On this page
-
Text (3)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
when we find this very notion of the immateriality of matter distinctly adver ted to not many pages before ; " Jf it be asked , " says Dr . P ., " how upon this hypothesis matter differs from spirit , if there be nothing in matter that is properly solid or impenetrable ? I answer , that it no ways concerns me or true philosophy to maintain that there is any sueh difference between
them ds has been hitherto supposed . " * How the clause which Mr . Stewart has printed in capitals came to be omitted , I do not pretend to explain ; but it is obvious that after the above passage was inserted , there is no imaginable way in which Dr . Priestley's argument could be assisted by the omission . The awkwardness , and apparently contradictory form of the expression , may perhaps have been the inducement .
I have not introduced this as a subject of any peculiar interest or moment in itself , but simply as furnishing a curious specimen , on a small scale , of the spirit and temper in which , as it appears to me , controversy ought not to be conducted , A rule is violated , to which very few , if any , exceptions cart be admitted—that in controversial discussions we have nothing to da with the personal character or private motives of the disputants , but simply and solely with the quality of their arguments , and the extent to which they affect the question in debate . W . T .
Untitled Article
O without thee ; my Father I thee , What am I , or what should I be ? A child of grief , and doubt , and care—A lonely stranger wandering here , With nought but earthly love to cheer And nought but darkness o ' er to-morrow- — And none in sorrow ' s moments near To whom I might unveil my sorrow .
There was a day of joy and love , When all was bright around , above ; And then the days of grief and tears , As I bent down the vale of years , And soon came tumult ' s ministers , And hopes o'erwhelm'd and blessings riven : O ! who could bear earth ' s storms and fears Without some better friend in heaven ?
How sweetly from thy heavenly throne The Gospel-beams descended down , And o ' er time ' s vale of darkness threw New rays of light and glory too ! Then first the germ of greatness grew Within me—and my soul desiring Some bliss all-worth y to pursue Rose on the wings of faith aspiring .
f Disquisitions on Matter and Spirit , it . 16
Untitled Article
154 Lines from the German of Nwalts .
Untitled Article
FROM THE GERMAN OF NOVALIS .
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1828, page 154, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2558/page/10/
-