Disquisitions Relating to Matter And Spirit: to Which is Added, the History ...
Disquisitions Relating to Matter And Spirit: to Which is Added, the History ...
Priestley Joseph
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The fuperiority of man, ac- cording to this philofo]f)hy, confifts in the finer organization of his parts.'* ** The do<9:rines of tranfmigration and ab- forption into the Deity he holds in common' ** with others." p. 6d..
** He maintains that the world' is fubjeiSt ** to fucceffive diflblutions and renovations* ^* at certain ftated periods. He divides theie revoluticwis into the iefler and the greater.
At the Iefler the world will be confumed by fire, and the elements will be jumbled together ; and after a certain fpape of time they will again refume their former order.** p. 66. This, alfo, was the dodrine of fome of the Greek fefls. ^*' Thefe repeated dif- ** folutions and renovations,** Mr. Dow fays, •t have furnifhed a moft ample field for the ** invention of the Bramins. Many allegori- *• cal fyftems of creation are, otk thiS' account, ** contained in the Shatters, and it was fqr ** this reafon that fo many different eiccounts •* of the cofmogony of the Hindoos have ** been promulgated in Europe j fome travel- •* lots adopting one fyftem, and fome ana- ^ then** p.
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