Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-18


Religion.
DR.. Hall began his lecture on the
Love of Nature by remarldng that
nothing is SO practical as the IDEAL
and justified the paradox by showing
that all great movements are ideal be-
fore they become real. Man must con-
ceiye before he can achieve. Concep-
tons are OSCILLATIONS and may be re-
garded as the spiritual patterns of acts
and deeds. II is the tendency Of alb
stractions to incarnate. What man
thinks perslstently he at last becomes;
and II this be true OF the Individual,
1t is truer still OF the race. What is
the dream Of one generation becomes
the dream OF the next.
The interests of mankind have never
been so numerous and diverse as they
nre in our own day. The activity of
the human mind in ten thousand DIFF
ferent directions, has SO specialized
the pursuit of knowledge that no cur
riculum could be laid down to suit the
inclinations of all, but we can never
theless recognize broadly the forces
that move the world, and these may be
termed the central interests of the
destiny in the future. even as they
have shaped 1t in the past They
are fosr In number, viz; science, art
l literature and religion. These may be
7 called trunk studies. all other divis-
lions OF knowledge underlie them like
lsroots or grow out OF them like
In each ofthese fundamental branch
es the same law holds: Love Of nature
ia the measure of eminence 1t Is not
too much to say that the motive pow
err which has given the world all It's
greatness and glory, all Its civilization,
is, at the last analysis, n strong love
of nature. 1t is narrow theology
which interprets love Of nature az OPP
posed to love OF God. Much holler Is
that conception which regards the love
OF created things as part of the wor-
ship of the Creator.
MOTIVE POWER IN SCIENCE.
All our eminent scientists have loved
nature with devotion and steadfast-
ness which often exceed the affection
of man for women, of parent for child.
Read the history of astronomy. 1t
will invariably be found that the great
men In this field of research, were boys
who would wander by themselves at
night. finding joyful companionship
with the stars. They grew to be men
who night after night would sit in
rapt ecstacy with telescopes turned
towards the heavens. / have Il friend
--Pro~ Lowell-who spends months at
q time amid the loneliness and rigorous
climate on the summit of Mount CHM
borazo. merely to study the nature of
the canals on the planet Mars. His
life is willingly devoted that the world
might have--what? Perhaps three
new lines OF truth In n science text
book.
Examine the growth OF every other
science that has contributed to make
the world what 1t IL. Each tells the
same story--the story of early attach
ment and lifelong devotion of single
hearted men In all the nges;men who
have sacrificed the cndearing ties OF
society, and the seductive plaudits of
men, and gone out into natures wilds
and toiled alone: bringing back with
them truths for which they have had
to suffer ostraclsm, starvation and
sometimes death. What has enabled
them to persevere In their investlga-
tions? What has given them fortitude
to suffer martydrom2 Their intense
love OF nature. and the sacred devo-
ton TO truth which such love be-
gets.
at the shrine of saints and religious
martyrs. Their names I'LL the pages of
history, monuments are raised over
their tombA, sacred relies OF them set
multitudes of men and women on Pill
2rimages and even the days and weeks
and months are rechristened to dc
them honor. Far be 1t from me to
derogate from their fame or minimize
their virtues or achievements where
these have been for the benefit OF man
kind
But the real martyr is not he who has
lived Il life of ahnegation in clC.ster
or cell or desert. contemping to the
world, despising the creations of God
us filth and dross, and refusing to lend
helping hand for the betterment Of
-. tlaWH 10 lao of
this title who by II life given to pa
tient investigation, has won from ma
ture the emancipation of her children;
who has given to man the knowledge
that today makes him n master of
forces OF which he was once slave. II
was therefore beautiful thought
which has recently led a French scien-
fist to get up new saints calendar
displacinE the names of matters of ma
ture who did much to bring ON the
dark ages and substituting the names
OF livers of nature, who have ushered
in the age OF light.
SECRET OF GENIUS IN ART.
What is true of science study Is
equally true in the study of art. In
spiration rust he drawn directly from
nature. The great painters, sculptors.
architects, musicians and poets have
first of all been children with hearts
open TO the influence of nature.
Herein lies the secret OF the great
masters. Says Prof. Bashaw: THE
best artists are those who owe their
inspiration to nature forms impressed
upon them during their youth" Emf
nence is not due to locality, and only
partly TO training, The real constant
element in genius Is the measure OF
nature-powar which the soul has i'm
libed. He Is able TO express the most
truth says Rusllin who feels most
strongly the influence Of nature.
That this is so, Is not strange Ma
ture Is constant and acts ON successive
generations much alike; hence that
part of the artists work which bears
most strongly thu impress of nature,
cannot fail TO appeal to the human
heart throughout All time. While tina,
which comes from the immediate in
fluences of particular age and pc
ouliar taste, is likely by the same law
TO be transitory, however popular It
may be at the time OF It's production.
"The day Of tho professor is almost
numbered" says Or Ber,brant Eales
Of Germany. and that Of the artist is
being ushered in" by professor h.
means the man Of books; the middle
man between nature and the child
the man who absorbs the products OF
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