Show ot ephr foe for 5 10 w r taw tiie tile edyan advancement X a M au abe e 4 6 apartments part ments 0 p hys bys jeal leAl science i ha 5 of te a 9 com cop pard with foykier r neen honder ponder fonder I 1 aa ard ra pione efy folo 01 0 wang rig C glose giose upon thie thle diep lieh ot another the hera herh fache 1 has been refer 40 4 0 0 aa 0 f and intelligent of the an 1 cals W aneti r q a V I 1 peg pea the ji all alt tt day dax saint haintl thre ney nes rey alo iio thing lhing ing sur bur ur prial gj 56 t X they ey dad Ain aln hll mii V ow 4 pr no legge baus wit ta the ohe a gro growth gez gel y arel ahei each e depend depender et cupon i b are but bu malane ore ope woe the thi e effect me a A i beof physical capila the the tae buman human aumau mind is very t tp tho the effects lom of alcoa giju mi llau XV I 1 a J afner after gl z ifa baff iw xia sim finally y dem deO unless I 1 f 10 ape T ly a corr espa growth grovv th n 91 0 sc science tence amons gam gap ap 4 rali rall lk t v 3 0 v po p 14 of importance cancelas an celas as they ther th ey e Y ayeal aye tai tal questions g Lj lothers others 4 ae bub sub hodin su bodin adin ry by mad man to ai anar avys r i a py att IV r and L t dyhr e I 1 baell fk ap S 1 0 anu 9 hi W 1 11 am M P fete mk g P 91 1 e the h 4 1 an IR hav I 1 u n wig WIP probie b greater lrea irea t sef e 4 A 4 h q jmj haa has 4 9 ile lq e ip w i j i of ar but no flame until finally realizing the force of Pies ples president ident Lincol lincoln ns philosophy 03 exemplified in regard to polygamy they have concluded to plow a around round it to make sure that we are not Mt mistaken aken let us aw quote ib from one of them the most profound of the age Ji erbert herbert spencer i in hl his treatise on brog progress ress sast PA A mew tew words must bo be added on the onto ortolo 11 gloa bearing bearings ot of our argument ment menU probably nata not mcw few will conclude that here is an attempted solution or of the tha great questions with which philosophy in all ages has perplexed it belf let none thus deceive themselves only sueh such as know not the tho scope and the limits of science nan can abfall fill into BO so gravelne grave an orron error r the foregoing K applys apply not to the genesta 0 in ia 1 but butti to their genesis as manifested to the h uman human consciousness 1 ness atter after ter all that hv han been said tho iho uit imato mystery remains just as it was wais masahe dhe ahe ex explanation anat n ot of t that W which C i is aap explicable b q does doea but t bring out into greater ter tec bearne dearne r the inex ble bie 6 that which remains behind however we may succeed in reducing red dicing the equation to its lowest terms we are not thereby enabled to determine the unknown quantity tyron on the tho contrary it only becomes mom more that the unknown quantity car caa nover never bo be found wo now ethe etho vt the foregoing 4 la is sig significant ai t it tit ex presses he sum total of 0 human knowledge upon these great eides eines question which most niler ailed humanity in iii view of our boasted knowledge is this bo confession humiliating g it is eori more 11 it 1 Is startling it is appalling i the vain h hope p pe has been expressed ed that diat erfia ps popai rochow liow ilow or other by a system ot of circumlocution we may some bome dily dlly day dimy sol bol the fhe riddle ejust just as aa if by going around a mb mountain buntain we a could hid uld hope hoph to iti nias S atia is ah ignis dhabi the fiat has coile the th ami as god can iao tae a understood g ahe spirit of god the de le cr creedis e is g unalterable rna ma n canno bahno can ean no more hope 6 to change it than he be calf cail to change the orbital revolutions revolution i of the earth parth humiliating as it may appear eveny every knee shall shill bow and eveny every tongue confess thab that jesus is th q christ rist there h erd is no shrinking able ible ibie it Is s as deatha M more ae we to 6 avoid avold if athi inore ore manifest floes s it 11 appear aug A AHU the strangest thing about it Is 19 1 i that the s stronger itron gei the conviction ap patently thy tho more desperate and frant ra I 1 t icare leare ida re iliin illin mans sau deavors endeavors ti to 0 avold avoid abold 1 it ilet let us imagine a stranger from some I 1 distant star on a voyage of bf discovery gow egi egg idour in our eagerness wito to impress him with oun our u greatness we conduct filia hn through oan oar numerous libraries i he vie picks up one 6 of ahe he mata mala magazines of theuay wherein a strong contrast 