There was more true philosophy in this than many exclamations which pass for thought. The natural identification in the lung-sound, when in action, by gasp and exhaustion, smote on her ear, as the engine strove at its labour, breathing in its cold, and expiring its volume of hot air as dry steam, according to the resistance of the luggage.

Solomon expresses himself in the same simple manner of the inaudible beating and breathing in the sun's great heart and lung-throes, as he sweeps along his gigantic circle, that typical almighty orbit, carrying with him his train of planetary cars for reserves in reactionary forces of strain and supply with the earth, her goods and passenger system of many wheels, and first, second, and third-class free and slave compartments, with all her new and old coaling, condensing and sufficient bowel-fuel resources; all supplied before man, the imitator, dreamt of such machines as locomotives, flying globes, or balloons, filled with light.

The margin gives as the literal rendering "The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down and panteth to his place where he arose.' His own motion is thus united with popular appearance. The throbs of the human heart in its daily labour, and pursuit after knowledge and wisdom, are thus beautifully illustrated by the laws in the heart and pulse system of all nature, in its order for the glory of its Creator. How simple, yet how sublime! The heart of Jesus, "the Word," throbbing for his church and bearing her, typified. Would it not be impossible to suppose any great writer using such a phrase, if he had not the idea it was scientifically correct? Why did the first translators give a different version to the text, until we get it corrected by men, who humbly suppose, that God the Spirit is equal to literary correctness for the end in view, however minute? The first

translators could not affiliate the term at all with their knowledge in science and so rejected it. The last adopted it in childlike faith, but the same ignorance. In another passage, this thorough acquaintance Solomon had with the first order of development scientific nature required in her generations, is more fully presented as the path of wisdom:

The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way—
Before his works of old.

I was anointed from everlasting,

From the beginning, or ever the earth was.
When there were no depths, I was brought forth;
When no fountains abounded with water.

Before the mountains were settled,

Before the hills was I brought forth.

While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the chief part of the dust of the world. (Marg.) When he prepared the heaven, I was there;

When he set a circle upon the face of the deep. (Marg.)
When he established the clouds above;

When he strengthened the fountains of the deep,*
When he gave to the sea his decree-

That the waters should not pass his commandment.
When he appointed the foundations of the earth,
Then I was by him as one brought up;

And I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
Rejoicing in the habitable parts of the earth,

And my delights were with the sons of men!--PROV. viii.

* How could they be strengthened by natural law except by more matter to the whole substance of the body, so as to produce, both more weight, and means for more chemical coherence in parts thereof? To be elongated otherwise was to weaken. One writer has imagined altogether another order of natural law for the earth, before sin came in, because the earth's centre, if full of fire, must be a hell, and is so named as Hades. Might a great fire not be all good and ordained also for a Hades when wanted? The first Tophet of judgment? Is the force of heat necessarily no blessing or use for good?

In this passage we again see the superior view Solomon had of nature, and her refreshing resources of renewal for expansion and refinement, from that of those ancients who represented their views (sympathized with by modern materialists in principle) respecting the circle of changes, by those types of vain labour and agony-Ixion at his wheel--and the vulture-torn beast whose vitals grew, while birds of the air incessantly feasted thereon. Nothing new; nothing fresh; no growth; but all monotonous agony for change. The correction in the translation again shews us the old editors falling into mistake by want of a purer faith in the grace of submission to the literal dictation of that spirit the passage is honouring, as perfect wisdom. The dictation of even the least atom in creation. How much more needed for revelation? How sweet too and different on that truth, all experiment affirms, the need for eternal supplies of new matter from God to complete what the constant exhaustion by universal pressure on bowel-caloric * for yawns as an increase to the old dry dust of the elements of solidity and flow. No power of return exists for the radiating forces of life, except as they are swept in by the vortex energies of the new stream of sweetening. In the whole passage the universe is presented to us as springing from the will of One, with whom creative

* A curious illustration of revivifying by chemical associations is described in a clever paper of the Oct. No. -1863 of the Technologist by N. P. Burgh, C.E It is in reference to the manufactory of bones. Bone black is used to refine sugar, and the same ash can be used over and over again by the aid of a cheap boiling solution of sulphate of lime. Light has this power as the alkali of all inert physics and by boiling also, but the experiment requires the new enforcement from the experimenter in each case. Exterior leverage by new corpuscular supply at last required.

power is eternal. And here this spirit of regenerative renewal is represented like all doctrinal systems of the apocalyptic vision, whether about the true or false, i.e. by a female personification, which is never the case for the Trinity or the One Word who rules her path. By her the Elohim (us) of the whole in Eden, develops beauty and bands. Light and darkness. Gravitation and the convex curl of finish by flowing caloric or its agents-lovely contrasts of rock and glen. She speaks as being eternal with God and yet as the Spirit Aspect and true on, the queen over all the processions of time, which geology, phrenology, and all the sister abstruse sciences can only depict as perfection in all her works. Wisdom as seen in natural science is from God. Solomon makes this wisdom spring up as in spirit of time from the womb of eternity. Born as to action in creation, but eternal in essence in God. Full of all glory and sublimity. Silver light scintillating in the sunshine of truth, sparkles on her wings, and is rich with diamond showers of all crystal gems; empurpled as the amethyst, burning as the ruby, irradiscent as the opal, and loaded with the overlaying of gold like the ark of the Jewish tabernacle, while all the angels of light look down and sympathise with cherubic intensity on her sublime works and final covenant results, for God feeds her system with light

SO

Wisdom hath builded her house-Creation

She hath hewn out her seven pillars-Law and prophecy fulfilled in perfection

She hath killed her killing. (Marg.)- Redemption by free grace, in blood

She hath mingled her wine.-The descent of the Spirit with perfect peace then and for ever

She hath also furnished her table.-New creation glory.

Her greatest work was Jesus, the slain one, in

whom the seven pillars were made complete; for He was the work of the seventh day of creation. The attainment of the moral kingdom of heaven in man over all. She traces her creation aspects by cycles of ages, and recounts by their vastness her satisfactions, as the work of her God, who she delighted by labour to honour as He used her for these successive mundane labours and astronomic expansions, in Christ.

In her sketch, she pursues the order of truth and time. The earth unformed. No just contrasts of height or depth. No fountains of water at first existing. Then they flow. Mountains appear-hill, vale, and field. Then the bells of the fourth day strike out joyfully, and the astral system of the plural heavens shine forth into being, while the strong gushes of light requisite, fill the azure heaven with raised clouds of glory instead of paler beauty; and all through these grand processions of creative increase to matter, wisdom, such as has been crushing the powers of the human brain to conceive and unravel, pondering over it in atomic manipulations of chemistry, or as the observations by the telescope present, was calmly pursuing the path with omnipotent ease, for all was the work of an Almighty Creator, the Father of all conception, and developed pure design by simplicity in this grace. Love in Him, meanwhile, being seated as a property in matter, not to mock the mouth of the whole creation, which had the general craving of a body ever inclined to sink in the chest to death, by the property of corpuscular attraction, but to feed its so generated hunger and vast outward passion en masse, and satisfy the most refined atoms by a milky material, suited in a power to compound for each part all demanded for the awakened sense of desire and need. Here ambition for the infinite in expansion in space was energized by the constantly added swell