Show THE INFLUENCE OF SCIENCE I The Nature of Us Audlnlljn Ito emily Considered AJIKHICAX lfoKK January 2 ISOO I Mpeclal Correspondence of the DESKRET XLfSI all I not well I in the world today It I not because we are troubled with too much science sci-ence but IxxauMs we have as yea too little Science has reduced to tolerable order certain departmcnU of thousht Iud knowledge but there are whole sections of life that as yet I has barely touched So long as thIs is the case the social body must Mirer tltitil tIcs true litwsof life f o IIt 10 a < llKbvHx aud set in Loch alight a-light as command olenl Ill r must b more or lew confusion distress dis-tress and waste of effort It Is evident therefore that the duty wbich lc lt tbe door or every ore situation Ito Is I cntoble of grasping the Ioluntoo to do all In his power to help science to have its I i > trfect work jta work ef lockl reorganization and regeneta i lon I Many persons I am jtrsuadrd fail t understand that scicucb ill any application ouUUTe of the in vestlgatlon of physical laws Thei think of I ai something Hint hMi t d with astronomy nut geology with physiology chemlstrywitl 1 steam engines and telegraphs and telephones They do not think 01 r I as a method of research valid in I every department of life and co xtenfivc with the whale reach Cl r human knowledge Thus limo has come however when the claims of science to be the euprera BlUtrtii of r thought arid action cannot be too boldly I or earnestly advocated The spirit of science is a spirit of ore wherever therefore there is disorder dis-order scIence I lacking or at I least I exercises but Imperfect control We I free the perfect control of science lu L the exactness with which astronomical astrono-mical ob rTR lon end prediction r IUOcIh wo 0 I in the wonderfully wonder-fully accurate determinations of Uio che bt we FCC I in the I formula of the electrician When I we come to the exsilled science of medicine we wo real ecieuce r r cence struggling for the mastery and to often overborne by ancient prejudice t and lazy empiricism When w r come to educatlob tlf I sets nb t enormous jaraue of technique but ou the whole poor results in tin pr way of disciplined intellects slid harmonious cliaraclcrs Wllcn soc Jk how science is applied to tin froverumeut of individual lives wi tlnj that I is scarcely TO applied a I all Some notions of physical hygiene hy-giene are niore or less I dilTuect thioujlicut the cbtaaiuaHj ntlifil nmong tile more intelligent classt but how rarely do wo discover anj clear recognition br the fact thai there is such a thing as moral by giene the oljett of which 1 bainl Jies just as that ofphyeical hysient is health To minister to a mind I dJ ated H is now as long ago an al mostdespcratetatk but toprt Y ut tle furoHtiou of morbid liablu body mind is or should lie quite within I the Hope of the science bf today p Inordinate vanity or KlfHhness In i one generation nKy mon a decided I deveJoftaenl of mental or moral insanity in-sanity in the next I is consequently conse-quently of thu utmost Importance to i Wc watch and rcektthevery beginnings S of evil seeing that it i Imp lble to fay what these may lead to If I al lowed to gather lent Much may be done by each individual to promote mote and strengthen his own mental I lrellgwn Ir soundness bjtscrtiUuf bontrolovef his casual thoughts Wereanybody to observe carefully what goes ou in i his mind hi during waking he t would perceive that It was S the theatre of as many fantas tic grotaejue incoherent thoughts I as in dreams Obviously I will depend de-pend much on the occupation that tack t-ack one gives his mind and on the habits of attention and thought to which ho has trained it hoe large apart Uiew incoherent vagaries of thought shall play In his waking I mIDI and in some degree in his dram 15 Now I I be thus IJ sJot i by good an J regular exercise of r I the higher faculties of mind to gain I some mater over Ihoucht in dreams how much more isitwithii our power and shown to 0 ou t duty to obtain and cStrdso dominion do-minion over the vain and ovi thoughts inclination and imagiu log of the growth Jay and so hinder thei In the ordinary conduct of attain much that I harmful would disappear dis-appear if life were once regarded I something that should sIling and musLbi brought undcrfclcntific rules Feel I ings opinions actions may all IK S brought under scientific rules thai is tt Urn test of outward trail ty or In other words of conformity r to our necessary environment With sme people It is enough to tnj tliat they feel E and BOS their taJ Ings are araumed to b unalterably and to carry their own Justification with them Such a temper is Hot t fur removed from Iltl hysterical I I and if I tliould assume that un happy character haly some day the L tl result ought not to be considered con-sidered surprlsingTliehumanbeinR who persistently looks inward rather than outward for outWr guidance and makes more of his or her subjective impressions tbanof the teaching of objective facts i in a unstable and dangerous condition Again in the matter of opinion some persons esteem ifs mceious rHvlln 5 nn > able to think aiiti believe > ss they eay wliatever they plense Their opinions they regard as their r r I ther prop d only which no one must venture to Ion trropass I-on lInt the true test ot r t opinions I is ncttllees to say Ilex nut in conformity to personal incli nation but in their agreement with I wjmeittablishedorderofthings Itis i orerochlngs folly to talk of believing whatever we pleeo if MO are rational people at ail we believe as we must Ilea son corntrains us and we have t really no choice In regard to ac tions there is perhaps a more general gen-eral feeling of responsibility and I yet even hero how much we are in clined to trust to IiapharirdI How little we keep before us a rational scheme of life or steady uniform I principles of action The very man L who would sInk In his own estima lion if I he played a card unscien tifically in a game of wills will pLy many a card most unscientifi rally In the much cly greater game of life Why JJecauH while he believes Inn sciecco of whist he does not believe in a science of life He studies the laws of whist Ieoc but does wbit not study the laws of life VetbCienen is prepared ttep in and shed n clear light 1 upon every r1 detriment of human duty All that science needs as a basis eTf fired order of things Such fired order is discoverable in fxed ture and Its environment Remove n ucla and every fact Id He sll own a lesson Tie time I have no doubt will comouhcn men will sec thai I life U a network of cause and effect and that trouble does not anI spring out of tho ground nor te promotion coma cml I at haphazard from the east or the west tUt that whatever ccbappei n the expression han it hsfpns its adequaUantecedentBut ha Is own L aoeuntnntlentBut whyshould we not hasten the coming hCuld that tie by proclaiming tlioso of us who believe in Itthe efficacy u science for the direction of individu al and social life Thatscience lays claim to the re gion of politics I evident from what r h been add but that it is con pic uwialy absent from that region is evident from the reon cllcnt rontlle newspapers So newFpprs S long as we understand by politics i merely a scramble for office so long ofc will there bo a very slight and Indi ret relation between poiitlcl action and the general welfare but i rests with an intelligent Intlgen community to brio its politics up toakighcrplano of a constant striving after social and economic harmonies and man the realization relations of justice in all hu I am only able cu this occasion on nt Gl thI Oun to I glance at one or two points of my subjccL I think however that the tllnk lesson I would Impress tt obvious Science Is not merely u thing of machinery and apparatus I I i 1 not Lnuflned the appuntu mearare iuent of material forces or the ex planatlon of physical phenomena It tD method for the observation and coordination of facts and the forecasting of results and wherever < found Uirroscience Is facts are to In ursdenc I prepared t establish her kingdom The unwise float her pretensions preferring Uio worship of clianceand caprice but the wiH will range I themselves on her sldeand strive to wt up her peaceful relcn te bone I lib of which they tiow 1 will extend to all and Increase from ago to age I Dn KDISA CSON j |