Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1848-09-29
LITERARY.


licaions-a large portion ofIhem foreign Trash,
h1 only 10 minister 10 a sickly imagination and
PamPer vicious aPPelite-Ihe great scien.
ufc work Of Newton has remained inaccessible
TO our people, except through The expensive
English editions. do not think the fact cred.
liable 10 our leading book publishers for half
century past They perhaps will reply that the
fault is with the public, and not with them; that
they publish what the public will buy, and that
the only question they are bound TO ask them
selves is, Will the book selll Will it pay rea.
dy profit, and Pu. money in our pursel | can.
not agree with them if they measure their res.
possibility by this guage. Their position has
not the questionable argument Of policy in its
favor, much less Of principle. 1t is The same
argument that would Justify the sale Of iutoxca.
Ting liquors to usavage people because they would
give more lurs for Them in return Than they
would for agricultural Implement. If the short.
sighted trader in this case feels no moral res.
possibility, can he not look ahead far enough
10 see that The effect Of his traffic is 10 destroy
the ability Of his customer, and eventually 10
cut off his profits, while, on the other hand, the
use Of The agricultural implements might have
improved the condition Of the purchasers ill
they should have become valuable and perma.
nenI customers, with iasIe for all articles of
use and value, and abundant ability to pay for
them.
Publishers have an immense influence in form.
ing the literary taste and mental habus Of
people, and, exercising this influence, they can.
not escape the tremendous moral responsibility
which necessarily attaches 10 it. Bul am di.
crossing too much. It's not to any of the old
ana heavy book publishers Of the country thai
even at this late day our people are indebted for
this American edition of Newton; but to a com.
paraIvely obscure publisher, Of limited means,
and therefore have the more pleasure in nam.
ing him. Daniel Adee, Fulon.slreet, New
York, is the man who hadihe taste. the courage,
and the honor of'giviug TO the American public
the first edition Of Newlon's Prncipia; and he
has done il, too, in style of manufacture wor-
thy Of the value OF the work. 1t will nov more
readily find lis way into our public and private
libraries, INTO the class.roOms Of our institutions
Of learning, and into the hands Of the general
scholar unj enlightened reader.
While Newton may justly be regarded as the
most profound of philosophers, no man perhaps
ever more truly
"Looked through Nature up TO Nalure's God. .
His deep philosophy led him obc an humble and
devout Christian, solemn but cheerful worship
per of the Creator of all things. 1t is recorded
ofhim thata short time before his death he utter
ed this beautiful sentiment: al do not know what
NAV appear TO The word, but TO myself lseem
TO have been only like boy playing on the sea
shore, and diverting myself in now and then find
ing a smoother pebble or preItier she'll than or
dinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all
undiscovered before me-"
A deep interest attaches to the following re-
marks from scholium at The close of his third
book, respecting The cristance, nature, and attri
butsS Of God. After describing the position Of
the orbits and the motion Of the orbs in our so.
lar system, he proceeds as follows:
"This most beautiful system Of the sun, plan
cts, and comets could only proceed from the
counsel and dominion Of fan intelligent and pow.
erGul Being. And if the fixed stars are the cen.
tres Of other like systems, these being formed
by the likewise counsel, must be all subject 10
tho dominion of One; especially since the light
of the fixed stars is of the same nature with the
light Of The sun, and from every system light
governs all things, not as the soul OF the world,
but as Lord over all; and on account of his do.
mnion he is wont 10 be called Lord God. Pan
tacratOr) or UnieerSal Ruler: for God is rela-
live word and has respect to servants, and Deity
is the dominion of God, not over his own body,
as those imagine who fancy God 10 be the soul
of the world but over servants.
"The Supreme God is a being eternal, infn.
ite, absolutely perfect; but a being, however per-
feet, without dominion, cannot be said to be
Lord God; for we say, my God, your God, the
God Of Israel, the God of Gods, and Lord of
Lords; but we do not say, my Eternal your F.
ternal the Eternal Of Israel the Eternal Of Gods;
we do not say, my Infinite, or my Perfect; these
are titles which have no respect 10 servants
The word God usually signifies Lord; but eve-
ry lord is not god. 1t is the dominion of
spiritual being which constitutes a God. A true,
supreme, or imaginary God. And from his
true dominion It follows that the true God is
living, intelligent, and powerful being; and, from
his other perleclions, that hei supreme, or most
perfect. He is eternal and infinite, omnpotent
and omniseient; that is, his duration reaches
from eternity 10 eternity; his presence from in.
fniy TO infnity; he governs all things, and
knows all that are or can be done. He is not
eternity or infnily, but eternal and infinite; he
is not duration or space, but he endures and is
present, He endures for ever, and isevery where
present. and, by existing always and every where
he constitutes duration and space.
"Since every particle of space is alrdss, and
every indivisible moment of duration is every
lchcre, certainly the Maker and Lord of all
things cannot be neUer and no where. Every
soul that has perception is, though in different
times and in different ogans of sense and emo.
lion still the same indivisible person. There
are given successive parts in duration, co-exis.
tent parts in space, but neither the one nor the
other in the person Of a man, or his thinking
and much less can they be found in
the thinking substance Of God. Every man.
so far as he is thing that has perception, is one