The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-01-19
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er-He Is Righteous God.
Correspondence OF the Register.
-C Circumstances would seem 10 impress
us with the fruitlessness OF any discus
sion of the topics in the first line OF the
heading in a mere controversial aspect.
so far as the object is 20 get satisfactory
Judgment of the public mind. 1t Is evil
dent, at q blush, that the. argument on
the dislectic line Of the theist or on the
metaphysical sophistries of the evolution
ist must coup, or, if you choose. must 60
down TO principles and processes where
the unstrained minds cannot we'll follow
the eontrovereislists. This is made quite
apparent by the editorial remarks. on two
recent articles on the subject, published
in this city, which said, there was but
little difference between the two writer's,
The difference is Just rs great as any
mind can make 1t from the words al the
head of this article. 1t might also ap-
pear to some such minds that In TINS
matter, for the public mind, the scientists
have seemingly the better, If not OF the
argument, yet of the mode and means OF
presenting il to the unlearned or UNTIL
tored mind, and especially to the dabolers
and smstterers OF science, who have
wholly neglected or are incapable oil sp
precisting the moral side OF their own
nature. l offer some suggestions on the
creation of matter, and IN doing so VIII
reiy Cd the strIctest and well settled
facts and laws of science, not touchinz
the dislectics OF the one or the metsphy-
sizes OF the other, and the only inteTences
which | shall draw or ask my reader to
make are such as shall be warranted by
the laws OF cause and effect.
The plain unsophisticsted man, who
believes in God, says simply, God made
water. No, replies the scientist, water
is made from oxygen and hydrogen gases.
Yes, but it takes 8 psrts by 'oelght OF
oxygen snd part by weight OF hydrogen
to make water, and these proportions
must always be present TO make 1T or IN
another formula there must be two
Uoitones OF oxygen 10 one volume OF hydro.
gen TO make it. Observe also the tscts
tn.t the uniform chemical equivalent oil
oxygen is s, its density is l.lO5; the equi-
valent OF hydrogen is |, its density 0 Oo9.
Here we have four laws OF proportion
involving laws OF weight, laws OF volume,
aud of differ euces Of qualities to make the
wster. and OF the uniform and constant
eduiva ents in each kind OF chemlcstom,
and il density is is 10 be distinguished
from weight and volume, there are i've
such laws. These laws are important IN
the further, and other economies OF these
gases ia nature. These adaptations are
cumulative, and always in proportional
ratios in these further and other econo-
mics in nature, always maintslning their
chemical or sciohtltc relations to the
other "a cheIniC elements which will pre-
sently come into view. These relations
come and 90 according rs the system OF
nature works by its general laws,-untIi
man comes, and by conscious forecast
simply manipulates them according TO
their fixed laws, yet for his own uses and
qualifications, and then appears
The double line!
Erred cause in Matter chained
Free cause by Mind sustained,
And these combine.
And these combine!
In conscious seli.hood move
IfkeasOn, VIII, and Love,
And make the Thine.
Hydrogen is the most ttenuated, or, IN
luls SCLSt. tue lb"Ceb lOl III VI LhhSbtit sAN
was adopted At one time rs the u'9it OF all
forms OF matter, that Is when men were
seeking honogeneity or fundamental
essence from which ali matter was, As
they supposed, constructed, hydrogen
from this tolO attenuation WAS adopted AS
this unit out Of which all else was isbTi'
Gated. This has been exploded for many
sufficient reasons.
Another examples: the believer in God
says, be made The air. No, replies the
scientist, nitrogen and oxygen make the
air. The equivalent OF nitrogen Is l4.O6,
us density .972 But, here, it is II parts
by weight OF nitrogen and % parts by
weight OF oxygen, or 1913 by volume OF
nitrogen and z0.8l OF oxygen, and IN all
expressing differences OF constitution,
and proportionate ratios OF quslities,-o
the actual fact of propOrtionate quslila-
tions Tor each kind of chemc atoms. Not
only SO, but the further facts OF proper
tionate qusntitstlons in weig hts, volumes,
and densilies Is shown TO exist. As
further law of these two named elements,
rs 10 their prCportionste publications
nitrogen will unite with oxygen IN
tive other combinations OF regular and
serial proportions, in which the factor or
equivalent is 8, and which applies only
to the oxygen, and from this multipli-
cation OF propOrtionste ratios IN the con-
stitution of the oxygen 1t would seem to
DO prepared Professionally for more uses
IN the economies OF nature. and the fact
is that it is the most universal re.agent
in all its economies. The nitrogen in
the following proportions, Ms stated, is
l4O6, and, so IA 06 and of oxygen is
nitrous oxyd; l406 and IL of oxygen is
nitric o1yd; l4.06 and "A of oxygen is
hyponitrous acid; l4.U6 and 30 OF oxygen
is nitrous scid; and l406 and 40 OF
oxygen is nutric scid. Here are ratios
and proportions in these two simple
chemic elements. They are rigid, con-
slant, and universal in their action in
the presence of these two bodies, when
these proportions meet. There are signs
or indicia OF the constitution of these
two Of the simple elements of nature.
From these two compounds we have the
heslthtul atmosphere; The nitrous gas or
laughing gas, the gas which lulls or
prevents pain in surgical operations;
nitric oxyd an irrespirable gas; hyponi-
,rous acid n thin, mobile liquid, and
poisonous; putrous scid, an acid that on
exposure 10 the air throws of red nitrous
fumes; and the nitric acid or acqusfortis
tie shop. Quality, weight volume,
densities, equivalents, and adjusted ratios
for all these and for sll their further and
o:her economies OF nature are here in
systematic adaptation this
came. These two latter elements, (Ox.
s1d Nit) will ming.e only in these
proportions as between themselves, but
in combination with other OF the So
called simple chemic elements they per-
form wondrous functions in the econo-
mics OF nature. What has beeo said Of
these Is practicable OF sll the other ele-
ments OF nature, in their differences,
and according to the constitutions OF
their respective kinds. Gold is called a
simple element, and is so simple that it is
lisble to few changes, from the causes
which change so MANY other things