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ness—told all I thought, ami thought more than I had before in my whole life. She sail little to me-*-justa word now and then to draw me out—was silent concerning my in curable dullness, yet treated me with the greatest respect. She asked me to do some little accounts for her, it tired her so. She spoke with such a m a t t e r - o f - c o u r s e confidence in my capability, that I was J\_ T v l B B O T \5T 3? IE S . 11Y ORSON KNiailTLKY. FOR TAT. I could not, and so I made the attempt, 'they were very simple, and I had no difficulty, asked if I had done them correctly. “ Cer tainly,” she said, and thanked me. One day she asked me to sit in my custom ary place, on a stool a t her feet; and taking a little book from her pocket, she began to read to me. It was a life of the childhood of Sir Isaac Newton. Although her voice was broken, it was very sweet, and she read with a soul an<l emphasis which were beyond all my previous conceptions of the possible. 1 had never before heard colloquial passage* read as though live people were talking. When she finished, I was standing before her. My boyish form drawn up to its full hight : and my breathing was deep and hard. She smiled quietly, put the book back in her pocket, and commenced to converse upon in different topics. I asked her to take the book “ No,” she said. “ If you read, how can I visit with you ?’ ’ The next day there was company, and when I grew uneasy among strangers, she told me that I might go up into her room, if I chose. This was an unprecedented favor, a great lib erty. I knew that no member of thc family ever dared to intrude in this room that grandmother did the chamber work herself, and that it contained a rare old cabinet of French workmanship, presented to her before she was married, to which I had heard Aunt Abigail allude in mysterious terms. I paused at the door, asmighta Hebrew youth of lively imagination who had received a “ thus saitli the Lord” to enter into the holy of holies, where the priests were forbidden to enter. 1 stepped over the thrcshhold, and my awe had vanished. It was a pleasant, neatly-furnish ed little room, with one window, looking out upon the sea. I sat down in the stuffed arm chair where she had so long sat, gazing out on the sea as she had gazed for so many years, and fell into a revery. Then my eyes turned upon the old cabinet, and I became curious. I wondered what was in it. “ Something,” 1 know. Is it locked ? What would I give to look in—no, that would be wrong. But what hurt would it do just to look in ? How easy it opens ; there are dainty little shelves, and carved cells, and many quaint little drawers, but all empty. Where is it? I must find it! A lid in the back falls down, and a rich per fume steals out. There is a bunch of dried sea-weed; a slate with W. L. cut in the worn wooden frame, and some faded, crumpled flowers upon i t ; a large pack of yellow old letters, and a miniature. I take it up and look at i t ; a fine looking young man in old style dress, a sailor hat in his left hand, his right is pointing to the sea, where is a ship BUSINESS TRANSACTION- Something must be done within ten dayi re shall see trouble. Our homestead is ashamed to say nai>lc to an attachment os well as our personal property. Mr. Silver Head threatens to it all under the sheriff’s hammer unless li poid soon. I tell you, my dear wife, some thing must be done.” “ Perhaps you cannot do better,” replied Mrs. Ames, “ than to pay Capt. Savage the bonus that he asks. “ I have been trying to-day,” rejoined Mr. Ames, “ to get him down on thc bonus ; but he knows our need, and it is therefore useless. Here is what lie handed me this afternoon. You see he has everything in black and white.” Mrs. Ames takes thc note from her husband's hand, and reads: W e b s t e r , N. II., July 8 th, 1858. Mr. Ames, My Dear Sir : I can let you have tiro hundred dollars providing you will give me a note for two hundred and twelve, with a mortgage on your farm. Your obedient servant, C a p t . J a m e s S a v a g e . Mr. Ames took the money on the above conditions. Moral : “ Get profit when you can, or you will not g et it at all .”