The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-11-13

While in route [, by chance, me
up with three ge ntlemen tourist
going in about th b same direction
as myself. They prevailed upoI
me to join them Fnd complete oul
journey together. One is Law.
yer, one Doctor and the other 6
Professor, all worthy of the title
they hold. They have very appro-
priately styled me, Bachelor.
The Professor in our social con-
fabs gives as his opinion that all
things act, move, and exist accor-
ding to some prin eiple of science,
aud That WHATSOEVER any thing oc-
ours with which We are unacquaint-
ed we style 1t nature, which is but
an indirect way of expressing our
ignorance of the great truths and
principles of sciense. The Doctor
by no means agrees with the Prof.
He maintains that our knowledge
incompassed in SO short life and
obstructed by our corporesl, mortal
nature can by no means grasp all
the principles of tie universe. 1
believe the doctor secretly thinks
the Professors notions are just the
reverse of true. He holds that
Nature is a something actuated or
operated by seine primary, I'M
changeable, independent being,
and that the principles of nature
are entirely independent of sci
ence, but that science is true only
in as much as it conforms to the
truths of Nature, and is perfected
only in as much as it is able to
grasp or explain the acting princi-
pies, or agents of nature, and the
great majority of these are known
only through their effects. But
even granting that science could
be SO perfected as to explain all
the laws and principles of nature,
when it has gone through with all
the laws of nature which in any
way effect the universe in which
we live, it would then be at loss,
for it could never scientifically ex-
plain the connection between the
principles of nature as known to
man, and the primary, self-existing
independent Nature, which regu-
lates not only Nature as known to
man, but the Nature of all things,
pertaining alike to both the known
and the unknown. The Lawyer,
who is also statesman, gives his
opinion something Like the follow
ing, that the Prof may be right or
the DR.. may be right but that the
life of man, here is not bettered
much, no matter which one is
right, nor are our chances in the
next world mich effected by ma
lures depending upon science or
science upon nature. But that
man should study tn ose questions
which pertain to the condition of
man and if possible devise some
method which would result in an
improvement in our political, NOR
al and religious conditions. He
strongly intimates that such great
thinkers as the Prof. and DR..
should turn their thoughts to the
study of some of our great political
questions, and if possible devise
some means which would prove a
practical benefit to all. He quotes
the following words Of Pope to the
other learned gentlemen.
"Know thy self, presume not
God to scan,
The proper study of mankind
is man.
Placed on this istlsmus of mid
die state,
A being darby wise and rudely
great"
he also says that nan is not as
man should be. His experince
and his dealings with all classes
Of men in his practice of law has
taught him that the human heart
is capable of much wickedness.
That self-interest is the moving
factor, directly or Indirectly, in
all human actions, ard that
Man will make tool of his fell
low man,
In need he must and can.
He gives as his reasons that he
has known various instances in
which the jury box vas willfully
the witness stand bribed
and purjured, the tribunals of JUS
tice, no longer recognized as places
of dignity and honor, and that
the legal profession has SO far
from its original mean
ing that trials in courts are not SO
much for the purpose of netting
out justice fair an impartial, as it
is to defeat iustic, and thereby
encourage, and protect misdemean-