Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-09-02
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
LITERARY.

that the great work oil Inc greatest teacher OF scec
who has yet arisen TO enlg hten mankind has neve
been published in this country till the present year
While millions of dollars are expended every yea
upon foreign publications. large portion OF then
foreign trash, fit only to minister 10 slckly
Imagination and pamper vicious appetlte-lht
great scientific work of NEWTON has remained IN
accessible to our people, except through the ex
peusive English editions. | do not think The FAC
creditabe TO our leading book publishers Tor ha't
century past They perhaps will reply that the aut WIN
the public, and with them that they publish what the
public will buy, and that the only question they are bound
ask themselves is, Will the book sell VIII II pay ready
profit, and put money in purse cannot agree WIN
Them they their responsibility by this gauge iher
position has not the questionable argument OF policy IN It's
favor much less Of principle 1t Is the same argument aa
would justify the sale of intoxicating liquors 10 savage
people because they would give s for them in return
than they would for agricultural implements II the short
sighted trader in this feels moral responsibility can ne
mot look ahead far enough that the effect Of his traffic is
70 DESTROY the ability of his customer aud eventually to cut
Off his profits WHILE on the other hand, the OF the
ricuitural implements might have improved the condition OF
the purchasers till they should have become valuable and per-
customers, with taste for all articles oil ue ana
Ralae, and abundant ability to pay for them.
Publishers have an immense influence forming the lite
ray taste and mental habits of people, and, exercising this
influence they escape the tremendous moral response
5ility which necessarily attaches TO it, But am DEPRESSING
much. II is any of the old and heavy book pub
fishers of the country that even this late day people
indebted for this American edition OF Newton but to COM
paratyey obscure publisher limited and therefore
have the more pleasure in naming him. DANIEL AnEE
FuItons,ree New York. the who had the tase the
courage and the honor giving the American public the
r edition Of Newtons Principal and he has done it. too
In STYLE of manufacture worthy OF the value of the work II
will now more readily find its way into public and private
libraries into the cass-rooms OF institutions of learning
and into the hands of the general scholar and enlightened
reader.
While Newton may justly be regarded the most pro-
found of philosophers perhaps more truly
eLooked through Nature up Natures God
His deep philosophy led hmto be humble and devout Chris
na solemn but cheerful worhippe of the Creator of all
snss It recorded of him that short time before his death
he uttered this beautiful sentiment " do not know what
may appear the world but 10 myself seem to have been
only like boy playing the Shore and diverng myself
in now and then finding smoother pebble pretter shell!
than ordinary, while the great ocean OF truth lay all unds-
covered before me"
deep interest attaches TO the following remarks from
schoum a, the close of his third book, respecting the erist
race nature and attributes Of God After describing the
position Of the orbits and the motion Of the orbs in solar
system, he proceeds as follows
s'Ths beautiful system Of the sun, planets and Co
NETS could only proceed from the counsel and dominion OF
Intelligent and powerful Being, And the fixed stars are the
centres other like systems these being oImed by the Ike
wise counsel be all subject TO the dominion OF One
especially since the light of the xed STATS OF the same ma
with the light of the sum- and from every system light
passes into all the other systems This beng governs all
tngs the soul of the world, but as Lord over all
ani account of his dominion be wont to be called
Lord God Pantocrutor) UaUersai Ruler for God Is
word and has respect servants, and Deity the do
mnion Of God his BODY those Imagine who
fancy God he he soul OF the world but servants
The Supreme God is being ETERNAL infinite, absolutely
perfect but being, however perfect, without dominion can
not Lord tied Tor We say, my Cod your God
ehe God OF Israel the God of Gods and Lord Of Lords; hu
ere do not saw nv Eternal your Eternal the Eternal OF Is
rae the Eternal Of Gods do not say, my Infinite, my
Perfect these titles which have respect 10 servants
The word God usually signifies Lord but every lord Is not
god II is dominion OF spiritual being which constitutes
aGd A true, supreme, imaginary domiGon makes q
true supreme, imaginary God And from his true dom
mon it follows that the God is living intelligent, and
powerful beings and, from his other peections that he
supreme or perfect He is eternal and infinite, omn
potent and onnscen that his duration reaches from
eternity eternity his presence from nfnlty TO infnty
he governs all things and Knows all things that
he done he not eternity or lnhny, but eternal and IN
finite he duration space but he endures and pre-
He endures for and every where presents and
by existing always and every where, he constitutes duration
md space.
fSnce every particle Of space is Arrays and every ndvis
tie moment Of duration erery whre, certainly the Maker
and Lord Of all things be and ichee. Every
soul that has perception though in different times and in dit
feren Of and emotion, still the indvisbe
person There given parts in duration, CO
existent parts in space bu neither the the other ir
the person Of man, his thinking principle and much les
they be found in the thinking substance Of God Every
man, far he is thing that has perception and
She during bis whole life, in all and each Of his
organs Of God the God always and
where. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but subsan
fiau; for virtue subsst without substance In hin
all things contained and moved yet neither affects th
other God suffers nothing from the motion Of bodies DO
dies find resistance from the omnpresence Of God II
allowed by all that the Supreme God exists necessarily
by the necessity he exists a1ays and eUery he
Whence also he is all similar, all eye all all brain,
all power TO perceive to understand, and TO act but
manner not at all human in manner not at all corporea
IN a manner utterly unknown 10 Us As blind man has n
idea Of coors, have idea Of the by whc
the all wise God perceives and understands all things
'He utterly void Of all body and bodily figure, and
be be worshppej under the representation Of any cooes
thing. We have ideas Of his attributes, but what the res
substance Of any thing Is know not In bodies
only their figures and coors hear only the sounds,
touch only their outward surfaces, smell only the smells
and taste the but their inward substances
be known either by Senses by any ex act OF on
minds; much less, them have any idea of the substanc
of God We know him only by his wise and eSceller
contvances Of things and final causes. We admire him f.
his Projections bot and adore him
" his dominion for adore him his and Gro
without dominion, providence, and final causes nothn