Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1852-12-11
DEMOCRACY OF SCIENCE. NO. ..
BY JOSIAH HoLRRonK

nh JOSiAH dOLbROOK.
The elements of science are purely demo
cratic. They are in all places at all times. and
obedient to their own laws, never swerving an
iota. Each renders aid to all the rest-together
making perfect and glorious whole.
One of these elements constitutes about half
of our globe-the animal, vegetable, and miner
al kingdoms. This most abundant element is
also the most powerful agent in the workings of
science. 1t is in all; and for all created things,
or nearly so. It heays our lungs; lights and
fans our fires; decks our forests and all creation
with their beautiful hues; shivers mountains in
to rocks, and crumbes rocks into soils; converts
soils into the majesty of forest, the yerdure of
plain, the richness Of garden: changes the
products of forests, plains, and gardens into
beasts of the field, birds of the air, fishes of
the sea, buzzing insects, and all creeping things;
with the whole Of animate nature, embracing
the lords Of this lower creation, having domin-
ion over the whole
The same elements and agent in our vast ere
alton assimates things the most diverse and
opposite, and again separates into atoms things
assimilated by the most intimate and perfect
union. It's constantly performing services the
most dissirnilar and opposite in character, and
yet always in perfect harmony, completely car
rying out the great designs of the Creator of
all. In most Of the wonderworkings of this
wonderful world this one agent is always pres
ent, and always active, but can only act with
and for all kindred agents, however diyerscd
their Offices or dissimilar their work. 1t Yields
strict obedience to its own laws, and yet is de-
pendent upon the same obedience from all the
rest, in their respective agencies, for accom-
plishiag the grand work of their created uni
verse. If such Is theabundance Of one element
and such the power of one agent, and both enc
and the same, who can doubt but the knowledge
of it should be as widespread as its existence Or
its power?
How strange, then, how mysterious, that those
protesting to mould pliable young beings by the
element of science, so wisely designed for them
by the Author both Of these being ard the sci
ence, should have them in charge, month after
month and year after year, and not once exhib-
it to them the most abundant element, or even
name one Office of this most powerful AGENT
The MYSTERY is more mysterious when it is known
as every one must know, by the avidity with
which every young spirit drinks in such knowl-
edge, that the highest possible delight is added
to the richest and most enduring instruction, by
a supply to their bodies, minds, and souls, Of
food so evidently and so abundantly provided
for them,
But thanks to science and humanity that
mighty change is coming over our country
and the world in the kind of knowledge taught,
and the modes of teaching it. Instruction is in
a rapid transition from words to things, from
shadow TO substance; from saying to doing;
from speculation to production; from cOnsolida-
ton to diffusion; from few to the whole.
NoTE.-The name of the element and agent
presented above, is deferred to future occasion,
that teachers may have the privilege of first
presenting it to their pupils, and parents to their
children