The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-12-29
LECTURE OF REV. T. STARR KING.

LECTURE OF REV. T. STARR KING.
Rev. T. Starr King ectured before the Mercantile Ii
bary Association last night in the Universaist Church
corner of Pleasant and Calvert He that he
had selected the subject of his lecture the claws of
Disorder that expression conveyed the best idea Of
the matter of which he intended to treat He said
mankind were prone to speak of the stability of nature
when in fact there stability in anything The prin-
cpe of change in everything from the rotng leaf to
the rolling sphere Men spoke of the heavens as if was
arched roof and the were grooved in their
courses Now the fact is that this world ours never
travels the in its yearly motion any two years
together How wonderful is this remarked the lecturer
when it is considered that miles are ira
versed and yet the journey made with minute
precson with nothing regulating its action it passes
through space with the principle gravity for dead
weight, and worlds for wheels He referred to the
laws regulating rain and climate their eguarity and
yet their precise regularity He then spoke of the
of propagation of certain trees mentioning fig an
example when the principle of fertilization not ord
nary, but carried from blossom the other by
the bees and e on their wings and feet which to
gather honey This appeared to be irregular, but
examination would show its beauty and regularity At
certain seasons even on particular week and day the
and the bee light the BLOSSOM receive from
necessary principle production carry it to another
He spoke of the rainbow which behold the sky re-
marking that it was continually changing, that every
drop of which the suns rays fell upon assisted in
painting the shifting beauty and he compared it the in
cessant change which was taking place in the physical
world Although this appeared disorder yet was per-
feet order He then remarked that the regularity which
characterized all things the strongest argument
against the doctrines of the atheist. To speak chance
governing things folly Supposing said the lecu
that in place of the flake falling storm
the letters of our alphabet should how long would they
have fall before they could themselves into
the tragedy of Macbeth with all its beauties great
conceptions? And yet it could not be difficult
this worlds of the solar system should by
chance the positions which they occupy or move
in the harmony which govern their actions. We are
not apt ne continued to think properly of the
persons believe that there is order that which
the ingenuity of man creates for his protection This was
a haDnnPss nn lave
which he has CONTROL and society itself depen
dent for its existence provdential regulations. He
then referred to the fact of the equal division of the sexes
and asked what would become Of humanity if this law
regulating the equality of births destroyed 1t is
should be equally divided and they had down
through many centuries in two great plaoons SO
regular has this division been, that prophecy
what the difference will be in each generation He re-
marked that Europe there preponderance of per
cent of males born and in this country per No
human legislation had results such these following it.
He next referred to the variety of faces and the necessity
for such variety. There duplicates, and in
g0oooOOoO OF people, no two could be found alike.
This great variety the work delicate ar
tistc ubtey If there were persons whose appearance
was Identical there could be no conviction of crime and
society would lose its greatest safeguard which lies in
the impossibilty to change the face The regu-
iary exhloed IN the births was also exhibited in the
deaths Life Insurance Companies founded this
law of regularity and the mathematics of mortality and
the science of death enafed"them to exist Marriages
and suicides also regulated and the lecturer had
tables of each prepared in advance which had been
accurately fulfilled He then referred to the regularity
which found in the pulses of children remarkng that
at similar and in similar conditions the pulses in
these little human clocks beat in precisely the same
time. He said that crime tsel less uctuang than
the cotton market Human wisdom has but little o do
with maintaining society The skill of could
capitol or ST. Peters, but their columns would crumble
| and they would be more the laws Of nature,
unlike the skill of man, reproduced from ruins that
which had fallen to decay. He then referred
! to the different classes of mind. 1t was neces
have the conservative and radical elements strong
ly at work. dsproportion in either would bring
trous consequences If the conservative element alone
prevailed at the end of century humanity would be like
train of cars wthouta locomotive and if radicalsm pre-
vailed for similar time they would be like of
locomotives and every porson would desire either be
an engineer fireman. 1t was necessary to have
"isms He then referred to the new men who arose to
meet new emergencies, and said that the a
science was discovered fresh and vigorous minds
ready for investigation and action He remarked that all
men were made for particular spheres and if each in
his proper channel would have perfect society The
same laws which govern the formation individuals and
classes could be clearly traced in the formation national
character He here referred the people of different
countries describing the different types and characters
tics, and peculiarities He closed by reference the
different empires which have fourished and which still
exist, and asked what position country occupy
expressing the hope and belief that she would stand
| forth superior to all others.
The Farmers High School of Pennsylvania will
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