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Updated: May 29, 2025
A merry Christmas and happy New Year to you, if you are still alive, for since small-pox has joined your Phalanx I am not sure but his ambition for the supreme power has swept you all away. Yet every Saturday's Harbinger is a missive from Brook Farm which tells of other things than the cosmogonies, etc., of which it ostensibly discourses.
When we first make acquaintance through historical records with the intellectual activity of the Greek mind, we find it engaged in the construction of various such schemes for an explanation of the world usually called cosmogonies. It was at this stage of intellectual progress that what we might call an interruption occurred in the normal process of evolution.
Did we want to make use once more of an embryological comparison, it would be necessary to look for it in the strange conceptions of ancient cosmogonies: they believed that from an earthly slime arose parts of bodies and separate organs which through a mysterious attraction and happy chance ended by sticking together, and forming living bodies.
He did not disbelieve it; he would have been shocked to hear such a thing asserted of him: but he happened to be busy believing something else geometry, conic sections, cosmogonies, psychologies, and what not. And so it befell that he had not just then time to believe in Christianity. He recollected at times its existence; but even then he neither affirmed nor denied it.
A person who should hear for the first time this naked exposition of the writer's theory would be tempted at once to reject the whole, as too extravagant and absurd to deserve further notice. But he would be much mistaken in this conclusion. The theory is a very plausible one; it is one of the best cosmogonies that the wit of man has ever framed.
The resemblances between the cosmogonies of Phoenicia and Babylonia have often been pointed out, and since the discovery of the Chaldæan account of the Deluge by George Smith we have learned that between that account and the one which is preserved in Genesis there is the closest possible likeness, extending even to words and phrases.
All the brilliant cloud-world in which she had revelled for years, cosmogonies, emanations, affinities, symbolisms, hierarchies, abysses, eternities, and the rest of it though she could not rest in them, not even believe in, them though they had vanished into thin air at her most utter need, yet they were too pretty to be lost sight of for ever; and, struggling against the growing conviction of her reason, she answered at last
As most peoples have their cosmogonies, this "fact" does not strike me as having much value. Secondly, the fact that, instead of dwelling in generalities, it has placed itself under the severe conditions of a chronological order reaching from the first nisus of chaotic matter to the consummated production of a fair and goodly, a furnished and a peopled world.
A generation after Newton's death fossils were referred for their origin to a certain "plastic power" in Nature mere idle whittlings of bone that had never known an outfit of flesh and blood. Then came a long and motley procession of cosmogonies, every speculator, from John Wesley down to Pye Smith, insisting warmly on what seemed good in his own eyes.
It would seem to him that The Wasp flew about the skies with the world in his mouth, as he carries a bluebottle fly; and that would be the astronomy of his tribe henceforth. Absurd enough: but as every man who is acquainted with old mythical cosmogonies must know no more absurd than twenty similar guesses on record.
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