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Tis night; the moon in silence flies
Through the dim regions of the skies.
Long since the clouds, that like a pal]
Hung o’er the wide, expansive wall
Of Heaven’s dome, have passed away;
While from the East the silver Spray

Of countless stars, is seen to shine

Along the still unchanging line

That from the regions of the Sun,

Ere yet the race of night is run,

Comes ushering in the deathless hue

Of Heaven’s own eternal blue.

Just now the Sky’s clear face was blurred
With clouds, and from her hights were heard
The sounds of eternal strife,

As though the vault of Heaven were rife
l'Vith discontent; and from the Poles
There came the deep and solemn rolls

Of thunder as it echoed far

Above the din of Nature’s war,

And from the folds of yonder cloud,

That seemed to gird it as a shroud,

The forked lightning, winged with death,
Breathed forth its all-destruczive breath
Upon the world. The dancing rain
Poured o’er the mountain and the plain

In mighty torrents, fierce and wild,

That seemed in contrast with the mild

And solemn stillness of the hour

That just succeeds the awful power

That carries on the wars of Heaven,

When elements to strife are driven.

Then too, the Wind in sullen mood

Like the grim lion seeking food,

Was heard to quit his mountain cave

And speed to rouse Old Ocean’s wave,
Returning thence in awful pride

His Viewless form appeared to ride

The steeds of Heaven, whose clattering hoofs
Were heard upon the trembling roofs

Of man’s proud mansions; the great trees,
That stood like monarchs in the breeze,
And seemed to bid defiance bold

Tc Summer’s heat and Winter’s cold,

And towered with heads high in the dome
Whence the deep tones of thunder come,
Were seen to bend beneath the breath
Of this fierce counterpart of Death,
And bow to Earth the stately forms
That echoed to the rude alarms

Of Heaven’s dissonance; and the Earth

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That from its dim and distant birth

Has held its own unchanging way
Through seas of Night, and realms of Day,
And heeded not the flight of years,

The course of Time, the path of spheres,
Nor ever lingered on his way

To cull the charms of golden Day,

Or pluck from off the brow of Night

The meteor in its dazzling flight,

And still amidst the countless host

Of God’s vast Universe has lost

None of its might, was seen to shake

And to its inmost center quake.

And then the wild and fearful Deep,
Which Earth’s convulsions roused from sleep,
Came striding from his ocean caves

And hurled his white and crested waves
High into Heaven. It was a grand

And awful sight. The sea and land
Together mingled, and sent forth,

With groans discordant toward the North,
The voice of wild commotion; and the sky,
As if to bring its terrors nigh,

Hung brooding o’er the darkened world,
While ever and anon were hurled,

From its wide jaws, the lurid glare

Of lightning, as it speeded where

The Thunder’s forces gathered. And now
The storm is lulled, and on the brow

Of Heaven, is a stillness fraught

With quiet too intense for thought.

And as the echoes die away,

Silence asserts a moment’s sway.

But now again the air is rent

With lightnings from the tempest sent,
And the oppressive quiet smote

By the loud thunder’s startling note,
Sends forth its wild and awful shriek,
That pierces to the heart of weak

And trembling mortals; and the Sky,
With echoes sounding far and nigh,

As if to fill the complement

Of all the woes from Heaven sent,

Open wide theiportals of the clouds,

And from the black and gloomy shrouds
Of her own darkness, scatters forth

The frozen emblems of the North.

All nature is convulsed. The dark

And troubled Earth seems as a bark
Astray upon the pathless seas,

Driven powerless before the breeze

That guides her toward the nearing shoals,
Regardless of the immortal souls

So soon to find a watery grave

Beneath the surging Oeaen’s wave.

