Our New World.
Awakener (the Excubator) of this or outside surface of
new Era, we sha.l find it to he ad- world.’-_Consequen,er
[Continued from 3d page.]
m.tted its
and M o proven
nmndi.
cross was smashed upon his face by itiator
in h ^ Q that
? ^ 1 its
US in- tima superficies
suPerficies mundi.
the hands of its defeated holder, same Giordano Rg &T' *** ¡hlS ‘ ‘<indist,nguishable
for it is said that no word or cry ny oth r X n
This"“’' 6,
not even of pain, escaped him! rnav b 're a d v in J f i ^ C° nC]U8’° n rwwld f™>. ‘b»‘ which
or to the
non es, u. world’s soul, and that the world
was eternal,—clearly indicate that
the “Innumerabilibus,” of which
is the space that was the Index, really caused
lhe
it embraces his death. But these were given
as the results of the “laudable sense
There he hung in blood and agony firmed bv his Tnde f P ** • ^°0"
contaln8J ”— Indifferens esse and meaning of Nicolas Coperni­
until, let us hope, life soon ceased io a p ± , S b v , i o „ h ' T , " T 8paCiUm eXtra h° nC muudum “b 60
cus.’ The other charges against
minister
to
“the
religion
of
Love!”
h*
8
~
a
.Plectitur
ipsum.
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v
v
u
x
p
n
jm
u
r
ipsum
.
minister to “the religion of Love!”
“ a great, W°rk’ 8’ 10 “That the Aristotelians him were results of this,or compar­
His ashes were scattered to the tor* w hich’ h
atively trivial, and for which it is
kJ.
«Th
.
""'8
C
°nd8mned-
I,R
are
‘he
track
(esorbitare,
in
the
winds, and it was supposed that
tuie, The Innumerable Worlds,” notion of a limited world and vac- not improbable, but that he would
the cross, then as ever, the instru­ was
_____
• .
have escaped death,—if need be,by
was maiio
made the first charge
against
uum
space
outside
of
it.”
ment of torture, had won another him, as above stated, because it
recantation. “The Church,” as
11 The plurality and infinity usual, ha3 tried to deny the fact
victim and victory. Said the curi­ covered the main grounds of his
ous observer and recorder, Sciop “erroneous teachings.” By this as even of the number of other worlds, that he was executed at all; then
pius, exultantly: ' ‘This is the way a ma;n Pknro* n
. ls as confirms instead of taking away the
: ’
J
y am ain charge the particular items value or perfection of this world.” that he was executed for the scien­
in Rome we are accustomed to of New Astronomy,which his judges
tific and philosophical consequences
[Thus
Bruno
never
lost
hope
in
this
proceed against impious men and may have known or suspected to
above stated. But the letters of
world.]—Perfectionem
hujus
raun-
monsters of this kind.” “Hicitaque be true, were craftily avoided. A
eye-witnesses show when and how
di
non
tollere;
confirmare
plurali-
modus in Roma est, quo con­ disinclination to be committed on
he was executed, and the charges,
tatem
et
infinitatem
numeri
alio-
tra homines impios et monstra such items may well account for
records and works of Bruno, and
rum.
hujusmodi procedi a nobis solet.” some of the delay in disposing of
especially the above Index, show
Cap.
2,9
“In
infinite
space
there
plainly what for. The attempts to
Oh, Religion, what crimes are the case for seven years. Finally,
are
all
things
finitely
in
motion;
deny the fact, and the grounds of
committed in thy name! Chris­ “The Innumerable Worlds” was
the
suns
are
numberless,
that
is
the
this “Act of Faith”,have only deep­
tianity had its victim! But was it made the first charge. In 1889,
fixed
stars,
and
the
earths,
that
is
a victory? The Progress of man­ when the Liberals of Italy, of
ened the obloquy which has over­
the
planets;
and
the
number
of
the
whelmed all connected with it.
kind—the new Era—answers, No! America and the world erected his
planets
around
our
sun
is
not
yet
The Printing Press had even then Bronze .Monument over the very
W e are now in the position to
found
out,
nor
are
those
visible
ask why did the Church and Chris­
become a power beyond the reach place of his Martyrdom, his Latin
around
other
suns.”—.
In
infinito
tianity find it necessary to offer up
of the Pope or Holy Office. Some works were published by public
spacio
infinita
esse
finite
mobilia:
this sacrifice of Bruno to their God
of Bruno’s books escaped the fire. authority, and here they are. Let
Infinitos
esse
soles,
id
est
fixas
stel
x
.
,
.
.
,
civiVDj
col
UÀdo
BICI
and Faith? In other words, what
His death increased the desire to
th e
d
r k “ t IndeX a t | ' a8’ et tenures, id e8t • planetas, 1 e
did this Copernican Astronomy,
read them. In 1608 the Hollander, the end of the “Innumerahil-
„________ planetarum
,
’
“Innumerabil- non esse compertum
thus re-asserted by Bruno, and its
Lippershey,theocculist, had by acci ibus,” for light,and what do we find?
numerum
circa
hunc
solem,
neque
inevitable consequences mean to his
dent stumbled upon the secret of the A clear assertion and explanation
spectabilem circa alios.
generation and to ours?
microscope. In 1610, Galileo had of the Copernican or helio-oentric
Cap. 3,3. “ I he Earth is not more
made one of his own. Then appeared Astronomy, and what is more as
The Answer is that it meant a
in the centre than any planet o
the phases of Venus, the moons of tonishing,the first clear statement
any of the other solar systems.— N ew \Y orld , a N ew E nvironment
Jupiter, and the causes of the of the inevitable consequences,which
Telurem non plus esse in medio, and a N ew E ra for the advanced
eclipses; then the Astronomy of Co­ utterly annihilate Christianity and
quam quem-cumque ex aliis mun- peoples of the human race, and,
pernicus and Bruno could only be all of its theologies! We give a dum.
