The herald., 1896-03-27

the few dollars that he gets and for the
pension that he hopes for is of little use in
this world. save as a scavenger to remove
SO much useless coin from the path of
better people who would be but hindered
by its accumulation. III we progress at all
our progress must be other than physical
II our so-called progress is but physical it
il has no excuse for being. When the time
shall come that teachers shall be the real
soulful leaders of the children we shall
have people who are properly led to ex-
p,ore the realms of spirit, the realms of
the beings for which all that is exists. and
without which there would be no excuse
for the phenomenon of existence.
At the conclusen of the address of DIR.
Kellogg. President David Starr Jordan of
Stanford University delivered an address
on philosophy and science. He said in
part:
"A truth not yet shown to be truth has
no claim to recognition. Mathematics 10
metaphysics working with precision. In
so far as philosophy is a clear method of
thinking it is of great value TO science.
Science is finding out that the workings of
nature are more complex than was sup.
posed, while the forces are more simple.
We seem to know that lead is not trans.
mutable into gold. Belief is but the bal.
ance of opinion. The essence of belief 10
the categorical statement of opinion. Pure
religion has never formulated creed. No
man can follow the religion of another.
Realities are the product of individual ex-
perience. The primal conception of
mouism, according to Haeckei, is the exist
ence of one primal spirit. Life is an ema-
nation OF carbon with all the chemical
forces. There should be no natural repul-
sion to monsm. The farther people are
removed from knowledge the farther they
are from monism. We know absolutely
nothing of how non-life becomes life.
There seems to be an unbroken series of
life. If life does now appear without par
entage we know nothing of it,.
Is it not better, as Emerson says, not to
pretend to believe what we do not believe.
The word make-believe used by Huxley
might we'll be substituted for articles of
faith. To believe without foundation is to
discredit knowledge. Haeckel says:
Every honest, courageous scientific
man shares the same opinion"
This is open to negative evidence as we'll
as to positive. The primal motive of sci
ence is to regulate the mode of life. Men
and nations reap as they have strown. 1t
Is true that falsehood may sometimes lead
to right doing, but for men cured at Dem
yer or Lourdes or by patent medicines
some other man is made i'll by the same
agencies. Nature has no pardon for igno.
rance. The safety of each chain of life
lies in its adaptabilty to the conditions OF
life. With civilized man reason becomes
paramount. The multitudes of civilized
men are still like animals and are gov
erned by instinct. To those who know
how. it is as easy to do great things as to
do anything else. The truths of science
are approximate, not absolute. Power and
effectiveness are dependent upon accu.
racy.
1naccuracy causes decay and destruc-
ton. The perverse. the insane and obtuse
are soon eliminated.
Many of the most prominent educators
of the state were present, including: Pres
ident David Starr Jordan, Professors Earl
Barnes and Edward Griggs and DR.. o. P.
Jenkins of Stanford University, President
Martin Kellogg, Professor Irving String
ham. and Professor Slate of Berkeley.
Samuel I. Black, state superintendent of
public instruction, County Superintendents
Margaret Mogeau of San Bernardino, G. 7.
Thurmond of Santa Barbara, Geo. Sackett
of Ventura, W. ]. Bailey of San Diego,
Edward Hyatt of Riverside and j. P. Gree
ley of Orange; also Professors f. P David
son of San Diego. F. E. Perham of Santa
Ana. L. H. Kirk of San Bernardino, P. J.
kaufman of Ventura, G. Y. Roop of Santa
Barbara, c. T. Meredith of Azusa. G.. L.
Ennis. t. H. Phillips, w. H. Housh, Milton
Carlson, Edward L, Hutchison, G. H. Chill
cote, Melville Dozier, F. B. Dresslar, E. T.
Pierce, Carlos Bransby. Mrs. J. Powell
Rice and Miss Mary E. Foy of Los An
geles.