Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-01

Education comprehend all the race
has attained in art, literature
invention. mechanics, astronomy, geoS
raphy. history, navigation, commerce,
finance chemistry, medicine, law the
/ ologv ar au0ht else. Education EN-
brocss ali from the A h c of the infant
10 The learned work OF the mature in
tellact from the toy of the boy to Won
SartnI niece of machinery like the Cor
;ss engine. The wonderful things that
hsvs been accomplished in steam and
electricity are not victories over natural
laws, but triumPhs IN accordance Win
natural laws. They are only demon
STATIONS of the truth, and are only
nrophecy of what shall occur I'm the iu-
/ ture. Ii is only the ignorant who stand
/ I'm awe of anything OF this kind. Much
that has filled the ignorant with awe
that 10 them has seemed like an mex
plicable manifestation from mysterl-
| Gus and unknown sOurce-has been but
A triumph in the attainment OF truth.
Thus the self-styled conjurer displays
his tricks 10 a gaping multitude; yet he
is only demonstrating a lew iacts IN
chemistry.
Pursuing this idea the past rises like
dream before me, and il comes to my
mind that the unthinking people OF
every are have denounced the advocates
of progress, and have accused those who
were attaining the truth, OF being
sorcerers and wizards IN league with
Satanic powers. What was said OF him
who would first intelligently pierce and
name the wonders OF the starry heavens?
Was not he who would demonstrate the
art Of printing supposed to hold COM
municatiOn with the Devil? Later, was
not the inventor of the steam railway
cassed with enthusiasts and madmen?
Do you remember that almost within the
recollection of the present generation,
the man who proposed to demonstrate
the ability o. steam vessels to navigate
our streams, and 10 construct such
vessels, was declared to be aiming at an
impOssibllity. How many people could
Morse have convinced that a sub
marine telegraph would connect Europe
and America? o, pale Calico,
and dark-browed Fauste, and simple
Stevenson, and persevering Fulton, and
We other inventors and pioneers OF
thought, pass down before our visions
in long procession. | behold IN this
view OF the past-in your work-that ed
ucatiOn, that attainment IN the truth
has enabled man tOchart the ornament
above; has made him the master OF fire,
and steam, and sea; has shown him how
to draw the lightning from the clouds
| and talk with it from one shore OF the
ocean to the other.
FUTURE TRIUMPHS.
This is not dream, but these things
are the attainments of the past. What
shall exploration vet 10 be made in the
great mysterious sea OF truth bring To
our race? Judging the future by the
past, for what can We hope? What will
the next thousand, yea, the next hun
bred years, see accomplished IN the way
of progress? To what may man attain
in accordance with natural laws? The
past is secure; let a vision OF the future
come 10 me. You may consider me an
enthusiast, but | am anticipating the
navigation Of the air and the bridging OF
the seas.
We already have the telephone. lis
not impossible that the time may come
when mans voice shall be- heart around
the hemisphere. The electrical light Is
no longer an experiment. The time
may come when cities and States shall
be lighted by artificial suns, and there
shall be no night. Doubtless many OF
the worlds that stretch away, within and
beyond our ken, are inhabited. Some
times little ripping wave OF cOmmunl-
cation shall be waited from their now
unknown people to Us, or from us to
them, that shall gather in strength and
volume, that shall brOaden and deepen,
tin vast volume of communication
shall roll between us and them.
say, do not misunderstood me; l
am now only speaking of my visions. It's
not Tor me to declare that these things
will ever be true, but only for me 10 IN
innate the possibility OF them. This
mach | assert positively, however:
There being an intinity OF space
and OF objects inhabiting that
space, there must be an intinity OF
truths about them. NOiutelligent man,
with a properly balanced mind, can
stand beneath the star-te1ecked
heavens, OF a cloudless night, and with
only this glimpse of the immensely OF
created things, claim that all these OBJ
jects were made for him, and him alone,
who inhabits this comparatively little
planet.
And so, how could avoid permitting
my thoughts to carry me far in this dlrec
ton? Am | wrong in asking myself,
even though unable to answer as | am,
to what extent shall man explore, even
i'm this life, in the great ocean Ottruth?
30 far our victories in science, not one
of which has been supernatural and
every one of which has been in accord
ance with immutable and eternal laws,
have mostly been in the earth, the AIR
and the water of our own globe. But
as the vet unborn generations advance,
10 what may attainment In truth lead
man? Beyond the sun that We
now behold. beyond the moon that
greets our vision, beyond the clrcling
planets upon which we look, beyond
the stars whose shining Is seen by us,
there are other suns, and other moons,
and other stars, and beyond these
others, and beyond these are others,
and further on, others, until mathematics
shall fail and language talter IN telling
of them And So, beyond the COnStella-
ton of truth we have already graspei,
there are nObler truths, and beyond the
knowledge We now possess, there Is
grander knowledge, which, ii they now
were to break upon our mental visions,
would dazzle and blind us; vet that
sometimes We look upon, even as the
eagle gazes at the sun.
Branching out from the great tree of
knowledge Orattainmentin the truth, We
have literature. Sculpture and painting
are twin sisters, but literature Is the
stronger elder sister. Then there is yet
another sister. Her name is music.
Fitting here and there, cannot place
her. She is very sweet. Let me apos-
traphize her. Divine melody and har-
mouv Of sound, from whence art thou?
Thou must have bathed thySelt IN beds
of viOletS, flown To the home OF the
south winds, obtained the sweetness Of
the seventh heaven, and returned to
earth To purify and ennoble man. None
OF thy pure sounds ever bcgot aught but
good, and whether thy step is fast or
slow, of itself it never trOd an evil path.