The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-07-15
THE G0SPEH0F WORK
EMILE zoLNs STIRRING ADVICE 'Tc
FRENCH STUDENTS.

EHtFpeis From Westerly Speech Dsrg-
cred Before BODY Of Young Men
Paris--The Relation Between sci,nc
snd Happiness Explained.
Emile 2ola, the famous novelist, rve4
hded at a dinner given by the Studr2fs
association of Paris. In the COURSE .
the evening he spoke as follows'
Did science ever promise kappines
do not think so Science promistidF B 4
truth, and II is questionable II happir
can be made out Of facts. To be cun
tent with them even fog Q day one mua.
possess stDiUisan, % alsD Dlute upselfit
ness, serertts of fnteltgence post3
only TO the hshest fninds. Te6refofo4,
despsiring CRY goes up from SUFFERING
humanity, How, It asks, can we. live
without deiusions and iliuBiohsS II thet
lis not sorpewhere world where Justice
reigns, where the wicked are punishod
and the good rewarded, how endure the
denominations Of human existence2 Ma
ture is unjust aud cruel. Science ends
In the Industrious law Of theisuESiyRl oi
the strongest. Reasoning thus, recoiling
from realities as yet Ill explained, they
seek dream. put eonAdencegins the out
Of sight and hope tosatisfy IN the be-
yond their yearning for ifraternity. and
justice. !
This despairing appeal for happiness,
rising on every side, moves me infinitely
Already Music has responded to Il, lit
erature Is trying to satisfy the new thirst.
and art IL changing to show its svmpR--
thy. It is the reaction against natural
Ism, which Is, they say, dead and buried
At any rate the movsmsnt Is unds dsniable.
It is felt In all the manifestations Of
mind, and unless 1t is taken into 40
count, studied and explained the out
look for the morrow Is hopeless. q
I, being an old and rugged positivist,
see in all this 6hly 4 halt In the march
ahead. Indeed it is not even that, for
our libraries, laboratories, gmphithea-
ters and schools are not deserted. What
treasures me most Is the fact that the
social ground IS unchanged. For q new
art to flourish, for new belief to give
humanity q new direction, there must
be new sol for them TO germinate and
grow In. Ours Is still the democrAtic
soil whence the century rose. Fattbs
are not resuscitated. and only a mythol.
ogy can be made Of o dead religion, The
next century will affirm this one. gWhat
/ will concede Is that In literature we
brought the horizon too near, and, per
sonaliy l regret having endeavored to
limit art TO proved iverities.l VI
The new men, by re-extending the
horizon, have regained possession Of the
unknown and the mysterious, and they
have done well. Between the tapthsAso4
quired through science. which are not TO
be shaken, and the truths 10 be con-
Quered tomorrow from the unknown,
which In their turn will become immov-
able, thereis land Of doubt and inquiry.
This land belongs as much 10 literature
as 10 science. Into 1t we can go 81 MO,
neers, doing the work Of precursors and
interpreting, according to our taients,
tta unknown forces, The ideal Is only
the unexplatped- n Is well enough tc
htnveit golusiots fot tie hnlsnoEA! but
i've hsye 10 right 70 put IN quesbion ana
% deny facts already vertaedE As sci
,epos saAFances the Ideal Fetrsass, end y
asestns 70 me that thih slow conquest L
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