The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-05-21
THE SECRET OF BEING.
Address Delivered at Lampasas, Texas. by
y Professor Thomas Fitz-Hugh.

aiar on Her young ones also suck up
blood: and where the slain are, there is
She"
And how beautifully our Savior hriny.
before our minds in few simple words
the marvellous secret OF the biological
cosmos:
Consider the lilies of the field how they
grow; they toll not, neither do they spin.
and yet say unto you that even SCION n
IN all his glory was no, arrayed like one
Of these"
IL the worlds best literature thue
abounds with allusicns to the great secret
CT being as everywhere manifested in he
astronomical physical and in the biological
world, how much richer tx /, in wonder
ment over the highest phase of Gods self
manifestation, the spiritual world or the
cosmos of mind And here we have
reached the mystery of mysteries, and the
central interest of all your future thoughts
ana ieellngs and actions. 1t is the mys-
terry and the interest OF man,
Who hath put wisdom in the inward
parts? or who hath given understanding to
the hearth is one of Jobs vast world
1 problems.
And David exclaims in wondering adora
ticn: Thou hast made him a little lowar
than the angels, and hast crowned him
with glory and honor Thou madest him to
nave dominion over the works of thy
q
/ feet: all sheen and ovan va and ~
/ beasts of the field: The fo,yi ~ me-
| and the FISH of the sea a,d wbats,s,sr
passeth through the paths of the sea"
| ANA our Shakespeare cries cut in men,
orabe words: "What a Micro ~ Vol, +,
mani how noble in reasonl how Infinite
In faculty! In form and moving how eX-
press and admirable, in act.n how like
an angel! in apprehension how ike God,
the beauty of the worldi The noragon ~
animals," Va
~
We have tins clearly hrougbt haforo ia
in these well known nuotati9ns fT5n, ,bs
| worlds hest thought tho three gros,
problems that the cultured mini rnns, 80.
be concerned with the nrohlen, ri ~,
material world the nr,bletr Of l,fa a,,i
the problem Of mann IN eneak in yan.
eral terms the problems of nbvsics hi.
oIopv and historv M lat ne tal,a -
inventory in broad outlines of v,bat
science can toll ne NJ mis- mighty tri,,Sa
reality. Modern cosmoIogv teachos ~ th,+
this vast solar svsfen, Of ours n,ust ono,
hive been a mnnstrons neb,,lar n,ass w.
volving unon its avis In c~nsenrsnro ~
this reynlution there was nonstan' ,on.
dencv toward snIargo,nen, ond hrIgiry
began 10 cool ma c1ntrs", tbi s' - ys Let
eouaforiel belt hecsua ec,,oroto a sro,, ~
wh,rline central bod aef,,nainU ~ to'p f ,p
of a st,Inendnns inc ernjrciing ~, ,,,oia
es ve sluS otHs M M "ug,g
was enbeeo,,nr+l. ,f., ,.,,,,do, a,,d ~
tbo onoro.ior - ~ -. ~ - - ,.,
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tn 49, y. $500 VI ,Hv ~
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%, "i ~. INC p'e9en. s'iat aS 70
az o"O. vssiNo 4nteiN eDout tUt sun,
one vi lngse plahets IS our EARN. Ute
many nloitei uI.p Vi cosmlo matter IL
sleuuaiiy cooieu On 10 sucn uesree as
10 icau TO the formation OF nrm crust
anu 10 lhe concentration OF .he Vaporous
steam 10 water Ihen Tor the nrst 'lme
; organic lie became possible, which b.
oiogy teaches lis began in the simplest
protcpiasmlc form and In process OF geo
logical ages unfoded It's marvels OF Hora
ana fauna. AT length man, that paragon
of animals appeared and with him the
most precious fruitage of Gods universe
CT being the gcdlike soul OF man, with
its invlncible heavenward longings, Its
visions OF immortal beauty, and its ever
widening quest of truth-that being Of
whom Goethe in his Tasso splendidly says:
=
= "Sein ohr verimmt den Enklang der
Natur;
Was die Gsschichte, reicht, das Leber
gebt,
Sen Busen nimrnt es glech und wllig auf:
= Das welt zerstreute sammelt seln Gemuth
. und sein Gefuhl belebt das Unbelebte. -
. And how eminently hitting that the sou
) all nature! Is he not. viewed even from
{ the cold standpoint of knowledge, as op-
: of nature, and thus the logical focus of al
/. her harmonies? And how eminently httinl
t that his heart should promptly and gladly
: that history offers and life bestows! |.
he not the maker and hero of history an
y life? How thoroughly natural that hi;
: sympathetic touch should unity and har'
. monte the chaos of nature and that hi
n warm feeling should breathe life into thu
It lifeless Is he not the very heart and sou
T; of natural reality, the sublmated being
; in whom reality asserts it's own divine
inwardness of self-conscious spirit? Yes
G truly: in the mind of man we have reait!
= apprehending and contemplating itseli
:. in the total soul Of man W
" have being. and that, too,
= lis noblest known form, cognizinG
feeling and willing itself. Thus tho act o
o ,yiIline is the truly divine and creative act
If is in our Wills that we are true children
), of The Most High that all-including VII
( IN whom we live and move and have on
IS he,no. and thus along the clear sun-l!
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