Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1886-12-03
SCIENCE.

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in which we should be moro interested
and no subject prehaps that we know
less about than Science; or if we do
know, none that receives less commen-
dation for the grand mission and i'm
mense work she is performing in the
world. A great many know Science
only as the time honored opponent of
b iblical religion and that is not
knowing at ALL For the empire of Sci
ence is literally boundless, it is not
only the groundwork fostering nurse
of modern education, but dweller 10
and co-worker with all things. Sci
ence tells us many new and strange
things, she goes down into the earth
and discovers its treasures and It's age.
She scars into the realms of the air and
tells us of things we never knew, she
walks on the bottom of the sea mid
eorals and pearls and gems of rare splen-
dor, and returns with knowledge of
things We never dreamed of, she trav-
erses the broad Llanos and Pampas
and SylVas meath torid sun. The
steps Of Asia, the desert sands, the
sounding aisles of boundless forest.
she tells US Of wonders of the fauna and
flora of every zone; she floats upon the
pinions of the bird Of paradise, she
folds herself in the jessamine bud in
vernal wales by the side of laughing
waters, In desert wastes where the dead.
ly simeon howls; she is leaving her
land marks in Lebanon caves, on 81
nai's steep her footprints, on Jordan
and Genesaret, and writing her name
on the walls of Jerusalem. She is del
wing beneath the ruins of Baalbec, of
Palmyra, of Memnon and of Thebes;
she Is plowing up the records of nation
alities lost in the ruins of time. In
short she is deing grand part in roll
ing back the dark pail of Ignorance and
making plain the ways of the dark un-
known. 1t is strange that SO many
take SO little interest in science When
her agents are daily calling her atten.
tion to facts modern research has dis
closed. Methinks I hear the voice of
Humboldt ringing down from Che
heights of Aconcagua and Chimborazo,
and Wymper gives us pages written
above the clouds. I hear the voice of
old Oopernicus calling on the world to
look heayenward and behold the proof
of astronemic science: from the same
source comes voice from Calico, from
kepler, Hercheli. Leyerier and Ross;
from the tropic wilds I hear the voices
of Burton, Speake, Baker, Cameron,
Livingstone and Henry NJ. Stanley
who have written their names with
a scientific pen on the face of the
dark continent. From the north
hear the voices of Kane, McClintock,
Hall, Greedy and Hays: though ex
plorers these men have all labored de-
voutedly in the field of science; it is
difficult to estimate just what we owe
to science and the men who have lived
and died In its cause. Shall not Sir
John Franklin, Lockwood and Delong
claim our highest admirationi They
have all died where their funeral dirge
was chanted by the cold winds that
moaned around the lonely icebergs of
the frozen north. Lieut.. Delong has
written his last scientific record with q
frozen hand, hollow voice will ride
upon the frozen blasts through the icy
corridors and twilight gloom of frozen
zone and proclaim their praise forever.
o science how true to thy cause are thy
ministers, their deathless names shall
be inscribed on the flaming front of the
Aurora borealis with the grand motto
'Science viii conquer" hail to science
sits enthroned in the land of the mid.
night sun, hail to the inyincible hand
that shall lift the pail from the dark
continent, and tear the mask Of ignor-
ance and superstition from the face Of
a 5enighted world. LODI.
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