations and corrssp0ndences Arm thus he occu.
pes = degree Of organization prssnnent shove all the
other departments OF creation. and thus representa-
non II al living things that contained the germ OF which
! ne il the unfoiGiAS. Hs a thss combination OF s
forms qualities and essences 10 Nature, sustained By a.
hind. OF motion life. aad sensation that characterize
the successive steps Of natural progression Thus II 10
that man /. over al creation And a De represents the de-
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