— Old saying. Philosophical Department. For tho Uaritld of Progress. Astronomical Controversy. tu o x t i o m W H A T C A U S E S T I I E E A R T H TO R E V O L V E A R O U N D T I I E SUN 1 MORE OF THE SAME PICTURE. SHADED OFF BY TIME. It “ I t ’s enough to drive a man to ruin ! outrageously con—’ ’ Mr. Savage was exceedingly vexed, and was troubled to find language to express himself, so he drops his heavy body with a g runt into his favorite easy chair. Mrs. Savage! You know nothing how these rascally tricks will rasp a man's soul. Twenty-five dollars gone to the four winds. I might just as well throw away my money, if I can’t make it earn me something.” Mrs. Savage was a kind-hearted person; and, as this tirade was poured into her earsr her eyes glistened with joy ; for she knew that some one had the money. Perhaps they needed it more than Mr. Savage, for she was well aware that he did not need it. Neither was Mrs. Savage a weak-minded woman, so she asked, in a sympathizing tone : “ How have you lost your money?” “ Mr. Ames borrowed two hundred dollars of me two years since,” replied Mr. S., sav-‘ j agely. ‘ 1 He gave a note for two hundredAnd twelve, secured by a mortgage on his farm. When the first year was out, I called on him for the money. He had nonefdr me. I then required him to pay me ij&ight dollars, and agreed to let it rest ono^year longer, which makes ten per cent. H e ^ n id me the eight dollars. But now, when the two years arc out, he comes forward with a ffaccount of the ight dollars, but will not pay t h i twelve. It just getting up her anchor. I feci a touch oa' , lot bc c 0 jlcct0lI by law, £ e c a * it is n o t upon m y shoulder, and turning, I sec stand -1 . for value rcC(jlved/ Thc diffrac^ f t„ mc is ing over me the same young man. He looks I lovingly upon me; his right hand still stretch ed to w a r d th e sea. H e p o in t s a t th e sh ip I s h e w a s rettll d e liglxted. rid in g t h e r e — n o w m d a r k n e s s a n d s t o r m — 1 th e breakers are before h e r — w i th a crash , she nearly twenty-five dollars.” ‘ I t is too bad,” replied Mrs. Savage, bu The spittoon was of much service that even- ,, n „ , , . i ing, and Capt. Savage found the bed much George, George, had you fallen | out of order ^ nigh, M o r a l ; “ The sequel of the above story shows that if people go too far they defeat ANOTHER AMBROTYPE. BUSINESS TRANSACTION.— USUAL VIEW strikes asleep ? “ Oh ! grandmother, who is he ? She gave me a penetrating look, and a flush I their own purposes spread over her wrinkled face. “ Have you dreamed, my child ? Sit down j here and tell me all about it.” She took the chair, and I sat at her feet, and leaning my head upon her knee, told I .. , . , , T, , ., what I had seen and felt—not as a dream, for L n P“ P ° , f th<* it did not seem a dream. I felt her fingers I1,Cre Is, M,r' w,h° ? 1 le‘ haJ e a, bu* cl tremble, as they lay upon my head. When ° COm “ > “p m« ' le' P h “ fam' ^ , {wm I had finished, she murmured, \Thank God,\ ?talT,nK- v Hc f ro“ “ c? ‘° ^ “ ? a , xi t i • ' having. Now he says he shall pay the monev. and I knew that she was weeping. We sat ,.,. . . . ‘ \ - still for a long time, and again / , L w , and I } 18 ,,ut ,' ccor‘>,\S «• i he fact the irmmcd. o o o o o At length she y0U f °J pe°p c , • . . time and again, but tliev wont fulfill then- raised me up, embraced me long and fervent ly, kissed my lips, and said, “God bless y ou,’ bade me go and request Aunt not to call her to tea, and “ tell no dreams.” The sweet days dropped quietly, one by one, from my happy week ; and this was the bit ter day of departure. I believe I was about promises unless it is for their interest. There is Mr. Abbott, I helped to various necessaries, until he owed mc seven dollars. He then promised to give me a mortgage on his cow, | but afterwards he refused. ‘ If ever a man is worthy of Heaven, it is x._ i i , ,. , . I by doing as he agrees. The only saint that I to behave as babies (large and small) some- , ?■ *1 * . • times d o ; hut grandmother came to me, as I V T r “ P1'0'm60S' stood with my h at in my hand, and said ! t T ,T - , r , \You will excuse me, George, for not semi- , Ite u K I ‘0\ :.| » a man to do as imrvf.il rm.c„„i „ he agrees while he is surrounded with the ing j ou a present by your mother. I was waiting for the privilege of bestowing it my- \ self. ” e- And she placed in my hand a richly hound copy of the work from which she hail read to me. UNUSUAL VIEW. And I hope, George, ’ ’ said she, in a lower ------ one. you will not wait for a ‘ blow ’ before I “ I know it is not just or honorable to pro- you make an effort worthy of voursfif ” I »«!