Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-06-08
For the Bellows Falls Times.
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We cannot avoid commencing oar rejoindcr by
congratulating Simple" upon his recovery from
that conclusion caused by Wringiag criticism
We leave him to explain the relation OF cause and
effect in said sentence, and pass to business at
once.
First, IL he and his brother and sister philoso-
piers have right to ignore Webster's second def
milton Of sound for the sake of proving their point
by the first as the only right oay," let them at the
same time allow to those who think differently a
right to accept the second, without casting upon
them the imputation of being skeptics who form
no systems of their own, but endeaver to weaken
the foundations of all Others" Do not my dear
"Simple" be so nervous if you would win con-
verts We have a right to kaow il your system
be " founded on a rock" and we shall certainly
exercise that right before accepting your asser-
tons, which we shall not do If we find yon
"shaky.n Second, Simple" says that no d.
tinction should be made between souas and hesr-
ing" and yet afirms that there is no improperly
in saying heard seund," because the senence
ahas a subject, predicate, and a correct object
logically arranged Does he mean to affirm
that every assemblagc of words containing these
elements is vehicle of good English We have
always thought and taught that little ense OF q
common character was necessary, and if crowned
down on this point, we shall still hold the private
opinion that if not necessary, it is desirable. or
course, we admit the propriety of seeing sights,
feeling pains, smelling odors, tasttg arors as well
as hearing sounds; for all these expressions har-
LII D. hall hat
perception and the thing yrceioed were identical
you would never catch Us guilty Of such tautolo-
gy. Third, Simple ssserts that there is net
something that the ear if perfect perceives, which
can exist independently of it, and which can prop
erly be called sornd noise, since sound seems 10
be inc@poreai" Shall we infer that his system
denies the existence OF incorporeal entities or
does it only deny their Independent existence1 In
either case decline to accept it cut Of respect
for our own souls. AS we read thus much of our
opponents article we wondered If he would affirm
that sound was less incorporeal than hight A little
farther on we found out that HIGHWAYS IA body hav-
ing distinct existence" Thanks for the informa-
ton; when we were let outof school the books gave
us no such satisfactory knowledge. OF course
it has all the necessary properties Of natter will
you, my dear sir, tell US how many and which oil
the accessory properties it also has2
Fourth, The bell will not make as many
sounds as there are ears to hear although struck
only once" because "aperson sitting for erreotype
aciil get as many pictures as he makes impress
sions and also because "a sound is ALWAYS ac-
kuowledged to be where the ear is !" and Of course
where each and evgy ear is We surely need add
nothing to this clear logic.
Fifth, The question in regard to the existence
of light previous to the existence of organs o.
organs Of sight, is eluded by the assertion thai
The Al.Seeing Eye was there TO see !" and tina
in regard to the existence Of all things that effec
organs, as being dependent upon the existence o
organs, by the remark that yet the Create
might have formed all thes things for His pleas
and pnrrose-n We say then of the bell il i
just as true that the All hearing Far will be Their,
TO hear, and of sound that The Creator miohl
have formed Il for His pleasure and purpose Oh
if met by the remark that the original question
qnires that there be no ear, not even that Of the
Creator, we simply say that ii in your zeal for the
Anti-Noise Theory you willing to suppose, moi
only the humiliation Of the whole universe, but
also of the Creator of it, we are perfectly willing
to grant you all there is left whereon TO hang your
bell, with which 10 ring it, and BY which to prove
its silence CHESTER ScHooL-MARM.
Chester, Vt, May 2s, 1866.