Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-05-21

FRlRsp CAuWErERo Don't let the iiuiics
trouble you. No-Thc lnhnitc docs not consist
of parts. How can the finite he part uf the Ia
fnitc, when the Infinite existed ctcrnuly prior
tn When the Ruitc was mldce When tLis aide
Knows that matter Is Infinite and makcs such
comparisons Ns YOU represent, will he soon
enough tu give the reason why It does 50. The
sense, N which, "pcrhaps," possible" aud
" fact not Vet admitted" were used in the 'orm-
or blocks, Is plain to intelligent persons who have
4 got matter ON the brain. but 1t is not so ob
vinuS to- such persons, that the same space geau
be Wi,d by bodi Of matter, each body having
pores left which are Wiud with some other matter
or rfIrntt Ot matter, which, IN its turn has
also ,pp, cs tn be vet WHci as every school boy
well knows Your own account shows, that
there Is no snlidtv in matter, though il prctcu Is
to occupy very small amrunt OF space, vet are
found those pores, or space within the same, not
vet FILLED Air is not vacuum, no more than
other bodies vt matter, hut like all other bodies
of matter has vacuum In II is surround ,d by
vacuum nnA besides its parts are of such ma
mrr as tO allow u tn b. readily displaced hy 9th
or bodies of matter the parts Of which are Of an
/ adhesive nature, forced into H. aud which from
the impetus given them 10y power readily make
for themselves in H. temporary vacuum to So
/ pass or TALL through il. The ~ is likewise not
vacuum, but has vacuum in II, through which
the matter ot electricity readily passes. Aud
hence all bodies ui matter are seen tn be more
| or less void, and ComprcsSibie, and dn not m
the space they seem ~ occupy, and tho more
compressed, the less hy become, nor could it
be otherwise, were all bodies ot matter masscd
! Into one sphere AMI the power chmprcSsing or
expanding the mass, being unlimited or lnRnitc
ut course, the result is obvious even as YOU ad-
! init. And matter being susceptible OF being sn
/ compressed ur expanded tn unu- entity, Earth,
| SIM, Moon and stars, Included, there would be
] ,nthinU a., unVthinU mn -, h.,
| stopped, seeing that all matter and finite things
/ had gone to nothing all would bG Space void
| aud uuoccupicd. iut occupied or not, where
/ does space not exist? Space, as matter, cant
be 50 compressed, nor, as matter So expanded To
non-cnuty, but is lnhhtc aud needs no room /; it
is rnom itself Infinitely aud matter so failing to
I'LL thereof, even what II protcnds ul occupy, Is
indeed very little, and of course, by your own
showing ut m alter, the dots of m utter which, so
seem to exist, bear ~ comparison to the luinitc
void they float IN aud which manifest charac-
turiSlics OF matter show il to be inir or as hay
/ ing been made. Aud why cant what has been
made, aut Is So seen to be SUBJECT Ia power tn he
chtnged, b. disiroycl by the power which made
in Can what's lnhnlte and ctrrud be changed ?
Can you increase or diminish Infinite space hv
saving It exists only In idea, or otherwise ?
Etrud duration did not begin, neither does il
change, uvlthcr cau It be changed or hr made to
cease. Ne " hat Is laiuitr aud rtcrual is not
d Nh' N'Nl NlAANNNH NNNlNNN 10 NNNNGN Nl tO ne
2 changed nor, therefore to power either to be
made or dcsuulcd and therefore what's sub
lrct 10 change o. be changed is not Infinite
but Is finite aud was made, and Is subject To- be
destroyed at tbe will ct the power winch made
/ II, especially at the will of the power ct the n-
finite Being, etcrnhlv aal uuChIugcaAly ah,o-
4 late. but why cant matter be DESTROYED Is
/ II Oocau,o your rovrJctl, failed, Astronomers
/ cant ind data, from which In compute the dis.
tncr to sirius. is that want aud inability on
/ their part CONCLUSIVE tuNou an YOUR rhilnSp-
piers that there Is no distance ur space between
'nls world aud ihatF Plainly Nour axiom is
abnruvo, and had youU Turricrh aud philaso.
pliers, taken the trouble aud care In examine
they need not have gone outside 1T themselves
10 hnd vacuum enough IN nature, and la that
case, could with quito as much rcasou, set duwu
that nature aOhors sdidtty. Your axiom, has
vacuum in 1t aud your rorrce6 aud philosopher,
do not iH the rant. And now nnithrr, thcrsb
ing, what Is finite, aud m ,u cr So shuwing itscl
10 be, ot course, " is reasonably conclusive th,
u WAS made, or spoken out Of nothing, mtn thi,
apparent existence, bv the absolute hcng ct In
, huttc power existing IA Truth, ytrrra,lY preyi
, "us. tor lohultc Su absolute b ing pnsSosSc
/ all Infinite attributes,
But you DENY that thcrS is unlimited mower
because two parallels c,utdivercc or converge
nora square cudc, urr stick without twlpnd,
Mr. valley Without nvu hills c'madc. Nov
4, were TINS side tn require sou trYi.uW there ar
~ such things 90 be- w ,dc aud dome. Il cOuld p,adi
a ~ show you ttr pnNvr Ia make them hv tlttin,
y you had accoubushrd the task Rut 4: ln,s n,
y seem proper to SO extend Jlus mttttSs Had vo
" said that absolute BEING cAu't max, u,uSrlTu
OF maltcj refine ncVcr 80 much, IL would hay
. been correct enough, aud readily believed b
" Sensible persons, bur jtNuuld neither show, II,
tend to show, that absolute Being is limited
, power. That Infinite and eternal Truth cant lie
IN certain, but does that Characteristic make rrui
any the less omuipotent loa talk Of iallaC
4, aud eAploded fancy, aud yet fall back an wha
la Can yoo tell What existence it Is either in matt
n, or IN 'lme, or IA olcmiy2 This big sh of you
- reminds uf drowning persons catching
straws, only while the aruwning persons Ia,
the straw of reason 10 do 81, YOU are tryiu
" hard To- hold ta aud rely on what does not eni /,
of neither in matter, nor in time, nor in eternn
% neither can il even be imsgiaed il does n
amount 60 an old fancy, not even 10 the shade
~ Of a fantasy and yet, irving te supper, vo,
suPerstrueture Ou tbs br Ken Il nagmyut ut a We,