New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-10-25
From The London Phsianx.'
EuiaI, Ruh Science.

! Industrial relations.
From The London Phsanx.'
Faith and Science.
! Without faith, there can be no true science and
without science faith is blind but real faith and
real science are no, always to be found where
the words are used in application Many PER
sons who have faith, deceive themselves by sub
shutting particular creed or human notion, for
the real Word OF God, as an equivalent, and many
men of science equally deceive themselves bytaking,
mstaking rather, such substitution for the real
representative of aith in such maze OF sophls-
try both Faith and Reason are d-luded.
Genuine faith in Providence, however, is the
real source of understanding and the light Of
knowledge may be great where scientific facts
are little known, while facts may be accumulated
in the memory abundantly from stores of science,
without giving knowledge TO the mind. Science,
in the modern acceptation Of the word, is micro
scopic its sphere of light, and Faith is naturally
megascopic. The cnlarges mental vision and
the other narrows it. The one looks up to God
! and universal principles; the other, down into the,
smallest particles of Nature. Combined, they lead
to perfect understanding; but apart, thsy lead to an
imperfect knowledge: the one to small acutcncss
only, and the other to vague apprehension or mere
mystic consciousness. Apart, they lead the mind
to superstition and Intolerance respectively aud
equally; together, they unite the heart and mind
in Faith, and Hope, and Charity. Microscopic
science is excessively ntoerant of faith; and me-
gascopic faith, deuded by the substitution Of II
narrow creed in lieu of Gods universal Word, is
not less angry and impatient with the small con-
ceit of science while those who wish to reconcile
true faith with science, at present cruciied be-
tween two thieves, who rob the truth of its dvinity
the one dcprving it Of natural beauty and the other
of its spiritual consolation. As with the cvil-doers
whe were cruci6cd with Christ, however, the one j,
hardened and the other not and faith is likely 20
repent, but science not; and this is why wc SYM
pathze with faith maze intimately AID directly
than with SCIENCE with dabblcrs in exclusives
ism appropriating to themselves more truth and
reason than belongs to them respectively. On
fait,, VIC may engrall the truths of microscopic
science; but to bring the sun and all the stars
within the field of vision of a fly, is not easy,
though the insect be exceedingly cear-sightcd in
details, and wonderfully in its perceptions
In asserting that men of facts study the forms
Of letters in tire Book of Nature rather than the
sense of words groups of organized things we
mean to say that they confne themselves almost
exclusively to the analysis OF individual crgan-
zations in the mineral, the vegetable, and the
animal kingdoms, without paying sufficient atten-
ton to the order in which God has placed the va
rious organic forms in the creation Chemistry,
Anatomy and analytical or critical examinations
Of the internal construction Of THINGS absors almost
the whole attention of the scientific world While
universal analogy, the science at classification ana
general Interpretation of the various orders OF or
sanic form, as God has placed them upon earth
is hardly recognized by men OF science as
principle or law of nature, and its elements are
1 Il hp,n hard
anv svnthesis attempted or acknowledged by the
mere ana,omists of facts and this il. one great
reason why the men Of faith who deal in univer-
sails arc superior to men of facts. The one class
of minds studies the laws of unity in Gods creation
as it is, and in His Word the other analyses small
organic forms of nature and pursues the study OF ar
rangemcnt in the infinitely small department OF IN
terna organizations until it arrives at the formation
of simple elements and gas, &c. &c; sort OF study
which is useful in its way, but very apt To end IN
smoke or gas or something too evaporate and vola-
tile for common purposes There IL not single
letter or complete organized form in the great
Book of Nature of which the men of mere tact
knowledge know the meaning much less OF
group or series of these letters, sentence IN
the book. They have yet acquired
knowledge of the FIRST letter in the alphabet ot
Nature, the animal called Man, although they have
been analyzing him physically and metaPhysicay
for centuries. They have been working at this
letter anatomically, pathologicaly, phrcnooglcaly,
physchologcally and historically since the new PHI
osophy of facts begun, and yet they cannot under
stand it but they will have it that, because they
cannot nobody can and this is the cause OF their
opposition to the men Of Faith, who seek for
knowledge in the Book OF Scripture and the Book
of Nature as God has written them, and without
reducing the letters to shapeless gas and smoke
in order to discover hidden mysteries, by dissi-
pating that which they are anxious to retain.
From pseudo-faith on the one hand, and con-
tracted views of facts. and science the
other, we expect nothing less than scottipg, sheer
ing and the like; but, when scofcrs have reduced
Society to an insu.fcrabe state of temporal and
spiritual restitution. and the woIldly-wise are
pauic-struck, we shall volunteer with all who have
true faith in Providence, and choose help US, TO
build city of Attractive Industry and true he
ligious Unity and give it TO the poor, that Labor
may be sure of its reward ard all the world may
see the happiness of truth In action, and rejoice IN
the example. Neither faith Ror science will be
failing to accomplish this in Gods due time.
Nor let it be affirmed that we are dreaming Of i'm
possibilities for nothing is impossible to God and
those who have true faith. Its very simple thing
we want, and easily dehned-Practlcal hehg'on
Unity OF Man with God in true Religion.
Universal Unity of Man with Man. in Society.
Unity. Unity OF Man with Nature, in creative Art asd
Industry.
This is whatwe understand by Faith, and Science,
and Religions and in practice, resolves itself into
the moral, the artistic and the scientific spheres OF
action. In Morals, friendly unity, conjugai unity,
family unity, and bierarcha unity: in Art, scenic
beauty, musical harmony nutritive excellence fra
grant purity and comfortable homes in Science,
critical undersa ndinr md we'll .ni1nded hone