Where Both Are Friends, It Is Right

What Goes Up Must Come Down.

What The Latins Have Done In This Text (1 John V, 7) The Greeks Have Done To Paul (1 Tim. Iii, 16). They Now Read, "great Is The Mystery Of Godliness; God Manifest In The Flesh"; Whereas All The Churches For The First Four Or Five Hundred Years, And The Authors Of All The Ancient Versions, Jerome As Well As The Rest, Read, "great Is The Mystery Of Godliness, Which Was Manifest In The Flesh." Our English Version Makes It Yet A Little Stronger. It Reads, "great Is The Mystery Of Godliness: God Was Manifest In The Flesh."

Doth Not This Æthereal Medium In Passing Out Of Water, Glass, Crystal, And Other Compact And Dense Bodies Into Empty Spaces, Grow Denser And Denser By Degrees, And By That Means Refract The Rays Of Light Not In A Point, But By Bending Them Gradually In Curve Lines? And Doth Not The Gradual Condensation Of This Medium Extend To Some Distance From The Bodies, And Thereby Cause The Inflexions Of The Rays Of Light, Which Pass By The Edges Of Dense Bodies, At Some Distance From The Bodies?

The Best And Safest Way Of Philosophising Seems To Be, First To Enquire Diligently Into The Properties Of Things, And To Establish Those Properties By Experiences [experiments] And Then To Proceed Slowly To Hypotheses For The Explanation Of Them. For Hypotheses Should Be Employed Only In Explaining The Properties Of Things, But Not Assumed In Determining Them; Unless So Far As They May Furnish Experiments.

The Monarchy Of The Greeks For Want Of An Heir Was Broken Into Several Kingdoms; Four Of Which, Seated To The Four Winds Of Heaven, Were Very Eminent. For Ptolemy Reigned Over Egypt, Lybia And Ethiopia ; Antigonus Over Syria And The Lesser Asia; Lysimachus Over Thrace ; And Cassander Over Macedon, Greece And Epirus .