The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-07-21
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lambersour metaphysical tt xt-books: but
i'thea clear cut foundations of a sensible
/ Phllo opbys and a mani yais Christianity.
Returning to thellevel of material utiI-
| lty,' we must certainly lplAee Chemissrv
next on theslist. 1t stands beside Pbps.
ioiogy IN prsctical value. The two DO
hand In hadd, as the Eve and Adam of
new earth The world waits and INN
gers Tor The coming. By far the 4lsrpest
par OF the material discoveries which
nave blessed aud civilized ths human race ;,
nave come through this science; and Ills
new unfoldings. which go6n Increasing ia
use and beauty hint TO as of saston6ing
possibilities ia the fututeS of a new mario.
and Dew alchemy W hieh ;may'y5t trans
pgure this barren earth with milienhial
spendoFs? 1se7i asm aH'hEsi b buo1y -,
% If the sons and dang ters of the people.
Were thoroughly trained 10 this delight
ful scienee, there would at ones be an as
ton1sh1ng Improveme nj IN tire department
where 1t is most needed. 81 The science { f
cookery, as we PRACTICE it, is utterly bar
safoots. Asnyl itinerant Ininisterior teach
err any person who hssseatehi abe daily.
bread soEeths American people. will tell
you that.lt is a sour, .ciammy. dismal ar :
tlcle, streaked with potash, concerning
which We should reverse the usual prat yer,
aud rather ask to be delivered fronp it.
The good wholesome grain which God
gives US, is even worse treated ia its 18th
er products. In miry sites, I'VE transform
It into such meat as ought to be taken
from The children's mouths and given un-
to the dogs. And upon these Two arti-
Giles, the great mass ofqour people live.
NO wonder that We are a nation of dys-
Pepues; especially when considering that
Plantation and Bourbon Bitters are g..
generally substituted for gastric iIaicss.
Is useless to underrate the Importance
otsthis matter. Physical life is sustained
and spiritual life greatly modified, by The
materials of which our bodies are built;
and practical chemistry must teach US
how to select and elaborate these stones
of the living templesa Surely,sift we are.
temples of the Holy IGhost, we should be
built of. materials as beautiful and pure as
the twelve foundations of the New Jeru-
salem! -'hi4 a
q Concerning the importance of physics,
l hardly5needi to speak. We Americans
are an Ingenious people, and the products
Of o4r ingenuity have ljghtenedsth the Toll Of
all nations. Yet how WFetchedly is it
often imis directed Ut No, one will more.
readily assent to this proposition than
onerwh0 has visited the Patent Office at.
Washington, and studied the ten thousand
worthless ivagaries embodied in the mod
dels7 Accumulated. on its Shelves Thous-
ands of men have wasted their lives 10.
pursuit of the mirage of Perpetual Mo-
ton; a mirage which would be dissipated al
one stroke if our youth were, taught the
great doctrine of4the correlation. and con
,seEvation Of forces How many aboFtiYe
engines, and water wheels, aad flying
machines .&re there piled ups worlhless
because their. Inventors were ignorant of
a few simple. elementary, mechanical prins
Jciples!, o. the other hand, What new and
wonderful conquests over matter might
have been achieved, if, the ten thousand
boys who have spent tedious years in the
distastsfulz study of dead languages had
been reading, the great book of living ma
ture instead! -r. z.Ez. ~, b.. ~. 49,
We must certainly place Geology next
on the list. What can be grahder, OF
better adaptedIto expand the 4luman soul,
than the study Of Thai, great stone Book,
upon whose leaves, broad as The earth
itself, Gods own hand has STAN ped the
record Of his creative power, as it has
been working on through the dim etern-
tiles of the past? In its practical results,
this seems to be the most iufallibls of al
the. sciences. While, on the one hand,
it -tn1ocks a museum Of wonders, filled
Hwfth- the representatives of sthousanC
extinct races, and Opening back to the
| very twilight of creation, on the other
I its principles, ii their practical aspects
are so uniform and simple thaGa fool neel
/ not err in their application. The 7grea
Author has printed no repetitions, no ret
rogressions, no falsehoods. Upon the ston
tablets of his book Geology is Che cas-
1 lest, the most comprehensive, Of all tht
departments Of natural SCIENCE And yet
for want of the mel est alphabet Of thi
study, what vast sums are every yea
Esqiandered in absurd and useless searci
for mineral treasuresl How many hsv
wasted their little all boring for Of
:, through rocks formed millions of year
after the oil-bearing. zoophytes had disap
4 peareG from the earthl How many hav
j followed the example of the Illinois cit
fathers, who drilled fYehundred fee
Ithroughdthe lower 4SiluFian formation j
search sof coal2--a formation stamped
and printed, and labelled all over, b
Il countless fossil organisms with the in
D Formation thatit was formed at the boz
) tom of the primeval oeeans5 ages on age
i before the marshy eoutinentssof the car
: bonifefous era wers lifted above the wa
! tiers! Our pupil shall learn Geology, h
shall go forth over the world, beholdin
everywhere the ssF ootprintsl of the Cres
t9er, - and listening to- the Testimony (
Htae Roeks;'n to him ths1earrh shall ylel
: up her hidden treasures, and tell the Wor
b derful story of her birth; and deep anon
e the roots Of the mountains, and the strou
e foundations of the continents, he STA
. drink from. the wells of divine knowledg
:. aud infinite love. - q
# An indispensable pre- requisite to learl
e ing the Physiological part Of this Sc
.1oa ts' a yaneraf 1noWfsd0e Of Zoolog