Show akian AN ABLE comparison OF EDISON AND GIBBONS by mi all J L L ikkei yel it thomas A elisii s life has bean too excess excessively hely de jid ad to 01 4 pursuits pin Pui suits as is 13 arted by cardl abal bial gibbons and it if he dogma without proof wasi beall ve ne say of the distinguished pi elate himself hinish if rhe fhe ratin man who ilio lim ing cpr years been the foremost inventor of our nation and 0 of the world the birin awn whom wo me J ase ino learned to adoro adore beci because tuse of 11 1 3 absolute un and at the same time capable ita nature ture is now the object of a scornful pen wo vo have long mr at r wt adl son boll as almost final vot horIty in ills lino and we have hane not denounced what suggestions he offers in lines than his own hover lie he has betzi reluctant to expires himself on k 1 ples not duly cons considered dered and con berning which he livi but meager dundei standing the remt express to of his theological ideis as ab conic ous and profound as any that may be expressed elpi eased by tile the saint indeed no Q may nt mt with them but at the same time ne e U am sem the cardinal jf the mightiest j 1 I ili organization chrt ever existed scoffs scoffs at them cod with accuse mine aln interial erial logic them in the lines which follow we haie hae no inclination to mr air Edi sons le ligion any more than we have to refute that of the cardinal we merely dish to submit the logic of the latter to a t tt st s rullar to that ap plied by himself to the theology of the former in order to get LA bt tte the loot of the disagreement we cuoci the ph in which the gr t E inventor gines gies his alews most and candidly it follows Remen Remer abr alier thit th it rach inan each cach vroman Is anade up lip ft ct myriads of cells they not tile tha in n an all women are the individuals we know nery ery little of them adt me jio slowly learning something the rian is not the individual the cell oll is we are no more individuals thant thada cities ate ale A mans intelligence 13 the aggregate intelligence of the elis cells which form him j I 1 ft a the intelli gence of a comma tv Is the aggregate intelligence of oe th men and women who inhabit it I 1 tan can t an not imagine myself an I 1 am a collection just as A reek rcck la is a coll ecklon tho of a dlf diff feen weli kind ecclesiastics have aldays alv ays assumed adorned a monopoly in on theology theolo y the history of tile the raco race has the ply hy member been privileged d to express himself freely without untold danger floii the bench of at ai modern creeps creeds sue aie tending bovard the flint liberty that chur churches clies have ever know and modern creeds v ill III bring about a mental and spiritual millennium it has always been within the limit of the papal jurisdiction 0 judge how far laity might delve delva into the problems so BO often sugg suggested sted and that jurisdiction has bea employed ices the most note worth of the cai danals objections tb the inventors theories la Is ig his ing without proof ikeie it 13 a eel dentist who proclaims pro clims to the dubuc and he be seems to ask us to be lieve them because ho he bel believes teNes them we wish he lu in scientific fa fashion sillon had given hla h is facts to tho world before his conclusion lie he assumes the pre of a pope who does not i until the aw question atlon has been tor for centuries and has been settled by the voice of experts mr edison does not mean what he bo says bays assumption mere bai cless assume J tion mr edison himself to be the victim of a flauie of speech one or two more interviews int like this speaking of that tile the leporter and the inverter and the world will have a itaw idea of set accuracy al Edi sons acquaintance ain tance with tha theology Is almost limited to of sermons headd in boyhood days I 1 and a mul more of such stich fc 1 rea ress lons mean to belittle one of the biggest men that has graced oui sphere let us see if ahe he bolc of the pre lite Is superior to that of the lit here billere is a iantia sc who ho proclaims dogmas to the public and he seems to adkus to believe them because he believes them says mys the cardinal in deed that were unusual for a scientist to do ind and wo we kouji notice it at jonce once if he did it but doeff doo not a scientist have ha e all aa aquil ti right with a I 1 theologian to do dj alis and nobody jwill will deny that proclaim dogmas to the lublic and th 1 public to balb bello no because they bellei believe e them nobody deny that most bat do proclaim pio claim aro are dogmas and that those dogmas ro almost on olt th atu cm jentons of thos thoa N proclaim pio rio claim clatin than on oil any proof which 0 theology Is necessarily dogliat le dealing with what it 1 Is cally impossible to handle otherwise othe mOse thou than dogmatically all the theories of heen and liell hell are dogmas A dogma I 1 14 an all opinion aa a tenet and almost entire theology Is composed of them ot of course our I 1 own dogmas are not cozmas doe roas just the other fellow a we wish he be hat had ills bis facts to the world before tea is conclusion continues cotti continues rev gibbons that too would have been mcie lucie like unto set eel ence but let it be bald he haio io that in this particular tr cao air ir edison was dealing just jug aa the prelate has done numberless times with some thing fol foi which thero there are few fenn available facts for there seem to be no universally universal lr acceptable facts mr air edison daae hh opinion OD which was formed from his of the facts that do