New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-11-26
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sr,r sor', sSp bopy by i. h. AID A. L. tHoTBIse
BAE Syo. PIP +lJ Boston "ahei we 70
No one can doubt The good fiith nor indeed the
.arnestness. With which this book Is written; but
apart from this qualification 1t is destitute O. every
thing that makes book either valuable or at'rac-
tive II is devoid Of accurate leaning il EXHIBITS
no evidence Of even ordinary scholastic hsbitudes
on the part of the writer is logical force is SIM
NV pucrile; its style of composition is laoored;
graceess end confused beyond all parallel in a"orS
Of such protension ard rs doctrine is eEqnisiteiy
beniehted, contradictory, and absurd The Oh!
conceivable use the book will have is 10 prove once
more by very signal illustraton how intimate
md sure the connection is between The most so"'
Ing intellectual arrogance and the most ahJect III
teectual incompetency.
The primary design of the anthor is 20 yihdieate
The possibility Of what he calls Absolute Science
and then to prove that such science even when
INDICATED, will be wholly unproiitabie except TO
very small portion Of the human race. Ills idea IL
effect is that natures bounty Is ample 10 supply all
the wants OF the races but that the race Itself, for
The most part, has unfortunately so defective
swalow that her bounty is, after all, OF 10 great
practical accoa1t.
phv hitherto, that men have been content TO pail
losophizc upon the postulate of one creative sub
stance, and so run the risk of Materaism or Pan
..yism. To obyiato for himself these alternate
disks he adopts the hypothesis of too original self
subs.stent creative substdnees-one Infinite orgood,
the other Finite evil but, inasmuch as these two
creative substances are mutually antagonistic and
sxclusory in themselves, lie makes them marry and
70 produce third substance which viii be at one
with itself, Divine and absolute. Thus Mr. F..
intellectual ambition does not limit itself 10 the
petty enterprise Of constructing cosmoGony, but
aspireS to produce theogony as well; and lie pro-
ceels accordingly, with a composure which would
te sad anywhere ont of America, to show how, by
means of these two universal factors-ipiDite and
finite. or good and evil--God the Father and GOD
the Son become actually begctten and born. We
have TO be sure, 10 priori clue afforded as as TO
the sexua!ity of these factors, but Mr.. +. tells MS
frankly that the infinite is male and begets, while
the female is finite and brings forth AID where be
is so ready 10 communicate hidden knowledge, il
would be ungracous, perhaps in the reader to seek
e. know for himself. Neither is there any shadow
OF q reason vouchsated us Why the third person OF
cur id trinity who has become the first person Of
Ilr. F's now trinity, should have escaped similar
actual generation to the two other PERSONS except
that these latter require, according to the theory
~ infinite father and finite mother and the per-
son in question had been already east for The former
part.
But allowing Mt. F.'s two absolute univcrsals"
t. pass muster, which is an extremely good-na
tuIed thing us 10 do, We are yet at an utter loss
tounderstapd their al ged subsequent marriage.
TIE two things are absolutely and irTeconcably
inimical 70 each other: how then is any decent mar
Iiage or even cour,ship practicable between them
Ard If no marriage is possible, then a tortiori no
prolifca;ion is possible; and if no prolidcadon is
possible, then the Father and Son Of Mr. F's theo-
~ must remain forever unbegotten and unborn;
while infinite and finite being left TO follow their
ewn unhandsome instincts VIII go on TO avoid and
snarl OF each other IN secala Secuioram. it is
surely and obviously contrary to all sane speech to
represent marriage as possible between thing
which are absolutely opposed, as Infinite and finite
good ana evil. We may conceive Of marriage TAX
ing place between mere logical opposites, or thing
that are phenOmenaly opposed while essentially
one, as male and female, high and low, right and
left, day and night. But to suppose a marriage
between Thugs which are e,scntt0iiy repugnGnt and
pDattractve TO each other in This case is 10 viii
ate the Fundamental sanctty Of marriage, and turn
1t into mutual mcrceDary prostitution. Even II
We allow, then, Mr. F.s two rvel absOlutcs, their
essential contrarety forbids all marriage between
then, and enOins upon them q state Of cebacy 30
unteE1cr as TO BE- unworthy even Of that penurious
designation; for celbacy implies in rs subject the
posi- iiity, 1T least OF occasional solicitation or
temptation 10 matrimony; and every such posi-
bilityis here rerna-selosly excluded ca III tcrmi-
Gornm.
But 1T US without further grs1ace, gup the
snarrias of these vicious and snailing absolutes,
or suppose them fairly settled al last and keeping
house; and then let us observe the exasI rating
way in which the nsE1rge IS conducted on the part
of the hufband, whose behavior We must say--con-
eidering kis prctensaas 20 inflnitude--stamps him
rs being anything but an exhilareting or con-
seiatory sponse. Fer sn iuiinitc husband TO doni-
neer Lis poor little ifrite wife he does 20 the
extent Of czG ,tingyhcr personal immo,etion to his
over5eaTing VII every time she falls in the family
wy, may be s-ry good "pAtology," as Mr. Froth-
inchaIn calls j., but it ga very low morality, and
we ho,o the exsnple viii not b. followed by The
adherents Of the new taak Women are capable Of
singular pa,ica % and iutalgene, toward noodles
of the cher sex, e only 1ie noodle b, Z sufficiently
solemn eIe; sndVe confess therei, re- that xe have
our fears. But let IS prOcoe systematically
Nh rockingham frst tell. as grayrly that Two
o9Do.fe So: subsistr-g substances must cons suite
,Le opDosit( poles Of being which seelns highly
-.-ohable ifbeing be geaiv hpolar 10 begin w b ;