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A T HE AMERICAN I SRAELITE. _______ I rrii r l UBDin A \T TQTJ \ T? T TTtf So science corrects philosophy, as pafloM- Ud «&gUimi^ lKh AllfciU^AJ M ^^^ j imy Mrrec &ieUgiouii Hauir v-- ^ - unanap u mi awa ¦ BwittuuiiB .uytwiuynu n »uv .wiHimB-inwiuiyw u«Hi i i>Miaj aB nB~Bff ? may make the br ead P WSSSSSSrtS ^^ y r- ¦ ' r:: ^=^ - ~ ni ~ , : ' i ~ i R7ii On the other hand , how ever, it must be they were read andfjtucjied only Tflffi j tto f caBfjgwes, and a peculiafJaSEeSr^ip Wfij^u^ each expectant mouth its fine morse] , and C INCI N NAT I , G., DE CEMBER 4 , 1874. admitted thnt reIigion and art produce the cycle of classical philosophy had " been unreasoning |^^ *M|^^^ h * a '' ^| #nere1coal or wood are weighed with a -T- - ~ :—- ¦ " —^-= - - material for p hil osophy, a nd philosophy closed , and moral corruption had taken a justification foiWowli J^pf^ffi SIj i * e |?^ ^^I 11 ? ^^ '^Preventapiece^o mttch i»aac M. wise, produces the ideas for science, which returns ftnn hold of the Roman , whom the Stoics trcd felt agaiij|t Cfe^j fe^ ^^ ' ^% |p n 8i§ Iaced in the stove and save and mako Editor and Proprietor. its pe 8Uite to philosophy. Again , phil osophy with their stern ethics could not satisfy. Me ^ wWi ®l^d^W^:-r^^f m ^^. 'fet^i 0Ufl fuel last Ion &er to cook the so roj ioj i h. 80NNE80HB1S, in regard to religion and art must be sleep- It must be borne in m ind that material- enwnripated$!$L£]|i^^^ anc ' warm the meagerly {y,. * ' Associate Editor . _____ tical and critical , m ust doubt , analyze, re- ism was not the .fruit of science ; it was aad pb^osopfry ' . .^ habita tion , o thers a gain who are ' ' -- ' —- == ~ mj z-^: —__ j ect and adopt , iu order to construct ; and metaphysical speculation , set into the world upon all scientific fields; so that science , had blessed with thirworlds ' Roods, but who are i. Di i oBiii. co.vtribcobh. science must be skeptical and critical in re- in ages of myths , crude speculation , and ' become the onjy field of activity iox the Gar- visited with sickness or some other mislor- ' " ¦ n . Nehemiab Bbtjkll Frank- lation to philosophy in the same manner considerable ignorance ; it is the first at- ' man mind which was popular , profitable and tune and feel that wi ih nit their wealth they x 'i oc ok AdolphC8 j ' elukEk and for the same reason. Still it is onl y tempt at philosophy. mdepeadendent. So the ground waa . pre- 1 are weak mor|^^hei y 'itl^p' tnm^hei^ ? y^ . , (; v ' 1 lC M ^ Lilisntiiju, Cincinnati , hom the harmony of these three elements The conquests and subsequent corruption pared for Vogt, Moleschott, Buechner, heavenward and pipy,, A' o Gqd let .tj iy ' gta^' . ¦¦ Vu-nna , X Baltimore ¦ Samuel WoxI of our knowledge, and these three * methods of Rome, the advent of Christianity, and the Haeckel , and other apostles of mechanical shine on me and mine. " This is a beautiful * l I,B ' A g ' . an(i others. of our cognition, that truth riaes'in her sub- construction of a huge despotism, made, an' ;ontology, to do away not 3 only with church prayer ; it ' is a prayer- for- the highea^ gift ' fessi ein , > j^g oeailt y £___ ma j es tic grandeur. end to philosophy, until the Arabs, a can- and priest , but also with the cause of both, that exists; to have ©od' s grace to shine.on. , " - =_ " " Besides the Numerous benefits of practical tury after Mohammed f took up again the God, s oul, reli gion , freedo m , and ' traditions ; us/ia ' to possess . health , wisdom, wealth , and w TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. "" life and the progress of intelligence result- Grecian literature , and with it also the clas- to do away with all phi losoph y fo rever , and di gnity in the fullest sense , -it is to be a pear , ing from natural science , it acts also as the sical philosophy. Arabs and Jews, with commence history arieW on the two new above the throne , a c hief ; flmwig the chiefi Every one of our subscribers has centri petal force on philosophy, religion; the exception of a few Christian acholaste, d qgtaa&tf the new creed. wfcpm alflove to honor arid to obey, whose h pnt a bill in July last , and and art, which are centrifugal in their very were the expounders of philosophy in the. l,' , Thifl world with all that is therein is a presence is joy ful l y hailed by every family ' , ' y , nature. It calls them back to the facts of Middle Ages down to the revival of letters pifece of a blind mechanism without Intel- and from whom not even the wleatial reg- \ kimU y requested to pay up to Juiy o material j ^j ^y Therefore no rational man in England. Also among those Arabs aijp ligence or final cause, the Work of necessity io ns are closed. \ January next. Those who have mis- will expect of the scientist ithat, in his sci- Jews a materialistic sphooj Sprang up under and casualty. God' s g race, is man ' s greatest possession , \ 1 ri their bills find every week add- ence , he be anything but a materialist. Na- the name of Eelam , which continued the 2. There is only one way to arrive at but what must he do to obtain it? He must \ I e . ' ,, ,i ture must explain itself: He has no use for atomic t^ns^y^J i^e^^^^^x^f itj A , iruth,*observation , and experiment , what- first win the grace of man, and that he can ed to their respective addressee i min(AeB or any divine interposition, as long Suprem e Being, who was to. them .the Crea; ever can hot be conceived by the senses , ex- only obtain through an exemplary conduct date to which they paid. We must m _e seek* the facts and laws of matter, tor and governor of-th e atoinflfran ii ohe of ists not. ' . . o f honesty, industry, unimpeachable- virtue , earnestly request every one of them to Nor can it be expected of the scientist to those philosophers was the xielebrated Ibn So, the school of modern materialism open- promptness of meeting his obli gations, •m ' t <vt once either in postal orders , adopt the method of cognition , peculiar to Gabirol. Saadm alreafl y,^a n$ja f§r bun a * ed in^^rmany. Its influence on England mercy, charity, and liberality, to be the 1 a ' L- cial cities reli e ion ' art > or