The New York herald., 1874-10-09
TYNDALLIsM.

TYNDALLISM.
Jewish Opinion-Interview with
Mr.. M. EllinRer.
Below win be found an interesting interview
held recently with Mr.. M. Ellinger, editor and
proprietor OF the Jesofsh Times The conver.
sation given In the sequel will be found all the
more interesting from the fact that Mr.. Eiilneer
has examined the theories lately advanced BY the
| great British professor to the most minute de.
| tail. and mas now In preparation lecture In
answer to Darwin and Tyndall, which he proposes
| to deliver IN the Jewish Temple located on Lex
] ington avenue, on the 18th Of the pres
| ent month While the interview given be.
| low may not be regarded as an accu-
| rate analysis OF Mr.. Elnger's forthcoming
address, It may, however, be considered as .
fair exponent Of hts opinions. Upon approaching
the gentleman put to him about the same ques-
tion as first advanced in my interview with DR..
Holland, viz. -
"what do you think OF Professor Tyndal's last
address ?"
| IL think the gentleman deserves great deal OF
praise for the courage he displayed In announcing
his convictions as openly as he did, answered Mr..
Ellinger.
"Do you regard Professor 1yndan from his last
ADDRESS, to have entered the RANKS OF the so-caed
materiaiists ?"
"By no MEANS" was the emphatic response;
! 'nor does he ever lean toward atheism. Tyndalps
materialsm, II such 1t can DO called. Is not devoid
OF an ideal, nor does no set up DIS deductions as
the sum and substance Of all wisdom. The system
he would advance Is substantially expressed in
the initiatory OF his address, so care
iully worded are they that theology cannot object
to them. Listen" continued Mr.. Ellinger, turning
to the address, land hear what the Professor
| sayS:'-
An impulse in primeys man turned his thoughts and
phenomans The same Impulse inherited and nd insensi
hed Is the spur Of scientific action to-day Determined
form physical theories which lie beyond ne pale q
see every natural occurrence resting upon cause.
lyon win readily understand that both pnioso-
W been aha n % 70 n end
establish barrier beyond which It forbids human
conception and speculation 70 penetrate, as Deng
self the nrst born son OF all the borderland beyond
now. however, It is science which says:-Thus
is Idle ~ dresmland, ~ Of Which which We es'can cam
W have SAID Ssose boaa aa Dafwa
and Tyndai for what they have recently expressed
Church and State combined have silenced enectn.
ally the voice Of those who dared to leave worn
out and weltrodden paths OF the past aud cut
intellect and based upon the collected experience
Of mental at toll ! thank & God that to those who
ana the stake have disappeared. As long as that
God, in whom millions believe. Is or such q crude
| conception as self-constiruted human authorities
proclaim Him, possessed OF all she attributes that
flesh IS heir to-anger, caprice, cruelty-it Is me-
others Of his SCHOOL,
Is to wage war against the conception OF the
Deity p rnext querled
mot at all, !" answered the Jewish editor 1.-The
labors OF the scientist are not against the Deity
who Is the prime cause OF all existence, but
against the miserable and unsatisfactory concep.
| tlon OF worn out tbeoogies. Before the one true
God, the spirit inconceivabe, incomprenensibe
In His attributes, the one Father OF the whole uni
verse; can be recognized and worsnpped, a thou
sand popular idols must be overturned and
thousand crude conceptions tramped in the dust.
Our heroes OF science are doing wen their work,
and, therefore, say give them the praise due TO
their efforts, and let US hope tnat their glorious
work Of reconstruction be taken up by other hands
not less able, not less poweriuLn
| "Piatnly. Mr. Ellinger,n tnterrogated, show do
you regard Tyndall and DarwinW
"As admirable naturalists; so do regard them
| as men highly competent to- expound the theories
OF the various things tney behold around them;
| which is as much the subject OF investigation "a
| Nature herself There is-nay, there must be-a
vestgation ceases to devise the substance where
all INVESTIGATION begins. This even Herbert spen-
Glow do You regard the Bible 9n
1--WE reform Jews, concerning the Bible. hold
that It Is only history Of man. We deny that It
ture there is sublime intelligence or whose atiri-
butes we are wholly, utterly ignorant.n
made after Gods own image"
. simply . & agurasive phrase, = was the response,
from this man proclams that he is the image su Of
MS God not the image IN form. truly, but In In
,sigence Ior o. 1,,n the NJ form o. Coo we know
has contributed anything very new, but I do say
/ that ne deserves praise for the independence be
mas SHOWN In asserting his individual opinions.n
The Opinions OF Adolphe wurtz.
1t is doubtful whether iu all France there is q
greater chemist or general scientist than Adolphe
! Wurtz. Both as scientific investigator and ex-
pounder he has attained greater eminence than
any of the four members who compose the Tyn-
daistic school, and hence the recent address OF
the learned French scholar before the French
Association for the Advancement OF Science Is
worthy ornote, especially snceit bears so directly
] upon the question now being so generally dis.
cussed. He says
Chemistry, natural philosophy and astronomy,
| though diverse In methods, yet have one common
edge OF It's constitution, properties and distribu-
lion. Thus are taught that the worlds which stud
poundless space are constituted like our SOAR sys
TEN ana move IKE ". But a novel ana wonderful
feature y that the harmony OF celestial spheres
which Pythagoras has celebrated and modern
poetry mas described in immortal verse. is also
found IN the smallest OF microcosms Among the
Infinitely little all is in co-orulnated motion.
The atoms whose aggregate constitutes matter
are never at rest. With regard to matter 1t Is
ever and everywhere the same, and the hydrogen
oi our earth's water we trace in sun, In Sirius
and IN those nebu0sities which are still informed
| worlds. Everywhere Is motion, too; and motion,
! winch seems inscparaDe from matter, Is the
origin OF all physical and chemical force. Thus
rom under The edge OF the veil which we are en-
! aoled TO I'LL, glimpse is revealed to us OF the
harmonious plan OF the universe AS for primary
causes, they lie within another domain which
mans intellect wiz ever strive to enter and
search. In vain does science reveal to him the
! physical structure or the universe and the order
OF all It's phenomena, Excelsiorl He Will strive
| onwards and upwards In his innate instructive
CONVICTION that things have not within themselves
their rdtSon Tetre their foundation and origin:
| he is gradually led to subordinate them to
| primary cauae. An uniQpe and universal GQdi