Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-06-04

simple statement places Gold Hill ahead
of all mining sections on the little Ameri-
can District that reaches from the Sierra
Nevada to the Mississippi. And, as a
prominent mining superintendent re-
marked to US this morning, "Give US rail-
road hence to the Truckee, and we will
turn out Ave times the amount in less
than a year after the trains commence
making the through trips"
DIR. SHIELDS, AT PRINCETON.
1t is rarely that an introductory lecture
to q college course promises so much OF
good TO the students and to mankind as
that recently published by Or. Shields.
He was appointed some time ago to a
newly founded Professorship in Princeton
College. his department being the Rela-
tons of Science, Philosophy and Reli-
gion, and there is something singularly
lucid in the style Of his lecture and hope
full as to the prospects Of the college, in
the way in which he lays out his proposed
work.
His department he shows, is not one Of
exclusively scientific instruction. He
has nothing to do with theories on which
men Of science are divided into parties,
still less to breach any new theories Of his
owe. Scientific instruction is already
fully provided for By other Professorships,
and he has rather to pre-supposs their in
structions to hare been accomplished, or
at least in full progress. Nor does he
consider his Protessorship exclusively one
of religious instruction. It is not his OBJ
ject to teach any Of the creeds by which
the religious world has been sundered
into sects and denominations. His de-
partmens is strictly philosophical in its
nature, and one which he ventures to name
PHILOSOPHY, as embracing both Science and
Religion IN their Logical Relations" be-
cause " philosophy, in virtue Of her power
Of abstraction, her insight into reality,
her love Of truth aad candor, alone can
give what the respective partisans neither
of science nor Of religion can furnish, and
yet what both require-a mediator or
umpire, to adjust their boundaries and
settle their border feuds."
"The undevout philosopher is mad"
and every wise man must love and rever-
ance the teachings both Of science and Of
religion, as truly, each Of them, divine
revelations Of the laws, thoughts and will
Of God, made. one through His works,
and the other chiefly through His word,
but both assuredly from the same author,
and therefore not only reconcilable, but
harmonious in their teachings, and eaah
confirming the other in their grand final
results. The work Of re~conciling science
and religion is plainly, Professor Shields
thinks, a work Of philosophy. mo other
~reconciler can be conceived. No other
will be accepted by both parties. To true
philosophy religion yves its defences and
science ita methods (; and it is to be re-
GREETED that a popular prejudice should
exis, In some quarters against q word Of
such noble significance as philosophy. If
we wish TO describe o seeker, lover and
reconciler of truth, as found both in reli-
gion and in science, we must term him a
philosopher. He may also be a t~heologian,
or a man of science, but when in his own
proper character he lays aside all parti-
sanship of either"
at is the office Of the true philosopher,
d~isengaging himself for the time Of the
prejudices and concei,s Of both parties, and
standing without the arena of their con
aicts as an impartial spectator and judge,
to receive from them the fragments Of
truths which they seyerally furnish, and
fuse them into logical consistency. This
our author well illustrates by astronomy.
In the starry heavens the scientific OBJ
server discovers illimitable matter and
force disposed throughout space and time.
under fixed mechanical laws, while the
religious observer beholds the immensity,
eternity and o~mnipotence Of Coda de-
par,ment Of theology. Each Of these i,
necessary to make up the whole truth.
Celestial physics, without the postulate
OF a great first cause, or Creator, would
be little better than the elephant in the
cosmogony Of the Brahmin. which upheld
the world, yet it stood upon nothing and
the Jehovah of the Bible, without the
astronomical illustration Of his attributes,
would seem scarcely more than another
Jupiter enthroned in the clouds Of Pales.
tine. The absurdity Of the one in O scien-
tiic light would be only equalled by the
superstition Of the other in q religious
light. But let these two half truths, or
halves Of truth, be brought together-let
the laws which bind together suns, moons
and satellites be viewed as the expressions
Of the Divine will, and the whole theater
OF immensely will be lighted up with the
Divine intelligence DR.. Shields then
discusses the doctrine of Abrupt Creation
and creation by law, and thinks we may
well suspend our Judgments upon much,
ever bearing in mind the one great truth
which prompted the writing of the book
OF Genesis: In the beginning God created
the heavens and the EARTH In a word.
science aad religion cannot do without
each other"
DISEASED WHsAr.-The Detroit Post
is very indignant at the reports which are
circulating about the country, that much
az tho wheat stored in that city In d;aaaa.a