Reviews for Essays in the Constitutional History of the United States in the Formative Period, 1775-1789

The average rating for Essays in the Constitutional History of the United States in the Formative Period, 1775-1789 based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-06-14 00:00:00 David Murray One of the most strange books ever. It isn't only the problem, myth and theory of the Hollow Earth that is developed in extence; apart from the excelent and brilliant first chapter, where the famous quote from Seneca is referred, and the metamorphoses of the hero that follows, there are so many scientific paradoxes, strange explanations of geological phenomena, informations on chemical reactions, unorthodox physical appearences in the Earth's entrailes, and of course the teacher and quide of the protagonist, the asexual creature, who is neither alien, nor terrestial, reminder of what one would have been if he lived in Earth's internal, that make this book exceptional. One of the first fantasy books, by a farmacist and botanologist, written in 1895, very infuencial, and very infuenced by so many (Poe, Lytton, Vern), which for a modern reader seems extraordinary. I must confess that reading this book, I was feeling very strange, in a sense of a mixture of curiosity and repulsion. Curiosity because of the so many interesting theories, connected with alchemy, apocrypha, secret societies etc. - presented not with the modern way, dramatical, but suggestive, through scientific incidents, experiments, etc.; Repulsion, because all that stuff is not really revealing, but un-scientific. The utopia inside Earth, isn't ideal, but really unknown. Yes, indeed, it is a terra nova. It isn't the known Earth of the surface. Not again the Underworld of mythology. It is like to be in another planet, totally different, alien, without any obvious relation with the known Earth. With regard to the supposed spiritualization of scientific information this is really what should matter. But it isn't as one would expect. Nature even if it is supposed that have been changed to something better, new, rather seems to be neutral, without soul. A scientific vision, infuenced by apocryphal knowledge, deprived from every human trace, cold, remote.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-02-23 00:00:00 Anuar Iberahim I read this in Greek translation. Very interesting book, which touches upon themes such as alchemy, science, morality, geology, human nature, secret knowledge, religion. In addition to a wealth of ideas on various topics, it touches upon a very crucial topic: Spiritualization of science and knowledge in general, it touches upon knowledge in a deeply moral and religious sense and, thus, offers a bridge between science and religion.