Show THE SCIENCE OF LIFE fm arm page 1 that it is harband green you pick up another one and that ay ahard green reen and sour tho tha offers you a third but before biting it you examine it and find that it la in and green you immediately sa eay y tabt you will havo have none of it as it must be b sour like the ones which you have already examined nothing tan be more simple than that yo you ahm but it if you will take the trouble lei to trace out into its log leitl ole elements klemento mento what has been dono done by the mind you will be greatly surprised in fact act you have performed the operation ot of induction two experiences per perien lences ces gave you the conclusion that hard and green apples are sour supposing that to in addition to your own experience i your friends froin different pa parts r ts ot of the country under different environments make to you the same report you would without hesitation formulate orm the law that all hard and green apples are sour you tell your neighbor ato facts acts and after he examines your your data sees that the experiment was tried under all sorts of conditions condi tionA with the same result tie is will may ay with you that the law you have laid down must be a good one in the science of biology xe we do the rhe very same came identical thing and our confidence in a law is in exact proportion to the absence of varla tiomi alon in inobe hiie result of 0 ou our F experimental 1 verification for In instance istance if you let go an held in your hand it will forthwith tall fall io to the ground that is a very common verification ota 0 a law that ot of gravitation and his very ord ordinary lisTy occurrence was not even el early clearly understood until the great newton nawton announced that every particle to in the universe attracts every other particle directly proportional to the product of their masses tod aversely proportional as aa the tha square of the distance between them ahe the method by which ah of science established this law fiez is exactly the same as that by witch we vve have established the trivial pr unit about the sourness of the hard and green apple so much then by way of illustrating the course pursued la in science and in common life in establishing laws and conclusions now let us turn to another phase of 0 the same subject under consider allon that Is the method by which from the relations of certain occurrences we prove that some stand in the position of causes toward the others to put the case clearly I 1 will suppose that one of you on coming down into your parlor in the morning finds that some silver pieces which had been left on the table the previous evening are gone the window do open marks ot of a dirty hand are on the window pane and perhaps in addition to that you notice the impress ot of a mans toot foot on the gravel outside these signs strike you instantly and before two seconds have passed your tongue Is saying oh somebody has broken the window entered the room and has stolen the silver pieces that speech is out of 0 your mouth in an instant and will probably add 1 I know there has I 1 am quite sure ot of it you mean to say exactly what you know but in reality you are giving expression to what is in all essential particulars tic ulars a theory you do not know it at all it Is nothing more than a theory rapidly formed in your mind and that Is a theory too based on inductions and deductions windows do not open of themselves you reason the silver pieces do not disappear of their own volition the step on the gravel cannot be there of its own accord these evidences bring only to you the conclusion that a thief came into the houst house in brief you can explain the facts of the incident only upon the theory of a thief you have only a theory the justice of which you have no proof whatsoever being satisfied of your theory you start out after the but just as you are starting out on your mission some ong one comes in and on learning what apu are about says my aly friend you og are going qu on a a great deal too fast how do you know that the man lalib made the mark on the gravel azis wa s really the man who stole the silvers dilver how do you know but jat a dog carried the articles away and that the steps were made by some one who came along and just peeped in thru the window windo wt and then here comes another friedhand fried foien tand he ba says to you how do au know that the man who left them the finger pratts ton the tha window stole the articles and since you were asleep how do you yott know that the laws of nature are not suspended during that time and that therefore there foJe a different law operated affa and made the silver ware disappear well tor for a time he has you on the hip but believing your theory still you precede to verity verify it you get the police the burglar Is captured the toot foot print la Is hla his tim finger marks are his and the silver ware found on his person your theory Is verified and found to be correct your friends therefore were mistaken in sart la this suppositional case I 1 took avery a very simple phenomenon in order that every step be clear without your theory of the thief you would not have leave been able to move ona on stop step toward loss satisfying your household and punishing the culprit by this same train of reasoning a man of science pursues his search of the unknown the process Is always the same newton la place hegel kant darwin wallace spencer and huxley followed it lq in its every nook and turn i it Is often times urged in respect to some scientific conclusion that after all it Is only an hypothesis a theory but what more have we