Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-07-25
DUST.

Il was the year aDEs The Stanford unir
vsgzity was hoiding its twelve hundreiffh an
niversary For three centuries and more tbs
great stone wall and bridge acros tho bay a
Ravenswood had teen completed, - that
mo~t Of the professors from the elder uniysrs
atty at Berkeisy came by this route, looking
down GA the upper bay. changed into Heidi,
with orcharsis u two hunirei and fifty years
establishment growing where the Sineteenth
ceitury sioof~ aud oyster boats ZANE To the
prehistoric emhareaderos OF Mowry's Land.
ing and Aiviso A great industrial univer-
nty Workshops reaching for miles along
the beautiful slopes OF Sasi Matso. training
SCHOOLS. art schools, language sehooL, scienr
tihc schools Berkeley for the classics and
the humanitiss. Stanford university for an
unparalleled grouping OF the great industrial
and scientific actiy tiles OF the rare For mile
beyond tnil. the gardenA the green houses,
the Intensive horticulture which for more
than a thousand years had made the valley
regions Of California the richest and niost
thickly populated district III the world.
Statistics from the census Of the year $3.50
Population of California, forty-seven mil
lions. population Of the valleys which impinge
upon San Francisco, including the valleys
caused by the drainage OF Suison bay San
Pablo bay and the upper half OF San Fran
cisco bay. twenty eight millions One-half OF
these are in the Sacramento San Joaquin
valley. the other half within fifty miles Of
San Francisco city
The president of the university Leland
Stanford Ainsworth, a descendant Of one Of
the Oregon Ainsworths Of the Nineteenth
century. delivered his address: Science is
endless" he said. the race goes on, ever i'm
proving Those were foolish fears Of tho
II thad ar "a mo
when this state was founded, this institution
established The social order has changed
What they called revolution, and vainly
fought, has proved evolution. We have
come together on this twelve hundre,lth an
niversary, under these ancient stone arches,
less to celebrate the past than to plan for
the new eonqucsts Of nature. Whispers have
gone forth to the Wort that in our chemical
laboratory strange discoveries have been
made These discoveries We give to you to-
day, whether for hunl.n happiness or human
misery Will depend upon yourselves"
The audience listened with some bewilder-
nent In that great hall, with its arches Of
weather beaten stone, more than 5000 peo-
Pile were assembled but delicate electrical
machinery made the speakers voice audible
and the speaker face clearly visible to every
IN the building, and even to the thou
sands y 10 sat beneath the stately oaks outside.
What was this new discovery Would it
make life better worth livinsi Would it give
q man longer lifei At least it was evident
that the discovery was one Of thrilling i'm
portance in tho mind of the president. He
spoke with the utmost earmestness For
more than 100 years this university has held
as q sacred trust n group Of scientific discov-
cries made by one of its students. He wrote
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twolvo hundredth anniversary. Three days
before its celebration the faculty of this uni
! versty 10 assemble, break the seals, test
the formulas and decide whether TO reveal
the secrets or to destroy them forever. We
| met; we have decided. create n new pro-
| fessorship. more important, perhaps, than
| any other IN existence on the face OF the
earth We have chosen iineal descendant
| Of the dscoverer of this groupof secrets, Pro-
fessor Lemuci Jones Carey, and, going back
| to one Of the almost forgotten writers Of the
| Nineteenth century. we name his chair the
chair of Tie Ethics Of Dust"
| A ripple of half annoyed amusement ran
over the audience Was that ALI Only an
| other of those iAtermiuabe modern subdivis
ions Of biology, Or psychology, or bothi
But the president went on: Professor
| Carey was Oh the right track when this vent
occurred. Il is remarkable that all his in
vestigations have fitted him to utilize and de-
velop this group OF new facts Without him
| the Ethics Of Dust would have had to wait
| fifty wears for an interpreter. With him
you can catch glimpse OF its scope today It
| is nuthins that You Imagine 1t is not long
life. it is tiut III 'Iey, or happiness except in
cidentally Ba., perhaps, it means all the
things wli'h auy of you. or all of you, have
ever dreamed about" And the president sat
| down The wall Mt the back Of tho stage
opened and revealed laboratory strange
even to the eyes o! cIc;.ii-tst there Professor
| Carey cane f ward, AMI set a curious micro
scope on the stand Then lie looked over the
| audience aud spoke Of the great subject.
what have done is to conquer the ul-
innate atom. and discover whether 1t Is
healthy or not It it is diseased. it will pro-
duce disaS,-ul >stal, moral or physical, as
the case may be Every one of US has dis
eased atouis in his system. That is what
makes us die too sooa. sometimes that is
what makes do wrong. When We find the
diseased atom. We cannot destroy it. Moth
ing can But we can Row isolate it so that it
can do no harn-at least, not for ages to
come. perhaps never again, We can force
each atom each dust mote which foats
about the world-to tell its story; can dis
| cover Were IL has Deeu, anu Wnat IL mas
done and whether 1t is helpful or hurtful
Since the number Of atoms IN the atmosphere
OF the Earth is now definitely ascertained. it
only remains for the human race to isolate
from further evil the diseased etoms as fast
us possible Then, a few centuries from now,
only healthy ATOMS will remain This, as
need not explain to you. must mean perfect
health, and great many other things which
| the newspit,er,, will tell YOU about"
great hush fell on the audience, as they
understood this stupendous claim Then muir
murs ana cries BEGAN to break forth, peo-
pie suddenly sIlose t. each other, forgetting
all else In tie presence of the fact The ulti-
mate atom had been conquered That was
what scenre and theology for thousands OF
years had said could never be done. Did it
mean wipin;, out the secret sins. taxing away
the daily temptation from each onci A wo-
man. rich. beautiful, fashionable. rose in the
audience and reached out her hands to Pro
fesSsor Carey Take away my seifishness"
she cried man i'll the prime Of life,
famous over the continent. rose and called
with deep voice Of passion. Take away that
which oics made INC false to my oathI' The
professor reached his hands out. and said in .
tone wiith ,til.cl the tempest;
ii cau..Jt. No cne can. You Tvs and de
In the race Ii the atoms which work you
evil come to me- will bind them fast
cannot draw them from you. Cast them out
50 that humanity may put them in chains.
Help others to cast them out Help me in
my work 1t is atom by atom that We re-
build the human temple"
The man and the woman sank back in their
places and a great pent up sigh swept over
the audience, but no one spoke again
The professor went on: "Al things tell