The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-04-09

dissgreesbls. We prefer a universe in
which the sensations resulting from the
inpingng of the undulations in tho vsri-
Gus flu ls surrounding us are not wasted
on inteligencies SO organized as to be I'M
conscious of such sensations. Any other
kind of universe would be as silent ss
the tomb and rs dark as night. There
fore We have now no doubt the doctors
lecture WAS not an inhdcl discourse.
"How absolute the knsve is y exclaimed
Hamlet when the grave-digger gave him
an impudent answer. Being now engaged
10 an effort TO dig q little grave for our
scientifically literary or lterarily scien-
tifc or scientac.literary friend, tho doc
tor, we shall also be "absolute' hyper
critical, lot " join the doctor in saying.
In pursuance of this determination, we
assert that, when tho doctor used the Ian.
gusge above quoted, he did not say what
he wished TO say, and what he intended to
say was neither scientific nor sensible
When he speaks Of world containing in
telligent beings so organized as 10 be un-
conscious Of the sensations resulting from
the impinging Of the various fluids, etc,
he uses language without moaning. I'm
dula,ions in the various auids impinging
what? The doctor has neglected to tell
US.
What the doctor intended to say was
probably this "a world without intelli-
gent beings 80 organized as to be posses
ed of the power Of feeling tho sensations
We now feel and know are the result of
the undulations In the various fluids
around US striking tho eye and the ear,
would be world in which all who existed
would be deaf and blind If deaf and
blind they would also DO dumb and if
deaf, dumb and blind they could not DO
intelligent beings So that world in
habi.ed by beings 50 organized as not to
experience the sensation resulting from
the impinging the eye, ear and other parts
of the body by the fluctuations in the va
rious fluids surrounding them would be 3
world Of idiots The doctor says, by i'm.
plicstion II We spprehend his meaning,
that such world might contain intelli-
gent beings, If he does not mean to say
this why did he no. say so in plain Ian
gusge and neglec. to revel in impinging
undulations and other verbal luxuries Of
that kind? The fact 10, q world 10 which
he Ia irnv I'M
ing Of the fluctuations, etc, would make
no sensation would be an uninhsbitsble
world for man or beast. 1t would be
world without life.
We hope We have made our meaning
plain. We have tried 10 be lucid, So that
the reader nigh. be conscious of the fact
that what we have written had impinged
his mind and made /. noisy with under
standing and as ligb. as day.
But whatever we may believe on the
subject OF impinging unduls,ions, there
can bel but one opinion concerning the
Etheric Sea. In it are wave lengths the
shook Of which is what we call color.
Thi, is beyond question fact. Brigham
says SO, and Huxley and the other great
scientists have no. had the temeri,y TO
contradict him. Reason also agrees with
Brigham. II color is not tho shock of the
wave lengths in the E!heric Sea what 10 |
color and II the shock OF wave lengths |
in that sea is color what is the shock Of |
wave lengths out Of that sea- This logi- |
al Of
vince every one that DR.. Brigham WAS
right when he made his remarks about the |
Etheric Sea and tina. our blunder came |
from ignorance Of geography and science.
The science Of wave lengths We never un-
derstood, and to the question of color out
side Of politics We never caves moments
but hi, we hare learned,
that men OF the caliber of DR.. Brigham,
who have barely slipped Of the water Of
the Pierian spring, who are only smstter-
ers in the rudiments Of science, who have !
picked up only few Of the pebbles that
lie upon the shores Of the mysterious
ocean Of philosophy, and yet have the as
surance to profess knowledge they do not
possess and the tenierity TO question the
Almighty to his face and call His wisdom
folly, should be pitied not denounced.
They are like wanton boys who swim On
blsdders far beyond their depth. On the
bladder of self-conceit our friend, the doc
Tor, has hoated out Of sight Of land in tho
Etheric Sea, and has become unconscious
Of the sensations resulting from the i'm
pinging Of tho undulations in the various
auids that surround US I"