Show K- MIND AND PLAN IN the Baccalaureate Address of T. University of Bf We say that the great and small masses constituting heavenly bodies are of spherical form because of gravity and molecular attraction that they are moving I through space about one another by reason of centrifugal and centripetal and that many are luminous on account of the rapidity with which I the molecules are moving among Likewise that plants germinate and we explain grow by means I of chemical reactions and physical also that certain chemical and physical activities accompany the r of evolving thought and all these var- ious and motor energies are spoken of as if they were the ultimate and energies and power in the We only by or that atoms or ions are changing places among themselves and are forming new by physical changes we mean merely that molecules are assuming different positions with respect to one and by motor and centrifugal and centripetal forces we designate those energies through which larger bodies move through But behind all these attractive and repellant forces among atoms or molecules and masses of there is indeed r something Now what causes the ions or atoms-to rearrange themselves among the substances brought To say that it is or chemical energy does not tell the cause at is simply a name conveniently used for an activity or To say that gravitation is the cause of the attraction between two heavenly bodies does not tell the ultimate cause at Gravitation is simply a name used to designate a certain kind of The character of So it is with all the ultimate cause we do not ultimate we can not comprehend They l are beyond the ability of man to find That there is some great ultimate cause or power underlying all nature no one can reasonably deny after logically tracing step by step the various factors we are led to i this inevitable But what sort of underlying power must this In this universe there is at least one great the f on which living beings can for exam-i lower animals and Man is not only r- a living but an intelligent one with powers to to to make and to draw This being called man not only has been r endowed with all these wonderful but through Ws capabilities he has reached that stage in his de-J when he can look back upon the growth oi Ms read and interpret the foot prints of I with great certainty can understand the meaning f the many phenomena presented on the surface or the crust of the From one view he can L a things of the he L Tn Pebbles aneT f the of this old p n For round r UP a short of some El P iS With a record that might 1 7 Pebble the e I t J am here being moved and thither on this gradually by the lashing and surging of the waves about more and more of the material of which I am composed I have been here a long I came from the top of yonder At first I was washed down by the spring freshets into a swift canyon stream and afterwards by that stream into the I was then angular and irregular in form and much larger now As you find me I am smooth and much It took me a long time to come from the place at which the freshets first landed me in the stream to this lonesome shore where you find Much of my angular form was changed in the bed of the stream that carried me to the I was' knocked down and thrown about rubbing up against first one rock and then against Some times I was on at other times underneath some immense At times I was buried deep beneath the bed of the and at other times I found myself even above the moaning water of cataract and perched upon some point of rock untouched by the seething water Either by the increased volume of the water or by the change in the course of the I was unearthed from my burial place or I was unhorsed from my position on the At one time the surging water dashed me up against the and lashed me to the and then again it licked me up and threw me into the middle of the angry Countless times I was tossed and thrown here and there at the pleasure of the maddened water as it made its way to the valley I was tossed against this rock and then against that and hurled to the right and then to the left and then to the bottom of this raging without warning and without making my life and Thus did I pass through the various cruel vicissitudes of my abode in the swift and furious stream until I was carried to the ocean and pushed upon this lonely On that mountain long before I began my slow movement to the I was detached from a huge mass of granite by the heat of the summer and the cold of the expansion and contraction of my mother the rain and the gentle and swift winds of the seasons of the Not before my journey to the was I at the top of that but only slowly did I to that eminence from far below the bed of the ocean where I was Within me are water so in moisture as well as under great heat and pressure must I have been To the bed of that body of water the material of which I consist was carried by erosion and by the action of running Sediment upon sediment was deposited upon my component parts until the heat developed became sufficiently great with the co-operation of the superheated steam and the innate energies to form the the feldspar and hornblende or mica of which I am under great pressure and other physical those minerals were blended and cemented and thus was formed the granite rock of which I was once only a very small Still to trace my history back into the ages of inconceivable I find myself divided into separate and different and during the time possibly of the formation of the earth and before and after that period of T was divided into the elementary substances Thus ends the tale which a pebble tells to the And although man can read these as compared with the universe of he knows little indeed still his capabilities are truly wonderful and in many ways very With these wonderful capabilities and this in- this comprehension and these strong and intelligent and is man here for Is there no purpose for his So far as is now spontaneous generation is life and intelligence can not be produced without the existence of previous This being life has and it is more reasonable to since life never had a that never was there a time when intelligence did not prevail somewhere in this From the account thus given of the condition the the and other masses of and of movements in endless space of the other energies and power extant the growth and development of the the nature of the human mind and intelligence we have learned that there are fixed laws to which all the movements of the great bodies in the heavens conform and fixed laws to which the energies and motions of the particles of these great masses there are fixed laws in accordance with which the plants chemical and physical changes in matter and in man take and conforming to which the mind is gradually It therefore seems reasonable that all these various and phases in including are do and are what they in accordance with perfect order and fixed Confusion and mere chance are foreign to the very nature of these and existences' in the if there order in the universe and fixed laws controlling all then it is fitting and consistent to our minds to believe that there is a creative intelligence guiding the destiny of all material and immaterial things or Asi one's conduct in one's kind of living and one thinking all have an influence for good or for every human being is obligated to high thinking and moral Man should not he should not he should not be envious and he should not be immoral or dishonorable any for he would thereby hurt not only himself but be doing also a great wrong to Man should not only do all the he can to uplift himself and thus indirectly tend to help advancement of but should directly do all that he may for uplifting his The world has advanced and chiefly been made a better place in which to live by people who have in one sense gone far beyond their immediate moral obligations and have sacrificed themselves by suffering and even in order that greater peace and purer happiness could come to you 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