philos oph y. He must have number of Jewish reasoners down to Moses is evident, es pecial ly in Darwin ' s Descent of earnest friend and steadfast advocate of the drafts , or checks on commer , h _ g qw ^ because tjgfleid 0f i aDOr i8 peculiar Maimon ides , di^tfdssed ' the atomic theory, ^an to which Haeckel lately added bis An- poor and unfortunate , to toil unselfishl y for as the b''oks of this establishment must to iteelf All th at is expected of him is not and advanced nearly all and the satae argu- lhk>pogenie , to place man into the back universal advancement of education , in be balanced in January next , and new to arrogate to himself all knowledge of all ments against it whic h arefjn vogue now ;• ground ©f all animals. The blunders ^ and short to cause sunshine and happiness , account? opened on account of the truth , to the exclusion and negation of all but our common historiograp hers ar . e not arrogance of Church and State in Germany where darkness and misery prevailed, theae K .^ hereafter for other provinces of mental activity . aware of these facts. and- Austria , not science , are the causes of will win man' s grace, and every ray of it will i postage to DC pr p Therefore, whatever I might say about In Christendom, however, there is ho modern materialism, and a thorough reform- shine heavenward and propitiate God' s each pape r sent out from this oflice. materia[i8m ag a philosophy, can not and trace of atomism before Gassendi. This ation <oi both , radical in its character , will be grace , which will finally shine on him fend ; A paper is a cash article , whi c h by att aoeB noi refer to the method of the natural Pierre Gassend, the learned Frenchman the end thereof in this cycle of history. The make him blessed here and hereafter, means ou^ht to be paid in advance ; science s , which I ihink is perfectl y corr e c t , (15&2 to -1665 ) philosopher and mathema- nineteenth ^ century can. not go back to the But if a man is dishonest, a sluggard , a die- It h v trusted and do trust 0I persohall y to any scientist, who must do tician , the friend of Keppler and Galileo, old Paga . niAn and the crude philosophy of honorer of virtu^ a disregarder of his obli- ' : 5 but we nave his Work in his own way in order to do it cqtempo|rary and opponent of Descartes, re- Democrit and Epicure. Such a retrogres- gaftion , revengeful, uncharitable , illiberal ! every Israelite who orders our papers. ^^ I have nothing to say against special- produced and enlarged the system of tEpi- shm is ^ impossible. We can not maintain 1 cdld , and indifferent to the woes of hntnanil We must not be- disappoi nted thifl i^ ^ m0Bt all scientists proper are. I euros and Lucretius. At the same time society how on the materialistic creed. ty| a discourager of education by hot join ing ^ time, however , payment must' be made merely review the philosophical attempts Thomas Hobbes (1588 to 1679) advanced his Neither the statesman and jurist npr the a congregation , by not contributing to en- ; ^ h f ' Tann rl nPTt after which time oi speculative^^ scientists-some^ of them 'db materialistk system in England, and found phUosQp 'hef derives any benefit from it,, and dcW a pla^ pf learning for the education ' of ¦: oeioie J anuary nexi, not e ' veri deserve this Htle 'to deif y niatter . numerotis i admirerff and c disciples. The#. the community will not part with the ideals, aii gher ^'^ of educators , tjheii bideMhia''' : all balances over one year wm oe and gg^bygh new creeds of scientific/dbg i 1 t^o meh started- ma te rialiflm -in.Christen- which make-life totera^ ^ p laced in the hands of magis^ates fOT rgaa jj asl men like Vpgt , Moleschot, Buech- dom, and gave the impulse "to " the ^vival bt freedom; ni«ft^^inat^.bi^^ collection. "" All balances " bemg "' paid * ner, Kaekel , Huxley, and Tyndal , do. I natural acienqe f ^ not,do ^Oiqa^ j ^mn^^ maoM a*fe iaian citt hot win the , grace of man, for he ¦ ' u , Tn «„o W novt w*. will ^nnsWAr^ in*«Btigate to discover the worth of their Polemical discussions over materialism , in are men; huri^ te rpl ilm ati^Mtegate s islookedl' upon as a ^prm, wlid as he crows ' £ i "fi %? - 1 PT yjl^^^^ 118 - N <>V M us go to history. , France, ( England, ' Germany and Holland, all hunian dijjfiuf ' and ^Ulmns. - !i Tae v olier d^lo piJntovaWtae ^ whW^- I 1 ably enla ^ tld this journa l, ^a tld give to - f ^j y in anc ie nt Greece mythology had were almost conjMualJ^ fce^l^part . of feuaticishi against Church ; aniState ^ isra r^-i aife poisonfraaW whom iaE-avoid and fet- ') th e reader one of the largest and best .mn through its natural cycle, the classical the seventh ahdtK ' e4igliteen^' centiuy. ^Jtn- tsbatioj i , a necessary evil, a painful sore of him creep ' pa 'th^MUsit a)id''Itttp the ' dust ' r /' Jewish papers ^ s o that no country. khall ' l^fc-h iul poured torth their best of the France jwhich had no phOosopher between *e; inipure^l 1 ^ ood , \ -which heals alreadyi 4hete ti^ 'fo^J^n^^j^^^^'fibaa, ^' - ' ' 1 > d 4 be able to boast of better Jewish press, beautiful and the true, aha the sculptor had , IHderot and ComteT and hardly any reli gion, ' sht^^j e unification of Germany..anoV the -It is Uthih' the ' power or! every^nfei^' be' 1 ( .. ¦¦ ¦ ^ f ^i ' * i£t3J TQf , 'ii\ carved out the ideas of , cold marble, e rrjDr; materialism produced athe^, -whicjh; reac fe^ :li beraliaa tibn of Aust ria: Materialism is a go od and add his part to the conmon atock f All agents are requeStea tD *aice ^paiv ^ chan en^ed : reason , which took hold upon e<its highest point w th ; e a^e^reaspn. , In neceflsa^y ' e .^, as.lpng as. the ;chujrch . imd^- oi>umait weifare; . choofl? the good^pn^/ ticular notice thereof : All BALAN- the acctimulated material , and opened the . Germarjjy, the plttloaoph' e rs, ' aha especially go , es n^i a radical chan ge ; but it Is np phU- tioe'itlw tth'yottr Whole 'hear tr and wtthmiih/ OE8 MUST Bfe COLLECTED AND PAID history |>f formal philosophy, with Thales , Immamiel Kant overcame atheistic materi- O6ophy,j which explains the-universe)or ' ^af- ' whole a^til ahd ^btx will ' Burely. 