



& P. Latkrop onjSingle and Double Vision. 343 



The relations of things, as we have them, will remain the 

 same while he is pleased to continue the present constitution and 

 arrangement of things. Unalterable, then, these relations must 

 be; but, being the opposing of "his good pleasure," they cannot 

 be necessary ; for then, as already shown, they must be regarded 

 as interwoven with his own existence: i. e., existing as the ne- 

 cessary relations of his being, which is itself necessary.* 



To suppose these relations, or even the most abstract truths 

 respecting them, to be necessary, would be to make them not the 

 relations of things or beings, (or ultimately of the one self-ex- 

 istent being,) but existences or thing's themselves. If they ex- 

 isted necessarily and, of course, previous to a creation, where and 

 how did they exist; unless in the discernment and prescience of 

 the divine mind? The admission that they could exist only 

 there, will itself be the full admission of all that has been asserted. 

 Truth, beauty and goodness, then, are but the outflowings of his 

 adorable perfection — of his infinite excellence : and their u eter- 

 nal" laws are but transcripts of the same. Because of that per- 

 fection and excellence he is gloriously above all control; and the 

 origin and rule of all that is true and right, exists neither above 

 nor beside him, but is found in him. 

 In his self-existence, therefore, as it " was, and is, and is to 



come," is to be found the one, the absolutely necessary truth : 



all others are contingent, just so far as he has made them so. 

 Herein, is to be found, moreover, the great, the final hypothesis, 

 upon which rests the structure of the universe; and which, too, 

 undergirds and sustains that universe, in all its relations. 



Art. XXIX. — Results additional to those offered by Dr. Locke 

 from his Three Experiment s> " On Single and Double Vision 

 produced by viewing objects with both eyes;" by S. Pearl 

 Lathrop, M.D. 



Feeling an interest in the various branches of optics, I read 

 ^ith much pleasure, the article "On Single and Double Vision, 

 &c.," by Dr. John Locke, in the January number of this Journal. 

 Having acquired, as he says of himself, the power of voluntary 

 convergence of the optical axes to an extreme degree without the 

 a id of viewing near objects, I have verified the several experi- 

 ments mentioned by him. 



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