The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-01-30

The speaker believes it will bedone in
this generation. (Applause.) Their adj
vancements in astronomy is a proof that
they were at high position in science.
When Europe was no better than CAT
fraria they gave us their " mathematical
construction of the heavens" Laplace
found use of some of their observations;
yet at the time these were made the
Europeans thought that the world was
square. Terrestrial globes were in use
among them. They discovered the
pendulum clock and the true length of
/ the year, measured the height of the
atmosphere and understood the twink
ling of the stars. They built the first
observatory at Seville. They saw far
into physics, made tables of specific
GRANTEES. In optics, they corrected the
Greek theories. They explained how
we see singly looking from two eyes,
They introduced rice, cotton, morocco,
sugar, coffee, steel blades into Europe,
and lastly the Arabian horse. They
made the ''grain" the standard of
weight, and used the word "carat." In
their scientific books there is a current
of true devotion to Deity. They min
gled all their discoveries with implora-
lions for blessings from heaven. Their
philosophical opinions, as a curiosity at
least, are interesting. In spite of theil
fatalism their best philosophers rest OF
the fact that every living thing rests
on something that existed previous t.
it. This world being a thing of life
they say it must have been produced
and maintained by living being. They
believe that God will finally absorb al
things. These ideas pervaded al
Europe after awhile; even Wicklif,
was tinctured with them. The Francis
cans adopted them; the Dominicani
hated them. In the thirteenth century
Paris was their headquarters, and they
/ we're all the fashion in Venice. Colum
bus was first led by an Arabian book t.
= believe that there existed western
hemisphere. If from Rome as cente
J n line be drawn to the Bosphorus anC
another to the Pyrenees, We may sa,
2 that throughout the middle ages tn
darkness of ignorance lay above thes
} lines; the light of intelligence and tn
q comforts of civilization below Tn
T. two regions were in deadly enmity
q The Southern nations were depOsitOrie
= of old-time knowledge. This passes
e into France through the gates of tn
! If1-LA
e ture of Lasso, Petrarch and Ariosto
b Then came the weightier sciences. Lit
!. erary and scientific tidal waves sweI
n up from the South, though bitterly OF
s posed by the churehmen as a politics
@ necessity. How feeble their resistant
/ to the current of eventsl Those who i
s this day have been its handmade {
}. science can afford to give due credit
/ their predecessors of the Moslena faitl
il The cry of the Crusaders has too Ion
It outlived the Crusades. Let us do jul
It tice to the noble Moslem for all thos
e scientific achievements which histor
e credits him with. Science was feeble
2. century ago. Now she is strong. Judg
e her by her acts. Her manufacture
d steam, telegraphs, telescopes, micr,
n scopes, spectroscopes are creating a re-
3. olution in all modern thought. She
g answering all the questions of the moo
l. ern mind In another century she wi
If have unified the human race. In h,
d present day of power let her be just
is those who protected her in her infanc