'y inethy UP REFOKE JANUARY KBIT. Hi ppo, j Aneximenee , ' Anaxi mander , and alism, b|ut succumbed also after Kant to fords a BOftnd substratum for the construe- grace ' , of Van, and then God' s- grace wir ,... ¦• . ... - * - HeiacTit. The starting-point was one upon Spinoza' s pantheism, which is not hostile to tioh of society. It. wi ll die out with the shine on you and -yours . . l\ ~ TZZ nJXnrrTi V - ' . . v. 7\ whkWt^ie theo lo gy of that day-had heaped science. In Engl an d which had nophil o so- c aus es which, re-produced it. It always [ ¦ ^. I SOPH SABASb myt ^ u n my* n ' 'f n ^ explained nothing, phers after Locke and Hume , the religious- comes with corruption in public institutions , - ' ' ¦ / am. a ^p 5^s:fj^ ^ t was the problem ' of^the stebility of ! SMAIJ. ^C«A«g^. l . 7 1 '' . ' ,. f"' ; js .r!% . < ^gCi.iJbL X a" 0 the mobihty of beings. Nothing re- " into the 1 peculiar deism. ¦'Atomism ' was re- reformation. „„„ ^^ ' aJ ,J :11 ' l < l 'ii^.^, ' I A tast Ward on- Philosophical Prob- mams ^l fc u ^nd what u; ^, yet aU remains temed among scientists , more as a scaffold- Eidicnlons,, supremel y so, indeed , appears " r - - ~ v l enw inP^ianlar lieatuieB dfilizered. tiae same foreyer - ¦$*& mind attempted to ing of chemistry; than ^ principle. Between to '^the crude imaterialism of. some of our * P«re tl: oughts are the dlrafcting flnge/Oh in th V^&^j ^^ A5?y^i^ of ^ff 6 . 1 ^ writers , who repeat slavishl y the high oad to perfection. / Cin 0in\5i7by laaw M. Wise. " of4eWutahle causer r - . t ^^ i mmMmm y J|^hW; |fhg Q* m ^. &Mm*^<n . nU. - - -Those uho slu-inTfrom 1 performiniheir :; .f. It must norte expected of those thinkers ton <1766 to lB«>bbWcJnefl^^6 " a defeat *»> ¦»»¦ w*a «_, . .. . , r , , ,p ^bat ^ thiBy solved the problem, although conceptions wnce^nin^ atoto ^" wera ire- eincecthen. Thpyf|d«(gfl fcpoj ^n&ugftfedi- -] *^ mVl ?v ^ / ' 3 ¦:' : il^F UB, r!f fj *p- ' ^ "! mV prepared it weU for future reasoners. quent^^ . —— / H^B&i^. or , Mi'^^is^. ^j. .^ ; J^. i pj ey v^ere not acquainted with the princi- fluence of Isaac Newton ' s discoveries , as was be remedied ^ Qu^stete affairs are.independ- , Passi0]B and 'gnorance make of/man a Ladies AND GEWK3aN , -Befor e E ehtering P^ ifltelli gence. ^ They had fte case . alBo; t j fter ^ altpj^r^^bhshed i «^ rj>i th^churc hv ana -bur pr ieafe ahd -??pot , ..^,-.. ,- L-^- - upon the maj in subject oh$his lecturaPMT- #o^sv^hology, no f0rmal . logic , and no idea his theory of j natter. ^ Npne eyer thought o f preachers^ are harmless and without influ- To lisb n to the voice ofi reason la trNiis- mit me to$tjfte/$b| Miii g can appel r|os f . M^ 1 i pteUl ge ^ ! heQCe th® que?" con8tructin S a philosophical system on the: ence on public affairs ; . S pm^ of our materi- ten to th voice of law it isweU wM ftose tuali zed ln'tff e ^^iituneht of minfrtfifeff ft*-%edaced . itself to the nature of matter , atomic basiKf ^entiata wer^mpstly^pin. j ilists|are mere amatehriJ, ih ' science " and who strf,tlv observe their dictates is not m the " i nind. , T>e ,. .ene^^ Others Have heard . 1 . '* __ ' there first before it!<^ he^U^lf^iatr soug ht. | Without knowledge .ofi natural gave England and Trance^ the ; adVantage , or read so4o^ag^^^re,Windolent.to ; To « des J^ G^d&aCe ^ w?mu at h#be- ever is not in man, he can not do. fhere ^ hvws , or even forces , their apeculatians on/Jthat ' their : ; sciehti8tB l speculated teas and hear, read, or mh&iajgaui. , lean pay no re- nmt > „„ iu «fl\A«Jr^*i - fore we look upon ail' monujaeilta-of'ac ttttl? f^P w ere crude, and m mapy jnatances worked rnpre successfpu^ fp^ the , advance-; gardjfcp them in these leclures r and expect, , . " ized mind in the works anof , hisfdry ''6 f man ' «hl ratfll . " "Without science they . ' ccfald i iheRli oi industry and' Commei^j Lw lule Gei^ tiiey wiU ne>^er h^ar ;u»|r^ ^ietn^ jlam ij a » celelial h^ht beams from the counte- as equaUy ; he<*ssary. ;iThe-flnper8titionfl of hardl y > . otherwise. ,,, Ilie r^soltsof a long ^ . h^yya s - Bai'-engulph ed^ffl't^tiScdfldehtal - re ad*! 'now ' to continue my regular " course ' , nance oLtdse wffo loVe^uth who'search the savage^n the process of man- B deyelop- <&*M ^uktion ,^t h fte ***** * *f f i WM- . . W ? W^&TOf: M Wf S^. ^^f i^^^ #rf - and pracSbe ' hB^eacs In - - ment , aref as necessary as , the religion, phll- twb ttbitract ^eaB r .;causa^ipn and being; ^ers of nature ^^ (^^^( d^g^ Mm, the- . mentVy untdldgy. * ^ -'• *• h Vi '"* ^" >^^^^—^L.^^^^-.^^x.^^.-^ <»phy, Sd^Sm e oraSSr ^ ¦• ' ?:*?" . " , y? 3 , - ,. ¦ ¦ : ' the|uj es™. ^ ^ it were tt6t^aj e|saift ^ ^^ 5j ftfW8iT f°Mrt d pBgani8m the WOT id over, materi- shaU-see instantly, aud u #i ag.i tp): atomism Dr. Vise «t the Temple. gome toil and hold ' so ' faift 4 their weatai , ' I make iiMs^fiaWenrd n (umi^ElbB jRftH |flwt in the form of' niOJii^; which merely!as sch obBtJic ^ejudh je. -g She gain r^y i e copy)theJoll awttig.ftt m th e^ Olri oinha-; wtf^they. were to Uve forever/ and becoa^. misunderstood in rqgard r ta eithei^ience or considers all the universe one consecntive natnralj stB . ; whp establfcjbed ,. , aj oniism , i; fn. ti Enquifef b ' f . N ' ov. "^ t *" ' ' U ' ' x ~ ' ^he s^e proprTetor s of the earth. It is weU '' rehgion.^th oahtm are for ^ co^der : mass otmattar wi&j ij ie cause of mot&| ^^!^f J?j| ^^ 2 f J^^«^ce ^ P^^ise contiineahis course of lecture^ & remember.that^Ur- day^ aft , numbered, ation of imilosoplrj ' . mehtal^ementfl : Their <wittun teelf , and mbflon as ,the caitee of all. *U '^ w^^ B^^ ci^mWm , J^ ^%B;>n^le . la3ji iu^t Vy *-BjBries! oiSh- aHd tffew shovelfl »fu ll of earth wiu suffice to connection appears fo me in ; b^ tory thus : ' ' JSthei p|henomena in nature. , . Matter con- , which S^JB^m^l^ material- " ' cover our rein^;MtWliv|y| 8BOu|i | The human mind, when it first began to tiflualty bringaiforth individual beings , and <»nsidey*ble double. '•' ¦=«¦ ¦ « . ' ; ¦ ri SL?ii t Mft« P WV* 3 * ¦ our .greai fl , , ' t (ftlJ b " uoWelmdmauy ot tinea. thi nk consciously, a^T^Sl ffi absorb^ theth 8 ag^; as Oft*** ** *&' $*& PwW^,«ftWI««^ ^ deeds , tet them be noble ^ and many o! them, and reflection , was idealistic. The mind «$ Wocekn to . fall batk ^ftrThen followed: ^ei^^WJindU^iSl}^ WM f av^paS^XOeWtt ' ' There m'^TSSmsSi wHeW mfistWi ' itself outside of i tself in ideals of reli gion ™f e *™fym & mattermt^^hree ^nd ¦ &&$&} ip hilosophy ahdnadeflce 'are doing W }^. wn»^iMn^ aSmmiW6l taen4 feel very poor, the 6ne'is , , whefi J they have and art. v Bp, th are the offspring of sponta. Anally four elements with the problem, slowly ifwt»#*jtf Jffl^^ neon s insp iration , and creatU.of axiomatic which of the elevate in^oaxrmte^iri^ia the yBfr .f^ J^^lta^ '— - truth , Wiethe desire to rtali?6 them;ihl ^ rsal ba usation t , "At %t . ,$i&^i$. i ^^ ^ •^ ^SOXW3H W : ^^ - man and society, or in wprks of vVfXqjg anal ysij r went beyond the elements , imt fg r ^ pA^C^bMM^' f W^M A iSf -t^S^^^ Wi*?