The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-07-14

Gently saying. and / givc bat s part ha-
enough Lord Kelvin had put tins I'M
cI~.ye inquiry rs there anything - alb
Surd a 10 eieve that . number OF II ms
~ falling together Of their own accord
could make crystal, 5 ~prIuS II moss :
cucrobe. ar a living ANIMAL ON Eetseo-
ton he perceived shat . crystal wa~ ln
unfortunate illustration. SINCE in structure
toward faith. Men h.Ee recognized ta'
it differed from tile cellular formation -
which plants and animals were mad" Ile
accord iugly FASTENED - admit t.lt a
crystal might result from a fortui.au~
concourse 81 atoms. hu. contendei ane"
that q similar explanation could not 'r
ofersd for the origin. existence, ami
growth 81 plants ana living beings Tor
which scientific thought was compelled 10
accept tAc idea II creative power Lord
KELVIN closed his buef but weIghty Gone
tco-lon VI faith With tins striking passage
Forty years ago ! asked LIthig. wIk.H-
somewhere IN the country. II he believed
that the grass ana flowers which "e saw
around u grew BY mere chemical fos#c
He answered No no more than I aa tI
believe that a book II botany de>erlbluc
them could grow ~ mere chemical fat,o.
Every acton III i human free Wtll i j
miracle 70 physical and chemical and
mathematical science
To tins most interesting statement o.
the leading British man OF SCieEcc-fa far
ahead Of any OF Americas eualIfry who
worship at the shrine Of Dafvin-tAe Nor
folk paper adds 'Thc view ot Lore
Kelvin Is mainly the view Of tine science
OF today. 1t has been forced TO accept Z
creator as the only logical alternative Of
4 Llind chance that. as Lord Kelvin say.
could not have gwen Us the world We
know in a million million years
4 reform movement IN no country ever
succeeds until public opinion Is ]~tronsg
IN favor Of it. When the public ~en'i-
ment is overwhelmingly in favor Of keep
ing children under fourteen out Of .rt-
waite factories: or Is IN favor OF the dis
Ipensary system as to liquor drinking, or
favors prohibition outright; or IS against
debasing, unscriptural divorce laws, which
disgrace North Carolina; or IS for Cqual
taxation compelling all corporations AMI
all people to pay equally, justly. honestly
according 10 actual far valuation; or Is
dead against making a public debt for
any purpose, be it education or what not,
remembering the States former bank
ruptcy ana heavy reputation. then public
opinion viii be the winner, ana the iniqpl.
ties and expressions and wees WILL dI~ap-
pear. Let people know what IS right and
proper and wise and necessary for good
government. Let All have a chance to
know of inequalities and injustices and
outragcs. Let the people see just how far
are the criminal laws, and how the vile
and influential escape by reason Of sand
laws and their neglect Of enforcement
how one class escapes retrIbutIve justice
and the poorer class easily catch it-hoW
the oneman power is baleful, deceptive
and dangerous, and then reforms of the
right kind viii come or the people like
in the time of Trelawney when it wac
given out by the powers that be must
die"-will be ready to say as it was said
Then thirty thousand Cornishmen viii
know the reason why When there was
a greet stir in England thirty or forty
years ago over the publicity Of debates II
the Parliament, the cry went up from ali