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xc On the whole th « retrospect of the Hrst year is both ^ feasfttg and encourag ing * Thte society may be regarded as gyet in its infancy . It is desirable that «*^ l fthe members « hmild rhake a pomt of attending the meetings of the society < £ & ;« frequently as possible ^ and tha t c ? ch member should ^ exe rt himse lf to
Jwing forward all die information he « an on t&e subjects prapeaed for discusike . ¦ ¦ ; ¦ -. - ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ; ^ ^ The small beginnings dF this aaciet ^ r ought by no means to discourage , let them rather stimulate to greater and more unwearied exertion * . This
so-«*< st ; y may in time obtain an honourable rank among those scientific and learned bodies -who have -excited the tiotiee of Biankind , ai $ d promoted the cause of cience and philosophy in the world . T&e rising generation ) in this neighbourhood ,, may , at some future period , * 9 Jf en we are laid jn the dust ^ fondly of
cherish tfee ^ memory those persons , who , under such great disadvantages , first instituted an d promoted diis scientific Society . JLet us be anxious to Jive for posterity , and deem it an honour to rank , in however humble a degree , among the friends and promoters of science and philosophy . **
rOREIGN , fir . Call , the celebrated author of the System of Craniology , the continental journals mention , has found it necessary to make an apology at Stutg ^ rd , where on opening his course of lectures he declared , " That not to scandalize tbe-mak * he ci > uld assure them ** that
hh theory neither leads to materialism , defrays the ireedom of the will , nor excuses criaun&fc . " A German Journal , under the . head of ?* Literary Curiosities , " mentions a scarce work , printed in 177 a , ; at Rooie ^ hy the Marquis JMTosco JB&rri , in fefee form © f a letter , in which he :
demonstrates the truth of Christianity , up < m mathematical principles . In a dream he repreeenls himself in the ' . pReseacftof tw <* ainates composed *> f ito&-taj ^ iy sical p ^ TBonageSi On one side , the immortality of the soul , the freedtonv ttf the £ wUU j a » idali the oiysfceries of reliw in
gi < W * sw ^ C * e jdrawn up tettle aftrsay . Ooj d ^ e ^ i > thjcr side , the ; niathemad cal points presented themselves in the vario «« i li « efir arcttfs y gquares , 3 cg . ^ -iSeow TH « j .: batlJe ^ , » a « may he supposed ^ was dre ^ 46 ilv > howeiro ^ rauch tor the < iofnA ) rt of tint goocb people of Rome , My « tcry
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at kaigth prevailed ^ r&r J $ fo- . f Ujfqem t and the mathematical army ^^ f ^^ L routed / and at length made prisoners S "
war . , . - vv a v&tetti& ^ $ i * mk , bt ; % & : l ^ if of Macho , is « ai 4 to have lately iyeen traced as the author of a chart which made its appearance upon iite continent 350 years ago . ffim $ ® jf& . *§ said to be still in existenige , and that li
it th £ Gape oi Good Hope is distinctly " marked ; that the remarks written ia the "Venetian dialect of that dav ± ' w %% vessel -visited that extremity of Africa in 1420 . The compass is several times
named , / and the sflux and xe&rx xrf i ^ p jsea is formally ascribed to . the attractive virtue cf the sun and moon . But jt is ttybe lamented that ± hie foreign jpwnaiist , in announcing this chart , does-nat inform us where it fe to he seen ? '" *' - The Fremch have added aaii :
Official Ahnanack' * to the rest oT zhei official publications . The late Par $ s jarpers announce that ** rAlnianack Imp «* rial / ' is the only one which contains official dojomients ; and further , that none of tfhe -rest have any sufficient warrant for trair accuracy .
A Work under the tttle of dLaJtik . publique des Chomps Stymies eu JfrZondc j 4 ncitn > has latsely toeen announced at Paris , which for its curious speculation , as to ancient fiistory , has scarcely been cqtBallttd since the days of Father Hardon in . , The author , the ilate M . dc Grave , a member of the Council of the Ancients , undertakes to prove ,
: I . That the Elysian fields andr the HeU of the Pagans , sire ^ the ^ iia mes cif an ancient : republic of just and xel ^ giou » men , situated at the n ^ r ^ hern ejc trcmity of ancient Gaul , andvparticulairly among ! the islands of dierRhine . , ' " tf I . That this ihell < was the -first : sane-. tuary of . initiatiaii into : the mysteries . _ HI . iFhat the goddess Circe is the « mbLem : bf the © ytfen ^ Church . "
IV . That Eiysiumjwas the cradle aqtf arts and sciences ,. and Mytholdgy * V . Tiiat the inhabitants of cElysium also xalldd At ^ laniatia , Hyperboreana , Cimrnerians , t&c * civilized - all the wa ? - cicnt ; nations , < not excepting the J&gyp * tians arodthe Gj « eks .
VI . Trhat the fabulous . deities are njo ^ thingtnxore than the ctttblaoasi of xlyz s& -cial institutions of Ely shim . , _ VII , Thkt the v ^ isibk heavens are > feh » picture of the institutions and philcisa ^) iiy u 6 f ike Elys&us , tfiypekrb&rams ., Qtcm
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tt > 4 . Polttico-RttigiQUi Ittfi&ligtnct < s - ' ¦ "¦ " ¦ v v" ' ¦ ¦ ¦
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 164, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/52/
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