The hour is fearful, and the sound

Of thunder, echoeing from the ground
To Herven’s vault,is heard again

From mountain peak to ocean plain,

And the red lightning’s liquid light,
Gilding the stormy face of Night,

ShoWs to the travelers frighted gaze

The glittering, electric blaze

  

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Of Nature’s batteries in play,
And with swift thunderbolts to slay
Opposing hosts, the Powers of Night
Stand girded for the deadly fight,
That even now is hurling down
Upon the wet and wiry ground
The boasted battlements of strength
Which Man had reared to stand through length
Of hoary time, and only fall
When lapse of years, dissolving all
The fantasies of earth, shall bid
The mountain and the pyramid
Return to primal dust. The peak
Of yon high mount that seems to seek
The pealing Thunder’s distant home
Beyond the lowering clouds, whence come
The deadly lightning bolts of wrath
That lighten Earth’s benighted path
With fitful glare, is wrapt with flame;
And on its highest point the name
Of God is writ in streams of fire
That seem to mount in grandeur higher
Toward the gleaming throne of Him '
Whose might guides all the worlds that swim
The argent fields of space; and Heaven
Herself, as though to her were given
The power alone of calling forth
From his lone dwelling in the north, ~ ;
Old Boreas, with his icy breath
To aid the warring powers of Death,
Seemed drawing near the trembling worll
As if in awful wrath to hurl
Her shafts abroad upon the eowed
And quailing earth. The forests bowed,
And writhing in the Storm-King’s hand
Cast forth upon the burdened land
Their wrested verdure, and ther tall
Majestic trunks, with sounding fall,
That like the dire, discordant crash
Of Meteors in the onward dash
Of swift colliding worlds, that make
Terrific brag and seem to shake
Earth’s deep foundations,—so they cause
A moment’s lull in Nature’s laws,
And with resistless ferce they seem
To cast the red, phosphoric gleam,
Back into the low’ring cloud
' That pours upon the world a Shroud
Of densest gloom. The frightened fowls
Fly screaming upwards, and the growls
Of angry beasts abroad for food
Are heard from out the mangled wood
Where comes the panther’s startling scream, ‘
Which, blinded by the lightning’s gleam 3
Lay crouched beneath a fallen tree ‘
Lamenting the mad jubilee
That rends the skies and fills the earth
With such destruction as the birth
Of earthquakes only and the storm 1
That fills this night with dread alarm
Can e’er produce. But the powers lent 1
By angry Heaven now are Spent ~ 1
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Reverberations of the Sky,

Begin with measured tread to roll

Their ponderous car towards the Pole, 1
The lightning, weary of the sport ‘
From which all Nature seemed to court
His deadly bolts, allays his ire,

That burned with such destructive fire,
And gathered up the scattered shafts
Of blazing flame with which he wafts
Destruction o’er the world, he furls

His pinions worn with fllight, and curls
His lithe and limpid form to rest

Upon the wide, expansive breast

Of over-arching Heaven. The wind
At last is lulled to sleep behind

 

Yon mountain’s high and frowning form
That peers beyond the flight of storm

Or wind, and stands as though in thought
Disdainful, of the tempests fraught

With human woe. The murky clouds
Which long have wrapt in sable shrouds
The Sky’s fair brow, are rolling back
From ofi’the Nigh t—queen’s wonted track
Their somber shades, and in the high
And central regions-of the sky

The clouds are rent a spot of blue

. Displays the clear and azure hue

Of Heaven, and shows the wond’ring face—
Far in the dim and distant space—

Of one lone star, that seems to gaze

ln silent wonder through the haze

That wraps the Earth, and bending o’er
The frowning Heavens seems to pour

A living flood of light and life

Upon the sphere where mortal strife

So late did reign. And as the clouds
Withdraw their dark and somber shrouds,
Unnumbered worlds are seen to shine
Along the swift diverging line 4
That marks how fast the shades are driven
Down the sleping verge of Heaven.

The silver moon is peeping forth,

And from the bleak and frozen North
The Pole-star gazes calmly down

On desert, hill and peopled town,

And seems to drop a tear of woe

Upon the world which, stretched below,
Is prostrate by the awful strife

With which the Elements were rife.
Again the prowling beasts of prey

Are out upon the silent way;

And seeking round among the trees,
Uprooted by the tempest’s breeze,
Procure a rich and ripe repast

Of mangled bodies, which the blast
Surprising in the spacious wood,

Had crushed to earth beneath a flood

Of falling timbers. And the birds
Returning to the Earth in herds

Alight upon the miry ground,

While the scattered trunks around

Echo back the jargon sound

Of myriad voices, piercing shrill
Il‘hrough the deep and solemn still

Of storm-succeeding quiet; and then
Recov’ring from their fear again

Look out upon thegface of Night,

And stop to watch the fitful flight

Of meteors in the fields of space

That seem to plow the sky with pace
Akin to lightning. And the Earth

Is fresh as at the hour of birth,

Save when the raging whirlwinds made
Their sudden, desolatin g raid

Upon the wood and fertile plain,

That ne’er shall brave the Night again
Of Heaven’s dire-avenging wrath.

