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restrained, reserved, or stored up,
until again set free. A few illu s
tratio n s m ay help to m ake th is
plain. When the w< ig h t of a pile-
driver is at its highest point, it
represents the motion of the horses,
or engine, while it was being rais- / I .
ed, and the m achinery used, and
the slow motion of the ascending
weight (m inus w hat is converted
by friction into heat, and lost in
other w ays).
Now suppose the
weight is secured and all motion
stops.
It m ay rem ain thus for
m inutes, or years, but the m otion
is only held back for the time.
Loosen th e weight, an d down it
comes. The descending motion of
the weight, and of the pile, with
the motion of the earth and air,
and the heat developed by the con
cussion, will he just equal to the
former motion.
For the Torch of Reason.
So the motion we call heat, de
Easy L essons in P h ilosophy.
veloped by sunshine, has been
stored up in vegetation, buried in
by C H A R LES CLA RK M IL L A R D .
the earth and changed into coal.
T hecoal, like the suspended weight,
A 11 the universe which is known is restrained motion waiting to be
to us is filled with different kinds set free. We gain nothing by call
of m atter. In n atu re there is no ing it force, or supposing a cause.
empty space, and no universal, or We can know things and their
unconditioned, m atter.
Rocks, properties and relations; we can
earth, w ater, air, grasses, etc., have com pare and classify, and deter-
the general properties of m atter; m ine th a t it is the n atu re of th in g s i
but each of them has special prop to he as they are and to act as they
erties which distinguish it from all do act, and t h e r e w e r e a c h th e lim
other kinds of m atter. There is no its of hum an knowledge.
These lessons are really lessons
thing in the universe, dense or rare,
great or sm all, th a t answ ers to the in science; for when from philoso
name m atter as defined in the text phy we elim itate the unknow n
books. To move and to persist in q u a n tity and discard the fanciful,
motion is a general property be the rem ainder is science. Lesson
longing to all objects and all kinds two will trea t of the division of
things into m ineral, vegetable and
of m atter.
Philosophers have ta u g h t th a t an im al; lesson three of “cell life” ,
m atter is dead, inert and lifeless and succeeding lessons will be de
until it is associated with force, and voted to m aking the “ New Psychol
force is defined as “ a push, or a ogy” so plain th a t a w ayfaring man
pull,” or “ the supposed cause of can understand.
th ev have used it to pull people n-
to their spider-webs, to plunder an d
devour them at th eir leisure. W hy
should we wait for evidence of this
superstition, and deny the existence
of heaven and hell.
Denial of the
. xi-tenceof heaven and hell m ust
¡ ebased on the lack of evidence,
the utter incom petency of all proofs
offered; and to be consistent we
must extend the same line of rea
soning to the dogma of the soul and
im mortality. Is there any reason
able hope of getting evidence of the
one sooner th an of the other ?
We all êither believe or disbelieve
this “old ch estn u t” of im m o rtality .
Then why not say what we believe,
brother editors, and then “ wait lor
evidence”, as we do with other su
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