Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-05-25
Opuille Dailq Datte AerurN.
From The Golden Era
chemistry Of Every-d dag Life.
BY DAVID WOOSTER, NJ. p.

Priests horded the lore Of Egypt and
Chaljea in the adyta OF temples dedi-
Gated to the gods. The learned Of an
tiquity were objects of vencraton and
often Of worship. But if the scholar
of lhis, century re us ignorant as the
seven wise men who came from the
East or as illiterate and half as Igner-
ant of absolute truths as Plate and
Aristotle, he would not be counted
among the learned Of the present pc
Rod. The mind OF Plato was ever full
of the wild ST and mostiGrationai vaua-
ries | do not believe tne world owes
the discovery Of half dozen facts,
either abstract or material, to that
Plato, whose verblage has filled the
whole world during 50 many ceutnries
with bis renown. hIs two parent ides
were, one true, the 9th r false and
therefore, every thoaght generated
theretrOm was monstrous IA cross Of
the true and tie false, of the infinite
and the finite, Of the gross mate
nd the quintcsence OF nonentiy. tbs
first and true idea wos, that tntre is
one self existent and eternal God,
without form or substance, according
20 all human ideas. His second false
idea was, that matter was antagonisuc
to God and good, and forever 1T war
with him. He believed that matter
was essentially evil, ana the origin of
all cv,l; but we have learned that
matter is essentially good, AID the only
tangible good that 1T is by nature IN
destruc,lble, according to all modes Of
thought. TO believe IN its destruction
is pare faith, unsupported by single
mord Of revelation Of the Supreme de-
signs. 1t is subject to infnIt., aJso-
sutely infinite change sutli
clently radical ana elemental to deo-
troy all forms with whi II We arc ac-
duainted, whether antna or mathena-
teal. This absence of all integral or
elementary forms is chaos, the state
from which the matter OF our globe has
been progressing towards lnhnitY Of
unit form during hundreds of thousands
OF wears. New forms or varieties OF
ANNALS, of vegetables, and even OF
chrystals, are being constantly Gener-
ated in the great omniferous matrix Of
nature, para paSSW, with tie discover
les Of scrcnce. The science Of the
finite will forever remain at an infinite
distance from the omnisclence of the
Creator; and this endless accumula-
,tion Of knowledge during tie iutinite
nres that arc before the immortal soul
of each one, AID perhaps before the
aggre gate soul Of the people of our
globe, must constitute, IN the former
case, the eudltss pleasure OF the souls
who thus thirst after knowledge, and
the greatness of all the nations who do
not retrog de in Intelligence and sci
entifc dscoy erise. Tia re is no rest
to the human intellect; it must either
advance tow ,rdS the infinite, or rec de
towards The torpidlty OF pure matter.
There is an infin tie reach before Us,
but the distance behind us, TO utter
soulless materially, could be traversed
by the most feeble mortal without ia
tigue.
But | have strayed a long way from
the matter | proposed TO talk about.
Yet, as these papers are not dcs encd
TO possess the systematic arrangement
and adherence to d~tail that pure sci
ence should retain, your readers will
pardon me If | occasionally follow the
attractions Of my own thoughts.
I have been thus led away from the
contemplation Of the wonders of iso-
morphiSms, or similitorms, whose laws
are the discoveries of modern science.
1t is no doubt known that the word
isomorphism is from two Greek words,
isoS, equal, and morphee, shape. That
is, two bodies that have the same shape
are called isomorphous two chrystals
are lcuAded by, or inclosed in. the
same angles, are isomorphous with each
other. Thus, potash-alum and ammo.
nil-aun are isomorphous, for the
chrysals of each are octohedrons, of
which the apices are more or lrss truu-