Victor RAULIN (1815-1905), geologist and... - Lot 62 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

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Victor RAULIN (1815-1905), geologist and... - Lot 62 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay
Victor RAULIN (1815-1905), geologist and botanist. 5 L.A.S. to Alexis de Gourgues, 29 pp. in-4 and in-8. Bordeaux, 1867-1868. Magnificent and very long scientific correspondence, all devoted to creationist theories and the origins of matter. "One of the fundamental laws of nature, you say, is that everything has a beginning and an end; everything has its generator. If I stay in the realm of observation and experimentation, and if I stick to analogy, I sometimes agree with you and sometimes disagree. If it is only a question of the forms in which matter shows itself to us, minerals, plants and animals, we will agree, for I am daily present at the beginning or the end of all these things. But if it is a question of matter in itself, which a century of experimentation by chemists has shown to be uncreatable, indestructible and intransmutable by all the means in their power, I disagree with you. The difference which exists between creation of nothing, and the implementation of a pre-existing matter, is so big that my spirit refuses to admit that of what the forms have a beginning, the matter itself must necessarily have one also. The most logical metaphysical laws could at most lead me to doubt, but never to your certainty [] ". We join 2 answers of Alexis de Gourgues, 15 pp. in-8 (Lanquais, March 26, 1867 and s.d.).
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