The record-union., 1897-12-21

Beginning with the two atoms OF
| fire mist referred to. he asserts that
| the entire universe is the result OF a
gradual process of evolution resulting
| from certain laws inherent in matter
itself" (p. 49,
He says (p. 260): "At what precise
stage of the ascent, in association with
what class of animals, otherisms be-
gan to shade into altruism in the eth
ical sense. is immaterfal." But he says
/ Up. 264): 'Altruism grew from more to
more, and reached potentiality which
enabled it to burst the trammels OF
physical conditions and overflow the
world as moral force
| Why, yes, of course, Professor; who
shall deny it? So moral force" is the
blossom of natural force. and that of
two atoms of fire mist.
! And lest, in climbing this scala santa
/ from the trtlobite to the throne OF
the Trinity we miss our way among the
geneses of the virtues. the Professor
acts as our guide, and says (p. 2SS):
a tendency TO passivity means, among
other things, capacity to sit still.
This is the embryo of patience,
and if much and long nursed, full
! fiedged patience will come out of it.
Supply to this new virtue some definite
object on which to practice-let us say,
a child. When the child is in trouble
the mother viii observe the signs of
pain. In some dull sense the
mother will feel it, but feeling with
her is the literal translation of another
virtue, sympathy. Now, to
care for things is to become careful
to tend things, to become tender"
Quoted approvingly from "Fisks'
Cosmic, Phil, vol. 2, p. 363.)
This is what Mantineau calls Crib
bing causation by hair breadths.'
Drummond says. in so many words,
that scarcity is the efflorescence of ma
ture"
Whoever has critically read Drum
mcnd's books on religious subjects has
noticed that he dwells on the poetical
and emotional elements, and not upon
Its great doctrines, and long before the
appearance of The Ascent of Man
his unsoundness in the fundamentals of
Christian doctrine was discovered, no.
tably in Pax Vobiscum"
Christian emotionalism in him strug-
gled with scientific habit, and it is
In the slong-continued struggle emotion
aiism must yield to the persistent habit
OF opposite thinking in fundamental
doctrine
Every scientist who proposes to teach
religion should long, diligently, intense
ly study the great works of Christian
theology before speaking. And every
theologian who proposes to instruct
others in science should train himself
diligently in that field before making
the attempt
Let US all beware of dogmatic deliv-
erances by any but the highest masters
In the subject of the deliverance. and
with even him carefully weigh the de-
llVerance before we trust it utterly. And
1t Is safe to distrust a specialist when,
after long years Of special study. he
assumes authority to teach in a totally
different field Of thought
Phenomena in spiritual things are as
real, the causes and effects as certain
and regular as in the physical realm,
but it requires the training and culti-
vation of different faculties to accurate
ly observe them.
Beware of a scientist who attempts
| theology, and beware of a theologian
who attempts science.
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