New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-29
LONDON NOTES.
Inc Arch6ishop's Journey-Mc
00lfour's Presidential Addrsa
London, August %

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'nere was neither an expansion =, :, ~nen
"a 'ie frimate In the form ~ -a.-,-
oi any surrender of the I,bs-+t - ''e
~, Inc primates and bisbons - So
anu ireland strenuousIy opposed
-. 20 uoinihant authority on the mart :, -
vi canterbury; the colonial b,s,.--
were jealous OF the rights of that ,,,-~Ns
.n"ousnout the empire: the American h,-r1N
s,ne-,' prepared to support any propossI e.
suporoihatfng their Church To Tho g. 'o'
'eiourS' and Archbishop Temple sbovsd - s,A
cushion 10 magnify the respons,h,,,t,o. :. I'''
UNIT Inc trend Of the PROCEEDINGS =, a. ms
e"0e was In the direction Of eo,s,,...
- ~ rather than absolutism. Tn r-o,.o.
,n.o -. cue primate OF the English Ch,-rs
sic.., Acdh Patriarch was not sertorsI,
me proposal for establishing .,
5,-o,,.-,- e"ce was dropped after desrlto-,,
suIto,t,,o - the formation OF central con-
tNe oouy was surrounded with sara.,,oo,-
which deprived it of any go :. suarus
ns VIII and left 1t purely adv;so-
archbishop Davidson who has s.arta5 .I,.
LOT the United States and Canad, 81 0N
the Frlmate's most trusted sa,,tsa =, vas
sessions or the Lambeth Confaranc. - s
that nothing should h. d.. -
us character as a voluntary bodv ui.b
-. power or junction for exacting ohadiaroo =.
rhS oL Iaith, dogma poIity or --otto
80" ne visits the Canadian churches at :.
teHuS the triennial convention Of the pu..
Episcopal Church in the United Sta+a. - -.
nave no other mission than that Of nAooa -.
ahce and good will. He Is a modast "a -
'ehtauous prelate. who shrinks from, -
any unnecessary display Of his AUTHORITY 81 az
nIsiiedh communion. He would not have nlan,aa
ms journey II ne had fancied that II would max.
nun greater hgure in the religious world ,han
. at present or create an impression tina,
ne was surviving to bring either the Ca,ss,o,,
-. VI the Protestant Episcopal Church into
subordinate relations to the See of Canta-,,-'
-" men ne returns 10 England it will he as sv4,a-.
as Ii was at the close Of the I.ambs,r
that there Is comprehensive unity and comr,o,
fellowship in a great religions o,,,,,o
the same preference for local liberty and saI,
government which the English speaking -,n.
cherishes throughout the worfd
MT Balfour's presidential address bssora N.
British Association. delivered ten wears after
lhe late Lord Saiisbury's analogous address ar
CNioiu' VIII increase his reputation as a subtle
IL contained a series Of reflections
suggested by the new theory of matter aud
was coiored by the same spirit Of philosophio
doubt with which he had discussed IN TWO
a detailed reference to the Industrious line %
physicists. from Newton, Cavend.sh. Young
stokes and Maxwell TO Kelvin Ravleieb Iar
NOR. Thomson and the Cambridge scientif,.
school OF to-day. who have been IN aI,est 81
physical reality and have never doubted that f,
would be found 1t included contrasted views
OF the universe which had been held by nns1
OF science since the end Of the eighteenth cen
ury' There was the theory Of all kinds OF pom
derable matter scattered through space in an
Infinite variety OF combinations. influenced bv
chemical attraction and subject to the laws OF
motion Then came the unduIatory theory OF
light and with 1t the scientific faith in an
medium pervaGing universal space
When electricity had been traced from the at
tractive power OF amber and glass 10 thunder
storms. and identified with magnetism light and
atheric radiation. scientific men came to look
upon II as the physical basis for ali appear
'nces OF gross matter; and when they were
not satisfied with the conception OF continu-
ous medium for the conveyance OF unduIations
10 the optic nerve they reached the conclusion
that ether was the raw material out of which
The universe had been constructed The ia
Sorite theory of natural science to-day is that
he universe is made up Of infinitely varied
OF ether and electricity. IL not OF
'onvolutions of ether alone. After proving that
physicists had been making a series of leaps in
he dark in their search for the unknown reality
and passing from one world of illusions 10
,ther. he concluded that they had not helped
heir case by reducing their sixty seventy
clements 10 two unknown quantities-electrIcity
md ether-or possibly one primal stun out OF
which all things could be made. So he ended
With this warning that. while the new ether
heory may give satisfaction almost aesthetic
n its intensity and quality. natural science an
I grows must lean more ard more upon an
dealistic Interpretation Of the universe:
Extend the boundaries o. knowledge as you may;
iraw how you will The picture Of me universe re.
space filling ether; retrace its history to the birth
yravitation they become concentrated into nebuise
nto and all the host of heaven; how, at least
compounds: how organic compounds became living
hings; how living things developing along many
ace: how from this race arose. after many ages.
/ learned handful, who looked around on the world
judged 1t and knew IT for what IL was-Perform,
a an the Snd fnoT3 you ma yo G Sss nks
o sef-sufficinS system of beliefs: One thing, at
W 6 censes and escts gives no SATISFYING
xplanation. and that is knowledge itself Natural
roduct OF irrational conditions for in the last
esort 4 knows no others II mus, always regard
ppears In addition. therefore, 10 the difficulty Of
nee contradicts are confronted with the
fficulty OF harmonizing the pedigree Of our be-
efs with their title to authority.
The British Association could hardly have
allied to observe the irony well as the SUD
lety OF this circle OF reasoning. Even II ths
Use men could tell what either electricity or
Their really was. and in this way explain "ha'
natter was Mr.. Balfour was prepared 10 e1
Iotr !, away nv DENYING that experience could
= q source of knowledge. During three cent
rias men NJ science had been proving by their
,orld pictures how little they knew. and mere
,ss no assurance that their present theory OF
Their and electricity as the physical basis or tns