«,„ . 1 1 .1 . , “ I have had the 6 W 7 g m n d m X e r ! ” I 7 » ork ™d then pay money, said Mr replied ; and giving her myhand, I bade them I -X’ Parh?ul“rlJ' wherl compared all “ good-bye.” Then I walked down to the ’ 18 consu,eral,ly bolow l)iir- Mr. wag. ’ ’ - ■ ‘ IE LANCASTER CIRCLE’S BRID. KPLY TO DAVID TROW- anncxed figure, place, there is an end of the animal. Another Nearest a t A and spirit says, that the conscious life-principle is B, and furthest \the animal, the superior force, the only rcal- at C and D. Wc, ity, and, acting as a conscious force or power, D therefore, assert must have an organized identity. that it is possible If we take the ground th a t any degree of for there to be conscious life can be stricken out, we teach more than one the doctrine of annihilation; for if these perihelion a n d powers can be stricken out in one department one aphelion in Nature, wheu properly under-1 of life, they can, through the operation of the stood, and deny that it is possible for a single j same laws, be ann.hil.ted in another. So, ,f perihelion and aphelion satisfactorily to ac- “ the animal consciousness of the man is a count for planetary motion. Inertia is the compound of disembodied life-|dent,t,es a b normal, and motion the abnormal condition dated in one organism as one n cn ! j , w a of all material bodies. '11, c idea of continu - 1 can save him from annihilation f All maten- ous motion, therefore, necessarily involves the : al philosophers confine themselves strict y to contradiction that motion is produced by in- the action of natural laws, knowing that the If wev suppose this inertia to have been closest scrutiny can never detect the slightest L a n c a s t e r , Oct. 18th, 1860. M e s s r s . A. .T. D a v i s & Co., G e n t l e m e n : In your paper of the 6 th instant we notice an I ertia. „ ___________ , article from the pen of Mr. Trowbridge, pur-1 at first overcome by some external force, it is departure therefrom. Consequently, every porting to be a reply to certain queries pro- clear that thc subsequent motion and conse -1 organic form becomes a perfect exponent of posed by the “ Lancaster Circle,” in a pre- i qUent momentum must cease as soon as that | thc order of life therein manifested, vious number of your paper. A careful ex- force ceases to operate, and the body would animation of the article in question, instead again pass into its normal condition, that of inertia. Or if you suppose thc external force to be continuous, as in the case of the sun’s attraction, then it follows, as equally clear, f solving the difficulty in dispute, only estab lishes (in our estimation) the proposition we first started with, viz : that there is in the so- called “ learned world” very little known on I that the motion and momentum, resulting the subject of planetary motion. The article i fr0m that force, must be in a line with the of Mr. T. simply consists of a reiteration of | force itself, and the body would eventually certain assumed propositions, magnified int< “ laws,” which maybe found in every ele mentary work written on the subject, and which are as destitute of support in “ Nature,” as they are contradictory in themselves. Dog matic assumption, although based upon thc doctrines of Newton or Kepler, is but poor evidence, and the world has grown too old to be satisfied with anything short of reason, or actual demonstration. As wc have heretofore been very “ obscure,” we will now try to be plain. First, then, we believe that thc earth passes round the sun in a certain time called a year—but, the question is : what causes the periodic revolution ? Accord ing to the received doctrine on the subject, this motion depends principally on three laws which are said to exist in Nature, and which were discovered by Kepler in 1609. From the first law of Kepler, it is assumed that planets move with different velocities, in different parts of their orbits ; that, from the aphelion to the perihelion points, the centri petal force combines with thc centrifugal to accelerate the planet’s motion ; while, from the perihelion to the aphelion points, the cen tripetal acts against the centrifugal to retard it, &c. The second law is, that the radius rector describes equal areas in equal times, &c j which, when applied to thcsubjcct.qi planet- motiou being purely imaginary, we leave for the present where we find it. But let us come back to Mr. T .’s article, which, as we have said, is a mere reiteration of what every astronomical work will tell us on the subject. For the b etter elucidation of the matter, he prese* - us v ith a figure (Sec H e rald o f Progress, N o . 