Man at this earth to the man possible of an essential being of the universe

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INTRODUCTORY PREFACE.

This title of man at the earth to the man possible of an essential being of the universe intends a theory of nature and of man in nature ; and of nature in the resolutions of a finite being to be termed life, and of nature in the resolutions of that life into the beings of it possible, the last of which at this earth's surface is man, who, therefore, is to the man possible of that essential being and him the most man possible and the best man possible to be his most. To this it is intended that there is being finite of beings infinite in reciprocal limitations of each other ; that this is original, universal and exclusive of other being in that universe. And as such that it is being in units originally insensible but capable of unions into the beings sensible of which there are the beings in stars, sun, earth, plant and animal from its universe to man and the mind of man, inclusive ; that to this the beings infinite and different in products of the finite are fractions, inversely, of integral infinites ; that as such they are vacua and plena of these infinites reciprocally; that so they are reciprocally attractive and reciprocally repulsive, and of their reciprocal attractions are in coincidence on the axis of their mutual being intermediate, and of their reciprocal repulsions are in differentiations thence into spheroids and wheels of the one infinite relatively static in revolution on its axis relatively dynamic, that of these infinites the ones are dynamic and the others static, relatively, and the ones fast and the others slow, and the ones eccentric and the others concentric in the every radiation of their common being from their axis of reaction, that in this the static is an orb of relative matter in its elliptical orbit about the as its center at one of the foci of its ellipse, that such are stars about the center of the universe, and suns about stars, and planets about suns; and the crust of the earth about its explosive center ; and the plus about the minus of electricity, and the positive about the negative atom of the matter molecule, and the base about the acid of the matter compounds; and the pistillate about the staminate principle of the plant, and the female about the male principle of the animal; and the offspring about the parent in the family of man ; and the weaker about the stronger class of families in the state of man, and the weaker about the stronger states in the races of man ; and that thus at his time and place in the evolution of the being finite — the essential being of this universe — there is to be the man possible of that essential being, who is thus destined not to the ends of his own invention or to those of an anthropomorphic Theos in operation upon being otherwise existing and inert, but simply to the man possible of his means of subsistence possible.

But that there is not to be such man of any single race. It intends that there is an union of infinites necessary to the finite being possible ; that such infinites there were in unions of unequal races ; that without this every state at its maturity in the theoretical equality of its individuals must come under the volition of those individuals divided into parties major and minor, the major of which for the term of its majority must be the government and must exterminate the minor or be exterminated by it, in either of which events there is the dissolution of the state. And such the theory, it becomes important to consider whether there be such essential being.

Chapter I

And, such the theory of such essential* being, it is of little interest, but of much importance. And of little interest. Few will consider, or care, whether there be such being. And fewer still will take the imports of the terms by which that being is expressed. But it is of much importance to man himself, at least. If the theory be true, and there be such being, it will be the only being of the universe. And in this there will be the life of which there is the nature of which is man, who, of such nature, will be to the man possible, and but to the man possible on earth, of his means of subsistence there available. This man possible will be the most man possible, and the best man possible, that he may be his most, at every habitable place about the earth. In this there will be the most of human life possible, and the best of human life possible. There will be peace, order, industry, economy and progress to a consistent and harmonious community of man, in which there will be the most and the best of individuals to the most and best of states, to the most and best of races to that universal race, the most and best possible. And it were important to the well-being of present and prospective man that he consider and accept such theory, if it be true. And it were more important for the further reason that man is here on earth to the end, not only of his individual enjoyments in his earthly life, but to the end of an eternal providence beyond this life. This may be in a moral being of the souls of man, who in their earthly lives have contributed to it, and which, as a civilization, conserves to its existence the lives of man continually coming to exist on earth; or it may be in a heaven or hell apart from this earth, into which the souls of individuals may go to take the rewards or punishments proper for their conduct here. If there be such essential being of life, nature and man in nature to the man possible the end of that providence, of which is man, is such moral being of the soul of bettered man to hover and brood the race of man. But, if there be not such being, the end of that providence, and of man himself, will be such state of rewards and punishments, in which the souls of man discharged from man on earth will not be further concerned about such man. And while of his consideration man may not alter these conditions, yet, if he is to a moral being attendant on the race of man upon the condition that he shall have contributed to the advancement of that race, it is of much importance to him that he consider of the ways by which he may advance it. And of importance is the question, therefore, whether there be such essential being of the universe.