10 a drawn awn navi between our 0 ir intellectual attainments alid and those of the stone ane age to our finest spec specimens mene of architecture tec ture our ovar legislative halls hails and collo colleges ged we exhibit 1 of art arf armour steam powers r allread t telegraphs e telephones electric arid ligh lights te telescopes c bcd pai lind and 4 copes anti anil tell hinl hini that such is oun qun I 1 ingenuity ity can reproduce bounds sounds ds occurring at a distance of 21 0 miles ailes etc ete tc etc lufa Iffa imagine agine agibe pun pur oil contempt con tempt forli irn lin when hesayo he says ls is js 14 ellve all ali very ry nine fine ne and alid very good bu but bue I 1 perceive that there was a time timo nj wen n all this did not fiot exist as it now liow is nhen when ben hen in selves ir or rebie sebie had n no 0 existence now what I 1 want to hn know V most must particularly is 19 where all a you folks came camo in id our country wa we take thike but little interest in t these se things yau you have shown me bu but bui are can concerned most deeply about ia the tho ifie principle which i in manifest fittes up upon on this little globe on oft bur hi m trifling matters are considered by uy ud ay unworthy worthy y our attention bdour he turns to toi take idue his leave W gith with t th ahee 1 I shail shall come ba back baek c k thia thi way W ayin in a few thousand I 1 years arg ari will you be kind en enough P ugh to look th the u up and me on my return 1 theeb the ex 10 of his hib countenance cenance can be better hetter str ser imagined than described hen heri tell nim bim that it would satisfaction to comply y his this fe request neti out i llort lease af pf would preclude apy ahing thing of the kind kin dhu thaon on his return wa we should ue bave have disappeared no na one knows where the stranger pulls pulis au out his book and m baked a kes keg th following note i ane earan i jhb insane asylum of so n iq 4 neighboring el pa planet nel net inhabited e d by bk a il U demented e mentel abid hayt live ariit nio rio bo brg bri food mat 1 I 1 tri desire th knowledge ik the and of ot riat unai ural phenomena on ibe the contrary bonar i h i ry louid bould 1 ouid encourage i p g i them a all the newer ar t that at I 1 acca am uit lit what to expressly express ls that i ears in q ihei ibee extreme to anan mane manifest fest sud such euch ih ii tin for which ard comparatively pnra para t ivi ri fliDr ato 1 to tho the alter of the weightier c one ohe hig and add that the study of natural a ia ia g U V 0 immega PA th 5 study of man when life has departed from the body supposing that man attains to an understanding of the relations wh which ich matter sustains to itself the chan changes gas that this earth has undergone undergo how will this effect our being allowing that we are acquainted withell with hil hii all hll the physical changes from the acorn to the g gigantic oak what hat do we know of I 1 its ta v vital I 1 tal tai principle supposing that we have a correct knowledge of the distances densities and revolutions of all the the planets which compose the stellar world that we e understand the rela reia relations tiong which the solar system sustains to the other constellation and to one another an and d all the consequent effects we are areep rio rip nearer a solution of the problems of which life lire and death are the exponents and here by the joy by ends mans powers of pf investigation for unaided by any supernatural agency he can never hope to transcend seen 4 the chasm which se separates world from the nebulae here evidently is a limit to ti mans mants powers of observation to his physical knowledge if 1 I may be allowed the expression and if that limit is reached what will be the result there must of necessity be a retro betro grada grade frade jrade movement deca dees decay decsy yand and death ape appear ar in their most horrible form an intellectual decay deeny ai 0 what a cold coid cheerless prospect for the man of science who refuses the freely areil and blessed gift of falth faith the falth faith of god thab that he lives in time anti and place philosophers contemplate the some bome m upon this picture and say that it is farfetched far fetched P but we aw are irresistibly led to this conclusion and from it I 1 see gee e e no Ao escape the refusal of one is the thi acceptance of tho other what benefit can we possibly de live efrom from the study of a problem in which h the miner minor propositions absorb I 1 he wile whole olour of our attention whilst the miland malfa maifa