And now no more the outward path

Of constellations bright and grand,

Is hidden by the Storm-king’s hand.
How changed the scene in one short hour!
But now it seems that every power

In Heaven and Hell had broken forth,
From burning South to frozen North,
And brought their implements of war
To swell the strife that was to mar
Earth’s beauteous verdure. And the host
Of warning elements, that boast

To guide the issues of the day

When Nature’s powers in dire array
Prepare to burst upon the world;

And dark and scudding clouds are hurled
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And lightnings by the tempests driven
Pour their swift and burning shafts
Where the angry whirlwind wafts

His withering breath, appeared to bring
Destructive engines. and to Sing

The dirge of Earth in discord dire,
While ever and anon thevfire

Of vanished worlds was seen to play
Along the MOOn’s obstructed way,

And throw its quick, electric spark

In vivid glare upon the dark

And troubled Heavens. But now ’tis changed,
And through the unobstrusted range

Of yonder vast and tranquil sky,

The Night-queen leads her panoply

Of golden worlds; and now the Earth
No more is rended by the birth

Of Hell-originated strife

By which the teeming forms of life,

- In all iis shapes were made to feel

The awful power of Heaven’s steel,
Hurled from you Mountain’s giddy. hight
In bolts of flame, as if to light '
The primal gloom that wrapt the world
When God in silence first unfurled
The Heaven’s Star-bespangled scroll,
And bade the Sun begin to roll
His flaming chariot through the host
Of stars, and worlds, and systems, lost
And wondering in the rayless gloom
Through which there never yet had come
The gleam of Day; and myriad streams
Of. blackened worlds threw out no beams
Upon the still and pulselcss sea,
While God’s omniflc “LET THERE BE”
Was yet unspoken. But this is past,
And meek Tranquility at last
In gentle majesty remounts
Her peaceful throne, amid the founts
Of Heaven’s fair, celestial Bowers.
And now, as in those earlier hours,
When first Creation’s splendid dawn
Was seen to gild the Spacious lawn
Of yon illimitable void,
With beauty seeming unalloyed
With after gloom; and through the calm
That hung o’er Nature like the Balm
Of Gilead on the wounded soul
Of contrite man, was heard to roll,
In strains harmonious and clear,
The song of every rolling sphere
That burns in yonder boundless sky,
And pours its thundering octaves high
Along the way that leads alone ‘
Towards God’s everlasting Throne.
So now there is a pulselcss hush,
Broke only by the sudden rush
Of bursting worlds, that now and then
Break forth upon the sight of men,
Who watch their meteoric speed
With thoughts of fear, yet fail to heed
Their wondrous teachings, or to know

, That God alonehas power to throw
Those planets forth to wander through
The trackless void of Heaven and view
Old Universe’s stores unrolled,
That in His hand he still does hold
The wandering Pleiad as it rolls
Its car through Heaven, while the Poles
Successive watch its wildered flight.
But time is Speeding, and the Night
So lately rife with direst woes
Is drawing to a peaceful close.
The sky grows gray; the stars withdraw
Their blazing beacons, and the law
Of Nature, with unerring gate, \
Brings on the Morn, as though the fate
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And as the forms of life again,

Emerge from out their varied homes,

Lo, from the East Aurora comes,
Sprinkling the world with rosy light.
The shades are driven in hurried flight
Before the all-conquering array

Of yonder powerful King of Day,

Whose charriot now is seen to rise
Triumphant through the Eastern Skies,
While beams of hallowed light are poured
Upon the world as though the SWord

Of Nature’s wrath, had ne’er unsheathed
His glittering form, nor ever breathed
Destruction dire upon the world;

And ruddy Morn has now unfurled

Her pinions in the azure sky,

And Westward speeds with pace to vie
With yonder rolling Orb of light

Before whose beams the powers of Night
In swift confusion fly away,

Or mingle with approaching Day.

