The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-04-26
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L IL r S l B Y L S .
CLASSIC, CHRISTIAN NOTEL,
MILES GERALD KEoN,
Author of Harding, the Money.Spinner," etc.
From the Catholic World
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4 CLASSIC, CHRISTIAN NOVEL,
From the Catholic World. |
(Continued.)
PART n.

You mentioned, )" observed Augustus, after
musing few seconds, that the demonstra
ton you gave us n while ago of single eter
nal God was only one out of many. i do not
want many more, nor several moro; but one
more; but one more, might gluttony ask of
hospitality. We roam the halls of great in
tellectual fortress and mental palace tonight,
superior to the palace of the Mamurras."
Has it such an impluvium, Augustus ~
chuckled the old knight, caressing his white
moustache.
"The tmpluvium," said Dionysius, ais that
part of tho palace where the light of hoaven
falls. But the palace, Augustus, take to be
| the sublime theme my poor mind is only its
oeggarly porter and ostiarius. Suppose, then,
| there were only two beings in all the universe
| one more excellent than the other, which of
them would have preceded the otheri"
No one replied.
" If the inferior be the SENIOR" pursued the
Greek, by so much as the superior afterward
came to excel him, by so much that superior
must have obtained his projections from
nothing whatever, from blank nonentity; be-
cause the inferior by the very supposition, had
them not to bestow."
:: The superior being" answered Augustus,
must therefore be the elder"
You speak justly, Augustus" said the
Athenian. Therefore the less perfect could
never exist, if the more perfect had not first
existed. The existence, then, of imperfect
beings proves the prior existence of one all
perfect being, self dependent, from whom the
endowments of the othsrs must IN questionably
have been derived"
"Cannot things grow ~ asked Labio
Growth is feeding" answered Dion
growth is accretion, assimilation condensa-
ton in one form of many scattered elements |
Growth is possible, first, if we have q seed
that is, an organism capable when fed, of fill
ing out proportions defined beforehand; and.
secondly, if we have the food by which it is
sustained. Bnt who defines the proportiopsY
Who ordained the form Who Termed the
seed Who supplies the air, the light, the
food 7 Would a seed grow of its own energy
if not sown in fostering earth, or placed in
fostering air and light-in short If not fed by
the proper natural juices7 Would it grow if
starved of air, earth, light-thrown back
upon its sole selfi Is not growth stimulated
from withoutf'
Growth is a complicated and manifold
operation" said Augustus, "implying evil
IDENTIFY whole world previously set system.
ltically in motion"
Whence, Lahio," asked the Atheniau
comes your seed that will grow ?"
From a plant" replied Labio.
Whence the planti" pursued the Greek
"From q seed"
Which was first ?" asked Dion
The plant" ,
Then that plant, at least, never came from /
seed" said Donysius. "Wheuce came it ~ q
The seed was first," said Labio.
Then tAat seed" said Dionysus, "never o
anne from plant. Whence came it 7"
There was n laugh, in which not only Labio a
'ut even Tiberus joined. ,
No." said Dionysius; " whatever the power l
which traced out beforehand the limits and
proportions which the seed, by growing or
eeding, is to fill whatever the pc wer which
urrounds that seed, or other organism, with
he manifold conditions for its development, |
hat power must DO something more perfect I
md excellent than the elements which it thus {
lispeaseS and controls: and She exiatnuea al ,