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Show LIFE THEME OF B.Y.U. SPEAKER State Superintendent of Schools Addresses Student Stu-dent Body. State Superintendent of Schools J. N. Jensen was the speaker hefore the Brigham Young university student stu-dent body on Wednesday. The problems prob-lems of life was his theme. There are two realms in life, said the superintendent, the realm of facts and the realm of feelings. To each he ascribed an important fnnc-ti fnnc-ti m in the solution of the great problems of existence. There is no ' longer a conflict between religion and science, asserted assert-ed Superintendent Jensen ; the con-flictc con-flictc is between intelligence and ignorance. ig-norance. When the world was said to be flat, it was not a conflict between be-tween religion nnd science, it was o nnoctirm of fact or a con- troversy between intelligence and There was a time when the world was believed to be the center of the universe j thnt time has passed. The sun is now the recognized center o the solar system. The change in opinion has not resulted from a controversy con-troversy between religion and science sci-ence hiit between intelligence and ignorance. "We once worried about the age of things." the speaker commented, "but we no longer worry. It dosen't make any difference to the religionist religion-ist that science proves or accepts Faith and feeling come to our help, they are of equal importance with inroloot in the Interpretation of facts." , , , , In the solving of the problems of life. Superintendent Jensen made a pica for the consideration of solitude. soli-tude. He feared the importance of Isolitude in growth nnd development was not realized. There should he a balance, he contended, between society and solitude. |