The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1853-04-14
Progression.

The science Of Cosmology embraces
a universal duality, the ideal and the
actual-the one cause the other
an effect. Yet by the phrase, universal
duality, is not to be understood the
separate eternity of both. The one
must have had the priority of the other,
the second the conception of the first.
To argue the ideal from the actual
would be ascending downward, or pro-
crossing backwards. If the actual pro-
duced the ideal then the material caused
the mental-passivity, activity, death,
life, the universe its God, creation its
Creator. If so, mind should worship
matter, soul the body, thought the
brain, and man his carcass. If so,
idolatry would consist in worshiping
God, and theology in the hosts of
heaven. If so, all past logic has been
illogical, and all past reason, unreason-
able.
If passivity can beget activity, what
now hinders each particle of passivity
from asserting its rightful activity, to
produce an universe Of dancing mate
riality. If death can produce life, then
the tabled Hydra was an unfabled reality,
and dead lion better than living dog.
Such monstrous monstrosities grow
out of ascending downward, and truth
has fled to british beasts, and men have
lost their reason. But let the ideal
precede the actual, mental the material
vim the imbecility, and progressive cos
mology challenges admiration and inves-
tigation.
The most ancient Cosmologist ex-
pressly indicate such to be the order Of
progression, and that the actual was
necessitated by the ideal, the material
by the mental. The contrary is there,
fore to ignore sound philosophy as well
as existing facts. From this stand point
Of universal duality the Cosmologist
must originate bis pandect of cosmology
Universal existence then is an unity Of
duality the progressive elaboration from
the ideal to the actual the first the
universal panorama of the second. Thai
such is the order of universal existence
arises the fact of the passivity of matter
and the activity of mind. For such are
the eternal attributes of both mind anc
matter, the one eternally active, the
other eternally passive.
1t follows then with certainty eoua
the order of nature, that mentality i.
not necessitated by materiality, and tina
the existence of the first is not depend
ant on the existence of the second. 4
theological syllogism hence necessitate
an infinite mentality, on whose retinuC
was painted, the future of all progressiv,
actually. Their infinite variety of forms
colors, orders, arrangements, and pro
gression are first the ideal, realities o
an infinite Idealist ere their actua
realities were impinged on the etheria
canvass of universal space. Thu
ideality is embryotic actuality, and with
in the womb of idealism was conceive,
all the passible of future actualsm
Thus creation from its Alpha Git has n,
Omega) through all future progressiv,
Formulation can be, but the actual pro
gression of the idealism of the Creator
Does infnity inhere the actual universe
then its ideality was an infinite concep
ton of an infinite Ideality. Evolve,
material universe is elaborate, and be
comes transfxed in an ETHEREAL concavity
Involve, and an ideal universe become
the embryo of an infinite mentality
Solve the problem as you will, by .evolu
tions or involution, God appears.
Progressive Cosmology then, is bu
the actualizing of the ideal and universe
= : materiality, with all its changing scencr
y is but the enrolling of the grand pano
, rama of the Infinite One, and sketchin,
the same on the azure void of unlmite
. expansion. 1t is the eternal elongatio
, we find no such word in wcbster's Die
tionary, but the combined reading power