finally, for all. This change was
doubted or denied by willful or translation, and then Bruno’s orig­
9 “The praiseworthy sense (ob­ the most complete and important
compelled ignorance. Galileo be­ inal text:
servation, discovery) and meaning that ever overtook mankind, and
gan to make known these truths
1 “Concerning the gift of the of Nicolas Copernicus is confirmed they weré then, and have ever
only as scientific facts. He was gods.”—Dedivum munere [that is,
since remained, half-dazed by its
(brought forward).’’-Adducitur sen-
soon in the hands of the Inquisi­ The powers of Nature].
consequences, and unable to meet
sus et sententia laudabilis Nicolai
tion, and his silence compelled.
them. As has been well pointed
2 “The habit of believing [faith, Copern ici.
In 1632 he had printed a Dia­ credulity] is the chief, impediment
out by Prof. Lester F. Ward, in the
Cap. 6:9. “Nature and God con­
Introduction to his Dynamic Soci*
logue, in which the New Astronomy in the way of knowledge.”—Consu-
cur, are one,in all things.”—Natur-
ol°gy, it exactly reversed every im­
had the better of the argument, be­ etu dinem credendi impedimentum
am et Deum concordare in omni­
portant existing belief of man in
cause the facts were stated. Again maximum cognitionis.
bus.
science, philo&uphy and religion,
he was silenced by imprisonment.
3 “T here are no H eavens [ Firm­
Cap. 3:10. “The Divine light and
Recantation, probably forced by tor­ aments,sky-ceilingsj, only one aeth. the Sensible light are one (equiv­ and therefore of hope, God, heaven,
ture, ended in loss of freedom for erial space is around all stars, as alent and yet equivocal) in princi­ immortality, morals and practical
the rest of his life and burial in un- around the Earth miiu
and UUll,
Sun. niou
Also ple [pantheistically], but do not life. Had our whole race been sud­
denly removed to the Planet Mars,
consecrated ground. But on the t here are two kinds [genera] j of stars , fill -,
space dimentionally.—Divinam
—
-
. IZlVIIlitllJ it is very doubtful whether the
day of his death, December 25,
» u n s a n d E a r th s .”— C oe los non lucem
æquivoce dici V
cum
sensi-
14IIJ J luce D
LIIO1
L'
ozizl nzi4 I »
A
•
• • « • ------ J ---
change would have been as
1642, Newton was born. In the ESSE,
se<l aetbereum unum spacium billet principioejus.et non esse sur-
The Evolutionists were
meantime the
observations of
---------
-- the
.... circa om nia astra; cic.it circa Tellu- sum deorsum , te l plus intus quam great.
us the
unwilling Tycho, and the theories o^rem et Solem. Duo item esse astro- extra,sed tota ubique quia eat sub the first to teach
the persevering Kepler, had made rum genera, Soles et Tellures.
stantia et essentia vel absoluta a meaning of nostalgia. What a
the scientific side of the New
Cap. 4:14 “There is a distinction toto, vel tota conjuncta toti ideo- terrible homesickness such a fun­
World incapable of reversal and between the air and the aether.’’- qne non potest dimensionaliter damental change of environment
must necessarily causel Environ­
ff-ady for Newton, Laplace and Distinctio inter aerem et aethera.
spacium replere infinitum vel fin- ment is really our ever-living, creat­
Herschel.
4 “To suppose a limit to the Uni- itum.
ing God. It is all summed up in
Hardly less assured was the pro- W » is contrary to sense and reas-
, Thia
hl8 last clause
cla„se is
.g &
j
.
a specimen of
gress on the philosophical, es- on. -C o n tra sensum et rationem tbe“eqnlvocal”Pai,theisro in which Cosmogony, which is the basis of
thet.c and religious side of the new esse t niversi fimfatem.
the Though, of Brllno had tQ uke religion and that of morals, lifo
and hope. We can thus begin to
growth. From the monads and in- 5 “Consequently neither the Earth refuge, but which Science has since
appreciate the human revolutions,
unity of Bruno came the monads of nor anything whatsoever is in the cleared up by the “unity of correla-
which the “Le Revolutionibus Or-
Leibnitz, the induction of Bacon, centre or middle of the Universe, tion”.
biurn” portended. The above words
’he philosophy of Descartes, Spin- Comets also are planets or earths,
T h is
of Bruno first made this book
» » J a c o b i Shelling Hegel and in general the same in kind.’’- 484) „ the tn(,
thf ^ k
alive; they entirely blotted out the
e'en the poetic art,sestheticism and Neque Tellnrem, neque ullum quip- wtlPre a,| are ¡ntereHt!n_ ’. . J 1
emancipation of Goethe. Hence has piam consequenter, esse in medio. Iimit9 „„
the mogt dJ - ' old world and revealed a strange
and at first an inconceivable new
-»me Nature-worship,“Pantheism”, Cometas item esse plauetas omnino, Das»aees Tl„.
i.
one in its place. It was enough to
AH-
a .
..
............
,™ —
TJ ”
take the breath away. Man stood
mwation of the new Era since unum specie.
’
I roo Tr
the e were enumerable worlds gazing into the abyss of Infinity:
O d T?
>■ If we ask who was the,
6 “Consequently there is no final and that the Holy Ghost was the
1.
Instead of the old God and