, 1877-02-19
SCIENCE AND MAN.
What the Former Has Done for the
Latter Physically.
Cause and Efcct---What Man
Has Accomplished So Far.
Interesting Lecture by Prof.
Cunning.

largo anu nppreciattvc audience. The lecture
Yesterday, "What Schemes ,Will Do for Man
phystca1Iy," wa. the most interesting md in-
structlVe .leliycred 20 far. These lectures
arc continually gaining In popularity,
as Is best shown by tho gradual In
crease In the audiences. The subject
for next Sunday afternoon, What sclcnco VIII
Do for Man Socially mil Politically" promises
to hc tho best of the series. and tho ablc lecturer
house.
Tho following is an abstract Of yesterdays
lecture:
II the time q addison, the feeling Of ,' e!v.
!llzation toward savagers 'ras Expressed BY hin
in the following couplct:
Where wild In woods
The noble tarage roanutd.
After 150 years Of study We express Our
knowledge Of aavaEc life IN the lines of Addison
slightly aEncndcl. thus;
Where Wild In woods
The crInging savage crcpt
Now, The savaRe Ia rar,.chilt1. Hc Is man
and an old man In boir. lfo IL child, and rep
rctcnts tho childhood Of the race In mind.
Psimcyal man was beat upon BY the elements.
seeming tlatncss of Garth and vaults Of heaven
nnd rising and setting Of sun md stats, tortured
by the pitilcss world without, ana tofn,cnted by
thS .lsTning world ot thought withl1. H., .,...
Or tho breath Of tic north wind. More painful
his own thoughts. Ilow was man to be de-
an!malizcd and emancpatcd from tho thrall Of
uature md dctcmonizcd aud delivered from
the thrill tf snpcrstitloni
4 philosopher, who has made studies Of
babies, tells tls that child during tho Erst two
years Of its life ia experimenting to Fa!n knowl-
edge OF tho material world tnto which It Is born.
touch md feel Whatever form Of matter lies
around 1t. it, senses arc us tho antcnnsn Of I'll
insect, tho feclcrs OF nature. !hc babyhoo.l Of
the race Is ns the babyhood Of tho inairit'nal.
child and tho ctil1-man l,clong to tho school OF
philosophy called realt4t..
Everything Is precisely What It seems. Color
is real, darkncsa md shadow also arc real sul'-
stances. The child and the elfid-man must
grow from the letter Of nature Into the spirit
before they learn that things arc not what they
seem: that darkness Is simply stiffness in tho
ether, that color Is an appearance duo to Ger.
tain vibrations tn tho ether. aud that mattcr is
the shadow rnst BY force. EmancIpatIon comes
through the head, not the heart. Take all tho
hooks In which man has uttered bis aDccitla.
tinns about gods and dcvlls, about heavens und
bells, about ghosts and tho ghost-worll, and II
mid OF Egypt, like tho pyramid Of Egypt
they would commemorate nothing but fraitiess
Take, then, my stray leaf on which mnn Ia
made on Nature, ~ TINT lc saw q bit Of clcctron
nttract hair or d shred of silk; written that he
san a kl.ld Of iron pull to itself nail or a
SsSeas; tn,t e saT tho msstoa a # n tho
coccoon hy worm, ,or felt a q,!aking Of the
rarth, or eaw liquid tire breaking irom u
mountain, or observed the moon cc]ipsIng the
s4!', Or round u sfad9w failing or TIC moon.
broodcd over the facts, and you hare hlatory
Of mans rise from thra!lom to Naturc to one
Of dominion over her.
The primitive man found hlmsclt tho sport Of
yrrf}fr{nsts T1r,rn 1tn,1 Il, ALI
and viewing all things from himself, lle con.
ccivcd Of the forces Ut Nature o. powers. When
be began to direct these powers they lost their
personality and betamo forces: When tho wind
tho greater power, and these detlroncd
powers bceamd tnorc nnd moro obetlIent
TO- ,cn n' I'll; m no ao ,,a Eft wa man ,s Ss nost n
no gitt but ground for hs feet, water for his
lips md ar for his lungs, what is the forcc in
1an bn own 9 arm to i, The forces ho must employ
globe tllas ho could plant tho soils of hts foot.
lila prlneyul abodcs Gun 10 tracei to-day by
stonu tools and heaped up shells along tho
shores Of rivers, sens, and lakes.
to-day, wayo utter wave, Of civilization has
rtoea seefors saa pos nj s''fs; ieeuads as
Of Nature. Man, armed with q stol!c,
ion rom to M wateFs II earo lrtn '' tfa ' NIs Wouds
Ho1nn ;nrp s,r,ce thnrht thn1 ,.m,,i rrorh hca,
rem BY piltng up tower Of storcs Thcro vas
another man who doesn't sccm to have thought
a1out put eons himself to IN
bronze. The luidcre OF babcl failed, ThS fol.
lowers OF Tnhal Cain conquered tho woods All!
armed Will lnDlctncnts onlrMnoi forcss' @ Ma,,
IL ntnr. Il" h sh"nnI ,rn,,n,i his trnis
Ife iainra' mi "a hcovv in,ic, ~ i,ccn,,s.
Nature is 90 reluctant 10 s "bcy . Kin.
Mci In Massachusetts toii mud MOL aud torture
thc nIno foS ts nctal H. anil tsrIi,nc I'd a viii snot
toftra the metal inso tools. md 1t ts,n end ri
ear dor ~ Mi Ihcr" ia ri ~ % "ac H. eitcr az af,cr ~
fesifns aud cin,hi,r snl lo',.ns, II. h,dv nu
nycrnrn snrnj,,s of tl,rn" centa fn ~ foucr ri ri
Tia i,nssiva ish1lnannhr wat anT ~n."s -, -, "
kent sscran,cnt wRrf,s ha @aI sniinf f nMnus.,
Supner.n iio i,eYsr r'a.c frnIn thn toh1c Wiz
n,,t Sailing rr,st ~ hr..ud asvn ' t1s ~. III.
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