The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1875-06-21
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Ny Audience
The philosophy. known as the Baco-
nian philosophy. has been productive Of
countless benefits to The human family.
What the sun is to the physical world
the induotive method or Basonian phi
losophy, is to the intellectual. AS q
part Of It's fruits, the old and new world
have been Joined together. Art and
enterprise, met IN mid ocean, aud laid
on IT, sands medium Of intelligence,
by which communications ore made
with electric speed, between persons
living in all parts Of the civilized world.
II any ofthe crowned heads Of Europe
should die at midday tomorrow, the
news would he bulleIined in every part
Of the United States and the Uanadas
before the hour Of one. And so to with
any other important event which might
occur in either hemisphere; for 50 in.
timatO ore the relations existing be,
tween the two peoples, that both may
DO said 70 breathe the same atmosphere,
and be moved by the same impulse.
The spell which for ages kept man
10 darkness, poverty 10 ignorance and
genius 10 chains, has been dissolved.
Moral light has broken into The dark.
cs. spots Of earth, and knowledge has
dared to assert her rightful supremacy.
China and Japan, long tho abodGs Of
superstitious darkness, and their ports
closed against all intercourse with en-.
lightened nations, have been compelled
under the ciyiliEing tide Ct cduca.
tional development and moral culture,
to open their doors to commerce and
ask admission into the great brother.
hood Of Nations The widest dream
Of the poet has been rcalized-,here
seems to-day to be no bounds and no
limits 10 the inventive powers Of the
human intellect. The celebration Of
our Nations Centennial, which is 10
come of next year at Philadelphia, is
likely to DO the most important, rs well
as noted event Of the 10Th century
perhaps Of the world, The thirst for
something new. New to see-new to
read-new to think about, new to talk
about-new to love and new to hate, has
Get the world in motion, and caused
thousands Of men aud women to enter
their closets aud put on their studying
habits. What they will DO able 70
bring forth by The close Of the present
century, ! leave you my hearers to con-
lecture. II to-day you were to ask a
citizen Of Great Britain what the Ba-
cenian philosophy had done for man
kind, he would answer, sit has length
ened life; Il has mitigatcd pain; Il has
distinguished diseases !; It has increased
tho fertility Of the soil; It has given
nov securities to tho mariner; Il has
furnished new arms to the warrior; Il
has spanncd great rivors and cstuaries
with bridges Of form unknown to our
fathers; ithas guided the thunderbolt
ianocuously from heaven to earth /; Il
has lighted up the night with the
splendor Of the day; It has extended the
range Of the human vision II has mul.
tiplied the power Of the human muscle:
II has accelerated motion; It has ami.
hilated distance; It has facilitated inter.
course. correspondence. all friendly
Offices, all dispatch Of business it has
enabled man 10 descend to the depths
Of the sea, 10 soar into the dir, to pone-
ttate securely into the noxious recesses
Of. the earth, to traverse the land on
cars without horses aud tho ocean in
ships Which sail against the winds.
And these arc but part Gifts fruits,
for 1t is a philosophy which never rests
aad is never perfect. A pSin. which
yesterday was invisible, Is lis goal to.
day, and will be It's starting point to.
morrow. And ifyou were 70 ask mo
what It had done for you and for our
whole country, / would repeat to you
what l have just spoken, aud by way
Of addchdum, point you to this spacious
ball and the privileges Of the school !;
10 that magnificent structure across The
riyer-tho homo Of the homeless and
the asylum Of tho dsmnntcd and be.
nighted-tn tho ten thousand institu.
tons Of similar character, throughout
the land ; to those fields Of patriStic
strife which led to our country's inde.
pendonce to those seats Of learning
which have improved tho English Ian.
guage'nnd dignifed lis literature; TO
our msjestic towns aud cities spriugins
up all over our country, the prida and
boast Of both the American and Euro.
pean; to our sea eonst and her rich
commerce, covered with steamers and
whitcned with the sails Of our ships; to
our railroads and their vast tonnage
reaching from ocean tooccan, aud from
tho lakes 10 the gulf, to the million
Of school.houDes which dot the land aud
the.tou thousand workshops 10 which
The loom, the plane. the hammer and
The anvil make sweetest music. Aud
! would not fail 10 point you 10 The pat.
ron aud ptcsorvcr ofall these blessings,
tho Government md Constitution Of
our common countryside some Of ,bo
features Ofwhlch 1 invite your Ailcu-
iion
Fellow oiiilcns: We have gov.
eminent The purity Of whose inslitu.
tons and The equity Of whose laws
Alandsunrivalcd 10 the annals Of the
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