t ast as iu i 1 beai hON eNel i lightly on oil the t under consi consides dei aaion viz the soul saul of cf ruan man mr gib bon does the exaLt exactly ly as 88 will be seen later I 1 he assumes hi 13 ic of a pope says the cardinal and why should he not wd have bet et to learn that the pope enjoys privileges of opinion apinton which v v ins lit 5 not all enjoy enlightening enin v I 1 as aa taught us to f foigel 01 get that rank may monopolize tile the liberties of mind and freedom of speech has grown tc tan old to retain ire ta in expression the pope does not until tile the question 1113 bo be 1 discuss for centuries ara by the voice of experts wo we may well dismiss this with a doubt is ds to some of those decisions and no ne tl cl wase those experts assumption imio brik baseless eless assume tian in which ca h c vc ere re that actis tian more sir mr edison inferred Inte ired that a mans in telli gence is IB made up f the bombin ed intelligence of ills his brain cells cardinal gibbons asaf but how does mr air edison know that is made up lip of the complied intelligent co of the brain cells ife ho continue 13 to abow sow thata that sta statement of ni tho the inventor a la Is so hur tatt asisclo as acl nce knon knovs a he i oes es on there la 13 no that 1116 a ui i intelligent cell ell wo vo know nothing uli ul ut intelligent cello cell wo we do diio that theio is a connection between tho brain and tile the mind we do know that nian man has an intelligent mind or soul we do not beavo mind and soul in the vay mat mi edison joes does in ills his terminology the mind la Is tho the soul it id its intellectual operations sirce the cardinal handles this point it may be stated that science fence does not know that there is T t connection between the brain braill and the mind for Pc Ienco la is not past t sure that the biath is not the mind and science does not lot amow that there TO Is a soul and science la Is enga od nery ery barlous ly ba to isara it there bo be one we VB might ask how cardinal Cai dinal gibbons knows theio thebo chani 1 j and cardinal gibbons would be to le ie ply that he know thein thru his con vatious which in other voids Is thru dogma thre exits no sc scientific lentif proof the revel end in as enough to mr air edison to say that lie ho speaks of his investigations into tho the soul he seems to havo have joked it with a microscope 1 if ne e donld bould be as a to tho the cardina Cardin al 1 as ae ho he nas ft as to the distinguished Inc we mi alc t suggest that it oo 00 0 sought with the fingers along the tha beada of a rosary referring to tile the beautiful comeail son alch mr adison made of the cells of which our bodies are formed and the inhabitants of a co aana I 1 cardinal gibbons Gibbon cs atly 3 we use symbolic language when ne e speak of the aggregate nce 0 a coin the community shows its intelligence through individuals it lg Is made up of individuals of different degrees of ot of different and often r ideas principles and sentiments nir air edison could hardly choose a ass h sa happy corn com parl parison soll of course thero wa waa no occasion for this remark other them th n to depreciate mr Edi sons aptitude and tion let us soo h ever if we can not speak it f the tha aggregate in dellige lice of a community think of a R comma itley bilth ith only ovie intellects intellect i till ml foxing in it tile tho community would hot show its flu 4 dual chink ot a coni common munt ty y with only se sever ard tl euli they would not represent th tho 3 indeed the barlous individuals hono hao varied devices dences ot of but bit it ulies tho intelligence of nh all to form forin an intelligent in the samo same way Is a wan roan intelligent ills his individual attain bly differ different crit degree 61 6 or ol of capability biln the cardl cardi nal nals 8 own oun terminology the man mail shows his 1 Ie felugo lUgo through his individual capabilities pe is made up of capabilities ot of different dif frent degiers of 0 perfection of biffel c nt often con ideas and principals and one capability or talmit tali it Is especially sentiments thus in the musician one capability or talent Is especially developed while in the orator another Is and so N ith the sit BU tt man mild aind po poet et and tho the athlete tn in any of these ca cases ses the one kalont represents to the others exactly whit one of these men represents to th other men in fit tho the community and the aggie aggregate gate of the capabilities ut 0 one man are to that man like the of tho the capabilities or anti inti licence gence mental capabilities are to iho community cardinal gibbons could hardly choose a less happy refutation the last quotation ficici the cardinal gives us iia a ky key alth alth which to undo the cause of this kind of treatment to our grenac greatest t scientist speaking of mr ift edison s philosophic merits he says salm saint paul was the truer philosopher rul roi what nhat anan the things ot man have bave the spirit of 0 man mail that Is in him then edison has the spirit ot of ami 11 while the cardinal la is invested invest td with that of another sphere for has baa he not hero here continued to pretend a more per pei feet knowledge of thase things than he gives mr air adlaon credit for having the prelate sa 3 M 1 nt at edison daei not moan what ie bi ba s we hope that the prelate daei not mean what ho says mr sata said that he could not think nl malt an individual cardinal gibbon insists that that la Is just what he can think himself we do not hesitate lo 10 at ai pt that state ment |