JOURNAL 
THE 
SCIENCE. 
OF 
DECEMBER, 1885. 
1. the interbond of the seen and 
THE UNSEEN. 
Collated by the Author of “ Scientific Materialism." 
(Continued from page 643.) 
“ There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are 
dreamt of in your philosophy.” — Hamlet. 
Part II. — Nature’s Divine Revelations. 
S jHIS section of the work begins with the usual Fire- 
l mist “ In the! beginning the Univercoelum was one 
boundless, undefinable, and unimaginal ocean of 
Liquid Fire.* This was the original condition of matter: 
* Is it possible to explain the meaning of “ this boundless, undefinable, and 
unimaginable ocean of liquid fire ” as an imagined presentment, being in fa ft 
the effulgence of the primal intelligence ? This fine mist, matter, or heat in 
the subsequent text is explained, inasmuch as it is stated that motion, matter 
and heat are synonymous terms. This fire mist is held as a scientific hypo- 
thesis, but this does not make it more a fadt. Prof. Tyndall says “ Not alone 
the mechanism of the human body but that of the human mind itself— emo- 
tion, intellect, will, and all their phenomena — were once latent in a fiery 
cloud.” Porter (“ Science and Revelation ”) truly says “ Observation has 
never yet reached, or can reach, the development of a fiery cloud into emotion 
intellect, will, and phenomena of the human mind.” With all deference to' 
the originators of the nebulous theory, out of which this fiery development 
has arisen, I do not believe in its possibility ; it is beyond the bounds of all 
reasoning ; there is no proof of it ; induction and deduction are equally at 
fault. What evidence have we ? The plutonic rocks ! The compression of 
substances elicits heat, and so the piling of substance on substance is sufficient 
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