Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1857-05-09


f4 lfue philosophy to account for the
W [tSnce 81 some great city srch the city
III Ia the United States, built, We know,
4 p itical purposes, BY showing that, as it was
maEkAbe for its order for the rectlinear directness of
fs 6s and the rectangularty Of its squares it must
bns been erected simply to be perfect embodiment of
regularity and to urge further that in their cha
acter component parts Of perfect whole the House
OF Representatives and the mansion of the President
we're of no more intrinsic Importance no de-
cdedly the end of the whole than any low tavern out
house in the lesser streets lanes The destruction of
either the ouhouse the House of Representatives
would equally form void in the general plan of the city,
regarded admirably arranged whole. And it was
thus with the grand scheme of creation; for
From Natures chain whatever link we strike,
Tenth or tonth thousand, breaks the chain alike
Nor is it in other than due keeping with such
creation that its great Author should be represented
cold abstraction, without love regard and equally
different to the and the sparrow the atom and
the planet Order has respect but the relations of
things or of beings not to the things beings them
selves order is the figure which, etched points
strokes they compose the legend which, signs
characters they form and who any thing for the
component strokes des irrespective of the print
for the component letters apart from the writ
ing The equal eye,' in such scheme, would of
cessty be indifferent Against this strange doc
trne, though in some measure countenanced by the
CLOSES of Warburon n his defence of Pope the theo-
logians protested; OF them, however vigor-
ously than Johnson in his famous critique the Free
Inquiry of Soame Jenyns Nor is it uninteresting
mark with what purely instructive feeling of the right
of the better poets whose Tyre according to Cow
per, their heart, protested against it too Poor
Goldsmith, when sitting homeless yagabond on the
slopes of the Alps could excaim in greatly truer
than that of his polished predecessor
- Creations heir, the world, the world is mine 2
And in Cnvper himself we find all Goldsith's intense
thatJ. eai scenery
a0ll its own, associated -&
with worthy thoughts of that UNMARRIED love
That planned and built and still upholds world.
So clothed with beauty for rebellious man.
Strange to say, however is the higher exponents
natural SCIENCE in especial to the geoogists that
has been left to deal most directly with the sophstres of
Bolingbroke and Pope
The subjoined metaphysical speculations, with
which we must conclude our excerpts, though we
could greatly add to their number, and with them to
the qualification of the reader will recall to the ad-
mirers of that grandest and devoutest of thinkers
among the French, Blaise Pascal the suggestive
reflections contained in his fragmentary "Thoughts"
on the grandeur and misery of human destiny:
cit has been well said of the Author of all by the
poet that binding nature fast in fate he left free the
human will And it is this freedom or independency of
will operating intellect moulded after the image
and likeness of the Divinity that has rendered
pable of being what the Scriptures emphacay
fellow workers with God In humble and restricted
sense have already remarked-humble and restrict
face of the earth far and wide estifes to this fact of fell
lowship in working The deputed lord of creation, avail
ing himself of Gods natural laws, does what
animal of the old geologic ages ever did, or ever could
have done-he adorns and beauties the EARTH and adds
tenfold to its original fertility and producveness In
this special sense hen he is fellowworker with Him
who according to the Psalmis causeth the grass to
grow for the CATTLE and herb for the service of man. and
wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil that
maketh his face to shine and bread which strengthened
mans heart But it is in greatly higher sense and in
reference to Gods moral laws that he is fitted to be his
fellow worker in the scriptura And his proper
employment in this department is the elevation and de-
velopment moral and intellectual of himself and his fell
lowmen both in adaptation to the demands of the pre-
sent time and in preparation for future state
"Al experience, however serves to show that in this
paramount department man greatly fails nay that he is
infinitely less true to his proper end and destiny than the
beasts that perish to their several instincts And yet it
may be remarked that such of the lower animals
guided by pure instinct are greatly more nabe with
in their proper spheres than the higher hareasonng
animals The mathematical bee constructs false
ange the sagacious dog is not unfrequeny out in his
calculations The higher the animal in the SCALE the
greater its liability But it is not the less true
that no fish, reptile mammal of the geologic the
recent ages failed in working out the purposes
created to man hes failed in working out
has further in creature in does there exist
that of the mind between appetite and duty of which
the Apostle SO consciously complained. And must
seek an explanation of these twin facts in that original
freedom of the will which, while it rendered man capa
BILE of being Of choice Gods elowworker also conferred
him ability of choosing not to work with God. And
his choice of not working with him, or of working
against him. being once freely made, may see how,
from mans very constitution and nature, as an nte
gence united to matter that increases his kind from
generation to generation in virtue of the original
law, the ability of again working with God might be
forever destroyed And thus mans general condition as
lapsed creature may be unequivocaly consequence
of mans own act as the condition of individuals born
free, but doomed to slavery in punishment of their of
fences, is consequence of their own acts brief sur
vey of the many nycolored and varously placed human
family as at present distributed the earth, may
able in degree to conceive of matter which,
involving, does, that master problem Of moral sci
ence the origin of evil seems, have said not to be
given to man fully to comprehend
The Montreal Pilet records the death of Mr. FRANK
WILLS the architect who died in Montreal the 28d
umo He was employed to furnish plans for the par
is hedral in that CITY During residence