8 8 ,) and says, “ If we suppose the planet to occupy the position L, and to move towards M,” &c. Now we would ask : What right, in view of the forces said to be propelling it, have we to suppose that the earth moves in the direction of M, a t all Should it not n r f h e r inoveyin the lint fall into the sun. We have thrown out some hints about other force,” and will in a short time be able to lay before thc public the spiritual theory upon this subject. T h e L a n c a s t e r C ir c l e . For the Herald of Progress The Spirit Land. T H E P E R P E T U I T Y O P CONSCIOUS L I F E . t rather move in th e line L S ? Th ■ore, Messrs Ellitors, §s the vIMr to Let us loaK i t a l i c facts in ■ ■ Slu b u f P 1' point in dispute, the case : We are told that two forces called the cen tripetal and centrifugal are thc cause of pla netary motion. Centripetal force is defined ANSWER TO ' ‘ LATEST OB- BY M . J . W . In farther replying to our worthy corres pondent, “ P h i l a d e l p h i a , ” [See H e r a l d o f P r o g r e s s , N o . 34,] I must take the ground that to me there is no such thing as an imagin ary existence. Consequently, what he terms the ideal world, belongs, in whole, to the realm of realities. Even what are termed “ speculative theories’’ have their foundation in real causes. Now, I would ask if it be pos sible for the will-power of the man to create an organized identity which shall fill the mea sure of his loves and attractions as a reality , and still that organized identity be nothing LmLun abstract idea, or that which he defines as purely ideal ? “ Philadelphia” says, the answer “ does not It is no more wonderful that spirits should disagree in regard to the actualities of spirit- life, than that mortals should differ. “ When ye come together every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation—each ac cording to the unfoldment of the individual powers of discernment.” One views Nature on the external, sees a surface-beauty clothing all things in practical utility, but senses not the grand, the sublime, the glorious truths of which air, earth, sea, and sky, are but the mystic characters. One looks upon man as the lord of creation, the sole proprietor of all below him while here, but never once, while in this rudimental state, catches more than a glimpse of what he truly is. He sees not this curious mechanism, embodying all the laws and principles of life, moved in all its parts by that mysterious power which is akin to Deity. To me, there is no striking out or obliterating any elemental force ; it may take on a higher form, as it must in the order of progressive life. If it be dependent on the action of natural law for expression, I would ask, what power can prevent such expression? “ P h i l a d e l p h i a ” says, “ If death is but a transition of birds, alike with man, to the higher life, then, I ask, whether they are there sub ject to a second death; for, if not, they are immortal.” I do not admit that “ death” ever robs of that inherent force, that vital power, which constitutes each separate order and degree of life. Death is a term used to denote change—a throwing off merely of the outward, the external, not “ the extinction of life,” as Webster defines it, only on the exter nal; for if we .apply Webster’s definition to the “ death” of the man, we annihilate him at meet the jjbint squarely.” In his estimation j ®nce> preaching to save souls is all use- this may be so. The subject before us is one of intense interest, as involving the laws and principles of lifc^ in all its various forms. It is not to be presumed that man arrives here to the ultimate of Truth, or that he ever will. PracticalljpKcepting the rationality of this assertion, he questions the world of intelli gence beyond this power plane, for a solution of his problems. There can be no conviction less. But if continued existence is proved on the p art of man, immortality is proved thus far. If there can be a transition of birds to the higher life, how can it be proved that they are any more subject to a second death than man, especially as thc first death has no power over them ? One spirit affirms that the spirit world cor responds