New-York tribune., 1870-12-21
nd accomplished President Of model agricultural col.

The EMANCIPATION W
When Lord Bacon introduced the demands OF common
and the principles OF common honesty into phio
sophcal reasoning and investigation when the student
OF nature adopted the motto OF "Nulus In verba and
listened only TO the results OF experiments or TO the un
errng mathematical deductions from those results then
the temple OF science was raised with rapdity and tr
umph, by the accumulation OF facts upon fact ~nen
then the emancipation Of science achieved and that
struggle began which In various 1orms has ~
which BACON wrought Everywhere the bonds which
had bound mans soul seemed % De breaking betWeen
70 receive tbe and persecuted The Huguenots
brought their protesting faith TO our southern shores
The Puritans, who had hndled and preserved preserve
having sought shelter In vain In the Old
sea defyng with their fervd hearts the freezing storms
OF Winter and still freezing storms OF man
SSe sd Ssn n the Ssw %
making sacred this very night on which We have Assem-
spent by that weary band before they landed
and gave immortal soul TO the empire OF human equal
ty on this continent In the world OF thought, Shake
speare performed his divine and undyng work In the
world OF science, Harvey discovered the circulation OF
the blood Dreoe lnven.eu d ,n1 Km c,e m moDn
inent 10 his genius the Astronoma celestis II
was the era Of and moral protests and assertions
from which great privileges and opportunities
From that period, the struggle which science had 80
long carried on against bgotry and intellectual arrogance
has been conducted with spirit or andaclty ana 40
briefly" worthy OF its great master against 1.-THE natural
obstacles which lie in the way Of finite man. In his en-
deavors 10 comprehend employ the works OF Infinite
ened In her career of usefulness and honor What
army OF martyrs does she already present for the
shows OF mountain hights in the awful soitudes that
surround the poles; In the smotherng danps OF uh,
burning sands OF the desert poisoned by masmas stned
by fatal gases Of the laboratory wasted by long toll
over the intricate and wonderful structure OF the human
body the sons OF science have bravely and n0by per
shed that man might he brought into more intimate re-
atons with that Ofwhich he has been made lord
and master. Clothed with the DrrOlhm ana SELF
sacrifice which enDobe every great ana good cause IN
men to achievement and Will continue to go until
she reaches that boundary which s drawn between te
human and the divine, and beyond which We walk ny
faith and not by sight"
SCIENCE VERSUS DISEASE.
That this path lies before her. who can doubt In the
material world which lies all around us, In the earth on
which we tread and from which we draw our very ex-
istence, are constantly recurring phenomena, which
have thus far seemed to defy all human ingenuity 10
comprehend control. But one by one they are ex-
pored until what before was dstk seems s ~
radiance almost divine To all OF vs. lor instance has
been brought home the sad and sudden and distressing
eaaahtyi tne teIr9f which 81 noandsx" stIicben
homes and wasted fields are too fam liar 10 all men, AND
man seems en- 70 sstg eesa @ diseases
and epdemcs, or OF destroying the swarms OF desuc
lev steps forward and declares II IL at present well
eabshed fact that certain Diseases both OF plants ana
Of animals, which have all the characters OF contagious
and infectious epidemics are caused ny minute organ,
isms. The smut OF wheat is wellknOwn instance Oh
such disease and y cannot De nounsd tn, % sae
egory. Among animals, insects are wonderfully liable 10
the rayages OF eontagiou, anu iec,ous "a %
by microscopic Fungi NOW, reJectns entre! lhs lues
that Mr.. Huxley could even expect to be witness OF
the evolution OF yng protoplas ron NJ ana no. ~ 'ing
erous particles is 10 be accounted for by the
ordinary process OF the generauon OF nhe ro Ola e @
may we hot peene Viii w -, i e aav as thoronpbT under
OF many scouIee wiz we ole ny ,is 50 i,a,rina
stood, ~ s no" tns meroscopic @ ~ W. IN
come TO an end y
II is Indeed a consolation to to know that micro
seropc investigation has revealed the fact that many
nan 70, and famine are denendent FOR their existence
and their propagation upon extremely small living, solid
paTSies be theE age The destrucon OF
bese germs Sr The PREVENTION Of contagious diseases
among and domestic animals, and the employment
Of parasitic germs for the destruction OF insects
to vegetation present 10 me d G erts ser
vice 70 mankind, which would be forever htu Ia CRATE
fn be acSeyed one OF her most brilliant modern
yictOries-fOr account OF which we are indebted "
life" A peculiar epizootic disease attacked the silk
worms n France about the 1885, and threatened u
destroy the great sk-producng industry OF that coun
trv 1yoying loss OF thirty millions sterling the silk
grower and overwhelming with poverty ana distress
vast population enpl9iod IN ,Te os inyestsa
tons into the canse OF this disease NJ fasteur com On
a,,o and nrov5rd the femedy also and in the perform
ance Of which Paster added - name 70 the og ns %
those who have sacrlnced theuSeiNss Iot nT ~
mahkhu ne , Nv t nd % nonlt5ncation OF tbe
Panhistophyton in the silkworm :" that II Is con
tagious ana lnIech"us peeamse ~ 'e 1rou tbe bod,e,
~ tbs diseased caterpillars directly or indi
rectly 10 the nlimentary canal Of healthy SILK
worms in their neighhorhood; that II Is heredltary
because the corsces enter into the eggs while they ar,
being formed and consequently are carried with then
,rbaS the are heng laid that il il an independent
ganism which ia mo more generated by the silk-worn
than the mjstetoe generated by the oak the apple
tree on which II grows though IL may need the silk
worm for its development in the same way the mis-
tieoe needs the tree Guided by this theory he de
yised a method OF eXtirpatng the disease, which ha
proved 10 be completely successful wherever II has beeI
carried out"
SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURE.
,,.,.d ,r this success az NJ Pasteur what ma,
fhcou'ase" W .n' 81. -. -. ~. ,o,.o,
not the agricuurst expect from tha alhnce Det"eel
bosel, and sciepce which has been established duTnj
-. - 80 -, oen,rr, Not that science will eve
the last quarter oI ceItu9 40. .na %, , ~, ~ a., !,
enable the isIiheI 70 III, ,h LID =, tos cannof reach
ehGes Vi natuI., ,ir ~nn csn tathom no human powe
which no Hvehisa.upn oh M ~ ontyoi tba stias an,