254 Liu vary and Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



Sir Richard Phillips continues to 

 assail the tbiiiulations oF the prevailing 

 doctrines of Causation, and is raising a 

 new system into notice, wliicli lie con- 

 siders more accordant with the majesty 

 and simplicity of nature, than the system 

 of gratuitous and miraculous causes 

 which has long been adopted. He lias 

 developed this system in a volume of 

 Twelve Essays, and recently and briefly 

 in Four Popular Dialogues between one 

 of its Disciples and an Oxford Tutor. 

 Of course, new doctrines on fundamen- 

 tal points have to encounter authorita- 

 tive and vulgar prejudices, both of pride 

 and cdncation. Their general adoption 

 can result only from a change in the 

 generation; an<l, usually, such result 

 lakes place only after two or three ge- 

 nerations. The extended influence of 

 the press ought, however, if the system 

 merit recognition, to accelerate its in- 

 fluence; and, with a view to its speedy 

 adoption, or total rejection, we submit 

 to our readers a brief analysis of its lead- 

 ing features. 



I. All material phenomena are eflTects 

 of Matter in Motion ; and there are no 

 special principles of causation, i«nch as 

 Attraction, Repidsion, Universal Gravita- 

 tion, Caloric, Light, Acidity, Vitality, &c. 



1'. The special causes of particular phe- 

 nomena are special motions of various 

 atoms and aggregates, which iu most 

 cases have been traced. 



3. All Force and Power is the product 

 of some matter and some motion conjoin- 

 ed : and, all phenomena being results of 

 some force or power, so all phenomena re- 

 sult from Matter in Motion. 



4. All Quahties are so many phenomena 

 of the relative antagonist powers of atoms 

 as agents and patients. 



5. All Electrical powers are results of 

 the correlative powers of separated atoms 

 in definite spaces. 



6. All Gas arises from atoms performing 

 circular orbits, greater or less, as the ori- 

 ginal excitement. 



7. All Heat arises from atoms, vrliicb 

 ■were iu motion, parting with their motion ; 

 the power ol'creaiing heat arises therefore 

 from atoms in motion. 



8. Animals derive their heat and energy 

 by fixing gas in the act of respiration. 



9. Gravitation, or the weight of bodies, 

 arises from the two-fold motions of a pla- 

 net, which motions produce the aggrega- 

 tion of its mass. It is, therefore, a local 

 effect in each planet. 



10. There being no Universal Gravita- 

 tion, tiietc is no occasion for planetary 

 Projectile Force. 



II. Alt space is filled with gas ; and, as 

 mouons tr^msniittcd through gases or fluids 

 diverge, or radiate, so all planetary bodies 



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in motion affect one another inversely as 

 the squares of tlieir distances. 



12. The Sun is the source at once of mo- 

 tion, light, and heat, in the solar system ; 

 and its motions transmitted through the 

 gazeous medumi filling space,afrect all the 

 planets inversely as the squares of their 

 distances, and as their quantities of 

 matter. 



13. Action and re-action are equal ; 

 consequently motion or power is never 

 lost, but is in a condition of coutiunal 

 transfer. 



li. The action and re-action of the 

 earth and moon have greater effect on the 

 solid prirts than on the moving fluids; con- 

 sequently, these rise towards the fidcrum, 

 or centre of action and re-action, which 

 is always in the risjht line that joins the 

 centres of the Earth and Moon, and 

 hence the connexion of the moon with 

 the Tides. 



15. Other phenomena of attraction, re- 

 pulsion, sffiaiXy, &c. are explained and il- 

 lustrated, by examining the circimistances 

 of gazeous action and re-action, in whidi 

 the affected bodies are placed. 



16. There are no Electrical, Galvanic, 

 and Magnetic, fluids ; but the whole of 

 these phenomena are accounted for, by 

 considering the correlative action and 

 re-action of different atoms specially ex- 

 cited and placed in certain relations to 

 other bodies. 



— Of course, from such general princi- 

 ples flow innumerable Corollaries rela- 

 tive to the special causes of particular 

 phenomena; but all these cases have 

 been fairly met, and a system of causa- 

 tion, as simple as universal, is attempted 

 to be established by Sir Ricliai d Phillips, 

 in accordance with our best views of 

 sublime and eternal Omniscience and 

 Omnipotence. 



The seventeenth edition is about to 

 be pablishcd of Patcrson's Roads of 

 England and Wales, and the Southern 

 Part of Scotland, by E. Mogg, in 

 octavo, with an entirely new set of maps. 



Poetical Vigils, by B. Barton, are 

 printing. 



iAIr. Hunter has in the press the 

 third edition of his Captivity among the 

 Indians of North America, from Child- 

 hood to the Age of Nineteen, with 

 anecdotes descriptive of their manners 

 and customs, and some account of the 

 soil, climate, and vegetable productions, 

 of the territory westward ef the Mis- 

 sissippi. 



Pro|)osals are circulated by Mr. Tay- 

 lor for publishing, in parts, a new and 

 improved edition of the scarce and 

 valuable work, by the late Sir William 

 Chambers, on the Decorative Part of 

 Civil Architeclure, with the original 



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