The earth is fresh; and on the face

Of you clear Sky is left no trace,

Of the bacchanalian revelry,

With which the fierce, consuming glee
Of drunken Nature’s maddened mirth
Poured out upon the trembling Earth .
Its frenzied wrath. How diiferent Man!
It seems as though ’twere God’s own plan.
That every passion which he feeds

With tender care shall leave its seeds
Deep in the souls productive soil

And yield but poisonous weeds to Spoil
The heart’s rich garden; and every hour
In which he yields him to the power,

Of Satan’s multifarious wiles

And goes where hellish lust beguiles

His willing steps, ne’er fails to trace,
Upon his soul as well as face,

Its sure and unmistakable signs,

Read on his brow in furrowed lines

Of painful thought, while in his soul,
The seething seas of Passion roll

And on his Conscience leave a stain,
Which naught wille’er efi'ace again,

Save only Jesus’ clensing blood.

How wondrous are thy ways 0 God I

My mind, in contemplating thee,

Skims far beyond the narrow sea

That girts our speck of earth, and flies 4
On memory’s wing through boundless skies,
Where Systems over Systems wheel
Their ceaseless flight, nor seem to feel
The weight of multiplying years.

And lo! throughout the Universe appears,
From towering Mount to hidden Mine,
Thy hands ubiquitous design.

Vain, carping Man has dared to raise
Objections to the hymns of praise

'l‘hy Saints accord thee, and to call

Thy worship folly, thinking all

The unnumbered tokens thou hast given
That thou didst make the Earth and Heaven,
Are but the fruits of some blind chance,
That peopled Heaven’s broad expanse,
With spheres of every burning flame

As yet undimmed, and still the same

As at Creation’s earliest dawn.

How foolish they who have not drawn,
And trying oft, still fail to draw

A line between blind Chance’s law

And that of Nature’s amful God.

Oh may thy high up-lifted rod

Of justice threatened, teach proud Man
To look upon thy works, and scan

With eyes perfected by thy grace,

’l‘hy written precepts on the face

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Set forth in rolling worlds of flame
Upon the ruddy face Of Night.

And may he never need thy might,
DiSplayed before his frightened gaze
In one all—destructive blaze

Of lightning in a liquid flood,

To teach that thou alone art God.

 

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THE REAL DANGER on MATERIALrsn.-—Tl1e dan- ‘

