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beg leave to state , that , notwithstanding the highly promising aspect which things now bear , I can by no means contemplate the success of our exertions as being certain . In a populous
manufacturing district , novelty is sure to attract attention ; and , to nine-tenths of the potters , Unitarianism is , I imagine , an entire novelty . Should we hereafter deem it necessary to build at Hanley , I doubt not iti the least
that we shall meet with all that patronage from the public which our circumstances may then require . Before a stone 4 s laid , we shall be careful to ascertain , as nearly as possible , what sum it will demand to complete the edifice without leaving a debt upon it : we shall then raise what we can
upon the spot ; and , lastly , appeal to the bounty of others . Our friend who has so generously offered to give a sufficient quantity of land for the purpose , is willing to vest the same in
the hands of trustees , without farther delay , provided a clause be inserted in the deed securing it to himself or his heirs in case it should not be applied to the specific purpose for which he intends it in a given time .
THOMAS COOPER . P . S . I embrace this opportunity of informing your Correspondent Q ., ( p . 665 9 ) that I shall be happy to comply with his request in the early numbers of your next Volume , should you feel inclined to allow me to connect with
my statements , facts respecting the civil as well as the religious condition of the Negroes . * At the same time , I pledge myself to advance nothing , the truth of which I cannot substantiate on satisfactory evidence . I shall communicate facts rather than opinions .
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the plain meaning of a * plain writer : I may , however , be allowed to express some surprise both at the nature and the tone of the objections alleged . Though I am tolerably familiar with the Hebrew Scriptures , and have read
the first chapter of Genesis perhaps fift v the hrst chapter 01 uenesis perhaps fifty times in the original language , never did I dream of drawing an argument from a single insulated word . But then I am no cabbalist , to find mysteries in Hebrew roots . When the writer tells us that
God said , Let there be a firmament , and there was a firmament , whether the word used was Hebrew , Greek , Latin , or English , the connexion clearly proves that the meaning was the celestial hemisphere . And when he further adds , that God made a firmament in
the midst of the waters , and thus divided th ^ waters under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament ; it is plain enough to a reader who has no hypothesis to support , that in the author ' s idea the firmament possessed solidity sufficient
to sustain the weight of half the waters : which interpretation is confirmed by the account which the same writer gives of the immense fall of rain which produced the deluge . Gen . vii . 11 . The windows , or , as it is in the margin , the flood-gates , of heaven
were opened , and the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights . Add to this , that the solidity of the celestial arch is the universal philosophy of ignorance , and was , no doubt , the philosophy of the age in which the historian lived : as it is unquestionably that of three-fourths of the inhabitants
of this enlightened coui ) try in these enlightened times . The Hebrew cosmogonist relates , that God said , Let there be light , and there was light . And God called the li g ht , day , and the darkness he called , night . Thus it appears that , according to this writer , day-light was created before the sun . —The author ' s
meaning is plain . Of the credibility of the fact let every one judge . As different persons see the same object in different lights , I will take the liberty of closing this communication with a brief extract from a letter
from a friend , whose name , if I were at liberty to mention , would weigh down a host of common-place objectors " : I beg of you to accept my best
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712 Mr , Belsham ' s Illustration of his Sermon upon the Creation .
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——^ ^^^¦¦^^^* - Essex-House , Sir , December ^ , 1821 . AM not at all surprised that inge-I nious men , who have amused themselves with curious speculations to
reconcile the cosmogony in the book of Genesis with the Newtonian Theory of the Universe , should be dissatisfied with my humble attempt to support * We request an early transmission of Mr . Cooper ' s statements , Ed .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1821, page 712, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2507/page/16/
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