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time and a bouleversement of the original creation intervened between the 
creation of heaven and earth declared in verse 1, and the state of the earth 
described in verse 2. Which interpretation, then, ought to be adopted ? I 
ave no hesitation in saying that, for the reasons I have given above, the 
older interpretation is to be preferred. 
I think I have sufficiently taken account of Mr. McCaul’s criticisms relative 
to the translation of ™D/xa Qeov by what I have already said on this point. 
With respect to the translation of Ka\oi>, the instances adduced by Mr. McCaul 
prove that the same latitude of application prevails in the use of this word in 
Greek as in the use of “good” in English. Both words are applied in 
very various ways with reference to what is excellent in quality or quantity. 
We speak for instance, at Cambridge of “a good man,” meaning a clever 
man; he familiar expression, “a good deal,” means a large quantity, and 
property is called “ goods.” The different applications seem to be all referable 
to the idea ot excellence commonly attached to beauty and goodness. But in 
ren i., where the word KaUv is applied to all created objects of the heavens 
and the earth when first created, it cannot have any such secondary meaning, 
u must be taken in its proper sense, which is, “ beautiful.” Accordingly in 
Gen. u. 1, the beauty and order of the whole creation is named 6 K «Wo C 
Havnig referred to the passage in the Second Book of Maccabees (xii. 35) 
cited by Mr. McCaul I find that it is an instance of the well-known usage of a 
verb in passive form having a middle signification: lnen x 9i» to, avrf, “bein- 
borne against him of his own will and act,” that is, “ attacking him ” This 
eM " B t0 the verb a passiTC sense i>VuJ 
There are three reasons why I think that the Chairman, Mr. Brooke should 
aie abstained from applying the word “ imagination ” to the hypotheses which 
I make the foundation of my physical researches. First, they have due re 
gaid to the antecedents of physical science, neither theorist nor experimental 
physicist haying been able to dispense with the conceptions of an ether and 
of atoms, which Newton himself admitted into his philosophy, although he 
said, hypotheses non Jingo. This dictum, of which the emphatic word iM 
means that Newton disclaimed having made the hypotheses which h/mo 
nounced to be “the foundation of all philosophy” . v £ P 
abstractedly true and necessarv SpeondW l e ga*ding them as 
as arc perfectly infelLTu T SeCO “ dl ^ ou1 ^ sucb hypotheses are admitted 
‘o wh,t is m :xr“ nat S srx lbcm ,; u 
of being tested by comparison of results,^ derived from ihL ® 
with experimental facts, inasmuch as the v sat. - r ti .* )y ca ^ cu l fttl0 «, 
foundations of mathematical reasoning 7 s / IlC C0 “ dltl011 of bein S Proper 
, ,, T , masoning. buch being the character nf ti in 
hypotheses, I am under uo necessity to giro attention 'to any mere expression 
of oprrnon as to there quality, and am only re ,„ ire d to conduct, as I best eln“ 