Chapter II

The only question that of its existence. If it exist it is the being finite of the word of God in space, and as either it is universal and exclusive of other being of the universe. And is the universal being insensible of which is the universe of beings sensible. And as such it is the essential being of the universe.

Chapter III

There is such space, if there be that which could not be without it, in that there is cause to consequence ; and consequence to cause; and but cause to consequence, and but to consequence; and but consequence to cause, and but to cause; so that throughout the universe there is that that can be, and that which can be is, or is to be ; and there is such being, therefore, if there be that which could not be without it. And there is such being also if there be but one being of which are all the beings of thisuniverse ; and there is but one such being as is shown in the fact that every being reacts with every other.

Chapter IV

There were that which could not be without such being, if there be being finite, or the word of God, or space, in that each were not only universal and exclusive of such being but as that be of it, but were being physiological, as were such essential being, and as it were not if not of the being finite or the word of God or space.

Chapter V

Nor were there force or matter without such being. Force were the action of one infinite on another in production of the being finite in such spheroid and wheel of the one as axle to the other or its disk about the axis of their neutral being intermediate. At every point in every such wheel there were the reactions of its factors, the resultants of which appear to us in the physical forces, heat, cold, dark, light, electricity and magnetism. And as there were not these resultants without the infinites in reaction, or these without an essential being of the universe, there were not force without such being. And so there were not matter, in that force and matter are the same. And this, in that they react, as they could not if not of the same essential being inversely. For this reason all forces are essentially the same, and all matters the same. And all forces and matters the same. And they are the same for the further reason that all matters under force sufficient are sublimed to the physical forces. And there not being force, there were not matter without such being, that being but the syntheses of force, as force is but the analysis of matter.

Chapter VI

Nor were there life or nature without such being. Life and nature are the systemic forces of the being finite, of whose intersections and production of the finite being pysiological there are the physiological forces. And regarding this as a spheroid and wheel of the one infinite as dynamic axle evolving into its static disk and the other as static disk involving the dynamic axle, the one in that which in animals and plants are termed life, and the other that which not only in animals and plants, but in all other beings finite, we term nature. And as there were not the disk without the axle or the axle without the disk •of such wheel, there were not life without nature or nature without life in any being finite. Nor are there these, so nothings but as they be of the same essential being inversely ; and but as there be such being. And there are not life or nature, therefore, but as there be such being.

Chapter VII

Nor were there the universe, star, sun or earth, without such being. There were the universe, but as it be the whole of the being finite of beings infinite, and this, a being physiological of such infinites reacting on its axis to produce it. Nor were there stars but as they be the first beings finite possible about the axis of the universe. And but as they be orbs physiological in orbits about that axis. Nor were there suns but as they be such orbs in orbits about the axis of the stars. Nor were there planets but as they be such orbs in orbits about the axes of suns ; or the earth, but as it be such orb in its orbit about the axes of the sun and universe. -Nor were there the universe, star, sun or earth, but as it be the physiological product of its systematic factors, the one energy and the other inertia ; and the one in eccentric radiations from the axis of such spheroid, and the other in concentric radiations from its surface forming ; and but as the matter of such orb be from the reactions of these factors, the one as levitation and the other as gravitation as they appear at the surface of this earth and of which are the molecules of matter in the earth's crust, the one atom of earth such molecules being of levitation in specific heat and the other of gravitation in atomic weight, which heat and weight in -every such elemental matter are inversely to each other.

And as there were not these, or the one of these, but on these conditions, there were not the universe, star, sun or earth without such essential being.