to guide us in nine tenths ot of our dally daily affairs than theories and often very ll 11 ill based ones at ai that yany any man can say the moon Is made ot of green cheese but we would rather take the word ot of him who has availed himself ot of thai maa powerful tele telescope anglican an lican see sea with certainty another unwarranted statement made too frequently by those who are the least informed to ie that the study of science weakens one propensities and tends to lead one away from a belief in the divine the as as you notice carries with it a farrea cling conclusion which examination falls fall short of everything it claims man finding himself in this caroff corner of the universe begins at once to explain the world in which he lives lie he discovers that his environment 1 viron ment la Is a comple complexity ity ot of phe bomena thac chatin in it certain things ara are conducive to hla his personal welfare elf while other are detrimental and destructive tive of 0 his life his constant attempt at puling to order thes 0 complexities and making out of a disconnected world one that connected connect ea out of 0 a disorderly environment one that Is orderly out of 0 unknown world one that Is known out ot of an ignorant world one that Is intelligent out 0 of an unlawful world one that is lawful he called science his efforts have been crowned with success for during the brief period of his sojourn in this his new home among the stars he has 11 a a brought order out of chaos and made e earth a home hom 0 worth having thru th the e investigations ol of science we discovered that the earth Is round out of it came the discovery of now continent our knowledge of the solar system the causes of the seasons time and its measurements the law lav of gravitation and our system of weights in fact the science of astronomy with all our knowledge of heat and light came about thru tile the announcement of that great discovery then as an adjunct to that important revelation is our understanding of electricity wireless telegraphy and the telephone chemistry moreover with all its vast applications p in medicine cine and manufacture is another outgrowth of this same discovery in truth the atomic hypothesis upon which the whole structure of chemistry rests Is an outcome of the researches conducted in the analysis of the solar cosmos along biological lines we have come to know thru the researches in zoology and botany what Is necessary in the preservation of health the epoch making discovery of pasteur in which he announced to the world that most ot of tile tho fatal batol diseases before which man has fallen a victim are due to the work of certain microorganisms cro organisms was another great advance toward subduing the forces of nature with the researches among lower animals many important facts have been revealed the structure tor for instance of 0 the body its various systems ot of organs their embryological growth and development were first known among the lower forms in brief it was the patience of the man of of the laboratory as he examined the lower forms that has haa brought about the discoveries so familiar in preventing various kinds of diseases the laws discovered in science are so numerous and their applications so vasa vast and extensive that it would be monotonous to try to enumerate it is perhaps not overly zealous to state that the service rendered by science science to tile the welfare and contentment of man Is far beyond any ones power to estimate alion why the charge thearone th the aront the insinuation that thai science leads on ono to agnosticism and atheism can it be possible that so beneficial a line of human endeavor leads to no gratitude and inspiration Is it ever true a source of information which elevates mankind and places upon his brow the stamp of divinity leads to such an ignoble end can it over ever be that a study of gods own work and creation lead mm men to a disavowal of faith it if this could be I 1 true then we can sing with the poet truths forever on the scaffold wrongs forever on an the throne it could mean nothing else than that the good in the world testifies to no moral philosophy science is only a systematic way e works ot of god nature the th e pr 1 l 0 of our fathers is i an open book its leaves breathe none else but the alsdon of him who created it its birds and flowers and brooks testify to the beauty of its organizer and tile the will that brought it to being the study of nature increases ones faith in god just as the study of a good mans life increases one ones a appreciation of at that hat life ono sometimes finds more happiness contentment and divinity in tile the study of a grasshopper or some other simple life in nature than lie he can find in the study of some mens lives more souls have turned their backs upon god and followed the call af 0 the wild thru the inhumanity and ungodliness godlin egi 91 Q clrar fallows than there ha haw ve f the open world of earth and sky the difficulty my fellow classmates lies in tile the superficiality with which we tackle the problem let us cultivate tile the spirit of thoroughness ough ness let uil bp be freehand pare of blase biases and prejudices as we enter the sanctum of nature let us precede with the spirit of reverence in the search of truth let us rise rise above the of common day in tott other light which 1 men of the higher road have seen and felt I 1 plead tor for a more anal nal bals af pf of our environmental world r an earnest arnost and fuller appreciation of nature foichat tor that will lead iii us only 0 beyond the stars itari and uto into tile the home of our gad |