Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-27 | Page 4 | Timely Topics

( TIMELY TOPICS ) 11 NEW OR0AN8 OF eNI The hypotbesla of biologists that certain cells f th human body, not tinlik th emers, aiowiy special spe-cial Ised, developed new functions and became organs of sens see ma born ut by recent experiments- It haa been known for eome tlm that parsons peculiarly pecu-liarly eonetltuted war able at th earn tlm to hear and eee color and sounds: and It la new announced an-nounced that celle In th flngsrtlps or In th no, which normally respond only to sensations of touch, can be and hav been o trained as to se and bear. Amaalng aa thla seems, nothing negative It aa Inherently Imposslbls. Ws are beginning te find out that Ufa Is equal to all th demands mad oa It; and for all ws know, the wotonttalltls of living matter ar llmKleea. How crude and childish war th eoncaptlon that satisfied the past. Our forbear were only aUnple-minded aUnple-minded babies building with blocks, yet so convinced con-vinced they knew It all that a person finding a new block which seemed to fit In somewhere waa considered con-sidered too depraved and dsngaroua to lira. Dut th truth thla at now glimpses Is that ths wonder and perfection of verythlng. mlnut or mighty, ar Incomprehensible and probably forever beyond our power to grasp- Ancient Ignorance was cocksure It knew all there was to know of moat things. Modern science le equally certain that It knowa very little about anything; and tnathematk give It th only aolld ground on which to plant It feet, Rochester Post-Kxpreaa. "