and leading ones are held in absolute abeyance or in scriptural language what will it profit a inan if he gain the whole world and own soul A skilful general would not waste the strength of his army barmy in skirmishes we are jumping dollars and stooping forche for fon the pica yunes we are deceiving ourselves with the idea that the ils gist t of our being lays in gather ing seaweeds sea weeds conch barnacles barnacled barn acles vanity of vanities when we sit down and read the works of the eminent writers of the darwe admire the honest spirit of inquiry manifested the great array of facts collected by persevering energy the intelligence i displayed but if we are no not t dazzled the technical terin terms sand and confused by intricate reasoning we arise from their a similar feeling to that which a hungry man would have on ar arising 1 I I 1 f from M a table elegantly decorated rati d with h ware of the highest style of rt but void of any vestige of fool to say t that hat gravitation is the cau cat se of th the a a appie apple falling fy ahe i he scientific mind but it fails fall sto to satisfy sat afy the unscientific though gut tel tei telescopes penetrate the ther immensities of space and descry desery worlds whose existence e were unknown in ages past though we can transform mitter matter into multitudinous shapes though we are able to trace and delineate the developments of ilfe life from the ovum to ule ole full grown kanand ma nand be abie able cable to chand sti bui such sueh and such a formation or br arrangement of t the e and corpuscle 8 bof of the brain are equivalent I 1 to such sueh and sueh such a state natate af feeling though we concede that wo wei understand fully all the ithe evolution tl on of life down to the smallest possible germ how much nearer nearer are wa we toa to a solution of tho the great lemp lemi not one whit r after fter all ail our boasted acquirements acquire ments I 1 as regard f the main issuer issues we are a os OA a par wIt hithe traditional ignorance 0 or t joba ago in this respect the patagonian is justas just as wise spencer ua lent sava java bavage savage 1 0 basking iw JEP the light of the sun is justas just as as the scientist in his laboratory the difference it k that the mind of one oner is a h blank of io immediate mediate ingeri inscription atio whilst that of the other is filled with erron erroneous bous impressions from a heterogeneous 0 mass of facts of wh I 1 utter utterly I 1 y incapable of perceiving tile the beginning or the end anda ande and at ia last lauwe uwe awe we realize the truth of the words sf paul when he said let lio no man deceive blin ro self if any moad road among you 4 to be wipe kige analis in thi s world let hibb him b come a fool that het imay may be wise for the wisdom of this world Is 19 with god itic evident on every evory hand band that ma he bower of tbell man 9 limited and alid i rinsie remain FJ lutas long ai as mori W endures t iff equally qually evident alden t e A n payer a ijo or to W hal has D bmw alf art W 0 18 controlled its ita it s inexplicableness does docs not in the least alter itar ff existence it is id 14 patent to any understanding even that of the most limited the almighty in introducing life upon the earth has reserved the balance of power and given man to plainly understand that hitherto thou come b but ut no further 21 one would naturally think that any person capable of perceiving this would not lacerate himself end endeavors deavors I 1 to fly the grasp of such an able power but on ona thie con ton contrary arary would gracer gracefully tiny submit to inevitable yet strange asit as it aday may appear man in this respect exhibits the same traits of character hs as aldoes doe does s the wila beast unde under r confine confinement ment who while con continually trying the leng ieng length of his chain neglects port unity to devour the hand that tha t feeds it the wisdom of the great creator is 19 manifest man hest in giving raan man his agency he apparently has placed it out of his hia reach to make ris his destruction a necessity I 1 have said enough on ori this subject having defined our boundaries let lot us conform to their exigencies and busy ourselves with the investigation of its requirement for after all that may be said this has the greatest bearing upon our present and ano future happiness who is 14 wise and he be shall understand these things prudent and he shall know them forthe for the ways of the lord are right and the just shall walk in iii them but transgressors shall fall therein |