Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1876-03-23
The Symbolism Of the
Sublime.

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FLINTv1LLE, March Is, 1876.
Nature, sole origin of ever
lasting beauty, how mysterious
the arcana of Godl The chain
of life with its links of matter
surrounds the Universe. The
beginning and the end is a life
circle intermingled with death
matter. Suns are born to light
new created worlds for a sea-
son, then expire to shine again.
A million stars glitter in the
blue sky and finally refine and
enlarge into dazzling suns to
light new worlds. Piles Of sill
yer light, crystalized into sky
pearls deck the bosom of God.
Ethereal lamps burn brightly in
the dome of the armament, like
diamonds to light the mental
eye of man. The multiplied
myriads of being, which exist
by life, motion and the forces
of nature, are;perpetuallv peo-
ping new worlds. The chain
of being is linked to matter,
link by link, until it reaches
man-here it is complete-the
next link will be added after
death-the last link is deific and
unites the finite to the infinite.
Then the life-circle is complete,
ending in the Universal Mind.
The individuality of the finite
man fills the universe, but in
nature, herself, he is q cypher.
The effluence of the light of
life pervades all worlds, and
even our frame, Insignificant
though it be, glows with it.
The first types of vegetation as
we'll as the first types of ami
NAL life were in existence when
man was not. Fish, trees, birds
and animals grow from the i'm
perfect to the perfect in the or
der of time. Man is proven to
be no exception to the general
rule. In fact, man is matter re-
fined from ats crude state TO
what he now is. We quote the
terse saying-"He that can not
reason is fool. He that will
not reason is a bigot. He that
dare not reason is q slave. y
There is a vast difference be-
tween vague notions derived
from speculative philosophy,
s=ch as prevailed anterior to the
dawn Of the physical sciences
and the results of experiment
tai research, which constitute
positive Science. We think
that the most effective way of
spreading the elements of truth
contained in nature, or OF any
kind Of truths, is by the Press,
There is beauty in each new
truth discovered. Says Cum
mlnp-"Printin9 gives to man
sort Of ubiquity and eternity
of being, it enables him to out
lire death, and cnshrine him.
self amid a kind Of earthly i'm
mortality. 1t enables him to
speak while yet dead. His
words that breathe and thoughts
that burn are embodied and en-
balmed." The world is filed
with the voices of Homer, Aris-
totle, Plato, Cicero, Milton and
Emerson. The key of knowl-
edge is not an enigma to man
he has only TO grasp the truth
and then he is Natui1's Hero
phant. We want our epitaph
to be as follows: ''fIere lies
one who was not afraid to write
for mental liberty" Sargent in
his "Proef Palpable of ImmOr-
tality" says that "matter is not
the stuff which our senses
would make it appear" intimat-
ing that matter has no substance
"a veritable ghost Of nothing
ness. Will our spiritual phi
losopher allow us to fire q pis-
tol ball at his body? If the
ball passes through his body
without injury to him then We
are ready to admit the truth of
his assertion. Vera, another
philosopher, endeavors to prove
that force originated everything
in the Universe. lie says that
"matter is a force and the soul
is a force, and as forces they are
the product of one and the same
idea, and both produce similar
effects; for instance, the soul
moves the body, and a body
moves another body" We will
Yera's theory in the
following manner: Man is u
horse, and the "soul is a horse"
and las horses" they are the
product of female horse "ideas"
'.and both similar horses; for in
stance, a man eats horse and q
horse eats another horse. We
have shown that the Eternal
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