| Show KNOWLEDGE ot OF SCIENCE the remarkable development made in the past cou century couture tury in the application of the mechanical forces in nature has led very many people to believe that man knows vastly more of the nature ot of those forces today than ban he did live five thousand years ago this be lie alef of superior knowledge receives a severe blowin blow in the recent declaration of low lord kelvin the greatest authority in the be world on the subject that bat he knows knowe no more of the n ture lure of eleo elec triciti or of the ether and its relations to matter than he be did ball bait a century ago fifty yeats yeara ago lord kelvin was william thompson professor of natural philosophy at glasgow he had bad won the highest honors honore la in nis his line of etu diep bv aud and carried the prize from all competitors he had mastered all know knowledge lede that wae possessed eed ol of his bis science by man at that time since then he be has boo kept kent clearly firmly surely in the lead now he says that over half a century of UH effort backed by thorough training knowledge and a brilliant intellect have utterly failed to u yield anything better thou speculations about the rho Oona titu tion ol of matter or the meaning and relations to it of the cosmic dorote that mankind in ia dally daily using this la Is the statement of the be man to whom as ae much no ac it if not more than to any other one man we owe the bremen dous doua advances ad in the moc tian ical application of electricity with which every one is ia familiar lord kelvin Is mark on the popular ideal brag shown how tar he boo baa delved in trying to find the clue that has hag completely baffled beffle ablin him he it was who suggested that atoms might be vort loles in tho the other ether it to la bin estimate of the size y of atom that to la always quoted jile ali calculations furnish the current idea of the age of the earth he thought of he possibility of life first reaching the berth from the outside through meteorites or come comets he has furnished popular science with d abts about the absolute truth of the conservation or of 4 erenzy eoe ricy his technical achievement ire re great lo in the best beat souse sense of the word yet this man the man who knows knowal is in the oue one to confess ignorance land and failure in view of this statement of the distinguished scholar the suggestion that there is many a scientific babbler who might with profit to his hia neighbors take a lesson from lord kelvin la Is not alto gother geaber amiss man knows vastly more now concerning the application of this tn u universal uI vereal forces than he did a few years yeara ago in other words he be has become moru more expert in their use but of their nature their source he be knows no more than the antediluvians did he has what go 1 gave him and is unable in all his bis research to go back of what the first chapter of genobia tells him man received light rom from god who placed the sun and the moon in their position that lanol as the livine divine word uee ue olaree lares 1119 ia the light oi of christ as also he is in the sun and the power thereof by which it was made the light which is in all things which life to all things which is the law by which all mingo are governed even the power of god who upon his throne man by his own loathing learning and wisdom cannot find out aoa he takes that which the lord liona has rivea given nim aim and the adding of light to light comes by conforming to the laws dished by the divine ruler of the girat virat not by the speculations of naan man |
