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of God > the Father , and the proper Humanity of Jesus CKfisfj and the utility * in this view ^ of the Society he is . addressings He speaks with affectioii&te regret of many of the early friends and original supporters of the Society who either now are , of soon will be , laid aside from ftirther service , and commends , in an animated address ^ the cause of truth to the rising generation of Unitarians ;
There are , in the course of the s £ riiion , some free strictures upon Avianism , which have > we learn , excited considerable attention . We heartily wish they may call forth before the public some advocate of a system , which appears to be fast losing orpound , between Trinitarianism on the one side , and
Unitarianism ( what else can we call it now that Sosinidnism , name and thing , is exploded ?) on the others Within the :-limits of our observation , the greater part of the young persons v * ho have been accustomed to the Arian hypothesis deviate into one or other of these extremes . May not this be owing to the negligence and apparent reluctance of its friends in supporting . it >
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form , rib general and exact conclusion is found . To draw such a conclusion , the aid of modern chymistry was requisite , and it effected the purpose by the following rules : " There is no phlogiston ; pure
air is a simple substance ; phlogisticated air , and inflammable air are other simple substances ; combustion is merely a combination of pure air with bodies / ' Like the sublime expression ^ recorded inNGenesis , these few "words have diffused
universal light ; chaos is changed into order , every thing assumes its proper place , and the whole forms the most magnificent spectacle . But this chymistry was like the heathen gods : out of nothing it could create nothing ; it required matter as the subject of its command , and that matter Priestley was the chief mean of supplying .
Ifi this respect , then , he may justly be regarded as one of the fathers of modern chymistry , and he participates in the glory of the authors of that celebrated revolution in science . But he was a father who would never acknowledge bfe chad *
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& 28 k Eulogy on Dr . Priedteif .
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We must not , however , believe that Priestley was aware of all his own disco verres , nor that he would haTe beefl able to exhibit them in his book so clearly as we distinguish them , an <^ as we should exhibit them atthe present day . At the time he made those discoveries , he was acquainted with no chymical
theory but that of Stahl ; a theory formed from experiments in which the airs were of no account , and therefore incapable of comprising , still more © f foreseeing , all their phenomena . Hence we find scfine hesitation in his principles , some confusedness and uncertainty in
his results : seeking phlogiston in every things he is obliged to suppose it differently constituted in the fixed air which is so heavy and acid , the inflammable air which is so Hght 7 and the phlogisticated air which has no quality in common with the other two sorts of air . There
are cases in which rhe vreight of the combination is diminished by an accumulation of phlogiston : phlogiston then FomeiLmes communicates absolute lightness to any mixture of which it forms a part : on other occasions , a contrary effect is produced ; nothing appears uni-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 328, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/48/
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