* The perpetual change of form produced by this intercirculation in the elements of matter, was called by the Greeks Omoosia or Omousia. This mutual action is universal; and is proved even in "the interchange of the material of light between globe and globe in the solar system; and from the fixed stars, through the medium of some gaseous principle of matter, in the highest state of rarefaction." All is matter, and matter is all. ** It is only by motion that we exist, or even known that we exist. A dead animal begets motion of itself. *** Empedocles says:--"Those are infants or short-sighted persons with very contracted understandings, who imagine that anything is born which did not exist before; or that anything can be totally annihilated." MOD.--The learned amongst the Christian priesthood, against their private convictions, are under the necessity of supporting the dogma of creation; because the giving up of that point would destroy the foundation of their system; but many of them have no objection to allow the eternity of time. LUCIAN.--During which time, as has already been observed, their god, being immaterial, was the vacuum inhabitant of a vacuum! Another plunge into absurdity. The pretended creations and false revelations inculcated by theology, have invariably operated to suppress or cripple the sciences; particularly those of astronomy and geology. Sacerdotal deception un-blushingly tells us that, something less than six thousand years ago, there was no sun, no moon, no stars, no earth, no matter of any kind! By the invention of this tremendous absurdity, priestcraft has had the audacity to circumscribe within the comparative period of a moment, the existence of even Nature herself; and as nothing is too gross for unthinking ignorance, even this greatest of all monstrosities goes down with the credulous herd of mankind, who dare to look at nothing but through the spectacles of this "science of god." MOD.--What proof have we that this globe has been in being longer than the period assigned for it by the Jewish and Christian priesthoods? LUCIAN.--There are innumerable astronomical and geological facts which prove the existence of this earth for millions of years.* By a change so wonderfully slow as to require perhaps thousands of centuries to bring it round, the surface of this globe is so completely altered towards the sun, that the frigid zones become the torrid, and _vice versa_, in succession. The remains of tropical animals have been found at the estuaries of the Oby and Lena, and even in more northern latitudes. Petrified crocodiles have been found in Derbyshire, at the depth of eighty-five fathoms; which proves that the land called England enjoyed a tropical sun, in antiquity so remote as to show in a striking light, the moment sand-glass--or, if you please, the perfect nothingness--of all human chronology.