in light, while secret refined taste was beautifying, adding, expanding and diversifying all the measures of the interior developments, on one grand scheme for a unique cosmos of consistent generations. Positive faithfulness to natural covenant in law by benevolence.

The grasp of the idea, on the growth of size in space, was to eternally expand toward the omnipresence, and in refinement to proceed gravitationally toward the perfect refinement of God; but, as the finite cannot compete to equal the infinite, vanity was, as the apostle Paul and Solomon both declare, the result of this glorious desire to be like the Father. Yet the principles shewed desire for the spiritually full and pure, and thus became a means in the material of the body to shew the ground of the only way in such truth and life, to be by a foundation in birth for the whole, (through a man its created covenant head,) of a spiritual new birth under the essential word of God in the moral soul. In the expression"Nor the chief part of the dust of the earth," (marg.) we have an allusion which loses all its force, except as it applies to the law of constant growth, as one of the universe: i.e. that as opening chemical cohesive power requires greater measures of aid in pressure, to support the outward in effort, and a means of greater stability in the increase of the mass must be obtained in the centre, or collapse must ensue, as all experiment with solid matter under caloric proves, and this must be on a gradational ratio with all the other properties at work-hence, the endowment of light, with all these properties in exact equal proportions as of units, in ratio of all for units in mass, would secure this perfectness. In any constitution, dependent on vital circulating stability in the system, the extension or condensation of one property as a whole in the body, (as chemical bondage and refinement, for

instance, has been in this earth, which geology proves,) and the neglect of it in any one other case or property, would be to upset any law of order whatever. Mass must, therefore, as Solomon's words suggest, have been subject to immense increase since this earth begun her course. His words are verified by his opponents. Every engineer knows this need of greater confinement by mass of the plutonic heat for the formation of the more powerful engine, and of the greater mass of corpuscular atoms also for the body of the machine, as well as for the great refinements in many dependents, however true that the elastic superiority of chemical cohesion may by its own increase of property-power give some conservative advantage. If it did not on parts, of course it would be useless altogether, as a property to produce variations within the mass of parts on each other in rotation. Sir I. Newton not only is said to have had suspicions, and so suggested as a mere hypothesis, that light was corpuscular, but that there was a universal medium. In both he was correct, and being the discoverer of attraction as a general law, of course, we can easily see how his strong perceptive genius would observe the difficulty of nature getting on in other terms. Further than this he made no progress on these points, and so only presented most impossible and incongruous associations with the suggestion. His idea of the chemical power of light proceeded only to the effect on mundane minutiæ. As to the astronomic truth and value of its being the Centrifugal Force, by which globes are raised and whirled in space, so far from having any idea, he suggested another cause for their apsis returns, so that as to modern days, our own has been the first on the stage altogether, and the only one the least connected with practical demonstration from known experiment.

Doctor Tyndal's "Work on Heat" appeared two years after the first parts of this were circulated in a great variety of places at home, and had been sent to scientific associations in France and America. It fails where it is against us, but is entirely as we shall shew, all on our side in the experiments on fact.

Solomon however appears to have well perceived the fact, if not the scientific necessity for the increase of that mass in the universe, which Tyndal denies, whereby comets are constantly being more often discovered. The clouds without water of Jude's symbol for false prophets of even the higher region of the Christian spiritual era.

The translators did not accept Solomon's letter at first, simply because they could not, with their scientific views, comprehend its beauty or truth to fact, whereas, the connection of its being not made following with the allusion to the solid earth, or the upheaved "dry" of the third day-and its more perfected state, the soil-prepared fields all admitted facts of cosmogonical progress by the geologists, shew he meant this chief part of the earth was not at first made—but added later, and as mixed with the germ of such increase of the foregone, was created, or made, before being seen in the fields of soil, and after the earth's more crude foundations were extant realities. The expression "nor" being here used as we use nor even, i.e. conjunctive and anterior. Hill formations, as chief by position, were already referred to. Where is the pump force to be found (and the whole of the earth's system is of a pump reaching to the centre for its fulcrum) if gravitation be any law worth considering as general at all? Where is one by which you can eject any part of its attained mass to a greater convexity against the inward caving of

gravitation to death* or even maintain, against corrosion and corruptive wash reductions, the present height, except by an outer leverage force in the corpuscular, or gravitating mass, as solid in real weight, from a vertex law of power over the centre equal to the work by the column of the leverage and command of the greatest pressure? Is there no sound engineer among our astronomers? Can we separate the sciences? Blush ye savans, who would expel these ancient sages from your halls of scientific exposition and testimony, and at the same time expose each other's busts, and those of the drivellers of Greece and Rome, as your associate candidates for popular admiration.

Wealth, to be true in the covenant of this creation, must be real or solid, but for solid wealth as an increase of atoms of weight, to be useful, it must bring with it the new equal ratio of all the properties of correct circulation as of forces also. It is an absolute law of the true, whether in physical or moral attainments of money or knowledge. Incubus or mad riot follow the loss of such ratios. Among the curious refinements by apt illustration, Solomon has the following (PROV. 20th.)

"Divers weights and divers measures,

Both of them alike are abomination to the Lord."

The reader will remember, as confusion often arises from using terms in a loose manner, that the term convex is only used here as seen by the eye of God on his pronouncement of "all good" i.e. as the power of life in the rise-swell of the curve outwardly. It is not wise to make the human position a rule for the use of the term as descriptive of law and power in abstract physics. So confusing is a want of abstract correctness in terms, that the form left by a running stream on mud, or an extinct volcano will be called by the same term concave as the grand outward life-swell of the heavens, just because puny man looks into its hollow. Yet one is of death by inertia the other life by light.

But the improved rendering gives this

"A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord."

And the succeeding parallelism carries on, and so explains the idea, exhibiting its beauty when literally submitted to by translators.

"Even a child is known by his doings,

Whether his work be pure and whether it be right."

The impression of the first translators about honesty is settled beforehand in PROV. 11th, thus:

“A false balance is abomination to the Lord But a just weight his delight."

By these translators Solomon was made to repeat his parallel without variation of meaning-sheer tautology-an error never committed in the Bible. A return to any old truth is always connected with at least some new relation, and expression of some new feature of it, unless it be by several writers for verification of many witnesses. It would be a grand attainment in letters, if any other book was so compendius, and yet so rich and rare.

The human feature in the Bible, by the instrumentality of men, with peculiar views, feelings, and failures, is never allowed to vitiate this law of supreme perfection in the Teacher, when providing a book as his own by dictation, inspiration, and final adoption.

The poverty of aspect is therefore thrown back in the lap of the first translators. They were neither sufficiently up in natural physics, or of such strict simple faith to Solomon's inspiration to submit to his selection of terms. God is perfect in the science of