in all its parts to the rudimental ; another contradicts the assertion. One liu- in tli’eihquiring mind without demonstration. | man being has views of spirit life, sees and seer or clairvoyant trusts, in a measure, his spiritual senses, as they act through the organs of the spiritual body. W ith him, ‘‘ seeing is knowing.” But in explaining the truths of spirit-life to one who views things more directly through the material, or intel lectual, he is obliged to use such means as will I means, and especially while it is for his inter est to do so.” BUSINESS TRANSACTION, CONTINUED. to be the mutual attraction between the sun ; best subserve his aim. and planet. Centrifugal force to be the dis- j Now, all manifestation of life on the out- position which the planet acquires, while in ward plane, is but the expression of spirit life motion, to fly from the sun. Now if the and power—conditions being favorable to such planet possessed, per sc, this power, there expression, and to such only. The child rc- might be some probability in the doctrine, cognizes the existence of such things, as to But it should be recollected that inertia is the , him possess a tangibility ; in proportion as normal condition of all material bodies: that, his soul-powers become developed, does he if they are mode to move at all, this inertia j cognize thc presence of higher and moreethe- must be overcome; and that, when overcome, j real elements and forces. The child-man, or their motion will ol necessity be in a line with ; spirit, is a pupil in the great school of Nature, the moving force. We think there must be I and here his powers become unfolded in exact something stronger than Mr. T .’s figure to accordance with the law of conditions. One remove the absurdities consequent upon it. j soul is unfolded for tho time being, in one But let us again refer to the figure. Sup- direction—another, in an opposite or different pose the sun placed a t S, the earth at L, and j direction. One set of faculties are being de- of course in a state of inertia. Now what veloped in one individual, a t thc same time, overcomes that inertia ? W e are told the at- j that, in another person, faculties of a differ- tractive influence of the sun a t S—or, in other cut order are more perceptibly unfolding, words, centripetal force The earth begins to One sees through the grosser or more material move ; of course, m the line L S. It acquires ( senses; another through the intellectual; and vc ocity But how can that velocity produce still another through the spiritual. Onedirects a disposition (centrifugal force,) to fly from the powers of intellect to the demonstration the sun? Will not the momentum of the J of truth on the cxteribr plane, in another the planet urge it forward m the line of its mo -1 same powers are directed to the internal- tion, and of course m the line L S, until it world of causes, lands m thet sun— untys you suppose some repd- This leads man to the spiritual. Ung force m he sun itself which prevents the catas- cultivation of the spiritual, * new world u.v trophe ? It is a mere begging he question to | folds itself. And here, in this world, - suppose that thc fiat of the Alr” \ u * ' - ■ • communes with the disembodied, lives in the reality thereof ; another tells him ’tis all im aginary, moonshine, delusion, heresy. “ Who shall decide when doctors disagree?” One sees the world of natural causes in the world of effects, but fails to discover the rationale thereof. Another loses sight of the grosser, and involuntarily grasps the grand chain, whose every link is welded by eternal law. He is a philosopher ; but minds on the exter nal do not understand him much better than they do the seer. “ P h i l a d e l p h i a ” admits his belief that “ the living consciousness of the fox ” is an “ or ganized entity.” Now, resting on this ad mission, how can he decide that “ the con sciousness of the bird or beast ” ever “ loses all connection with an organization to mani fest itself in, or have cognizance of external things?” It is proved that man does not really lose such connection, only takes on a body corresponding in all its parts, to the physical; hence, death is a transition, a re moval, a throwing off the mortal, not a strik ing out of the living consciousness. When it can bc proved, by our esteemed correspond ent, that any order of conscious life can be lost or annihilated, I, for one, shall look upon