philology as well as all others, and the Bible is his sample and proof before man, by the original text.

The object in the 20th chapter is to shew the absurdity of an exchange in things which are exact equals, or their constant repeats on the law of the pure circle for the years. It would be worse than puerile, it must be a law of annihilation to just historic distinctions as of a ground in progress. Use and beauty go with variety in time-fitness by growth, therefore the motive force must preserve power to compel the elliptic circle, which is above the pure square for it, and yet work with it. If children play at shop-keeping they do not give sand for sand, or stones for stones, it is effort without refreshing. Novelty is a thirst justly innate in nature only to be measured by God-otherwise like the talent buried it is one received, and the same returned-no business being done by time. No moment, or motion, on means ever new and old, leaves anything in nature's sublime system of vitality without an equivalent for the time and force spent for improvement. Two branches or two leaves are never found, even on the same tree at one time, or in the same place in two years, exactly alike. All the elements being at work as of a chemically elliptic system under the rule of increased ratios of mass on one centre, all are, however diverse as organisms from animalcula to globes, worked on a law of expansion and increased refinement, or increased debasement by abuse in sin. Thus the Past is a just historic base for the Present, and yet the present is ever new on a birthright law of generations for improvement by the result of the opportunities of increase by time. A school as it should be. The geometer, mathematician, chemist, or engineer-yea, even the historian, must submit to the fact, that actual repetitions in any two moment's

measures on a centre must be dependent on accurate action on concentric rings of equal radii by the pure circle, where the final range must then be all of equal times and distances all through the year-but that an elliptical action based on the perpendicular rise from the centre by the rule of "more" with correct apsis returns shewing the elliptical rotation of properties still held to the final law of the pure circle in principle, for the body on itself, does, and must render two fac-similes anywhere impossible. Catch me again, if you can, say both the times, aspects, and means over forms in their conjunctions of ratio for the properties in either the same, or different places by time. The law "more" being, in right use, the means to the "better" for ever. Every materialist may find in the laugh of the fresh green, and the form of every bud of spring the whereabouts of nature's manna of supply, however well the old be worked in. The verb "to feed," cannot be separated from those of "to be," "to grow," and "to move." The action of a sudden loss of the weight on a clock, shews how correctly the leverage must be supported by corpuscular action in one line of flow, if any motion is to be ever forward; and the law, if gravitation be worth the study it has received, must be true for the earth on her diurnal motion, and the universe, otherwise the wave-line of beauty must assume for her a claim to Byron's famous apostrophe and illustration over Greece, toward death also.

The idea that one atom of ether of the upper heaven, or of light, is other than a molecule of some solidity, is simply to set on foot an effort to upset Newton's discovery of gravitation, as a law ruling over this earth herself much more as universal. is measuring God in his covenant power of atomic, fractional, necessary, instant refinement, by our powers

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of sight and touch, on which we depend. The animalcula which quarrel over what we cannot see or feel, and then eat the parts and reduce such parts to more refined atoms by digestion, are only means to shew us à path of fact as a light toward the idea of his infinity. Doubt his power to eternally subdivide atoms as halves in size and weight, and ever adding, then you doubt the existence of any being worthy the title "God" altogether. Creation has not led you to Him but you have allowed its wonders, so leading, to blind you sadly. You measure Him as the peasant does your own discoveries by the microscope, as not of the real but only the imaginary. Too wonderful to be believed.

Nature, too, here figures the moral destiny and means. There could be but one first Adam on one only earth; and but one Christ in covenant-gift to the race, as there could be no spiritual tautology in the testimony of God to Himself in things wrought out in time; so there was a known peculiar body of intelligent creatures, presenting a distinct line of covenant goodness as those who could be sealed to eternity by having never lost their first estate, the angels. Man's greater need brought out things deeper and new in grace, with the necessary connected truths of law unto simple obedience seen also over the angels. The geological, gradational, and successively improving fossil features teach, how truly this law of infinite variety (so that no fac-similes ever occur in eternity to confuse recognition, or a claim for relative positions around the great circle of final glory) pertains to wisdom. Yet there is room for generic unities. A father desires to see his own, and his wife's likeness in each child; twins we admire for their mutual likeness also, but perfect exactitude is never found, and would produce certain confusion, whether

of face or property. Rays of light meeting radiated ether, and in a vacuum, produce no colour; so water dropped into water of equal character could only produce motion or draft by pressure, and addition of mass. Colour is produced by chemical operations of light, as of pure white on matter in different states of darkness, or blackness, which last colour is the effect of powerful resistance in masses by density and chemical dissonance for conduction of the rays, so that the fullest evidence of resistance is seen in the colour attained. The resistance to light, like its moral antitype, becoming a marked thing, or according to the feature of action more dark. To obtain a vacuum is simply impossible to man, as the passing threads of light and ether will find their way by their own peculiar property, whereby all the force of circulation in the universe is made and secured, i.e. the burning or penetrating faculty to make pores, without which as the lightest of all gasses, they must have simply been drawn to the surface of the universe, and then have settled in one ocean of vapour like the luminous cold light of the final heaven at last. To test light on corpuscular grounds, the whole question is, does it act under the common laws of draft, so as to be governable in line, and so produce draft or motion on other bodies, as the idea that a non-corpuscular associate could fully displace heavy bodies without altering all nature's mutual relations of gravity is absurd, and simply upsets the law of gravity, or corpuscularity in them, as well as in the stream of all things in change itself. Thus the

Note. It appears by philosophers of the day to be forgotten that it is only for our eyes to be made as microscopic as those of some insects, and we should see the proportions of things the same, but size altered in each. Why? but because size is a mere instinct of the mind sustained by God, and might at his will be altered ad infinitum to us, as to himself, if wise.

beautiful law of the infinitely wise God is, that no atom of matter can exist without power of draft, i.e. proper covenant influence on the generic law of its association on its fellows; and for this time, place, character, and circumstances produce the certain requisite distinction for his peculiar consideration, love, and care, to order its place, path, and resources as of conscious personal concern for it. What beautiful laws leading to the enjoyment of the praise of God do philosophers lose, by hasty rejections of important truths, or half reading their lesson book in Nature and the Word. Order, procession, and distinct individuality with all their claims are written by "Law" for the least atom of light or ether. But the feature may be too indistinct for our observation on one aspect, and so we must find it by another. Weight, to cause motion and obey its laws is one over light, or it would not rule inertia, or shade out darkness. Who can tell, as a stranger, when two flocks of sheep meet, which will find the future leader? wait-let them pasture a day or two and the proofs will soon be seen. Who can tell the exact level of water by the eye over ground? turn it on and it will shew by motion. So of the corpuscular physical force of light-turn it on, and as a lever it moves all things. Power over the position of other atoms which have inertia, must, in inanimate nature, prove the possession of the common attribute, weight, or we may doubt the same evidence anywhere. Doubt

Note. All the recent testimony of Sir J. F. W. Herschell, Bart. in his papers on Light in Good Words, 1865, shew light by experiment submissive to the common law of mechanical government in the ratio of the square for the time circle and the cube with the square for its real elliptical action. To talk of its mechanical or vibratory accuracy to law on other ground is to beg a question unproved in physics as possible, unless it be admitted to be corpuscular, or having weight. So of its polarization,—Ruled by law common to weight.