Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-09-22

LIKE rs KNOWN BY LIKE,
Il has been well said that like Is
known only by like. That which "a IN
tellectual In It's nature can be known
| only 10 an intellectual person. You can
not teach 20 your dog OT horse the null
tlpliCatlon table or the rules Of syntaN.
Man cannot reveal 10 the lower animals
his thoughts or his ideals. They can
receive only such impressions as their
senses or limited faculties permit them
10 receive. Even among persons. simi-
larity ~ temperament, disposition, and
education Is necessary 10 O. complete
understanding OF each other II II
shall appear therefore. that man can
understand the revelation made 20 him
In the open book Of nature, Il viii be
very probable from that fact that man
Is interpreting the thought Of person.
al, Intelligent, and free VIII similar to
his own. When we classify things we
do so according TO necessary laws OF
reason inherent In our minds. for II we
DO not classify them thus we do not
classify them at all, Yet, when we put
forth as Il were. our mental cOncep-
tons Of things as they should be ac-
cording TO reason. we find that these
conceptions are In many cases object
lively real. our mental principles are
thus found TO govern things as well as
TO govern our own thought. In other
words. things are cast In the mOulds
OF thought Things are ruled IN their
reaction and existence by reason that
controls them and Is revealed In them.
Plato solved certain problems of the
elllpse four centuries b. c., and two
thousand years later, II was discovered
that the architect Of the heavens had
IN the creation Of the planetary system
solved an these problems and many
others. aud had put them into opera
ton In the movement Of the planets,
Prof PIERCE OF Harvard remarks at the
conclusion OF his Analytic Mechanics;
Every portion Of the material universe
Is peryaded blythe same laws u mechan-
zeal action that are incorporated into
the very constitution Of the human
mind Man works out mathematical
formulate In his own mind. and then
finds these already worked out and APP
piled IN nature. Prof Peirce's conclu-
sion from this fact Is worth remember
ing. There is one God, and Science Is
the knowledge OF him.
REASON IN NATURE.
The principles OF reason which the
mind develops In It's normal activity, OF
course regulate all our thought; but,
and here Is the astonishing part Of II,
they also regulate all energy an sub
stance, all change and interaction OF
things outside OF our own minds. there
fore these principles cannot be mere
subjective beliefs in the mind OF the
observer They are effectively real.
Reason exists outside OF ourselves re-
yealed to us by the action Of things as
these are perceived through our sense
aud understanding. We do not create
the reason we lind manifested In nature,
We merely recognize H. We simply dis
cover IN nature a reason which surpass-
es our own. and which Is the very con-
stltutiOn OF the universe itself. Physical
science IL only a record 81 what we find
written-nOt Of what we wrlte-in the
book Of nature. IL II Is any more or
less than this, Il is not science. Physical
science rests on the assumption that
the principles OF reason which We know
as true from the constitution OF the
mind itself. viii also hold good through
out all nature. But why should this be
so, unless nature Is itself governed by
the same principles Of reason as our
own thinking Is. Why should our Inner
principles OF reason have objective,
outer reality also. unless things, as well
as thought, are ruled by the principles
Of reason2
For example, Cuvier finding that an
animal has canine teeth, win know at
once that II has carniyorous stomach.
because nature will be consistent and
having given the animal a carnlyorous
stomach, will provide It with every 9TH
er organ necessary 10 the use Of flesh
as food.
When Repler laborously recorded.
night after night, the motions OF the
planets, until he found that they move
In ellipses aud that the laws Of the
comic sections, and the principle Of
Euclid's division into mean and extreme
ratio were applied and were actually
In operation In the planetary system.
he cried out In eXultatlun: 20 God, !
read thy thoughts after thee" Suppose
one Of the modern theorists had told
Kepler that an this mathematical
knowledge which he supposed he had
found recorded In the open book Of the
heavens was only a mere projection OF
his own thought what would have been
his answer? Surely that he had only
read what he had found written there
II you had told him that the wisdom
was en- IN his own mind, and was not
manifest IN the heavens also he might
have thought YOU insane When the
publication Of his book was forbidden
as heretical, he said that his book
might wait six hundred years for a
reader since God had waited six thou
sand years for an observer
IDEAS IN THINGS: IDEALS IN MA
TURE.
Plato taught that there Is a world OF
ideas behind the phenomenal world. Il
Ia this fact, he says, which accounts for
the essential inteligibility Of things
or objects Later. his followers recog-
ni2ed these IDEAS as the thoughts Of
God-the archetypal ideas which give
form, meaning plan, and order 20 what
would otherwise have been mere inert
and shapeless substance As Plutarch
! expresses 10. AN idea is incorporeal
and has 100 subsistence OF ltolf, bat
! gives figure and form into shapeless
matter and becomes the cause OF It's
manifestation Socrates and Plato con-
| lecture that these ideas are essences
separate from matter. having their ex-
| lstence IN the reason and Imagination
| OF thg Deity Now. physical science
proceeds upon The assumption that the
universe Is q rational system, In which
! exhibit Ideals and In which multtudes
| of individuals act IN perfect harmony
/ according Do liked laws Of mind. Nature
is scientifically known when we learn
! me Ideals 90 reveals, or the laws which
| 10 expresses. We find In nature the ex-
! precision of a reason not our own. but
| Ike our own reason. We find In nature
| The laws ideals, and ends realized,
! which our own reason might infer; our
! own mental creations, according TO our
recognized rational principles. are con-
| tinualy confirmed 10y what we find In
! nature Not only Is nature revealed 10
| man as "a system OF reason. Nature re-
voals man 90 himself: It opens. devel-
| ops, and tests his reason, The geomet-
| riC0l forms which We, 10 Imagination,
ARTFRTMn. The best
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