The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-17

ception in the distance, are all evidences of the
imperfections of our assumed nowledge, the
futility of our calculations and the uselessness
of these until the parallsx or the proper
corrections have been made. And when
made, 10 We have the reconciliation of what
appeared to be a at contradiction. TIE old
fable of the different colored shield is a
familiar case in point The fact ia there
was fundamental verify somewhere. Just
so in all religious and scientific matters
There may be, and in the vast majority of
cases, there is, nucleus of reality from
which wrong process of thought has drifted
to illogical conclusions. The old sayings
that there must. be some fire where there is so
much smoke, some truth where there is so
much rumor, are illustrative of those iphe-
rem, principles in humanity which begun with
Adam and will die out with only the las
man. And thus it is with human be.
liefs. They have their germ through some
relstivity to fact ust as the segment OF a
ircle bears relation to the entire sphericity
They may be but mere administrations of
truth, the mere fringe of an idea, the mer
protective envelopes, so 10 speak, the scat
folding of coming structure, by which
due congratulations may evolve into the full
sunlight of recognition, as cardinal and nee
essary actually, and not an accidental part in
the constituted order of things. Consider.
ing that we are all the descendants of an
erring past, tina! ,.cohed as folly what we
admire as truth o'day, and vice versa; and
that, too, we are parents of the future, and
our thoughts arc as children born
to us. subject to notifications
and adaptabllity in the balancing conditions of
the conservative and the progressive, which
are, perhaps, the evolving modes of mani
feststions of the Great Unknowable, we
ought in all humility all ow the widest ati
tude to the thought of the possible out o t
what seems with our limited light the i'm
possible. Our faiths are not adventurous,
they are structural. 1t is not by preju Iced
proceeding, partial views, but the reverse,
that the thread spun in darkness may con-
duct us safely into the household of some
universal law which radiates light we new,
SAW before.
In the midst of this darkness in
which we grope, there is one question which
has not only puzzled tho man Of science
but has given much concern TO the believing
christian and that is tho actually of Christ's
dual nature, a conjunction of divinity and
humanity simultaneously, God aid man.
We do not propose in this article to enter
upon its discussion. The ADLER powers of an
eloquent, learned and esteemed divine will
untertake that in this city this evening. We
have but sought in. the foregoing remarks to
lay the groundwork, the reason why he
should DO listened to by even tho verits.
skeptic on this particular question at issue.
For 1t is n fact that there is largo number
OF persons protesting the acceptance
OF such combination that are much enveloped
with clouds of doubt, and not satisfied
with themselves as being possible
hypocrtes. They arc of class most un
happily balanced on the ricke.y rod of I'M
certainty, yearniDg for some, even the least
intellectual mote to dance In the sunbeam of
crystalline truth, and thus make visibly pos.
tive what in the. opaque makes us the sport
OF purest speculation. They have observed
in nature the unexceptional invsriability of
her work in the regular procession of organic
life, tho steady and uniform transmu.ation of
material substances iGto new products, and
setting at defiance tho doctrine of spon.
taneous generation, whether we have
regard TO tho solar system that is
beyond our tread, or to this little
sand hill OF ours, this ripple on the ocean of
eternity. They have observed that the inter-
cala!on of new organic molecue in y liv.
ing being like the introduction OF a new form
in tho universal organic series is no. by sud.
den intervention, but by tho operation of
primordial and unvsrying law. What they
hve noted in the music of the spheres, md
all that we know Of them has subs,antated
tho law of periodici!y, and furnishes TO us u
rhythm in the harmony of nature. They
Lave observed tho regularity OF tho tides
their diurnsl Obj and flow, that of the day
and nights procession, that OF the sea- ns,
that OF accretion and denudation of tho land,
as shown by the cycle of tho years. And SO
rejecting upon his own being, man witnesses
, h. same effects from like causes. H. finds
tho continuous inlers,ital deaths of his tissues
aud ali the other PARTICLE OF his body, that
his whole system is undergoing
disiategralion, decay and restitution, no,
by any motley march, but BY
tho regular funereal pulse beat, tina,
,hrobs against the mutllcd breast from birth
to death. Ho discerns pcriodicity in his
growth, in his appo,i,cs, in his sleeping, in
his lovers corresponding TO the days coming
aud going, and no thus concludes that there
is tho regularity of oscillation about his own
per onal development that he finds through.
out all tho world. From these and a thousand
similar illustrations, he insists that tho
gradually, tho deliberateness, tho uni.
iormi,y, tho accuracy of tho,whole course of
nature, without exception, to day or in tho