Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-26
The Revised Creed of Substantial,sm
By the Editor.

euo SUBSTANTIAL Pnllos0phy 1t becomes
necessary occasionally to restate its
cardinal and salient features, with any
additional principles it may have un-
folded. that new readers Of the Micro
cosm may have before them succinct
general presentation of the doctrine in
volved and thus he saved the trouble
Of asking many questions and puzzling
over many already solved difficulties in
their correspondence with this office.
The following will Approximately meet
this want, all the essential teachings
Of which having variously been elabo-
rated in many leading articles as now
set forth in our Scientific Library of
eight volumes. noticed elsewhere.
1. The Substantial Philosophy
teaches that force per Sc, of whatever
character, is substantial objective
entity,o or. in other words, that it is an
immaterial, active substance, in direct
contrast with matter in its gross tang
lille form. BY immaterial entity is
signified a substance of such character
as will act in defiance of material coz
ditions in at least some of its manifes-
tations, as for example, light, magnet
ism, life, mind, etc.
2. 1t teaches that all the entities of
the universe, or all the objective
things which exist and of which the
mind can form positive conception,
whether Wis ible or invisible, whether
tangible or intangible, including every
phenomena-producing cause in nature,
are divisible into the two grand classi-
fications Of material and immaterial
substance, and that entity is none the
less substantial, if capable of produc-
ing positive effect, or of acting as the
cause of an observed phenomenon, be-
cause 1t is not subject to physical tests,
nor can be shown to exist by mechani-
cal or chemical analysis As is the
case of. the gases, liquids and
solids. 1t is the effectiveness of our
current edueatien-in which motion is
made to play so prominent and impos.
sible part-that the idea of inmate
rial substance IS difficult to grasp by
the ordinary mind. The notion, as
commonly held. that matter and mo-
tion constitute all there is in the uni
verse, is the perniclous error of the
scientific scholasticism of the present
day, against which the heaviest guns
of this new philosophy are continually
trained.
3. Substantiallsm teaches that mo-
tion is an absolute nonenity, having
no existence either as thing or as Il
cause of any observed effect, and hence
that the whole scientific world is in
fatal error in assigning to motion, per
Sc, any part whatever in the produc-
tion OF natural phenomena, much more
is it in error in teaching, as it does that
any of the forces of nature are consti-
tuted of motion and nothing else.'
4. Substantialism was the first sys-
tenn of philosophy ever promulgated
to define motion and correctly distin-
guish it from force. 1t defines motion
cas- mere position in space changing .
and hence, that motion-this changing
of position had no existance before
the body commences moving, and alb
solutely ceases 10 exist the moment the
body comes to rest. Motion, therefore.
can in no case be cause of any con-
ceivable effect, but is itself the non
entitaye effect of some form of sub
stantial force as its cause. The splln-
terlng Of tree, for example, by a can
non ball, is not the effect of the balls
motion in any possible sense, but is the
effect of the dynamic force of the ex-
ploded powder and the material con-
tact of the ball with the tree,- the
motion or changing position of the ball
being merly Incidental to this substan-
tial force, just as the nonentitiye shad-
ow of tree is incidental to the partial
interruption of the substantial force of
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From The Whiteside Sentinel, Nor
rison. III. "The beautiful young trot-
ting stallion, Eagle Chief, owned by
lawyer Woodruff is attracting great
attention among horsemen. lie is q
bright cherry bay, symmetricalln form,
as pure gated an animal as was ever
in the sulky, and with his exquisite
breeding we bespeak for the youngster
a most successful career on the turf as
well as IN the stud. Mr.. Woodruff is
proud of him and we congratulate him
on being the owner of the young Chief
We are informed that within few
DAYS the Chief will go to South Dakota
where he will preside at the head OF
the Waukaleta stock farm near Alpena
owned by Mr.. Woodruff. 1t is to be
regretted that this horse is to leave
this county, but what the breaders here
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