Show I 1 laws of nature do not change with our temperamental changes by LYNN HAROLD HOUGH retiring prest northwestern university A clover american once described a paradox as a truth which su someone lias hai blood on its head in order to attract gilbert chesterton has spent most of nf ili liis life dim atlis and soine falsehoods on their heads and the pion lin a good deal of attention on oil tile whole ai in hiis made for jHK fc stability and dille lor for id nil of liis his literary audacity batot ia tot ih tin he L of 1 I 1 very ery cautious and conservative bk k jt mind onro once ho it wi i a di ansin li ising a law and its relation ll 11 wl il w to life what lie said van in ile he put into one sentence you the liw law of gravitation bravi tilt ion you can only illustrate iv it rhe mail india aljo junias from rt a high cliff for in ingance tance does not free himself froni from tins this law lie he uri ender i to it ati inflexible action we not live lie in ill a I 1 new ih w world since the war nit but we do 10 surely live III in a horld with a w now p artificial restraints are arc hated and cast 0 oft IT the verv of freedom is in the air it is a golden day for i pen inputs it is tile peril period of the apotheosis of tile the untried MI all this moan that lint lift liff has hall freshness and vigor vigorous ouI incentive the 1 0 new mood may be productive of immense good at tile the samo same time t e we need flood to remember that the laws of nature do not chai change ie with our tem changes aid nd 11 c 0 need to reme niber that the aholo vast syb tent of uniform action in in which we find ourselves our moves its sure and silent W way ay quite 1111 tc apart from tile lie white caps calls show their teeth on the sur face of our lives billere Il lere is it a real fic edoin in this horld bild of law but it is achieved by ilij the I 1 of the laws of life and beil banding ding them to our purpose by oin vely confor illing to their t the ilio who ignores tile hm laws of nature arid of life is merely courting dilister dl di sIster dip phrae in which lie he describes till I 1 dauntless of the life I 1 freedom anti and law together alio tit surn sum of lire life the wise map man understands them both bolh and fits atheni into the of his bis activity A liw law become be conics i your bour slave when vou ion conform to it alio lie aviator has a wonderful freedom in ill the air but all this free flee jom is ig baad bif cd upon tilt alic ober observance vance of law we may take long nights flights in tin this naw and f ill div day but our mi machines chines must be built in the C loi o t conformity to the laws of nature and the lie pilot must be a man mall I 1 choc very ury audacious freedom is is based on oil obedience |