Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-23
INVISIBLE POLICE.
SYNOPSIS OF THE LECTURE DELIVERED
 BY THos. FITCH.

Last evening the Methodist church
 was filled with an intelligent audience
 to listen for the third time to the lee
 ture upon the subject of lhe Invisible
 Police by Thos. Fitch. He was introdu-
 ced by Rev J. W. Robinson, the pastor.
 After the usual applause had subsiied
 he said he regretted that tue Ladies
 Committee had insisted upon his again
 exhibiting the frayed uniforms of the
 Invisible Police; he would have liked
 to have prepared something new. In
 his argument in favor of a future cxis-
 tence he did not propose to defend or
 thodoxy, but rather represented the outside christians" who patronize the atres, races, and balls; but did not there fore deride the faith which for eighteen hundred years had held fambeau 10 light the onward steps os civilization. In presenting the case of those who be- lieve in an after life, he should discard both the Bible and the developments of spiritualism, and attempt to meet ma terialism upon its own chosen ground. He dld not assail the philosophy of eve lutioa, but accepted its teachings as truth, and from that truth deduce the further truth that man lives conscious ly and individually after the death of his body. The governing law of evolution IS the persistence of force. Natural phi losophy teaches that the form Of matter may change, but matter ls iuGistructi- ble; that the direction of force may be altered but force never expires. Man seeks the type of rest in vain m Nature; from the feeble pulse of the infant to the rush of Uranus around the universe, force la never stayed his hand The speaker here described the origin of the earth by condensation from nebulOus mist, and the evolution Of man from the protOplasm. And if man has been evolved from lower forms of life who shall say that higher forms of life are not evolved from man? Is this para gon of animals" less worthy of advance ment than the polyp clinging tp the rocks of the Devonian period? It k the incarnation of vanity to assume that man Is so perfect that natures great process Of evolution must stop with him. Who shall say that there are DO spirit bodies or spirit lives because these halt ing and imperfect senses of ours cannot see them? You cannot feel if your fin gers are benumbed. You cannot smell If you have bad cold. NOu cannot hear if disease or accident have impaired the tympanum. You cannot see animal cul9 without q microscope. or the rings of Saturn without a telescope, or around a corner with any kind of instrument. It is the vexed and disappointed spirit that lays hold upon aunihiiatioD. It is the man "whO fears his fate too much and who knows "that his deserts are small" that lays hold of anuihilation. l Itisthe sensualist who seeks forits gospel 1 in the puerilities of SO called science, l and can find nothing that can satisfy at 1 last. When Q man k dead bis earthly l friends are able to reproduce his life 1 and actions through tLe process of men 1 tsl reckoning we term memory, | and yet 1t is claimed that | the originating power goes into | ls it in the economy of | nature that any power is irretrievably | lost? Does not every force find form and energy in some of the processes of | nature and its laws? If it be true that | God geometrizes, does be not dip His | pen m Intinitude to write the answer? | Take the human faculties and attributes, and find in all the lexicons Of Bioplasm | a formula to account for Jheir origin or define thelr essence. What is Hope? It | is the rustic of the wings of futurity | against our prison house. What is Fear? | It Is only a retroactive condition without | which hope should beat its wings against futile air. What is Memory? It is a picture gallery of the braIn, iodized | under the light that never shone on sea pr shore, and sensitized ty the essential | bromides of thought and feeling arising from the soul of man. What IS COnsci- Ousness? It is the pulse of God-the telephone answering back the story of the eternities. What IS Conscience? It Is a toll house on the way to justifica- lion. reminder that We are answering .C a law. What is Will? IL is a heln S. with his eyes forever fixed upon the polar star of destiny. What are Intui- lions? They are pickets on the OutuOsts of reason. What k Aspiration? IL k l finger-bAard pointing upward to a | DO earthly road. And are not aspira- .ions, and munitions, and will. and con- science, consciousness, and memory and lear, and hope, each as real and as as a mathematical problem? And yet, which of these conditions the most common to humauity-finds it's .ype or it's predicate in matterE Can you put paddock upon hope? or resolve ! Al 70 Q lp Tn Q pOcket-handkerchief, the pro nises, and the prophecies, and the memories, and the presentlments that come into every life? Darwinism evolves he human from the iLvertrebate, and assumes that there IS noth- ng beyond the human. IL Is only an assumption. for evolution rightly con- ,idered, proves rather than disprOyes hat there Is another and another and still another existence. The lecturer lere drew many anRlogIe> from nature n support of the philosophy of a future existence, and then addressed himself to he proposition that thls belief of man n an invisible God and au underlined hereafter, constitutes the Invisible Police which keeps men in order a0d be structure of civil society m place, nd that in political sense it would be Inwise to disband the police force. He believed it better for the world that mankind should live in the hope of be- ng able to say in the last moment
 Death,
 Now know is tha; first breath
 Which our souls draw when we enter
 Life which IS of al life centre"
 TERRITORIAL TOPICS.