The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-09-29
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HERALD, SUNDAY, SEP
the Gentiles There . st the present day revelation
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How startlingly similar are these two revelations
with more than century OF DARKNESS between
theml But then. you know "there is no doubt but
the conclusion the Swedenb0rgian On conductors
OF the sun have come toll
which, when verified, win hardly rank second In
interest and Importance to the source OF the Nile
He tells MS that there was on ancient Word extant
.Wars Of Jehovah and Enunciations,' mentioned
by Moses plumbers XXI, IA. lS q. 3ol that
I Samuel, L., II and is) il Contained in
this ancient Word: and that this ancient Word Is
still preserved By the inhabitants Of Great Tartary
and that this Word, like that possessed by the
Christian world refers entirely to the advent OF the
Lord into the world In human form and His
destined to prove or dsprove this statement
His task will be that of child's II his object ID
a a. red to FOR he win Ss apt
brothers and intimate friends OF the Tartar"
whose sign manual he claims to bring with him
as evidence OF his truth. p. w.
362 WEST THIRrY-FIFrH STREET.
Infant Creation-The Probable Origin OF
Mankind and tho Lower Animals.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
Notwithstanding the almost universal belief In q
Creator, and the fact that the account Of mans
origin found In the sacred record Is commonly re-
ceived and accepted 1t must occur to most persons
who not unable afraid to think that the his
tory of the creation as given in the Book Of Genesis
is somewhat mystical, fgurative and allegorlcal,
and cannot be regarded as actual scientific truth.
We purpose however, no quarrel with the grand
old poetic legend OF the origin Of man and his hab
tatiOn, nor do we pretend to a new inspiration.
We but put forward what we consider to be
reasonable speculation az to the nOdus operandt
Of the formation Of worlds and their Inhabitants,
leaving the time-honored story OF Moses
to the undying admiration OF oil! ages. We do not
intend to enter into the question as to how or
when matter entered the universe. We see no rea-
son why matter should not have been co-eternal
with mind; for II we start with the assumption
that mind created matter, we shall still have the
question behind u.s. ''Who created mlndf" We
think we are travelling back far enough when we
attempt to conceive the universe containing moth
ing but gaseous elements or matter in solution,
and still more ethereal element, mind. ready to
permeate with instinct and intelligence bodies
hereafter to be formed. Probably the morning Of
creation commenced with lighting the fires, or the
formation of suns-it ia quite enough for our pur-
pose, having to do with our own solar system, to
say the sun. Here these questions must be putt
What is the sun How was the fire lighted and
with what fuel is IL sustained And we record eur
opinion that the solar body is Of the results Of
vast explosion Of gases, mighty thunderbolt In
deed, kept always In molten state by being i'm
mersed In pure oxygen separated from the other
cases. and from time to time stocked with planets
and asteroids for fuel Possibly this globe was
once misshapen fragment revolving round the
sun, awaiting the solar appetite for more planetary
or asteroida fuel, and, obedlent to law OF de.
mand best known to solar stokers and
planetary coal merchants, Obsequiously supplied
OF ens az es other
words. whatever matter this fragment had COL
lected from the various gases became fuel for the
when thrust out OF the solar fires, mere clinker,
cOmposeN chiefly Of qucklime pumice, molten
matter, doubtless forming the Framework Sp Of the
globe, while oceans OF lava and seething metals
filled up the interstices like honey in honey
become habitable w0rlds How came the fertile
SOIL the iathomless seas, the bOundess forests and
snowy mountains and the regions OF icef
We have said that the existence OF the sun de-
ponds upon pure oxygen, and well.known chem.
ical experiment will prove what combustion In that
gas means, how intense are the heat and light pro-
duced from hot iron, which In our atmosphere
would speedily become cold and dead, and it is
therefore easily that when the fiery proectile
rushed into space and met with humid gases neces.
sT this rn
DEMONSTRATING gas, entered the domain Of water
producing elements. Here the cooling process set
IN, the world became envelOped In steam, mighty
changes took place; the .quicklime and other kin
dred substances upon the surface were slake and
acquired their sdsmSntine hardness in the now
an-pervading damp. Vast and terrible upheavals,
hydrogen gel ana nitrogen. Pure atmosphere was
formed, the foods settled down into certain val
spongy land and making the earth habitaSle And
then comes the life-dep0stng period OF the worlds
history. How long this continued 1t is impossible
to say Whether or not more than one race OF men
and the lower animals were formed originally
without what is called procreation, we
what n We Do 'si mean TO do
mean to lay down as positive doctrine
founded upon reasonable deductions from natures
own evidence-s that the human race and every
other species Of animal were formed In vast num-
bers simultaneously during this lile-depositing
period, and that they were formed by CESSATION
from gaseous deposits In the soft warm clay OF that
period, when the very ground was at blood heat
sa me literally @ % the Of s
ably honeycombed with wombs, impregnated with
gaseous deposits and infused with electric infu-
fants, possibly half formed, or it may be, in more
advanced stage OF existence.
TWO tnings appear 10 De certain: MAN was never
formed sngly, but in great numbers He did not
hrs: appear upon this earth as an adult, but as
newborn babe. 1t is impossible that one sole adult
could have been suddenly created to become the
pioneer to his kind 1t Is contrary to the laws OF
nature, which are the laws Of God, and cannot be
abrogated. whenever the life-pr0ducing influence
set fn by whatsoever or whomsoever produced, 1t
must have been gradual and general In Its opera
ton like the coming Of Spring. First the sap, then
the bud, the leaf, the blossom the seed. AS well
might Winter begin with one solid cube OF Ice upon
one solitary lake, beneath the golden foliage Of
Autumn; or Summer commence with one full
blown tree amidst the desOlate leanessness around
The germs OF Hsh are spawn; OF oysters, "spat."
Can any intelligent adult imagine that fishes were
formed before spawn or oysters before spatf
Which was the nkelier creation OF the two, the
slightly gelatinous nud, elegantly called spat or
the matured oyster, with his hard she'll, the growth
OF years. And 1t will be seen that this line OF rea-
sOning will apply with equal force to all living
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