| Show V RNO EDU I V VV V V An Essay written by l 1 Miss ss Ida Ida pCt Peterson ison for the thc S San n Pete Stake Slake Academy cl e ny Decem December ef 1892 V is Power lower Knowledge This is truly a most noble saying saing If there be Do one me thing truly admirable it is to see Gods God's wisdom blessing an inferiority of national powers Some say that knowledge cannot be obtained except with wih wealth All Allor Allor Allor or most o of of the human family are are born with intelligence a and d knowledge knowledge know v ledge can be obtained without the assistance of wealth If we review review- most all aU of the inventions how they were first thought of we can readily see the idea presented itself without ut the thc aid of wealth If they had had hadnot V not first been thought of they could n not t I have been invented by all the wealth in ill the thc universe For example we take the theory of the interferences which led Jed to the discovery of the refraction of light Dr Youngs Young's observance of the V bubbles blown from a 1 common tobacco pipe len led to the utterance of oJ that theory Knowledge can be bc obtained by in intelligent t observation The R Russian ssi ln proverb says of the man He goes through the forest and sees no fire wood Solomon says J The wise mans man's eyes eyes are in V his head V V V V V V Many before Galileo had bach seen a s1 suspended weight swing before their heir eyes with wilI- wilIa a measured beat but buthe V he be was the first to detect the value of f the ft fl fact t. t One of the vergers in the cathedral at Pisa isa after replenishing sh ng with oil a lamp Jamp which hung from the roof left leCt it swinging to and fro Galileo then a y youth uth of only teen noting it attentively ed the idea Mea V of f V applying it to th the measurement of f time It is th the mind that sees see as well as is s' s the eye Where here unthinking gazers V ve nothing men of intelligent version penetrate penetrate into the my V fibre of the phenomena presented to them attentively at at- ly noting differences V mJ making ing companions and recognizing the their r underlying ing i ideas Sir James Watt when hen consulted about bout the mode of carrying water welter by pipes tum turned his t r i f i h tj f n 1 i 1 P PI I M bJ Fr mod l' l ted th IrO iron tube V Deduct all that men of the hu humble classes have havedon haved done for En Eng Eng- laad in n the way ol only and ald h would d have haYe been V but f r t E if If E it rt if t dit been H for fr pr knowledge kno this earth tt jr-tt l have ave remained un un- un- un or organized D t di God h had V d. d not th the pow power c He Ue never have this beautiful earth tI H He by the edge He possessed had the h V wealth f. f placed l V ced within the e ear earths earth's ar 1 V cru these tl we can readily see ee t tit 1 the po power er of knowledge knowledge know know- ledge overrated V The object of of knowledge l dg should be to mature Vi improve character character char char- acter to re rend us better happier and more uS r li and nd more more in the pursuit vey high higl p purpose in life t 4 V V V |
