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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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