ger from materialism is not, as we usually incline
to think, corruption of morals by degradation of
the soul. Too much use, for censure’s sake, has
been made, against this system, of the seeming
ease with which its professors have convinced
themselves that they cut up by the roots the very
principles of morality and duty. History proves,
by examples too infamous, that barbarism and
license are the privilege of no philosophic sect.—
The real enemies of society always have been, and
always will be, the ignorant and the fanatical, and
it must be frankly owned that, if these exist with—
in the pale of materialism, there are quite enough
of them outside. The danger in the doctrine
which reverses the natural relation of things, and
asserts that spirit is a product of matter, when in
truth matter is a product of spirit, this danger is
of another kind; materialism is fatal to the de
velopment of the experimental sciences them-
selves. If, in such a case, the example of men of
genius might be appealed to, how eloquent would
be the testimony of the two greatest physicists of
this age, Ampere and Faraday, both so earnestly
convinced, so religiously possessed by the reality
of the unseen world! But there are other argu-
ments. “All that we see of the world,” says Pas-
cal, is but an imperceptible scratch in the vast
range of Nature.”- The claim of mere experi-
mentalism is that it may sentence men to the fixed
and stubborn contemplation of this scratch.—
What folly! All the history of the development
of the sciences proves that important discoveries
all proceed from a different feeling, which is that
of a continuation of forces beyond the limi S of
observation, and of harmony in relations, overrul-
ing the singularities and deformities of detached
experiences. To hedge one’s self within what can
be computed, weighed, and demonstrated, to trust
such evidence only, and bar one’s self inside the
prison of the senses, to hush or scorn the sugges-
tions of the spirit, our only true light, because it
is a spark of the flame that vivifies all—that is,
deny it or not, the condition and the subject state
of materialism. , Only reason can conceive the
fixity, the generality, and the universality of re-
lations, and a.l savanis admit that the destiny of
science is to establish laws possessing these three
characteristics; but to admit that is to confess by
implication that partial, incoherent, imperfect,
relative details must undergo a refining, a thor-
ough conversion, in the alembic of the mind,
whence they issue, with so new an aspect and
meaning, that what before seemed most important
becomes as mere an accessory as it is possible to
be, and that which looked most ephemeral takes
its place among eternal things.——F. PAPIELON, in
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The aim of this article is the scientific location
of the burden of proof. This is an end not only
of speculative interest, but as well of practical
moment. It is no uncommon thing that dispu-
tants do not understand each other. Much word
war might be avoided by a clear appreciation on
the part of each debater of both his own and his
opponent’s logical responsibilities. But this is
impossible until it be certainly settled on whom
lies the burden of proof. I answer: 0n. the cfi‘lrm
ant of the particular proposition, explicit or im-
plied. It is scarcely needed here to remind the
reader that there must always be such an affirmant.
If the parties do not believe contradictory proposi-
tions, there is no issue, and can be no debate be-
tween them. But if they so believe, then there
must be a particular and a universal proposition
in controversy, (for none others can be contradic-
tory), the affirmation of negation of either of which
is equivalent to the negative or affirmation of the
other. Thus: A. and B. are at issue; A. then, must
affirm and B. must deny that all X is Y; but in so
doing, B. must affirm, and A. must deny that some
Xis not Y. strictly, therefore, there is no such
thing as the affirmative or the negative; there are
two of each. Otherwise, I repeat, and it must be
evident, then neither is, nor can be, issue or debate.
This consideration, alone, is sufficient to show that
the locating property must be sought elsewhere
than in the quality of the proposition. The quan-
tity alone remains unsearched. It is affirmed
that, in every debate, particularity attracts the
burden, and now to the proof. So far as I know,
the position here assumed was first distinctly
enounced in a thesis written for the Class in Logic,
of the College of Arts, of Kentucky University,
session of 1868—9, by Mr. Haden M. Young, of the
class of 1870, now a practising lawyer of the city
of Louisville, and a logician and muta physician
of extraordinary critical ability. That gentleman’s
argument was something as follows: He first
showed the thorough inadequacy of the scheme of
antecedent probability as developed by ‘ Dr.
Whately in that author’s Rhetoric, as well as the
glaring sophistry of Dr. Carson’s celebrated dam—-
onstration of the (so—claimed) self-evident (l) truth.
that he who afllrms, mustprove. He then advanced,
as a dictate of plainest reason, that the burden
must rest then, where resting, the objects of the
debate would be most completely subserved. By a
careful examination of the capabilities of proof of
the various modes and figures, the particular
proposition was then fixed upon as the proper sup-
port of the Omnes Probandi. thilc this reau
soning is regarded as perfectly conclusive,it is clear
that it neither exposes nor professes to expose the a
priori necessity for such a location. To show that
such a necessity exists, to determine its nature,
and thereby to supplement Mr. Young’s most val-
uable addition to Applied Logic—such are the ob
:ects immediately in View.

The Law of Parsimony, often called Occam’s
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Doctor, is of universal philosophical recognition.
Entia non multiplicanda sunt praeter necessitatem.
No literal translation can exhaust the meaning of
this pregnant sentence. Perhaps the rollowing
paraphrase, by a species of dilution, may render it
intelligible. No more principles are to be assumed
in the explanation of any set of plac namena than
absolutely necessary. Now, it must be manifest
that every proposition, explicitly or implicitly, is
the statement of some principle governing and
explaining in some aspect a certain set or part of
a certain set, of phenomena. Nor is it less clear
that every universal proposition assumes the ex—
istence of but one such controlling and explana-
tory principle, while every particular propositio