The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-25
Lecture Of II. Ogden DOrcmus, Professor OF
Chemistry In the n. Y. Medical College.

notwithstanding the rain, quite large audience
semoied last evening" in the lecture Of the New
ok Medicai ooiege, in Thirteenth street. to hear the
hrst lecture of course by r. o. Doremus Professor Of
Chemistry The subject The history Of creation
as taught by moaen science compared with the Mosaic
a ccount."
The lecturer forward at precisely ~ O'Clock
anti was greeted with applasse. He said Ladies a,d
Gentlemen-At evening, at set Of sun when we o,k up
AL the gories of the heavens led to reflect on
the causes OF creato and ask ourselves why do the
thin bodies float through space with srch precision? 1t
is peaing to reflect that define their lses and
that the human mind is capable of sppreciating the
works Of God shall mis- evening procc to illustrate
my theme with various perments and considering that
shall attempt to crowd great deal intoa small com
pass, hope you will if any of my ex-
periments should fail. 'Iet charity rule the boa,
spread for brothers, Tss chemist would assert that
the primitive condition of The earth the gaseous and
not tie fuid or the solid AT this point may explai
as tQ We mean BY the gaseous II signifies spirit
people TO- death ..quis,iy created devsth, An
vas therefore. attributed to the spirit world
We have gases in various cu.rs The lecturer lust
by experiments the variety Of colos TO gas We know
that case posses weight Tae roessor here poured a.
apparently empty jar into jar u balance, ana tn
weight inuiec lately perceived by the turn of the
nse ted into the jar, and IL Immediately ex.
tingusled would ] you recall the Mosaic
count =" Ana the earth wilhoat rnl. If we tax
the simple ea aaG Grtg them IN conaet dud they
vi combine together The lecturer again illustrated the
assertion by experiment A piece of paper, turatr
and the immediate ignition consumption the paper
was the consequence. combiLaton of gases also
made to produce fame so intense to melt diamond,
as illustrated by the lecturr Another combination Of
was made TO produce jar of fame, light aud
olinant % 10 uaz.e the eye OF the spectator Let us
again recall the Mosaic account =" And God said let
there be light, and there light" This, consider
the second stage of chemistry The first is, have
stated the formation of the earth and the the
formation OF light. The lecturer said that all matter
tending towards common centre; and to illustrate this
| a ball OF oil rested around small iron tube in a
| large jar Of liquid. A rapid turning of this tube
attened the globe Of oil at the polls and gave the ball
the form of spher, i'd accoun for the shape of our
earth Id evolution of the world of oil threw
of from it various PARTICLES each forming ball of its
| own, sill though the liquid revolving around the
mon centre-thus illustrating the planets with their
satellites The result in the contact of cert rim metals
received tie after ton of the lecturer BY electricity
light produced equally dazzlsng with that producec
by The unity of the Animal life differs from vegetable
life in this respect vegetable life depends upon external
forces and animal life extent depends forces
generated within itself The ystem plant
the sunbeam. The system Of animal life quite
different According to tie Mosaic had vege
table life frat. And is this not perfec harmony with
the teaching Of science; We first had the earth,
rounded with heat contained in the which
round II, and then vegetable life had existence. After
that the light of the sum- perfect balsuce Of the
gases and heat, and then comes man. We have
around numberess gobesthe stars and planets and
sa.ites-not made for the pleasure amusement of
astronomers but greater know in than
earth and perhaps higher than we in the scale of ra
tional existence 1t is not difficult to account for the
solid state the earth The unity of certain gae pro
duces gsaed bodies and great cold. Experimenting
again. the lecturer produced and ice by the union of
ether with certain prepa, aton Various degrees of cold
intense as 10 freeze mercury produced by
the action Of gases from which the lecturer accounted
for the solid state which the pmeva gazeous
state which he claimed first existed FIR the action Of
these gases the earth became CONCEALED and crused
the various other bodies which roll through the skies
The lecturer closed his very interesting experiments with
an eloquent argument, harmonizing the teachings of
science with the writings OF Moses upon the formation of
| the universe.