Chapter VIII

Nor were there the plant or animal without such being. There are plant and animal at the earth's surface, and the plant in orders cryptogamic, phanerogamic, endogenous and oxogenous; and the animal in orders radiate, annulate, articulate and vertebrate. And the plant of the elemental matters oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon; and the animal of these and surphur and phosphorus in addition. And of these matters simply are the plant and animal. There is no evidence of an intermediating agency to produce the plant or animal or to produce the plant or animal through other orders than those now existing. And, as these matters are of force, and force of an essential being of the universe, so are the plant and animal of such being, and were not without such being.

Chapter IX

Nor were there man or mind in man without such being. There were not man, but as he be of the same elemental matters as the animal ; nor were there these but as they be of force ; nor were they of force but as that be of an essential being of the universe. Nor were there man but as he be of an animal two-footed and two-handed by variation to the means of a larger life from the animal four-footed or four-handed. Nor were there present man of such animal, but as there be unions for life between adults male and female ; and between parents and their children. Such animals two-footed and two-handed with an organ of intelligence to co-ordinate the activity of feet or hands were but an animal so long as it were solitary. And it were solitary until there were such unions, as is the animal four-footed and four-handed. The adults male and female of these are together only through the brief periods of their mating. And the mother is with her offspring only through the brief period of their helpless infancy. Each at other periods is dependent upon the chance products of the earth for its means of subsistence, which without union it is unable to cultivate or conserve, and so were the animal two-footed and two-handed. But in such unions there were the .production and conservation of provisions for safety and subsistence to a larger and better animal life than were possible of the solitary animal. That larger and better life is to be termed human and that more and better animal of such life is man. But there were not such man without an essential being of the universe. There were not the matter of the animal without this. Nor were the variation of the animal of such matter into the animal two-footed and two-handed without this. Nor were there the variation of the solitary animal two-footed and two-handed into the social animal in families, stocks, tribes and states of man without such being. Nor were there mind in man without such being. In every individual man there is a sensitive being preceptive and reflective of the conditions incident to the continuation of his individual existence under them, which, perceptive, we term conscience and, reflective, mind. This is a finite being physiological of infinite beings kindred and different in limitations of each other, as is the individual man himself or other being physiological, and is subject to the attractions, repulsions and inductions of other such physiologies adjacent as in any other such. And as there were not this without man, or man without such being, there were not this mind in man without such be.ing.

Chapter X

Nor were their law without such being. There is law. In every being there is the rule that at the time and place possible of the growing universe it be, and be the being possible at that time and place. This were its law, and this were deliverable to it only through antecedent beings of an one essential being of the universe. And there is thus, therefore, such being, and such intermediary and impersonal course of being in this universe if there be being infinite, or the word of God, or space, or force, or matter, or life, or nature, or the universe; star, sun, earth, plant, animal, man or mind in man, or law in this or other being, but upon the condition, only, that they be realities, and not conventionalities, merely. And real being and not conceptions, to which we give these names. They are such realities if they be of a finite word of God in space. And they are of that finite word.

Chapter XI

In such realities there are the being finite, and the word of God and space. There is being finite, in that there is being not infinite. Being, simply, were being infinite, but being finite is in the limitation of one infinite by another infinite as itself. And as there is being not infinite, there is being finite. But this only of infinites in limitations of each other, and as such it is a reality. There is also the word expression of the will of God that there be the beings of this universe. There- is an anterior and causing cause of such beings, and there is a consequential and mediating cause of such beings, and this mediating cause must be of the beings of that causing cause. As such it were the word expression of the will of that causing cause. And as such it were reality. And there is also space intervening matters and pervading and intermediating matters from which matters of static force sufficient come and into which matters of dynamic force sufficient go. This is where the finite word of God were. And it is as were the being finite of the word of God. And if it be not in fact the being finite of the word of

God, it is itself a being finite of beings infinite, and assuch is a reality.

