* Though the Christian scheme of fitting up a triune Deity is in defiance of arithmetical demonstration, yet it is so far an exemplification of all the Pagan mythologies--each of them had a triad of principal gods; the Hindus had their Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva; the Egyptians, their Osiris, Horus, and Isis; the Persians, their Oromazdes, Mithras, and Ahrimanes; the Syrians, their Monimus, Aziz, and Ares; the Canaanites, their self-triplicated Baal; and the Peruvians had their Father Sun, Brother Sun, and Son Sun. The Hindu trinity were personifications of three principles, viz., the Producer, the Preserver, and the Destroyer. Being now knee-deep, and knowing well that the credulity of ignorant man is equal to the most monstrous deceptions, those fabricators thought they might as well plunge over head and ears into absurdity, by settling the pedigree and relationship between these _triune_ parties; and this they did by mingling together a chaos of downright nonsense. Here is a child born, said to be begotten by two supernatural fathers--these fathers are _two_ infinite beings, equal and co-existent from all eternity; and yet this son, begotten by them upon a woman, is as old as either of them! And although thus produced, and to all appearance a child of humanity, he instantly becomes the _eternal_ son of the father, making the _third infinite_! Such stuff has turned the church called Christian into a domicilium insanorum. If we may believe our senses, there is indeed a trinity in unity that proves its own existence--is eternal, and comprehends within itself everything which the human intellect can possibly conceive--that is, _Time, Matter, and Motion_.* * Motion is the measure of Time: it is essential to, the executive of, and may be said to be identical with, Matter.