Show THE last for the present year of ot the Delta Phi series of lectures was i 01 delivered on Monday evening of last 11 week by Dr J. J T. T Kingsbury The l series series has included by far the ablest lectures that have been been given at the University during the year and this Jone J Jone one by Dr Kingsbury in in its way was the best of the series The subject J II Life and the Hereafter from a scientific scientific scientific j standpoint is is always an intensely i ij N in interesting teres ring one and it has cert certainly ly never never received more able treatment by l local scholar least east any at N 1 NTo J 14 To be sure there was not much that t I Iwas was new in this lecture except the t i arrangement of the material but that that r in in itself is a great deal Science has given iven u us plenty plent o of facts so many J rh indeed in In certain lines that they are J likely soon to become burdensome what fi we need now is is correlation It may safely be said that in view of the the v vast t J Ja a accumulation a r of the results of scientific I r. r Nf J research during the past cent century ry there will be found no one mind great great enough to com combine bine all these results in into into in- in if to a system As h has as b been said d recent recently I y by an able thinker the state of modern i philosophy is chaotic Science has dis- dis I II proved old systems but we have not 1115 yet been able to replace them with new yh ones So that under existing conditions conditions conditions condi condi- every attempt at more complete synthesis in any department of science is a step in the right dire direction tion and andone andone andone one leading up to the more complete synthesis that will form the basis of a anew anew anew new and rational system of philosophy Since ince this work cannot be done by one it must be done by hy many and if it is done thoroughly and completely in each department the final correlation will be comparatively easy T L Dr Kingsbury's lecture dealt with one phase of what has long been a rather delicate question the question the relation of science to religion and we were much surprised to hear it criticised as J being irreligious ius and atheistic We cannot understand how an am anone one who listened to the lecture with even a degre degree degree de de- gree gre of attention could have got such an idea of it In our opinion as an argument argument argument ment from science for foi the reality of a future life it goes farther even than does Le Comte in his well known work on the us D Kingsbury n is not one of those bigoted scientists who beli believe believe be be- li lieve ve that either science or religion must perish and that all the odds are in fa favor of sl science science nce nor is he one of those who garble their scientific facts to make them fit their religious prejudices His lecture shows that he is one of those who believe in the possibility of a complete complete com com- reconciliation of true science and true religion This indeed is the only J posit poS t of n possible for the rational and unprejudiced thinker but there are still many who listen to lectures and read books for the sole purpose of finding that with their agrees pre-con- pre notions An able and conscientious conscientious conscientious thinker is always liable to misconstructions misconstructions misconstructions miscon miscon- of this kind and for this reason man many are tempted to cater more or less to popular prejudice There is however a growing tendency in th the popular mind to respect honest opinion and he who states his thought honestly may hope to win in the end |