Chapter XII

As realities also there are force and matter. There are forces thermal, photol, electric and magnetic. And. these in the reactions, physical, chemical and physiological, of matters adjacent. And in the attractions, repulsions and inductions of matters at a distance, and in the levitations and gravitations of matters at this earth's surface. And these forces are the same in that they react with each other; and the same as matters, in that they react with matters; and in that the ultimate analysis of matter is force. And that, in every force, and every matter, and. every reaction of forces, and of matters and of forces and matters, there is law; and the law that, of every such reaction at its time and place there be the being of force, or matter, or force and matter, the being possible, and this were possible but as both be of one essential, being of the universe, and realities therefore.

Chapter XIII

As realities also, there are life and nature. There is that we term life in plant, animal and man at this earth's surface as the cause of the beings at their times and. places possible, the consequences of which cause in these we term nature, and all of these are of matters we term organic. But there is matter in metals, rocks and waters, which we term inorganic, which are the natures of a. cause in force, as the plant; animal and man, are the natures of a cause in life. And the matters inorganic, and organic the sources force the casual principle of the one is the same as life, the casual principle of the other. And, their lives the same, their natures are the same. And force and matter realities, life and nature are realities, and realities from being of one essential being of the universe; they are realities also, from being physiological, as are force and matter, and as they were not without, they be of such essential being.

Chapter XIV

As realities also, there are the universe, stars, sun and earth. And as such there is the universe. There is the universe. From its immensity we may not be able to perceive it, or conceive it, and we may not be able to perceive, or conceive it, for the further reason that it were inclusive of ourselves, and that the conscious being in man, however perceptive and conceptive, of the beings with which it has to do in continuing itself in man, and in continuing man in nature, may not be, and is not, in fact, perceptive, or conceptive of itself, and the less is it perceptive, or conceptive of an universal whole of that being of which it is. But rationally, if not consciously, there is, to that mind in man, an universe of that being of which there are the beings of the universe. And this by reason of deduction, and induction. By deduction from the hypothesis of such universe of being there is the every phenomenal being possible from the universe to man, and by induction of the every phenomenal being possible from the universe to man there is such universe.

Chapter XV

And, as realities, also, there are the stars. As by reasons of deduction and induction there is the universe, a reality, for the same reasons, there are the stars, realities. There were the universe of space in force and matter but as it be physiological of its systemic factors, the one energy and the other inertia, and the one in eccentric radiations of energy from its axis, and the other in con- 3 centric radiations of inertia from its disk. And of these revolving about the axis, there were beings physiological in orbs of matter, revolving on their axes of forces, and these in elliptical orbits and in a hollow sphere, about the axis of the universe, analogously such, and so, as there are molecules of elementive matters about the axis of the earth, from its systemic forces, reacting to produce them in a hollow sphere about that axis. Of these physiological bodies of force in matter, the most conspicuous were those we term stars. These were necessarily of the same being as the universe itself, and that reality, the stars were realities, by reason of deduction merely. But there is the star, a luminous orb of matter from force, with others in a hollow sphere about the axis of the universe, such as the systemic forces of an universal reality were able to produce, and this, if not of that reality, were the miracle or accident of consequence, without cause it is not, and, whether by reason of deduction or induction, as realities there are the stars.

Chapter XVI

And as a reality also, there is the sun. The reasons of deduction and induction, through which it appears that the star is a reality, as is the universe, are equally efficient to show that the sun is a reality as is the star. By deduction from the star as a reality there were smaller orbs of matter about their centers of force, included, and these in their orbits about the centers of stars as those were about the centers of the universe. And about every such star there were mediately, or immediately, one such orb as is the sun, and about this there were orbs in elliptical orbits, such as are the planets. And the sun were in a crust of metallic matter about its center of space included. And about this there were its atmosphere of metallic and metallic oxide vapors and beyond this and in and near the plane of its equator, there were its planets, asteroids and comets, in their elliptical orbits about the center of the solar system. And by inductions of its phenomena, there is the sun, such orb of matter about space, and in its elliptical orbit about the axis of some star, or of some stellar system, and the crust of matter first about its center of space is metallic, and about this is its atmosphere of metallic and metallic oxide vapors forming into rocks to subside as spots upon the incandescent surface of the metallic crust. And beyond this on, in, or near, the planes of its equator, there are planets, asteroids and comets in elliptical orbits about the axis of the solar system of sun and planets. And as there were not the hypotheses without reality there were not the phenomena without it.

