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MILFORD Hall.


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wilford Hall, tho great phenomenon Ia
the modern literary world, the successful 70
futer Of Eswton's Pdneipia. OF tho wave tho
lory Of sound, and Darwin's and others eyo
LUTON theories, has come 10 sudden stop
In his progress In enlightening tho world.
Hall has q task In this celestial drama, but
whom he goes beyond this, his genius will
not assist him, and consequently he acts NJ
many other foolish human beings, whom
yonturing on the cause Of spiritualisln, earth
quakos, dowsing, tho entietis OF heat or cold,
and other questions Of science.
In tho February Microcosm, page 2i3, he
says that no Ia glad because tho text books
are correct In asserting, that cold Ia nothing
else but absence OF heat, and no substance
whatever. and goes 70 prove IL by the fol-
lowing nonsense; Every blacksmith knows
that II tho hot end Of an Iron bar or rod, DO
slowly pushed into cold water or bank OF
snow, the heat being o substantial entity
or thing. will al once begin 10 travel along
the bar toward tho cool end by radiation or
desperation, keeping In advance Of tho cool.
inc water or snow till Il will soon blister the
hand, II not Let 20, whore just before the
bar had been cool" This statement is false
as every blacksmith knows. Hall Is stretch
Ing facts on tho torture bed Of Procustes,
Ike modern scientists often do, 10 make ends
meet with the textbooks. In Halle writing
on subjects outside Of those ON which no Is
inspired 10 write, tho clubbish foot OF inf
deity peeps out from under his arguments.
II Hall had consulted the Bible he would
not have wrote, "that cold was nothing else
but the absence of heat" We have OBJ
served, that when there are two sides to q
scientific problem, the one which comes
nearest the text Of the Bible comes nearest
10 truth. The ship builders on the Merssy
river have boon for years experimenting on
q model for fast going ocean vessel, finally |
they adopted certain model as nearest 10 |
perfection. Some time after, one Of the |
workmen found out that the model was the |
exact counterpart of the despised Noahs ark. |
Hast thou entered into the treasures of
the snow7 or hast thou seen the treasures of |
the hail, which have reserved against the |
time of trouble, against the day Of battle
and war? Out Of whose womb came the |
Ice and the hoary frost OF heaven who hath |
gendered iti" Job. chapter 80. verse ~,
23, 30.
God spoke those words to Job In semi
tropical climate, where the cold from the
ancient sea Of ice, surrounding the North
Pole had little effect, therefore God must
have had allusion 10 another place.
Hall Is too much learned 10 reconcile sci
ence with tho Bible, therefore he otis astride
Of the fence.
We used to be an infdel on account of
100 much learning, and at one time, when
studying over the mysteries of the sun, we
rend the eth verse of the 18th
psalm on the sun, (which is as a BRIDE
groom coming out Of his chamber and re-
DICED as o strong man to run race" Can
I be possible that there IL q dockyard in
he end of the heaven, where so large q ves-
vel as the sun, can be built and launched
The answer is there must be such place;
irst, tho Bible says so, and next, the sun
With all its regular movements and change
4 spots, cannot come into existence and hold
Ia own by chance az the textbooks teach.
We are not prepared at present to reconcile
II of the Bible texts and miracles with sci
nee, but we can prove. that cold is an en-
lty, q substance, that emanates from the
undrns of Siberia, to act as climate regu-
.tor for the Northern hemisphere.
The common school Biographies state.
hat Jakutsa IL near the centre of the Asiat-
Pole of greatest cold According to the
formation Of explorers. IL is colder on
10 tundras (tablelands) near that town
ian in any other part of the world.
his centre of greatest cold is about the. 63d
,gree latitude, the sams "a the latitude of
outhern Sweden and Norway. 1t il well
nown, that the coolest weather in Asia.
tirope and North America, can be traced
the tundras in the neighborhood of ia
ltsk The testimony Of Prof. Nordensci-
d, who wintered in the Attic Ocean, North
Jakutsk, ia especially valuable, conse-
lently we cannot get out Of uncertainties,
1t we must admit, that cold is terrestrial
distance, emanating from the tundras and
afted by aircurrents over the Northern
emisphere. If current Of this Siberian
Id strikes North America and meets a Po-
r wave, this cold is sometimes carried 70
o Gulf of Mexico The Siberian cold is n
aerent substance from the Polar cold, it
known in different parts of the world by :
fferent names, here in Texas il is called
lizard or blue Norther, and has peculiar
lphuric smell. II those billiards. should
ange their course to the Mississippi valley,
would injure the fertility of those regions, ,,
d improve the deserts of the Rocky Noun
ms and the Staked Plains.
MILFORD Hall has permanent list of 40
published in his Religio-Sci- /
tific monthly. the Microcosm. All but {
ceptional case has such an aristocratic
rname (Alphonzo) as to make up for the
ndle. Hall and his heightened contribu- =
rs have on several occasions invited such
en- az Huxley, Tyndall, Hemholz and 9TH
J, to contribute. We have tried several
mes to have replies to contributors and ::
r original regio-scientific discoveries pub
he'd in the Microcosm, but never received
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