The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1880-06-11

lists to 4 worship Of the invisible God, for
men like Draper Haerkle, Huxley and
Spencer would refuts The assertion.
What We are "a show IS, that tie con
ditions attending man ) spiritual nature
while earnestly inquiring after the truths
Of science are akin to those Of our holy
religion That which agrees with relig-
ion IS religious
Teachableness; obedience and reverence
are the principal elements, making up 4
religious spirit. Prayer 81 supplicatisn to
personal God adds one more element
passing from the religious spirit 70 the
spirit Of worship, but with this neither
science nor our subject IS strictly con
eerned.
But does science engender the three ell
ements found in our definition Of a relig-
ious spirit Certainly Unless sc be
come as little children We can in no wise
enter the kingdom Of heaven. Supplant
the word heaven BY the word science and
you still have 4 truth. IN the first place
it simply means that you have no power
within yourself to make way to that eter-
nal dwelling place for your spirit; that
this IS beyond the invention Of the might
lest intellect, and that here you must ac7
knowle dge your insigni6cance and Be will
ling to be taught BY Him whohasfa claim
to instruct onsueh subjects.
In the second place It means that he
who enters the highways Of science must
Danish prejudice and bias, lay aside pre-
conceived notions, acknowledge that he
cannot change one iotaEof natures laws
and in this child like, simple, questioning
condition he must allow nature to impress
herself upon him. Her material must be
his books, his studio; her shifting scenes
his preceptor; her majestic force must di-
rect him and her laws must be his guide.
Nature must instruct and he having ban
ished prejudice can only properly receive
such instruction. This is teachableness
Science examinessthe organic and inor-
ganic forces Of nature and declares the
laws of their government. Elements in
nature have attraction, repulsion, mobili-
ty, diffusi -ili:y, Be-, and if left undisturb
ed will arrange themselves in accordance
with these forces or their afinities.
I 1T is only by obeying these actions and
reactions or law-that organs reach their
highest development Or that clements per
form most perfectly their functions It is
through this observance of natural laws
that theinost perfect animal life has been
evolved,
Law treats of the modes Of force and
the ,concordant action of elements to pro-.
duce. certain results.
Laws are classified into phYsiobglcaI.
psychological, civil, sc.
And it is our purpose to show that sci
ence teaches obedience to these laws.
4 TO show that science teaches the observ-
ance Of the laws Of the human being it is
necessary toconsider this being composed
of organs extremely sensitive, and as Her
bert Spencer has shown, they are like
bricks set on end and a disturbance Of one
isNlikely to cause disturbance of all the
others.
Hence we see how important, accord
ing to this scientific view, that these or
ganic laws be obeyed INVESTIGATION.
lewdness, debauchery and all kinds of in
temperate revelry, tending to destroy the
harmony among the organs Of disasso
ciate them, is inpeached BY science.
Man cannot remain forever in his youth,
but must pass from childhood to man
hood, old age, deerepitlde,s decay. In
this he has his fate, his destiny, and must
patiently submit. To fret wilIonly hast.
en- destruction by producing discord
among the vital organisms.
Its not less true that science demands
5obedienc to moral as well as psychologist
al and physiological laws. The scientific.
development of mans moral and finer
sensibilities requires that he conform to
every nobler impulse ofhis soul.
Il is only by obedience to all the laws
Of mind and body, TINT man may enter
the true path Of knowledge this the on.
ly means Of obtaining 4 clear. comprehen-.
sive perception Of the great scientific
truths.