AN "ADVANCED" DEFINITION OF NOTHING NOT FORTHCOMING.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3064, 5 March 1892, Page 3

AN "ADVANCED" DEFINITION OF NOTHING NOT FORTHCOMING.

TO TUB KIHTOK. Sir,—l will have to again trouble you for space to answer the couple of nonsensical Bcriublew thatappeared in your Tuesday « issue of thn 23rd inst.. reply me to my letter of ttio 18th. I have been rather Imir "' answering, as I did not get Tuesday a paper until Saturday ntternuon and have been pretty busy since then. I was surprised to aee that I have only two antagonists to deal with. Tho atheists as a rule rush like rats from a sinking ship when onn of their nuin ber is attached while professing at the same time their immense contempt tor me " poor superstitious followers of religion. Knowing this I say I can't help wondering that a few more individuals who pose as advanced leaders of modern thought hn\e not come into the arena, I suppose the tacts are that they put their best men in the van and when they get played out they just pop up again under a new name, certainly this desperate eagerness to burke any opponent tells a tale to the observant. Neither of your correspondents has given any answer worthy of the name to the question in roy first letter, the " Man m the Wilderness" contents himeelf with writing some scurrilous trash and then slides quitely past the subject, t> le <™% is no better, hU definitions (1), (2), and (3) are just so much idle nonsense, and are no answers at all to my question. I wonder he did not give ua a few more when he was about it, 1 will supply him with one. Nothing, is the poem of a poetaster when the poetater's name is taken away. I think that, is about as good as his three all put together, I wonder his fertile imagination didn't think of it, I believe it is quite original. To come back to the old subject I would like either of these two zanvs to let me know what they would cull a square foot or ft square hundred miles ot space when everything was taken out of it, Isuppose they would answer that it was nothing; but yet they would have to acknowledge that there would still be dimensions and boundaries, to these spaces, something about them in fact that I think would enable them to be called entities, funny though it did seem to them in my tirst letter : perhaps they will say that the size and boundaries must be taken awav also to make it completely nothing. Will I hey describe the shape nothing would be then ! Also its colour, and whether after all it might not be rolled up into a little ball to shew people that it was nothing. 1 will leave them to think of these things, and before concluding will just say a few words in answer to the "Man in the Busts, elatement about Burns' "Holy Willies Prayer "is not "the greatest sneer against »he Creator ever written," and nothing but a nature thoroughly distorted and malignant would ever term it such, it is Holy Willie that is speaking and not Burns. I know my antagonist will come with his objection about the potter and the vessel, but I am nothing to bandy words upon this subject with a dunghill, it is writ-en that none who seek in the proper spirit will be cast out and that is quite sufficient, lhe remarks about. " Man was made to mourn " are so viper-like that I will treat them with silent contempt, and now as my friend Oker says, I am done with them.— I am, etc., Tbidmphant .