The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-21
'Epicurus" After the Tribune
Mans Scalp Again,
ON SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES.
ga FulI-BIown BIunaerer. incapable
OF Parading Even School Boy
Lessons Correctly"
TO the Editor of THE HERALD.

with scientific quack, and with one
who so boldly lays claim to the charac
ter of a gentleman, but at the same
time does so much to discredit the ap
pellation, you will readily accord. would
be of itself among the most senseless o.
human undertakings. But editors. a;
public teachers. should, at least occs
sionally, be called to account fer their
vagaries and perversion of truth. other
wise, like the preachers, they would De
very apt to submerge US all under a
food of unreal, unsubstantial and I'M
scientific vaporings. Our contempor-
AIRY of the Tribune, in last Sunday morn
ing's issue of that journal, under the
heading, Natures Miracles" which,
by the way, far as he went, were no
miracles at all. but simply common
place phrases of nature, stated: That
famous lecturer exhausted two hours
and more in trying to establish that
there was no conflict between science
and revealed religion" Now we are
sorry to see a philosopher exhibit such
indifference to truth, as the fact is that
the &c urer only occupied just one honr
and half. He also stated: THAT
science itself is religion L heartily
concur with the gentleman, as it is the
religion of truth, and the only true one.
mans mind up to see that the further
they penetrate into natures mysteries
the more they discover of the laws
which control this earth on which we
dwell; the more certain dawns the fact
~ that inmutable and divine laws have
governed the universe since before the
cradle of time was rocked" Now this
may, pcs IDLY. be poetry, but it GER
tainly is not science. But individuals,
who are blessed with such horid imagin-
atoms, are very rarely, apt to be close
reasoners: and had Tyndall, in one of
his scientific discourses, used such
language as the foregoing how he would
have been ridiculed and laughed at by
his scientific brethren. We will make
bold to tell this boss philosopher that
time never had q cradle, and having
had none. it could never have been
rocked. In other words, as almost
every fool knows, time never had a
was never born-tinie
is eternal, which everybody, except the
brilliant genius of the Tribune, knows
to mean without beginning and without
end. Ny readers will please recollect
that the philosopher is engaged in the
of scientific truths, and is
supposed, far as his ability goes, to be |
using scientific terms.
He continues: "The pistons of that |
engine are the beams of light which |
come with downward stroke from the |
sun, and when they strike upon the sea |
he friction which they make warns the |
.ir, which picks up the water drop by
irop, condenSes it," (my gracious what
clence,) land carries it back UP the |
anne shining bars and deposits it in the
Waiting cups which men call Clouds"
surely thephilosopher must be the Jules
ferne OF scientific humbug. The con-
entratlon OF the suns rays heats the
atmosphere, and together they vaporize
he water from the surface of the ocean.
md IN this condition, being lighter than
he surrounding air. it floats upward
'ut that the warm air or the suns rays
:ould pick up water in drops and carry
t aloft is just as impossible as Il
would be Tor them to carry up drops of |
molten lead.
In commenting on an article which |
appeared In last Sundays HERALD the
proves that his early edu-
alton, together with his experience as
IN Argonaut In those receptacles of
ascalltv and scoundrelism, which lie to
he westward of us, have not very well
lualified him for the appelation of ''the
American gentleman which he so
'onpously assumes. And however
lstute the scientific knowledge of ..Epi-
rrus" may be, or whatever must be the
.ge OF child before certain knowledge
an be impaired to it, one thing, at least
5 certain, that is that the Tribune phil
'sopher fails in the possession of even
hat small amount of scientific knowl-
dge when plunged in one of his Gus
omary rhapsodical and scientific
RANGES. Now as to Webster's orations,
Eplcurus" could never have been prone
criticize his rhetorical figures; but
ad Webster undertaken the task OF
1structing pupils and readers in matters
t science, "Epicurus'i believes he was
ot such fool as to talk of making
nonument rise until it met the coming
un; whose nearest positionis SO 900 600
liles from the earth. We here take the
berty OF informing the philosopher
Rat Inc sun Is not stationary, but con-
Ianuy traverslng an immense orbit at
tremendous pace-the poor, pitiable,
elentifc gibberer. The fact of intro
uclng the blind Milton, with his poetic
imagery to illustrate. and support
cientific truths is highly appropriate
n the part of the science-blind philoso-
her of the Tribune, as it so beautifully
Illustrates the old trusim of the blind )
AIDING the blind All! the school ,
lildren sing the anthem do they? We !,
ereunder the impression that the hum
their voices made the anthem; but J
nee il was intended for real anthem.
ray who is the wonderful composer
latso lar excels all the masters that /;
sne OF them has ever composed music :
III so tender and solemn. Now it does
1t appear to make much difference to
inch horn of the delimma the philoso- .
ler ciings, his utterances in any case .
ere but nonsense, but this is not to be :
ordered Mt since he is perpetuallv =
allowing In that article. The philoso- y
Ter says, and. correctly, that we assert =
at matter is instinct with life; that it :.
eternal and indestructible. and then :,
opposes the following poser: "What :.
s ne then to say of the mocn that,
cording to all examination and all the
oots which science can bring 80 bear.
! worn out It's lie, and but floats. the :
rpse OF world in space? Now let US 4
Il we cannot frame "pons asin- 6
nm TO transport this local Reverend h