Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-07-23
Goddess Science.

Goddess Science.
The following is portion of Park |
Goodwin's speech, ut the farewell |
dinner, 10 Prof. Tyndall, at New |
York
AS all is not gold that glitters, so |
all is not science that bears the name. |
Dean Swift, in his day. humorously |
complained that Gruo street had mi- |
grated to the Royal Society. Laugh
teri. Well, we can not say that
things are as bad as that. but
certainly there are some ragged aud
suspicious looking fellows lurking
about the premises, and rs the duty
of the press, like Dogberry, was To
comprehend all vagrairs-wc SO bid
these stand. For example, n German
doctor was around the other day who
informed us that with matter and
force he could very easily reconstruct
everything there Is in the universe.
lie did not tell us what matter and
force are, apart from the mind which
coTcciv6s them as phenomenal rcla-
t!ons, but he WIS sure uf his point,
and that was enough. 1t WAS not,
however. all original noiion. That
learned traveller, DIR. LcmucI Guilt
yer, i'll his authrntic and Veracious
narrative called u Voyage TO Lupu-
ia" encounters n doctor of the Acad-
emy of Lagoda, who was quite up to
tins modern mark. lie possessed
machine, of which TIE drawings are
given, into which you mi gut throw
Il vocabulary, some BITS of wood, aud
Il few pieces of paper, aud then by
turning crank, out OF tuosc rough
| materials would come Il whole body OF
The arts and sciences-foliD volumes of
| philosophy, poetry, politics and law
| printed and bound, all complete.
without any expense OF labor or any
assistance from genius and study.
lAppla"se,
| You say this is ridiculous! but il
! is not Il whit more So than those more
recent theories which would account
for the universal frame of thugs
every part of a scuipturcd order and
II luscious beauty, every part teeming
with an intelligence that moves our
wonder aud delight-on mere me-
clianlcal principles. Then, there is
another of these outside teachers of
science, but this one Is entitled 10 the
highest spect-tliough l think he
rides i hobby beyond the capacity OF
The creature to carry-who contriVes
Il vast process of cosmic evoiu!ions,
who tells us that Il great while ago
n nebulous gas was diilused through
the immensity of space. which first
twisted itself iuto Il solar system, hen
into world. then into LAYERS of min-
eral strata. then into vegetable spir-
alcS, into animal motions. into hui
man worthless called societies, into
| I;ia,is, Purtheuons. and Siiakcspeares.
and at last int grand Philosophy OF
Evolution-thc crown and coi>uinlEa-
tion.o of the whole; which may all be
true, though the birth strikes me as
hardly worthy Of SO long and So tre-
mendous Il pnrturition. [App ,alseI.
Again, third couvinces hi,us, If
and his admirers that the universe ls
considerably defective, and that, like
Alphonse of CASTLE. it he had been
consulted i'll the making Of it, he
could have given MANY useful hints
toward its improvement aud so, too
when the deepest human instincts i'll
all ages have repeated what the He
brew peasant said, gazing into the
clear depths of the eastern skies,
"The heavens declare the glory OF
God, and the ti"nament showcti
His handiwork," cries, ''PIsh, the
heavens declare the glory OF Coperni.
Gus. kcpler aud Newton"
Then there is another French litera.
teur, who, with all his undeniablt
merits, masquerades Il little too mucl
i'll the !iabi!iinents OF science, who il
L very sure that mind and motion art
but diverse sides of the same essen
tial phenomenon, the one coming il
, by the front door of the consciousness,
and the other by the back door of til,
l senses. When you talk, lie says. o
the martyrs faith, the heroic dcvo
tion. the mothers love, the poet
y fancy. the artists genius, the lover
rapture, you are only giving 50 man,
:, different movements of little mole
u cules i'll the brain; up. down, hithcr
thitlicr. tn way, that way. etc; bu
: NV opinion is that the ingcuIuu
Z gentleman, when he comes to tn
e truth of The case, will find inat wh;,
= he terms molecules are only maggris
IL of which very fine specimen liza
o found its cradle and home in his ow1
i capacious Uranium. [Laughier.l Til
u. is Il clear case of Grub street, as
u friend remarks. Ceiling into the roya
u society. Now. if this lie science, W
must eXclaim with the poet:
e .'Oh! star-eyed science, dist thou wander the,
: To waff us i,ack !; in.,ssage .fiespair!'
k Is this all the titlings We bring frnr
\ the cmpyrcau What ! is there Moth
.e ing ut the central wheel Of life but
II blind, dumb, ins"n>ib!c, uukuowabl
- furce-a force without love, withou
II intelligence. without desire and pu,
lc pose: an eyelcSs Samson. whic