^^ :VThe lamentdtiohs bf' Job in his direst irib- are boundless. They break through ,^ ^ f^ X^S ^ffift ¦*" * ? *** the *****"¦!»!»**¦«¦» mtS^SiSmSS^iiSSs ^^ or^^^»-»BtT(rllfltt^WWW" limi ts of . reality, or even probabiHtjr , ihto ' Bmall^ thinkable parts called atoms , in m ^ m^n ,M *m* lF WM Wt»- TS^B^S^iS^WtS^' ben' s complainte when they pay a fewjol^. the i nflnite , and liable to roam Upon the which the cause of all nation and being is ^^ the service -oUbM^^.s hv,«tate " ^ om Ansto^toJtoifcsHr^ for the causeTof reli g ion ' ; this show ' s how " broa. 1 ocean of phantasy, far beyond the penitent forever. a nd ch prch. Me^W' Pkied M^^^^^^^^^^ m^ ' tl b WSd V^t^m ' M toASttM *secure haven of sober truth . .Strabo thinks the Phoenician Moshas .waB Austria, Germany, Italy, ahd partly also S SSSXid ^S fflffiJJ^ffiSJS : r «*» ; il * a blessine to 6QciQi ^ that 8Uch Error always produces practical results the au thor Of the atomistic hypothesis. I^upel gfamttfeihd j g^ ' painful to man and society, irritates the Laertiils and Cicero were of the op inion and he , ^^PJI^^Hw^^^iiw^^ ^^ Q n^'Plum'st^V^ a ^far mbr ' e'da ' n- KKra m . reasoning faculty, and challenges its resist- that L sukipp invented it. Anyhow it was philosop hy and poetry^losed ^ and there was ^e^ea?^ B^ffitS^r^¥?^^ P Ji 0f ^^ ^* & ^^'^ ^It^\<^^^. . ance. This gives rise to philosophy, which introduced inGrecian philosoph y by Demo- ft " pahuul vacuum \£fa* m& fk 5 jrtind , ¦^ i^smiaBi '^^^^^^S M. the pay ing ofc ^es ' eh ' d 6ofagr^afcional duesi M - stops the erratic reveries , and calls the pro- critus , the well known laughing philosop her, which - was , wpll. ' developed ,%pbseiwe , that, upp^j either' sidd Of ffie 'llthmW; ahVthe and as . a consequence is driven from the j ducts of the mind before the judgment seat someti ii e between 470 and 460 B. C., wi th there was W' the Mg^^coMrWb? tae^iid in w^ich . the late histofy of- Ger i- fairest fieibiWh^ toi^ fWJ 1 b^ai > : where - , H of reason , to establish an equilibrium he- whom j e^tything, also the gods , was an We^m^ju^pewfc'on^ ^r ej di " herty, au^^ tween the work of spontaneity and the force aggreg^te ^ atoms. On , the other hand, ' mora l>bpWp W^^ f^mle fac/of the earth " ' « J of reality, to arrive at approximate trukh. Tythagjoras (540 to 610 B. C.) and the.Italian and pr^rity^-was ldWe ' r^ , ^^ ^^M^ a&m^^l^m^^. - « '.IS^flLyS&^t™— ,«*— Ag ain , philosophy is after all speculative , s chool , had introduced . the ; mystieism of< ohorchi bq%4>tholic.an^PM%tant , 7 wa& i^fe*i4? ht - WM i?' i? n i5 a ^f9 , ^ os «l l llog- Go forth aiid battle for mv riehta exwae consequentl y - liable to the influen ce & «»*beU and expounded the univeree by tW rigMd%l OTifflM w^^ W ^^S^S^ ^ - phan tasy like religion and art , it is en, the mf ries of mathematics. der i ill' ^M0^^^ f ^&^lTX^S^ %££*£? , lliXre !££&¦ . gaged in the solution of problems porting : Extehsive travels in the &gt , especiall y ^ and th4t pWlosophy, had bWn turned into a but pest Tndavi«ron«j9•there .wiltbeW and benefltslf youOdefeated . IwillniocS:; , to the infinite, so that it often leaves the fe Egj Lt, Phoenicia, and S yria , theu the tra^^^ rW^r^^i^^ *||^ft *^ , 7 V ^ of reality. Neve^ele. it ^n , en ffi. c ^ ^ not desert this ground . entirely, therefore with tlktbea dominant Persians , graduall y -The t^^dfthe ^ Gejn^ ^olars , Uber- ' d^lf proDlel^ ' evWr^ntelXWie h& " are the tho^htrfandTanguftge HOf WsM^ i expounds shapes, and forn« it, to ba rmon- brought^exidjp, hr^^^ ' lanimous, ala* toe world hM^m^^ti ue with «ie mam idea or theory of the pe- the fodrth century B. C, Socrates , PJato- weakest^ thetwo great?pdwetBHgam8tvth e ¦ J ' —r -^- r^-~ - ' ^ , ^ ,j ,a»g§^ culiai sj-kterii. T^ leadstograVe errore as ^AWA and ^eir di^ ^ ^ ^^ ' «<»D'» «BAce. Be brief , be brlef ,?extlauls ^fcM well a8 to great,diBcovene8,n natm-al 6ci- to the !more ancient materialism; ahd buHt &«, had to fee anti-Chr^iJBm. ' Feuer : ~*— ' only '' one id^ ,'* wklhe%e«Wn^K •«n ce ^£PWef^ «f>} toe- up those systems of philosophy, including bach, S choppenhauer and Czblbe did , from The hi ghest wish that man can pray and who call qn hlmi'Wafd toWme^nteMj l painful res^ts^to Irritehoft ^^ have exe rcise d the phaosPpfeicaJi sMpWrft^l lame work ^hope for , is God's grace. "0 God let thy or educational caused"! caSKoWffl of reason which rouses the mind to another So vast an influen ce upon the progress Of as did Strauss with bis Life of-Jesus , Bruno grave shine on me ahd mine ," i8 apray er for vou for this te notlcortin^wiiea^^ Hpec ies of activit y, the investigation of spe- man, atid stUl do in very many instances , Bauer , the New Catholics , the- Free Congre- which millions of fath ers , mothers , broth- of course not - ^is^nlv^lSo ttake ,! ..al pronmos of reality research , and ex - so th at besides the Bible, Plato and Aristotle gatlons and their head leaders from the crif, ere, sisters , and relatives utter , so.be in mon^ bSt to spend m^SS^oi '^- f .vnment , o e-ahluih fac ts and laws of the were the main factors of civilization . Sill ical and practical standpoints. Dogmatic their humble room where stern poverty S^y rm^Sve ^^S^Et wi* llu ngs .i-i tJ ¦ ¦ . ¦ . ' ««' in essewtf and function, materialism hnd two more prominen t disci- C hristianity was undermined among the bids them to measure the-loa f 0 J bread be- his only idea