Chapter XVII

And, as a reality, also, there is the earth. The earth is a reality if it be of being finite, or the word of God, or of space, and it is of this or the one of these, if it be physiological. And it is physiological if it have a crust of matter about a center of space. And if this crust be in strata, the first of metals, and the next of metallic oxides in rocks, and the next of hydrogens oxide, in water. And if about this there be a gaseous atmosphere of oxygen and nitrogen in the proportions of one to four, and if of these with water there be ammonias and carbonic oxides, and if of these there be the plant into the plant possible in the course of which there are produced the additional elements of matter, sulphur and phosphorus, and of these with those of the plant, there be the animal possible, including man. And it is of being finite or the word of God, or space, since either of these is universal and exclusive of other being in that universe. And if it be being physiological, as either of these is such.

And there is its space center in a solid sphere of dynamic and explosive force, and about this there is a hollow sphere of metallic and metallic oxide matter ; and about this an envelope of hydrogen oxide matter in water liquid, and about this an elastic atmosphere of gaseous oxygens and nitrogens in the proportions of one to four, of whose reactions at or near the earth's surface there are gaseous waters, ammonias and carbonic oxides of whose reactions on the earth there are matters termed organic, of whose reactions there are planets, of whose reactions there are animals, of whose reactions there is man.

Chapter XVIII

There is a space center to the earth, in that, if theie be a stratum of densest metallic matter in its crust, and this extending to its very center, it were many times heavier than it is. And, that there is such stratum, is in the fact that if there be not, the earth were then too light. The archaen rock of the oxides of lighter basic metals, seen in situ or in detrita at the earth's surface, is but two and one-half times the weight of water; and if this extended to the earth's center, as it would if there be not in it a stratum of metallic matter about the center of space, the earth would weigh but two and one-half times as much as an equal volume of water, while it is found to weigh five and one-half times as much. And there is such center for the reason that upon it, of whatever it might have consisted originally, there is the weight of its crust, thousands of miles in depth; and of its atmosphere, hundreds of miles in height ; and of the ether beyond ; and of its moon and meteorites, the aggregate of which were enough to sublime to primitive space the center of the earth, if that had been matter, and that matter platinum. And there is this center of space for the reason that there is no conceivable source of matter at the earth's center. And that there is the want of that space in force to sustain the matter of the earth's crust about it. And to propel that matter into the earth's atmosphere and through that into its plants, animals

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and men, and states of men. And that there is platinum within the earth, whose only office can be the holding of the earth's dynamic space, as the boiler holds its steam. And that such space within a belt of metallic matter is indicated by the movements of the magnet, which tends not about the earth, as an orb, but through it by its axis, as though about the equator of that axis there were a belt of metal, in which they were the current of electrical reaction, inspiring it. And that there is such space within the sun, a being physiological, analogous to the earth, and that it would exhibit in heat radiations that levitation resisting gravitation, which appears in all matters on the earth's surface, which can come of no other cause conceivable.

Chaptkr XIX.

There is also a metallic stratum to the earth's crust. Of the earth's systemic factors, the one energy and the other inertia, and the one in levitation and the other in gravitation ; and the one in radiations eccentric, and the other in radiations concentric. There were the reactions, of which there were the elemental matters of the earth's crust, in each of which there were specific heat inversely to atomic weight. And of these the first to form about the earth's center of radiating energy were of the most atomic weight to the least specific heat such weight could seize and hold. These were the molecules of the metal platinum, the densest and most obstinate matter known. And there is such stratum, in that there is the metal platinum, which can have formed at no other place, and in no other way. And in that the platinum seen at the earth's surface is of vapors and from below the archaen rocks ; and in that the magnet indicates the existence of such stratum in a belt about the axis of the earth, and in that there is such stratum now about the space center of the sun ; and in that such boiler were necessary to the steam of the earth; and in that this in the earth were analogous to the limited membranes of organic cells, and in that without this there were not the earth's weight.