CATACLYSMS. 



But by all means it would not do to have the being re- 

 semble any other than the inquirer, who was the great- 

 est in sight, and in consequence he gave the great one 

 his own likeness. 



The style of reasoning giving to the sun and other 

 bodies in the heavens powers diametrically opposite to 

 the powers revealed on earth, is nothing more than the 

 last gasp of a dying supernatural, grasping at a straw 

 in the last struggle with the light of reason. It is the 

 remaining atom left in the brains of the scientists of 

 to-day, bred of centuries of superstition. While bring- 

 ing back their reasonings to earth in some things, they 

 still try and leave a little to conciliate the remaining 

 atom of generations of superstitious training remaining 

 within their brain formations. Tending to prove that 

 it is a hard task to get superstition out of the human 

 family when once it is instilled within the growing be- 

 ing. 



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