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A THE AMERICAN ISRAELITE. _______ Irrii r l UBDin A \T TQTJ \ T?T TTtf So science corrects philosophy, as pafloM- Ud«&gUimi l K h AllfciU^AJM

^ j imy Mrrec &ieUgiouiiHauirv-- - unanap umiawa ¦BwittuuiiB .uytwiuynu n »uv .wiHimB-inwiuiyw u«Hi ii>MiajaBnB~Bff ?may make the br ead P WSSSSSSrtS^ yr - ¦' r::^=^ — - ~ ni

~, :'i~ i R7ii On the other hand, however, it must be they were read andfj tucj ied only Tflffij ttof caBfjgwes, and a peculiafJaSEeSr^ipWfij ^u^

each expectant mouth its fine morse], andCINCI N N A T I, G., DE CEMBER 4, 1874. admitted thnt reIigion and art produce the cycle of classical philosophy had "been unreasoning |^*M| ^ h*a ''^| #nere1coal

or wood are weighed with a-T-- ~ :—- • ¦"—^-=-- material for philosophy, and philosophy closed, and moral corruption had taken a justification foiWowliJ^pf^ffi SIji *e |? ^^I11?^^'^Preventapiece^o mttchi»aac M. wise, produces the ideas for science, which returns ftnn hold of the Roman, whom the Stoics trcd felt agaiij|t Cfe jfe ^^ ' ^%|pn8i§Iaced in the stove and save and makoEditor and Proprietor. its pe8Uite to philosophy. Again , philosophy with their stern ethics could not satisfy. Me^wWi®l^d^W^:-r^^fm^^. 'fet^i 0Ufl fuel last Ion&er to cook thesoroj ioj i h. 80NNE80HB1S, in regard to religion and art must be sleep- It must be borne in mind that material- enwnripated$!$L£]|i ^ anc'

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the meagerly {y,. *'Associate Editor . _____ tical and critical , m ust doubt , analyze, re- ism was not the .fruit of science ; it was aad pb^osopfry'.. habitation, others again who are ''--'—-==~ mjz- :—__ ject and adopt, iu order to construct ; and metaphysical speculation, set into the world upon all scientific fields; so that science, had blessed with thirworlds' Roods, but who arei.Di i oBiii. co.vtribcobh. science must be skeptical and critical in re- in ages of myths, crude speculation, and ' become the onjy field of activity iox the Gar- visited with sickness or some other mislor-' "¦n . Nehemiab Bbtjkll Frank- lation to philosophy in the same manner considerable ignorance ; it is the first at- 'man mind which was popular, profitable and tune and feel that wiih nit their wealth they x 'ioc ok

AdolphC8 j'elukEk and for the same reason. Still it is only tempt at philosophy. mdepeadendent. So the ground waa.pre-1 are weak mor| ^heiy 'itl p' tnm^hei^ ?y^ . , (;v ' 1 lC

M Lilisntiij u, Cincinnati , hom the harmony of these three elements The conquests and subsequent corruption pared for Vogt, Moleschott, Buechner, heavenward and pipy,, A'o Gqd let .tj iy 'gta^' . ¦¦Vu-nna , X Baltimore ¦ Samuel WoxI of our knowledge, and these three* methods of Rome, the advent of Christianity, and the Haeckel, and other apostles of mechanical shine on me and mine." This is a beautiful *l I,B ' A

g ' . an(i others. of our cognition, that truth riaes'in her sub- construction of a huge despotism, made, an' ;ontology, to do away not3 only with church prayer ; it 'is a prayer- f or - the highea^gift 'fessi ein , • > • j ^g oeailty £___ majestic grandeur. end to philosophy, until the Arabs, a can- and priest, but also with the cause of both, that exists; to have ©od'sgrace to shine.on.,"-=_ " " Besides the Numerous benefits of practical tury after Mohammedf took up again the God, soul, religion , freedom, and'traditions; us/ia 'to possess.health, wisdom, wealth, andw TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. "" life and the progress of intelligence result- Grecian literature, and with it also the clas- to do away with all philosophy forever, and dignity in the fullest sense,-it is to be a pear, ing from natural science, it acts also as the sical philosophy. Arabs and Jews, with commence history arieW on the two new above the throne, a chief ;flmwig the chiefiEvery one of our subscribers has centripetal force on philosophy, religion; the exception of a few Christian acholaste, dqgtaa&tf the new creed. wfcpm alflove to honor arid to obey, whoseh pnt a bill in July last , and and art, which are centrifugal in their very were the expounders of philosophy in the. l,',Thifl world with all that is therein is a presence is joyful ly hailed by every family ', ' y , nature. It calls them back to the facts of Middle Ages down to the revival of letters pifece of a blind mechanism without Intel- and from whom not even the wleatial reg- \kimU y requested to pay up to Juiy o material j j ^y Therefore no rational man in England. Also among those Arabs aijp ligence or final cause, the Work of necessity ions are closed. \January next. Those who have mis- will expect of the scientist ithat, in his sci- Jews a materialistic sphooj Sprang up under and casualty. God's grace, is man's greatest possession, \1 ri their bills find every week add- ence, he be anything but a materialist. Na- the name of Eelam, which continued the 2. There is only one way to arrive at but what must he do to obtain it? He must \I e

. ' ,, ,i ture must explain itself: He has no use for atomic t^ns y^J i^e^^^^ x f itj A, iruth,*observation, and experiment, what- first win the grace of man, and that he can •ed to their respective addressee i min(AeB or any divine interposition, as long Suprem e Being, who was to. them .the Crea; ever can hot be conceived by the senses, ex- only obtain through an exemplary conductdate to which they paid. We must m _e seek* the facts and laws of matter, tor and governor of-the atoinflfranii ohe of ists not. ' . . of honesty, industry, unimpeachable-virtue,earnestly request every one of them to Nor can it be expected of the scientist to those philosophers was the xielebrated Ibn So, the school of modern materialism open- promptness of meeting his obligations,•m ' t <vt once either in postal orders, adopt the method of cognition, peculiar to Gabirol. Saadm alreafly,^an$ja f§r bun a* ed in^^rmany.

