Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-10

power. And nature Is the grand mani
Hesitation Of His ail-controliins WISDOM:
And the high office Of science Is 10 hnd
the mysteries OF Divine wisdom In nature
and seek His face In righteousness, the
knowledge of HIS character In doing His
will. Science and nature are adapted
the one to the other, after the great cor
relation and marriage idea that pervades
and crowns all wisdom. the beginning,
middle and end of natural and revealed
religion. Nothing was made to be alone.
The great author of the Novum Or
ganum says to his disciple:
81. dearest son, Will confirm 20 thee
sacred. chaste, and legitimate marriage
with things themselves, from which In
tercourse above all wishes OF marriage
songs) thou shalt beget most blessed
progeny of heroes, who shall subdue the
Infinite necessities of man. more fatai
than all giants and monsters and tyrants,
and for your affairs procure placid ana
festal security"
This is science marrying nature, as love
marrles beauty. This is man, the lord
of creation. fulfilling the design Of his
being. lovingly communing with the pro-
foundest and hottest secrets of nature.
studying the wisdom and handwork OF
God. and completing the work or crea-
ton, left incomplete, that man. by IN
telligent work. in the light of God, might
grow towards His image be more ana
more like Him, shining more and more
in the brightness of the Father.
Aesop's story OF the dying father, who
told his son that his legacy was hid In
the field, to be dug for, was lesson OF
natural and revealed religion-of nature
and science.
But, unluckily. disloyal. proud man VIII
have his own way. To him nature is
but the theatre on which he struts; the
unappropriated territory over which he is
TO exercise sway, accountable to no one.
1t is a treasure trove, and science is his
sceptre and royal robe and irresistible
power 1t is his divine power, that after
the first suggestion of the Devil is TO
make him equal with God. He discovers
a law and It is his wisdom; he discovers
force and energy, and it is his. He
is nebriated by his discoveries, and wor-
ships himself as source and controller OF
light and power, and struts to his con-
fusion.
So It Is that Nature and Science. In the
persons OF their proprietors, are to be
compared to Trinculo and Stephano
taking possession of their island. Cali
ban, representing the grossness or fesh
and sense takes up with them. The
drunken lTlO pfoCtcu W ouAPiio 'iAS
sanctuary OF the Lord OF the Isle, and
prostitute the Sacred Truth, admired
Miranda, TO their base purposes. Ariel,
the wisdom and power of the infinite.
amuses them with glittering shows and
idle fneries. And see how she mocks
their calamities, and leads them through
hard ways:
"Toothed briers, sharp furzes, pricking
goss and thorns
Which entered their frail shins; at
last she left them;
L the filthy-mantled pool beyond the
cell,
There dancing up to the chins."
Such is the reward Of the froward, and
crazy self-conceited. And the morass
and mire OF hopeless confusion is the
Elysian field of goddess Science and Ma
ture.
The moral of our great philosopher is.
that all knowledge shall be limited by
religion and referred to use and action:
or the language Of Scripture: If the
blind lead the blind, both shall fall into
a ditch. Or farther: The excellency of
knowledge is that Wisdom giveth life to
them that have 1t.