THE OBIGIN OF CREATION, 



CHAPTER L 



MATTER. 



Prof. Grove on Matter. Locke. Bishop Berkeley. Two classes of 

 Atoms. Male and Female Atoms. Matter on Earth. Prof. 

 Tyndall on Matter. Prof. A. Norton on one kind of Force. Law 

 of repulsion. Vestiges of Creation on Matter. Fraser's Magazine 

 on Matter.- Analogy between language and two classes of Atoms. 



PROP. GROVE says : " Probably man will never know the 

 ultimate structure of Matter, or the minutiae of molecular 

 action ; indeed it is scarcely conceivable that the mind of man 

 can ever attain to this knowledge." Locke also affirms that we 

 know nothing of substance of any kind. Bishop Berkeley also 

 said to the Materialists : " You tell me that all the phenomena 

 of nature are resolvable into matter and its affections. I 

 assent to your statement, and now I put you the further 

 question, What is Matter 1" This was a puzzler for them ; but, 

 with all due deference to such high authorities, we profess to 

 have discovered not only what matter is composed of, but its 

 properties and law as well The consequence of this has been 

 the discovery of other natural laws, or variations of the one 

 law, which lead to a new system of Science altogether, that can 