Its influence on England mercy, charity, and liberality, to be the1

a ' L- cial cities relieion ' art> or philosophy. He must have number of Jewish reasoners down to Moses is evident, especially in Darwin's Descent of earnest friend and steadfast advocate of thedrafts , or checks on commer , h

_ g qw^ because tjg fleid 0f iaDOr i8 peculiar Maimonides, di tfdssed' the atomic theory, ^an to which Haeckel lately added bis An- poor and unfortunate, to toil unselfishly foras the b''oks of this establishment must to iteelf All that is expected of him is not and advanced nearly all and the satae argu- lhk>pogenie, to place man into the back universal advancement of education, inbe balanced in January next, and new to arrogate to himself all knowledge of all ments against it which arefjn vogue now ;• ground ©f all animals. The blunders^and short to cause sunshine and happiness,account? opened on account of the truth , to the exclusion and negation of all but our common historiographers ar.e not arrogance of Church and State in Germany where darkness and misery prevailed, theaeK . hereafter for other provinces of mental activity. aware of these facts. and- Austria, not science, are the causes of will win man's grace, and every ray of it willipostage to DC pr p Therefore, whatever I might say about In Christendom, however, there is ho modern materialism, and a thorough reform- shine heavenward and propitiate God'seach paper sent out from this oflice. materia[i8m ag a philosophy, can not and trace of atomism before Gassendi. This ation <oi both, radical in its character, will be grace, which will finally shine on him fend ;A paper is a cash article, whi ch by att aoeB noi refer to the method of the natural Pierre Gassend, the learned Frenchman the end thereof in this cycle of history. The make him blessed here and hereafter,means ou^ht to be paid in advance; sciences, which I ihink is perfectly correct, (15&2 to -1665) philosopher and mathema- nineteenth

^ century can. not go back to the But if a man is dishonest, a sluggard, a die-I t h v trusted and do trust 0I persohally to any scientist, who must do tician, the friend of Keppler and Galileo, old Paga.niAn and the crude philosophy of honorer of virtu^ a disregarder of his obli- ' :5but we nave his Work in his own way in order to do it cqtempo|rary and opponent of Descartes, re- Democrit and Epicure. Such a retrogres- gaftion , revengeful, uncharitable, illiberal !every Israelite who orders our papers.

^^ I have nothing to say against special- produced and enlarged the system of tEpi- shm is impossible. We can not maintain1 cdld, and indifferent to the woes of hntnanilWe must not be- disappointed thifl i m0Bt all scientists proper are. I euros and Lucretius. At the same time society how on the materialistic creed. ty| a discourager of education by hot joining ^time, however , payment must'be made merely review the philosophical attempts Thomas Hobbes (1588 to 1679) advanced his Neither the statesman and jurist npr the a congregation, by not contributing to en-; ^h f ' Tann rl nPTt after which time oi speculative ^ scientists-some of them 'db materialistk system in England, and found phUosQp'hef derives any benefit from it,, and dcW a pla^ pf learning for the education' of ¦:oeioie J anuary nexi, note'veri deserve this Htle —'to deify niatter. numerotis i admirerff and c disciples. The#. the community will not part with the ideals, aiigher^' of educators, tjheii bideMhia'' ' :all balances over one year wm oe and gg^bygh new creeds of

scientific/dbgi1 t^o meh started- materialiflm -in.Christen- which make-life totera^placed in the hands of magis^atesfOT rgaajj asl men like Vpgt, Moleschot, Buech- dom, and gave the impulse"to" the ^vival bt freedom; ni«ft^^inat^.bi^^collection. "" All balances"bemg"' paid * ner, Kaekel, Huxley, and Tyndal, do. I natural acienqef ^

not,do ^Oiqa^j ^mn^^

maoM a*fe iaiancitt hot win the, grace of man, for he ¦'u , Tn«„oW novt w*. will nnsWAr^ in*«Btigate to discover the worth of their Polemical discussions over materialism, in are men; huri^terplilmati^Mtegates islookedl'upon as a ^prm, wlid as he crows '

£ i "fi %? - 1 PT yjl^^^ 118- N<>V M us go to history. , France, ( England,'Germany and Holland, all hunian dijjfiuf 'and ^Ulmns.-!iTaev olier d^lopiJntovaWtae whW^- I 1ably enlatld this journal, atld give to - f j y in ancient Greece mythology had were almost conjMualJ^ fce^l^part .of feuaticishi against Church; aniState^isra r^-i aife poisonfraaW whom iaE-avoid and fet - ')the reader one of the largest and best .mn through its natural cycle, the classical the seventh ahdtK'e4igliteen^'centiuy. Jtn- tsbatioj i, a necessary evil, a painful sore of him creep' pa 'th^MUsit a)id''Itttp the'dust 'r /'Jewish papers^ so that no country.khall ' l^fc-hiul poured torth their best of the France jwhich had no phOosopher between *e; inipure^l1^ood,\ -which heals alreadyi 4hete ti^'fo^J^n^ j^^^^'fibaa, ' - ' '1 >d4be able to boast of better Jewish press, beautiful and the true, aha the sculptor had , IHderot and ComteT and hardly any religion,' sht^ j e unification of Germany..anoV the -It is Uthih'the' power or! every^nfei^'be'1 (. .¦¦¦ ^f^i '

j£*i£t3J TQf , 'ii\ carved out the ideas of , cold marble, errjDr; materialism produced athe^,-whicjh; reacfe :liberaliaatibn of Austria: Materialism is a good and add his part to the conmon atock fAll agents are requeStea tD *aice ^paiv chanen^ed : reason, which took hold upon e<its highest point w th;e a^e^reaspn., In neceflsa^y'e. , as.lpng as.the ;chujrch .imd^- oi>umait weifare; .choofl? the good^pn /ticular notice thereof : All BALAN- the acctimulated material, and opened the. Germarjjy, the plttloaoph'ers,' aha especially go,es n^i a radical change; but it Is np phU- tioe'itlwtth'yottr Whole 'heartrand wtthmiih/OE8 MUST Bfe COLLECTED AND PAID history |>f formal philosophy, with Thales, Immamiel Kant overcame atheistic materi- O6ophy,j which explains the-universe)or' af-' whole a^til ahd ^btx will ' Burely.'yinethy

UP REFOKE JANUARY KBIT. Hippo, j Aneximenee, ' Anaximander, and alism, b|ut succumbed also after Kant to fords a BOftnd substratum for the construe- grace ', of Van, and then God's- grace wir,... ¦• . ... -* - HeiacTit. The starting-point was one upon Spinoza's pantheism, which is not hostile to tioh of society. It. will die out with the shine on you and -yours. . l \~ TZZ nJXnrrTi V -'. . v. 7\ whkWt^ie theology of that day-had heaped science. In England which had nophiloso- causes which, re-produced it. It always [ ¦ . ISOPH SABASb myt uP°n my*n' 'f n^ explained nothing, phers after Locke and Hume, the religious- comes with corruption in public institutions, - ' ' ¦

/am. a ^p5 s:fj^ ^t was the problem'of^the stebility of ! SMAIJ. ^C«A«g^. l . 71 ' ' . ', . f"' ;j s .r!%.<^gCi.iJbL X a"0 the mobihty of beings. Nothing re-" into the1 peculiar deism. ¦'Atomism 'was re- reformation. • „ „„„ ^^

