The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-03


 tens of worlds, of which ours, or the so- lar. is one and of which the sun is the center, and around the latter the earth and other planets of the system revolve.
 That the earth is round. turns upon its own axis, and revolves. around the sun in its own orbit. -
 That the Armament as such does not exist, and that the so-called heavenly or celestial bodies are In fact as much mat ter. and therefore corruptable as our own earth.
 That the creation is not even yet com- plete, but, on the contrary, Is still going on in the vast expanse of the universe.
 That the universe Is contr piled by nat uraI law.
 That the Creator is a supreme intelt- gence that pervades the universe without the limitations of abode and personality.
 Modern interpretation of sacred cosmog- ony and modern scientific cosmogony are agreed upon the following:
 That the time occupied in the creation was hundreds of thousands of years.
 That there Is no fixed date of the crea- ton, but that matter has existed ip It's present form for thousands of years
 That matter has changed and is still changing its form.
 That so far as the visible universe is concerned all is matter.
 That the worlds are arranged in sys- tens.
 That in our world the sun Is the center, that the earth turns upon its own axis. and revolves around the sun.
 That the earth is round and Is com paratively very small part of the uni verse.
 That there are natural laws which cp- crate upon the natural bodies.
 That there was a first great cause.
 It may be truly said that what sacred cosmogony asserts in it's dogmas, scien- tific cosmogony demonstrates as facts or proves thenr logalical necessity. There fore, upon the great fundamental probx lens presented by the universe there is demonstrated or logical agreement A dogma of theology cannot set aside fact. nor can the metaphysics or philosophy confute a theological dogma. The com- parative agreement that exist today be- tween these great cosmogonies was not reached without great and mighty struggle. In ancient times when pfilos- ophy was speculative. sacred teachings were naturally supreme upon all ques- tlons. Natural civil, economic and re- ligious. But when philosophy became science with facts as its postulates and a logical, rational synthesis as it's meth od, with the book of nature as its study, and truth as its object the real strug- gle began. Modern science began with Aristotle. He unleased the faculty of thought; he put questions to nature in the way of experiment and watched the ans- wer. He was the author of the inductive method of Investigation. Alexander the Great was his pupil He prosecuted the Macedonian wars, and conqured the whole Persian Empire from Hellespont to the Indus.
 "The Persion' Empire, was truly the garden of the world" Here this great general, and true scientist, saw many things of which he had never dreamed. He became the patron of science. and had he lived, the worlds scientific history would have been different. But in Ptollemy Soter he had a worthy successary. He was the first of the Macedonian kings. He established Alexandria in Egypt as his capital The population consisted of Native Egyptians, Greeks and Jews. It was, therefore. a great cosmopolitan city, an dwas the great intellectual metropolis of the world" Here it was that the "Genuis of the East met the Genuis of the West"
 The great in stitution of the city was the museum, established by Ptolemy Soter and his son Philadelphus. This museum was established and maintained for three purposes
 FrSt-The perpetuatlon or such hhoWi- edge as was then in the world.
 Second-Its increase.
 Third-Its diffusion.
 "Aristotellian philosophy was the corner stone upon which the museum was found- ed" The essential principles of the Aristotellian Philosophy was. "to rise from the study of particulars to knowl- edge of general principle or universals, advancing to them by induction. The induction is the more certain as the facts on which 1t is based are more numerous; It's correctness Is established If 1t should enable us to predict other facts until then unknown This system implies endless toll in the. collection of facts. both by experiment and observations; 1t implies also a close mediation on them. It Is therefore essentially method Of labor and of reason, not method of tnaugura- tion." In this way the Museum of Alex andria became the birth place of Modern Science. Here mathematics, astronomy. geometry physics. etc., became estao- lished as Sciences based upon methods Of experiments
 The splendid library in this Museum was