Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-02-12
UnfoIded Mysteries.

to its own knowledge, ana the ever
increasing aversion of professors TO
dogmatise. "lie that incrcaseth
wisdom increaseth sorrow;7 and
progress in know ledge has resulted
in startling us with the magnitude
of orr ignorance, rather than eX.
alting us with pride at our compar.
alive superiority. "Gcneral rules
have almost ceased To exist in the
higher branches of study; and rules
of any kind are now seldom inferred
from individual examples. Every.
thing in science il becoming like
Herbert Spcncer's sociology, an &C.
cumuiation of facts so vast in mum.
Der. So antagonistlc TO one another.
so varied in character, that II Is
only with fear and trembling one
darcs To attempt evolving any spr.
cics of order from the whole. New.
clthclcss that order exists uuivcr.
sally. no one can doubt: the great
puzzle of the age has become that
of determining not the secret al
that order. but the method OF its
working. Where men formerly
imagined but one law, to day they
find ten thousand, all working har.
mOniuusly III one sense, and antag
onlstIcalIy in another, The inlinity
of new facts is b,wildcring science
more and more year by year: and il
looks as though the tragedy might
come yet To pass that a German
dreamer once wrote ot-humanltN
expiring in despair at its utter ma.
ability to grapple with the problems
of the Eternal and the Infinite.
The Temple OF modern knowlrd Ie
has become like one of those Amt
palaces of Eastern fable, of which
the wandeicr vanly seeks the ter.
minus: for the end of each succeed.
ing arcade only offers admission 10
an arcade Yet vaStcr; and each
To another chamber yet
more wonderful. To learn is bear
Ing Il task like some endless punish
HlflIl W lIIt tlll'I'i' iidi'N-llI'
of one feat Only in
trudurcS lis 10 another far morn
difficult, and an endless succession
of others each hugcr than its pre-"
dcccS>or. History has thus hpcomc
an enormous puzzle: political phil
oSOplIN an intricate riddle: aStrOnu
my u problem ~ vast that 10 he
studied at all it must be confirm
ously studied 10y thousands from
different points at the same time;
sociology hath neither beginning
nor end: geology has my Strrlc>
which seem drcddfully connected
with forces concerning which all
humanity has been going mad since
the beginning of the history. aud
found ont; chemistry Is something
of which the WiSr>t man un earth
has not Vet acquired but the first
lesson; ply Slology Is So little known
that 40 MAN can Yet explain even
the function ui the liver; mcdlclu"
is still in IA harbaTlc condition.. il
we consider how little know irdgr
it can definitely claim; philosophy
is "A language of which man has
not been able 10 learn the whole al
phahCt: psychology -. But why
go further. since We cannot Vet rN
plain the law of force which enables
one To move his hand, much less
The SccIct of memory aud thought.
Mankind will continue Ia heap up
knowledge 10 Babel heights: but
the sequel of confusion may forever
continue 10 cu>uc. All the ladders
of Fact which Scirnc" builds lcad
us by different angles To the same
Apex at Mystery, the awful and
ctcrual problem ut that living torcc
Which pcrmratcS the mlVcIS" and
palptatcS III the >tarS-W!iCh
prompts the fingers To hold the pen
or the comets 10 pursue their mIgh.
~ lJch,t-cuurSr through the luti.
mite \l.ht-Wlilc shines in Il hu-
maI eye or in ad,Stant Suu-Which
turuIS the combination of Thought
or the combination of astral SIS
tens. World, will br formed aud
pcopicd and destroyed crr the ST.
crct I've solved; suns shall burn out
ere our darkness he ilumincd. Who
knows aught of that subtle some
thing which moves alike the insect :
wing OF the moons of Saturn'-City
Item.
In regard 10 tn matter of the
French ultional debt, the New
\ ork sun assumes ~ correct what
II calls false conclusions arrived at
10y man crsOnS in Amt rlca. The
cost u. he war with Germany