Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1846-01-27
THE PATHWAY OF SCIENCE.

speculation. Our thoughts have receive,
tone and character for The day, which
will totally unfit US for any more common
place drudgery. We connot be con,en
with stage coaches ard mountains, ant
streams and paupers. The mind-ihe
mind scars upward and onward, awakened
in all its energies, struggling, grasplng,ex
banding, with the magnificent conceptions
which are awakened in the pathway and
progress of science! Forgive US, if we
indulge the emotions which are shaking u.
now, and the thoughts which struggle
for expression. Our theme must be sin
cere.
Science what Is it2-where was it en-
gendered!-what are its achievements, and
what are the limits which God has ascfibed
to its astounding developenentsf Did il
belong to antiquity. or is it ours? Science
In the Academy-,he Lyceum or the
Porch at Athens, shall we search for ia
Will we 60 to the dark ages to trace its
foot-I rlnis? Those are the ages whose
contemplation filled Professor Brownson
with such an extacy Of wo.der! Those
ages. with their ..wonderfuiv and "illumi-
nated' doctors, and their magnificent
creeds. Ages which brought the hoary-
headed Galllleo before the solemn convoca.
ton of the wise and learned 10 pronounce
upon him, though seven grave Cardinals,
the anathema Of the Church, .,hat TO main
tain the sun TO be immovable and Without
local motion in the centre of the world, is
an absurd proposition, false in philosophy,
heretcal in religion, and contrary to the
testimony of the Scripture; that it is equal
ly false and absurd in philosophy to assert
that the earth is not immoveable in the
centre of the world, and considered theol-
ogcally equally erroneous and heretical''
The dark ages, with Copernicus imprisoned
by the Pope to recant his s'absurd dogmas''
with Faustus flying from Paris after his
fatal bibles had been exposed for sale
with Frar Bacon suspected Of too much in
tercourse with his Satanic Majesty-ihe
dark ages with the ponderous tonnes of
Thomas Aquinas, Abelard Duns Scotus
and Peter Lombard piled up on groan:ng
shelves-the Science of tie dark ages!
We come 10 the Baconian era. Bacon,
the genius Of indicative science, is born -
Defines its lines and teaches It's Limits
Hispathway is upward-amazing truths
amazing developeme nts!
''Earth's dsembowled measured are the skies
Stars are detached In the deep recess!
Creation widens! vanquished nature yields
Her secrets are oxlortedl art prevails
What monument of genius spirit, power?'
Scianca has haan aanifassing Cod
no rn &c in n En
and the savage see him in the whirlwind
and the storm, but in ten thousand beau'-
:ul combinations is he revealed TO the sci
ertific The earthquake causing noun
tains 10 toter on their bases, ocean to heaye
her immense volumes in august majesty TO
the sky, and bare. her profound caverns-
the earthquake laundering rivers from
their channels, rocking down cities, and
swallowing them up in yawnng abysscs-
these are God totrembling man universal
ly revealed-God in his might, in his aw-
full magnificent! But, oh, to few only is
He in the soft beauty of the landscape, the
meandering stream, the ripping fountain,
the cascade, the Zephyr bearing on its
wings Flora's balmy fragrance, the blade
of grass, the pebble, the shell-God the
kind and attentive parent, God the benefac-
tor, the friend, mnistering with equal
hand TO tie great family of living, exist
eace.
Take up the book of astronomy-Go
with he Astronomer and contemplate the
lllmitable empire Of worlds, and, Xix c
Newton, overpowered 70 trace the great
In, III
inc your own earth, if you please. See il
selecting with mathematical precision the
only permanent axis out of an infnitv OF
others Oh which j! might have reyolved.-
Observe the position Of! that axis too-per.
Fend cular or parallel 10 the ecliplic. where
would have been he seasons and animal
life? What else would have regned
throughout this wide domain but solitude
-dreary. dreadful, interminably solitude
The poet was not over enthusiastic wheE
he exclaimed
"An undevout astronomer is mad!'
Contemplate with The Chem S, the great
law of definite propo tons wi bout emotion.
Trace the pollriz zion Of light, The Mag
net, elictriciiy's subtle and powerful fluid
prevaoing nature-see with The Mineralo
gis, the regular formed and polished chris
tails which the great Architect has fashion.
ed--ihe earth unhowe. ed TO the Geologist,
IFS mighty mountains penetraed 10 trace
their structure and arrangements-its los
sls sought out and Interpreted in evidence
of rolling thousands and thousands of ages
Examine with the Botanst and Ana.omsi
organic sens:bility and organic irsensible
nature Every where ana every thing ex
cites an intensity of emotion! All is great
all is wonderful, all is inexplicab.e! Oh
If mental PHI ,losophy be admitted to The dig
rity OF science, the single discovery thai
the lsw Of association which influence mem
orv are in themselves indes,ruc,ib.e-iha
an affection Of the body stimulates their &C
tion-iha. Submitted 10 Ger ain modifica
lions the whole train of past thoughts, feel
/ ings and affections which nov seem shTou
ded in the dark vista Of The pas, may b
completely developed SO thst no one item
Of life shall be lost. This fact may say
if clearly established, completes The dignl
~ Of the effact-M Man, and The cause
God, and is a field for the exercise of dec
and profound thought. -ISouthern pa
per.
| SELF MURDER AT ANDoyEa, Mass. :
Mr.. Charles Howarlh. of Aadover, com
mitted suicide by cutting his throat on Fri