existence as a failure, and all this great uni versal world of Being shall, like an empty bubble, burst a t the touch of a finite finger ; hut now it swells and glows with life, eternal life, in every form. Incarnate in the man, In thc | comes forth the voice of Deific power. Can he, the Child of Heaven, at once thread j the mazes ol' thought, and up from the great - th e _ , where my brother James was wait-1 ^ ettl(^ would not have let me hail the corn, I can, and soon will be, accounted for, without ing, with feelings similar to those with which un^e8S I bad promised more value in labor than j volving the subject in contradiction. General Bonaparte took command of the the cash value of the corn. And then he com- j Mr. T. tells us that — 1 I was tl,eybcarcr;of a note from arand- S ! ' “J f.'’’’0\ t0°' he would I that mother to my parents. After digesting its L i V*? ^ “ 8 y Cow. ’ wlnle no doubt contents, they informed me that I need not .1S OU tlie otlier of t!ic house, attend school any more, hutmight work with ^ Ie 't5’ ^ r - Abbott has a large family, and Thomas. I read my hook with avidity, and whfttever they do for Mr. Heard—from the finding an d d Hfe of Newton on the book- y‘>ungest to the o ldest-M r. Heard will always shelf a t home, I read th a t ; and afterwards make count on his side of the ledger I received from grandmother, a history of “ For i„v r * A Columbus and his discoveries ; in short, I bc-tw^r. / Fi , cannot see the difference . s dclmcon a highwayman that attacks the she lias f.ea? aJ '1,0 traveler>1111,1 t>>e rich man that skins to become quiet, nor the resulting conse- 1 nn.l .x, , ■ . .. .. I --------- - qucncos, rverr this aliowed to take place. AH j hr is “.^ t h e ' T ' ‘hC ^ °U ^ N'XU\'! commenced t o l i v e . I visited my grandmother twici J ft'w‘xxurvniv.1 , Ol.G JlrlS xl.^, I l l ’ rxxwa OIX1IIO visited me many times. This is the story of ®. p , P001-- Mr. Heard never agrees to rny first visit. My second is inscribed upon a thm£ until he has the advantage, and then he another leaf, which will appear upon thc > Coasts that he ulways does as he aqrecs H e r a l d ' s life-tree next week. | C on c l u s io n : “ T T m w . , . . . . . ' ‘ Honesty is the best policy.” t is needless to Nature there can be but one Aphelion and one Perihelion.” A little reflection will convince any one (particularly if the meaning of these terms be understood) that the asser tion of Mr. T. is not true. How does Mr. T. know, and by what authority docs he pretend to assert, what can or cannot be true in the orbit of any planet—especially if that orbit be a t all eccentric or elliptical? Thc term Perihelion, is derived from Peri, about or near, and hclios, the sun; and Aphelion, from Apo, from, and hclios, the sun. A planet might, therefore, he nearer '’Ciisuous.the holds out to him, and, in his ardent longings . n,g tu\ he term s. U- aud fmtU tkafc the I for evidence of things unseen, there demon- ty, the corn- real, active forces, which clothe thcmselv~„,„ say | tangibilities, are still too ethereal, too refined, to be grasped, handled, by the purely mate rial senses. More, that these senses are all entirely dependent upon thc construction of the corporeal organism, and are lost to the outward man, with the decay of the physical structure. It is not to be expected that all spirits will see alike, or reason alike, more than mortals. One spirit reasons, cognizes facts by a direct appeal to thc external sensee still clothed in flesh ; anothe strated, to a mathematical certai plete infinity of his own powers? Has lie yet seen one law o r principle of nature acting as an operative cause, and still acting as a final ity? Is there one order or phase of life which, in the rudimental, is complete ? Does not immortality, as a truth, attach itself to every degree of animate and inanimate life ? Docs not science reveal the fact that no atom of matter can be ever lost or destroj-ed ? Do not all the a rts and sciences rest upon the one as he would if I fundamental truth, that no law or principle reasons philo- of nature can be subject to the mutations of the sim a t two points hjsrulh an orbit if the sun I andflMhcompo^ng theanimal’is^lrarwG id^n- ’ In of this knowlcdse, be placed in the center, as at 8 , in the | \ & 1 - I did ever man find himself mistaken? Does I i y, and that as soon as decomposition takes' n o t every step in advance, convince us that it