'aJ ,J :11'l <l 'ii . , • ' IA tast Ward on- Philosophical Prob- mams l fc u nd what u; , yet aU remains temed among scientists, more as a scaffold- Eidicnlons,, supremely so, indeed, appears " r - - ~ v ] ¦

lenw inP^ianlarlieatuieB dfilizered. tiae same foreyer- ¦$*& mind attempted to ing of chemistry; than principle. Between to'^the crude imaterialism of. some of our * P«re tl: oughts are the dlrafcting flnge/Ohin thV^& j^^

A5?y^i

of ^ff6.1 writers, who repeat slavishly the high oad to perfection. /Cin0in\5i7by laaw M. Wise. " of4eWutahlecauser r - . t

^immMmm

y J| hW;|fhg

Q*m .&Mm* <n .nU.- - -Thoseuho slu-inTfrom1 performiniheir:; . f . It must norte expected of those thinkers ton <1766 to lB«>bbWcJnefl^^6 " a defeat

*»> ¦»»¦ w*a«_, . .. . ,r,, ,p ^bat thiBy solved the problem, although conceptions wnce^nin^ atoto

^"wera ire- eincecthen. Thpyf|d«(gfl fcpoj^n&ugftfedi- -] * mVl ?v^

/'3 ¦:' :il^FUB,r!ff j *p- '

"! mV prepared it weU for future reasoners. quent^^ . —— /

H^B&i^.or , Mi' ^is^.j ..^;J^ .ipjey v^ere not acquainted with the princi- fluence of Isaac Newton's discoveries, as was be remedied

^ Qu^stete affairs are.independ- , Passi0]B and 'gnorance make of/man a

Ladies AND GEWK3aN,-BeforeE

ehtering P ifltelligence. ^ They had fte case.alBo;t j fter ^altpj r^^bhshedi «^ rj>i th^churc

hv ana-bur prieafe ahd -??pot , ..^,-.. ,- L-^- -upon the maj in subject oh$his lecturaPMT- #o^sv^hology, no f0rmal. logic, and no idea his theory of jnatter. Npneeyer thought of preachers^ are harmless and without influ- To lisb n to the voice ofi reason la trNiis-mit me to$tjfte/$b| Miiig can appel r|os f .M^1 ipteUlge !

heQCe th® que?" con8tructinS a philosophical system on the: ence on public affairs; . Spm^ of our materi- ten to th voice of law it isweU wM ftosetualized ln'tff e ^iituneht of minfrtfifeff ft*-%edaced. itself to the nature of matter, atomic basiKf ^entiata wer^mpstly^pin. j ilists|are mere

amatehriJ,ih 'science "and who strf,tlv observe their dictatesis not m the "inind. , T>e,..ene^ Others Have heard . 1 . '* __ 'there first before it!< he^U^lf^iatr sought. | Without knowledge .ofi natural gave England and Trance^ the ;adVantage, or read so4o^ag^^^re,Windolent.to ; —To«des J G^d&aCe w?muat h#be-ever is not in man, he can not do. fhere^ hvws, or even forces, their apeculatians on/Jthat ' their:;sciehti8tBl speculated teas and hear, read, or mh&iajgaui. , lean pay no re- „nmt> „„iu «fl\A«Jr^*i - •fore we look upon ail'monujaeilta-of'acttttl? f P were crude, and m mapy jnatances worked rnpre successfpu fp^ the, advance-; gardjfcp them in these lecluresrand expect, , . "ized mind in the works anof,hisfdry''6f man' «hlratfll . " "Without science they .'ccfald i iheRli oi industryand'Commei j LwluleGei tiiey wiU ne>^er h^ar

;u»|r^^ietn^ jl am ij a »celelial h^ht beams from the counte-as equaUy ;he<*ssary.;iThe-flnper8titionfl of hardly >. otherwise.,,, Ilie r^soltsof a long .h^yyas- Bai'-engulphed^ffl't^tiScdfldehtal- read*!'now' to continue my regular" course', nance oLtdse wffo loVe^uth who'searchthe savage^n the process of

man-B deyelop- <&*M uktion, th fte ******* f f i WM -.. W ? W^&TOf: M Wf S^. f i^^^ #rf - and pracSbe'hB^eacs In -- ment, aref as necessary as, the religion, phll- twb ttbitract eaBr .;causa ipn and being; ers of nature

^^(^^^(d^g Mm,

the-. mentVyuntdldgy.* ^ -'• *• h V i ' "* ^">^^^^—^L.^^^^-. ^x. ^.-<»phy, Sd^SmeoraSSr ¦•' ?:*?". ", y ? 3 , • -, . ¦¦ :' • the|ujes™. ^ ^it were tt6t^aje|saift

^ 5j ftfW8iT f°Mrtd pBgani8m the WOT

id over, materi- shaU-see instantly, audu#iag.itp) : atomism Dr. Vise «t the Temple. gome toil and hold'so'faift 4 their weatai, 'I makeiiMs^fiaWenrdn (umi^ElbB jRftH |flwt in

the form of 'niOJii^; which merely!as schobBtJic^ejudhje. -gShe gain r y ie copy)theJollawttig.fttm the^Olrioinha-; wtf^they.were to Uve forever/and becoa^.misunderstood in rqgard rta eithei^ience

or considers all the universe one consecntive natnralj stB. ;whp establfcjbed,. , ajoniism, i; fn. ti Enquifef b'f. N'ov." t*" ''U ' ' x~ ' ^he s e proprTetors of

the earth. It is weU ' 'rehgion. th oahtmare for

^co^der: mass otmattar wi&jij ie cause of mot&| ^! f

J?j| ^2fJ^^«^ce^ P^^ise contiineahis course of lecture^ & remember.that^Ur-day^ aft,numbered,ation of imilosoplrj '.mehtal^ementfl : Their <wittun teelf, and mbflon as,the caitee of all. *U ' w^^ B^ ci mWm,J ^ %B;>n^le.la3jiiu^tVy*-BjBries!oiSh- aHd tffew shovelfl»full of earth wiu suffice toconnection appears fo me in ;b tory thus: '' JSthei p|henomena in nature., . Matter con-, which S^JB^m^l^ material-"' cover our rein^;MtWliv|y|8BOu|i |The human mind, when it first began to tiflualty bringaiforth individual beings, and <»nsidey*ble double. '•' ¦=«¦ ¦ « . ' ; ¦ riSL?ii tMft« P WV*3* ¦ our .greai fl , ,' t (ftlJ b" uoWelmdmauyot tinea.think consciously, a^T^Slffi absorb^ theth8 ag^; as

