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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 17:13:09 EDT
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Cynthia reported that ED had read Edward Hitchcock.

I've been scouting around for what Hitchcock was about in his _The Religion of
Geology_.  After many a net search, with limited results, I turned to Sewall.
Hitchcock's_The Religion of Archeology_ is a strong argument for the law of
the conservation of matter.  That is, while matter may change form, it is not
lost.  In Hitchock's words, "...there is no reason whatsoever to suppose that
one particle of matter has been annihilated since the world began." (Sewall,
LIFE, 345)   And Sewall gives EDs # 954 as her use of the principle.

The Chemical conviction
That Nought be lost
Enable in Disaster
My fractured Trust--

The Faces of the Atoms
If I shall see
How more the Finished Creatures
Departed me!

There is more in Sewall about the religious implications of the conservation
of energy. There's are some interesting notes about Hitchock's discovery of
track remains around Amherst arrived at through HotBot.  HotBot is a search
engine at http://www.hotbot.com. Go there and enter "Edward Hitchcock" in the
search space.

Too bad we don't have Hiroko Uno's paper that Cynthia notes.

Louis Forsdale