From the National Intelligencer I 
THE NEW TflEOfty OF THE E A UTIL I 
Messrs. Editors , 
Von will gratify an old subscriber, 
and a large number of your friends in 
this vicinity, by giving ihe following an 
insertion in your useful paper: 
In the Intelligencer of the 15th Sep- 
| tember I saw a piece, under the signature 
|ot Galileo, copied from the Lynchburgh 
stress, containing strictures on one of Dr. 
Mitch ill’s correspondents. It is not the j 
profundity, but the novelty of Galileo’s; 
style, that attracts notice. 
I expected, on seeing a piece headed 
“the New Theory,” to see some formida¬ 
ble objections arrayed against it; instead 
of which the writer, in the style of the 
15th century, cries out “atheists, heretics, 
and blasphemers.” Be it known to Gali¬ 
leo, that the new theory of hollow planets 
and open poles, is already embraced by 
hundreds of pious and learned men; that 
this cry of atheism will only raise a smile 
of contempt from men whose characters 
are established for learning and piety.— 
Surely Galileo must be convinced, by one 
moment’s reflection, that his method of 
treating the subject is beneath the digni¬ 
ty of a writer upon natural philosophy. 
1 wish to be understood; I do not enter 
the lists as a champion to defend the new 
theory, but I wish to see a candid and 
dispassionate discussion of the subject.— 
Galileo says, “the aurora borealis happens 
generally to be brightest in November 
and February, when the sun would not 
perhaps cast a single ray into the cavity. 
This hypothesis falls to the ground.” Is 
this writer so ignorant as not to know that 
the sun is far south of (he equator in No¬ 
vember and February; and that Captain 
Sy mines allows the opening at the South 
; pole to be 2000 miles in diameter? 
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