Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-03-22

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It's R"~ders Upon Receipt; Nanne !
Of Writer Must Be Known to :
| : tbs Plb!isler. However. Z :
"THE CELLULAR cosMoGoNY."
Editor Courier:
! Another knight has entered the
! lists, issued his def, and sailed forth
with the avowed intention Of houghins
my palfrey as an incidental diversion
Upon perrsing the article in the
Peoples Pulpit under date of March
IA, / saw at glance that it was true
because l had read most of it long age
! in "The Cellular Cosmogony,' by
koresh. 1.-THE Second Elijah and
Prof. Morrow.
| Though recognizing it as true. for
| the reason just mentioned. careful re
reading suggested certain difficulties
to my mind and being ever DESTROYS
Of adding to my meagre stock OF
knowledge, noting that my preceptol
appears to be thoroughly conversant
with these subjects and being more
or less afflicted with cacoethes scri
bendi, determined to confess my in
ability to solve them, and await en-
! lightenment.
F., 1t is evident to me that all my life
have been accepting as true certain
| false premises. For instance, l SUP
posed that when the Bible (Rom. 5-12)
said, GAS by one man sin entered into
| this world, and by sin death, and sc
death passed unto all men, in whom
all have sinned." supposed that "alF
, meant ALL and that 1t affirmed the
unity of the race, and pointed to
common origin Of all men. l was con
firmed in this view by the fact that
before Peyrere. in 1865, advanced ths
theory of the existence of Pre-Adam
ties, the towering geniuses, the mos
penetrating intellects in Christendom
had uniformly held this view, and il
is held today.
IT, after studying the lucid explana
ton my friend will undoubtedly give
am unable to see otherwise. l shall
attribute it to intellectual staphyloma
Why the modern theologian re
mains in the dark on these questions
! when he could pay so cents for the
"The Cellular Cosmogony," and come
out of it." am unable to say.
| I find myself unable to believe thai
"the scientists all know" that the eX
pertinent with Prof. Morrow's rec
tilineator demonstrated the Cellular
| Cosmosony, and yet hypocritically
continue teaching the Copernican sys
| tenn.
Suppose two observers stationed
at different points on Cor if you pre-
! fer, I'M the earth. Let them focus
their instruments on the same planet
With the angle recorded, knowing
their distance apart, and comparing
data, does the gentleman mean tx
say that they would be unable to de
termine whether the planet is "less
than thousano,' or whether it is mil
lions Of miles away?
This earth-has existed from al
eternity
| Then must be suffering from
either mental strabismus or intel
lectual myopia. Please point out the
| fallacy in the following. and viii
ask that groundless assumptions be
eliminated from the exposition:
THAT which is eternal is infinite
1t must be infinite, because, if eternal
it can have nothing to limit it. Bu
| that which is infinite must be infinite
! in every way. If limited in any way
it would not be infinite.
Now. matter is limited. 1t is com
posed Of parts and composition i:
limitation. 1t is subject to change
and change involves limitation
| Change supposes succession, and there
can be no succession without be
ginning, and. therefore, limitation
Matter is limited, and therefore
finite; and if finite in anything, finite
in everything, therefore finite in time
and, therefore, not eternal.
"The idea of an eternal. self-exist
ent being, is incompatible, in every
point of view, with our idea o.
matter The former is essentially
simple, Interchangeable, impossible, ant
one. The latter is composite. change
able, passible and multiple. To as
sert that matter is eternal, is to as
sert that all these antagonistic at
tributes are Identical
| await with curious interest the
food of garish light which is to dispe
the stygian gloom and illume the
darkened recesses of my troubled
mind. "Senex.'