Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-07-27
SCIENCE.
ITS LIMITLEss PROGRESS.

LIE L1M11hLSG IhONREGo.
VIII science ever be satisfied? ? Will
its activi ty ever cease? VIII its bound
airy lines ever. appear? Can any barrier
ever check its rushing, onward career
Not if man lasts and nature endures.
Not if the brain of coming generations
is as ceaseless in its reachings-out, as
that Of the race that now lives. Not if
the sun, the moon, the planets and the
stars hold their places, and the earth
continues her revolutions. Not if the
flowers bloom and the grass grows. Not
if the rocks, the hills, the rivers, the
mountains, the continents and oceans do
not pass away. So long as We can see
so long as we can hear-so long as we
can feel, and smell and science
will hold her proud march. By the dill
fgence and the never-to- satiated yearn-
ings of men for something higher and
more perfect, we shall be carried on
through new worlds aud new heavens
The secrets that lie beneath our feet,
once deemed forever hidden, will be re-
vealed. The wonders of the deep will
come forth from their coral caves and
hiding places, and crafty the curiosity
that prompted their discovery. The air,
that we once thought vast expansive
void, will be made to TEEN with millions
of wonderful inhabitants We shall go
under, around and through the earth.
No rock, no sea, no desert shall close up
our way. God has given US the mind
and the matter; and mind shall bring
order out of the chaos of matter. Many
ponderous and gloom-wrapped mysteries
to the eyes of our fathers, will be to our
children, mere toys well understood and
hardly worth the handling. No cavern
shall be dark, no mountain shall be high,
no ocean shall be deep, no planet shall
be distant And to man himself the dis
coverer of all, we shall turn eyes of in
telligence and complete mastery. In
stead of regarding ourselves as dark, un-
solvable enigmas, we shall say, ''these
are pieces of beautiful mechanism" And
while our eyes may be veiled from a
view of the soul, yet shall we know all
else. We shall 60 into and thoroughly
understand its tabernacle of clay, and
Judge of the invisible dweller, as we
would of the decayed body from a skele-
ton, or of its lost inhabitant from an
empty sea-shell. We shall go back and
examine and comprehend the place, the
time and the manner of our origin; and
shall 90 forward and cast our eyes over
the field of our destiny. As we count
the rocks and thus estimate the age and
revolutions of the earth, so shall we
count the bones and implements of man,
and estimate the relation he bears to the
great cosmos. Do we not already see the
outlines of that which is before US E? As
the past is lighted up, SO is the future.
As the history of the one is set forth,
the probabilities of the other appear.
| The more we know of what we are, the
more we know of what we have been and
of what we shall be. Science reigns
over all whithersoever we wander, in
the past, the present or the future, sci
ence will be our wise and constant mon
itor. Science means to knoac, and te
know is the life and the glory of man
God made us to learn-to know-ano
God made nature limitless and we, will
never-satisfed minds, stand in the mids
of it, having hardly begun the grand ca
reer that awaits us. Who but slug
gard and bigot can doubt the glorious
ness of our destiny? Are not the worlds
before US, and are not our minds throb
bing with anxiety to explore the treas
ures they contain.
In us and around US, over us and un
der us. ten thousand pathways lie un
Travelled, millions of scenes remain unob
served, never-ending tones of music vi
brate unheard. But our feet are ready
our eyes are willing; our ears are wait
ing shall we not go onward and up
ward, and scale resplendent heights ney
er conceived in the widest flights of th'
rapt dreamcr's brain Death itself vii
only liberate the soul, and open up tina
which could not be seen through eyes o
flesh And this viii be heaven-but no
the end Of man, for the end of man i
endless; the universe is infinite th'
yearnings of the soul unbounded and un
ceasing and Eternity the glorious har
vest-feld of Times brief season of mora
seed-sowing and cultivation. We shal
learn and grow forever Angels of mil
lions Of ages experience shall be our In
structors and guides.
THE COOLEST NovENBERs AND APRIL
FOR SO YEARs.-Prof. Loomis of Yal
College, has published the results of hi
examination of the Meteorological Ia
bIaS which hava been carefully uresery