Oft*** ** *&'$*& PwW^,«ftWI««^ deeds, tet them be noble

^and many o! them,

and reflection, was idealistic. The mind «$ Wocekn to.fall batk^ftrThen followed: ei^^WJindU^iSl}^ WMf av^paS^XOeWtt'' There m' TSSmsSi wHeW mfistWi 'itself outside of itself in ideals of religion *« ™fe *™fym &mattermt^^hree^nd ¦&&$&} iphilosophy ahdnadeflce 'are doing W}^.wn»^iMn aSmmiW6l taen4 feel very poor, the 6ne'is,,whefiJ they haveand art. v Bp,th are the offspring of sponta. Anally four elements with the problem, slowly ifwt»#*j tf Jffl^^neons inspiration, and creatU.of axiomatic which of the elevate in^oaxrmte^iri^ia the yBfr .f^ J^^lta^ '— -truth , Wiethe desire to rtali?6 them;ihl ^rsal bausationt ,"At %t .,$i& i$.i^^^• ^SOXW3H W : ^^ -

man and society, or in wprksof vVfXqjg analysij rwent beyond the elements, imtfgr ^pA^C^bMM^'f W^M A iSf-t^S^ ^Wi*?^ :VThe lamentdtiohs bf' Job in his direst irib-are boundless. They break through , f^ X^S ffift ¦*"*? *** the *****"¦!»!»**¦«¦»mtS SiSmSS iiSSs ^ or^^^»-»BtT(rllfltt^WWW"limi ts of .reality, or even probabiHtjr, ihto' Bmall^ thinkable parts called atoms, in m m^n,M *m*lF WMWt»- TS B S^iS^WtS^' ben's complainte when they pay a fewjol .the inflnite, and liable to roam Upon the which the cause of all nation and being is ^^

the service-oUbM^^.shv,«tate" ^

om Ansto toJtoifcsHr U» for the causeTof religion'; this show's how "broa.1 ocean of phantasy, far beyond the penitent forever. and chprch. Me^W'Pkied M^^^^^^^ m^

'tlbWSd V t m 'M toASttM*™secure haven of sober truth . .Strabo thinks the Phoenician Moshas.waB Austria, Germany, Italy, ahd partly also SSSSXid^SfflffiJJ^ffiSJS :r«*»; il * a blessine to 6QciQi^ that 8UchError always produces practical results the author Of the atomistic hypothesis. I^upel gfamttfeihdjg^ 'painful to man and society, irritates the Laertiils and Cicero were of the opinion and he, ^^PJI^^Hw^^^iiw^^^^

Q n^'Plum'st^V a ^far mbr'e'da'n- KKra m.reasoning faculty, and challenges its resist- that Lsukipp invented it. Anyhow it was philosophy and poetry^losed^and there was ^e^ea? B^ffitS^r^¥?^ PJi 0f ^ *& ^ ' It^\<^ ..ance. This gives rise to philosophy, which introduced inGrecian philosophy by Demo- ft "pahuul vacuum \£fa*m&f k 5jrtind, ¦ i smiaBi ' ^ ^ SM. the paying ofc ^es'eh'd 6ofagr^afcional duesiM-stops the erratic reveries, and calls the pro- critus, the well known laughing philosopher, which - was, wpll. 'developed ,%pbseiwe, that, upp j either' sidd Of ffie 'llthmW; ahVthe and as. a consequence is driven from the jducts of the mind before the judgment seat sometiiie between 470 and 460 B. C., with there was W'the Mg^^coMrWb? tae^iid in w^ich . the late histofy of- Geri- fairest fieibiWh^ toi fWJ 1b^ai>

:where-,Hof reason, to establish an equilibrium he- whom j e^tything, also the gods, was an We^m ju^pewfc'on^ rejdi"herty,au^^tween the work of spontaneity and the force aggreg te atoms. On , the other hand,' mora l>bpWpW^ f^mle fac/of the earth " ' «Jof reality, to arrive at approximate trukh. Tythagjoras (540 to 610 B. C.) and the.Italian and pr^rity^-wasldWe'r , M a&m^ l m^ . - « '.IS^flLyS& t™— ,«*—

Again, philosophy is after all speculative, school, had introduced. the; mystieism of< ohorchi bq%4>tholic.an^PM%tant,7 wa& i fe*i4?ht-WMi?'i?ni5a^f9,^

os«llllog- Go forth aiid battle for mv riehta exwaeconsequently - liable to the influence & «»*beU and expounded the univeree by tW rigMd%l OTifflM w^ W^^S^S^-phantasy like religion and art, it is en, the mf ries of mathematics. der i ill' ^M0^^ f ^&^lTX^S^

%££*£?, lliXre !££&¦.gaged in the solution of problems porting : Extehsive travels in the &gt, especially^ and th4t pWlosophy,hadbWn turned into a but pest Tndavi«ron«j9•there.wiltbeW and benefltslf youOdefeated.IwillniocS:;,to the infinite, so that it often leaves the fe EgjLt, Phoenicia, and Syria, theu the tra^^^rW^r^^i^^ *|| ft *,7

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enffi. c^^not desert this ground . entirely, therefore with tlktbea dominant Persians, gradually -The t^^dfthe^ Gejn^ olars, Uber-' d^lf proDlel 'evWr^ntelXWie h& "are the tho^htrfandTanguftgeHOf WsM iexpounds shapes, and forn« it, to barmon- brought^exidjp,hr^^^ ' lanimous, ala* toe world hM^m^^tiue with «ie mam idea or theory of the pe- the fodrth century B. C, Socrates, PJato- weakest^ thetwo great?pdwetBHgam8tvthe ¦ J' —r -^-r^-~ - •'

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as^AWA and ^eir di^^^^^ ' «<»D'» «BAce. Be brief , be brlef,?extlauls fcMwell a8 to great,diBcovene8,n natm-al 6ci- to the !more ancient materialism; ahd buHt &«, had to fee anti-Chr^iJBm. ' Feuer: ~*— ' only '' one id^,'*wklhe%e«Wn^K•«nce ^£PWef^ «f>} toe- up those systems of philosophy, including bach, Schoppenhauer and Czblbe did, from The highest wish that man can pray and who call qn hlmi'Wafd toWme^nteMj lpainful res^ts^to Irritehoft ^^ have exercised the phaosPpfeicaJisMpWrft^llame work ^hope for, is God's grace. "0 God let thy or educational caused"! caSKoWfflof reason which rouses the mind to another So vast an influen ce upon the progress Of as did Strauss with bis Life of-Jesus, Bruno grave shine on me ahd mine," i8 aprayer for vou for this te notlcortin^wiiea^^Hpec ies of activit y, the investigation of spe- man, atid stUl do in very many instances, Bauer, the New Catholics, the- FreeCongre- which millions of fathers, mothers, broth- of course not - ^is^nlv^lSo ttake ,!..al pronmos of reality research , and ex - so that besides the Bible, Plato and Aristotle gatlons and their head leaders from the crif, ere, sisters, and relatives utter, so.be in mon^bSt to spend m^SS^oi ' -f.vnment , o e-ahluih facts and laws of the were the main factors of civilization. Sill ical and practical standpoints. Dogmatic their humble room where stern poverty S^y rm^Sve ^S^Et wi*llu ngs .i-i tJ ¦ ¦.¦.' ««' in essewtf and function, materialism hnd two more prominen t disci- Christianity was undermined among the bids them to measure the-loaf 0J bread be- his only idea