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Show DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE i- By Or? JAMES I VANCE Where do tiling come from1 1 non-, non-, der. I can trace the sea to the ner and (hp river to the brook and the j brook to the spin?, but where does the pring com" (roni? They fay It comet (from the sky. but what in above the Sky! I wonder. Where do the trees come from? They tell me fp m other tree?, and I these in turn from trees, and so on jbuck through the world's forest to the '.i t tree that shook its branches at ithe stars and sun But how did the j first tree come io be. I wonder I Where do the flowers come from,1 'and where do the gel their wondrous forms and gorgeous hues? Thes tell me that tendency i? ihe sculptor who fashions the buttercup and the hyacinth. hya-cinth. Bui what Is behind tendency'' I wonder Where does time conn- from? We can trace It footprints back six thousand thou-sand years to the dawn of history, back six millions years by the record of the rocks to the rise of order out of chaos, back six billions years by ( )lnks of logic to the high hour whi n IcxMstence emerged from eternal night, .back through mvrladu of cycles, until imagination fold" Its wings and feels worn out in flight to wlnn from old eternity! unending 1 rD time was cut off and flung bematli ihe i.kks; but what back of eternltj I wonder Where does space ccme from" Th" telescope breaks up the milky way ;.nu shows us lanes thai lead out into star depths so far removed that light which has been traveling toward our world since lime began has not reached u: yet. Away off there Imagination builds a wall., and says: "This wall la the houndaiy of space" But what id bevond (he wall? 1 wonder. Where does life come from'' We can watch it perform it. but we cannot can-not originate life We can match it procerses. but we cannot discover it secret. We can trace life hack to a protoplasmic cell, but what is behind the cell" They speak to us of rlectrcns - nirre words to opver up Ignorance Wha is behind electrons" I wondei W1 t harneeisea electricity to law and law to nr.ture and nature to life and 'life to condiicl and character, and ttut-e ,o civilization, and civiliatioil to the one farofr divine event toward1 which the whole creation moves? i Whr.e does love come from, and reason, rea-son, and volition, and faiih. and hope and all the rest" 1 wonder. ' cannot keep from won-derlng won-derlng I wonder where thines coins from, and as I wonder, faith light j Its torch |