The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-04-01

It would be an objectionable crime III
the medical profession if the removal OF
disease should not be made to share III
the improvements that are remoldlng
the types and plans Of the business and
benefcent measures Of the nation and
of the world There is nothing in the
departments of business, nor IN the labors
of public benefcence, that needs or
desires a greater degree of scientific re-
formation than the collection of remedies
for the thousand ills which the race is
hourly suffering. Medicine has as much
right to the advantages of true science
as anything else; and the people are as
1nuch in need of improvement OF the
medical department as of any other
public benefcence. It is duly entitled
to all the advant lges that science is able
to bestow. Science itself, however, is
in state of development, and has much
to gain before 1t is able to make COM
petent and perfect disclosure of the
themes and theories that come within
it's purview. The history of science,
ancient and modern, is replete with
interesting facts and its revelations Of
natural elements and their organic
forces speak volumes Of honor and
praise to the men whose energy wrestled
with the deep and hidden connections
of atoms that bound them into mineral,
vegetable and vital substances. Bat
the largest share of natures curious net
work is still hidden away in the Or
ganic relations of vitality, mentality and
mortality, to q community of physical
clements that Were laid together by the
only intelligence that understood the
fullness of scientific compatibility.
Science has done a wonderful work in
examinations OF elementary connection.
She has shown the powers OF the ele-
-ments, free and combined, in solids,
fluids and gases. She has analized the
wind; caught and imprisoned the light
nings. She has tied it to the car of
progress and sends her messages through
the deep beds of the ocean, and to-mor-
rows prints in Britain viii team with
our transactions of to-day. Science has
dissolved the waters and harnesshd her
horse of the nations, and in his flight he
almost disputes speed with the light
ming; he swims rivers and oceans, and
bears the burdens of commerce from
land to land.
He looks upon man as his master,
Who feeds him ON carbon and flame;
He speeds when he bids him go faster,
And never is weary nor lame.
He dashes with ease through the tempest.
He leaps over mountain and hill,
He SkipS over plain and plantation.
And only at bidding is still
But with all this science Is vet
In the basement of the great structure
of nature Her efforts are confined to
the relations and revelations of the
physical department. But when all
nature combines-physical, mental,
moral, voluntary and sympathetic,
aud is aggregated into a living, thinking
man science stands aghast and the prob
lem repels every attempt at unfolding
these mysterious relations
Chemistry has analysed every princi-
pal part of the human body and de-
termiued the quality of its elements,
but has utterly failed to find out how it
is that vital. mental and moral forces
are impressed upon matter and COM
Dined to inhabit these elements when
they are in organic relation. Observa-
ton has discovered that vitality is de-
pendent upon organizations; that or
CARNATIONS must be special to sustain
mental harmony, and that mental order
must prevail to maintain the force of
moral sentiment. \ simpleton can
crush and disorganize an acorn or a
blade OF grass, but God only can restore
order and impress with vital power.
The arts and sciences of the world are
brit stepping-stones at the door of Gods
greet temple of nature. We are still
sounding the experimental notes of the
minor scale of life; the major scale is
above us. If we could but solve the
problem. we might construct our own
creed, improvise our own mandates and
set up nature and have laws as God. and
thrust revelation aside. But natures
foundations are too deeply set for super
fetal comprehension, and her laws are
too closely related to be revealed by
demonstrations that deal only in inert
material and their material relations.
LII we could trace nature to its leoiti-
mate organ, we should have plausible
lasis upon which to establish an intelli-
gent faith, but the failure is SO COM
plete that we are safe in asserting he is
but a scientific fool who reads nature
and leaves God and Revelations out.
who denies that natural order is the
products of intellectual power. The
river of life is not navigable to its source
by the ship of scientific explorations
God induced nature with vital impress
sions. Nature, in its primordial COM
position is perfect and the imperfec