The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-17
SPLENDID LECTURES
CONCLUDED
TODAY
1dealistic World View and
Passing of Mechanical Ma
turalism, Last Theme.

Yesterday morning and this morn
ing at the hour of 11:15 DR.. Borden
P. Bovine, the Boston metaphysician
delivered two entrancingly brilliant
lectures, which were attended by stu
dents, professors, clergymen and citi-
Zens galore.
"The Idealistic World View" was
the subject of yesterdays lecture, and
this view so explains the world and
life that there Is no contradiction be-
tween common sense science and phil
osophy. The hard and fast things of
sense philosophy are not true and
abiding realities. To regard them so
leads logically to rank materialism
and atheism.
AS we investigate our experience
we find that the world of things
exists only in and for and through in
telligence. In fact, If intelligence
would instantly disappear. Life is
full of invisibilities. Man, himself,
does not belong to the visible world
No one has seen the mind. Who has
seen the soul? Has it form? Life
within is the true. key to personality
and the body gets its meaning only
from the hidden life whose instru-
ment it is.
Thus it is with literature. To the
sense thinker, it seems that the world
of literature is in books, shelves,
libraries. A little reflection serves to
show that literature exists in thought
and ideas only, and is nothing apart
from mind.
Likewise, this is the case with his
tory and government. These exist
similarly in this spiritual or hidden
realm of ideas. In this way the whole
external order rests in the invisible
which is its source and causal ground.
This brings us to the doctrines of
idealism. This view as some have
supposed does not deny the seasa
world. Indeed, it afiirms it with pos
itivity, but it does deny that the world
of things about it ultimate realty.
The existence of the world is merely
phenomenal. 1dealism aims to show
that things do not carry on business
ON their own account, but that they
owe their realty to intelligence.
Then, too, the fixities observed In
experience are in the mind and the
meaning Of things. It Is the abiding,
unitary self which co-ordinates and
synthesizes the fiuxities and vanishing
sensibilities and gives them meaning
and content. Time and space are not
real in themselves, but only forms of
knowledge, and their reality too is
phenomenal. To regard time and
space asontologically real is to be-
come embrangled in inescapable diff
ficulties and land in hopeless confu-
sion.
Theistic idealism asserts that this
is a thought-world, and because it
is such a world the objective order is
ineligible to all minds. 1tis the ex-
preston of the infinite thought of the
creator, and in it finite beings read the
divine thought. The world exists on
ly in, for and through intelligence.
Today's Lecture.
The lecture this morning was on
a very abstinse theme, "The Passing
of Mechanical MISUNDERSTANDING was
so manipulated by DR.. Bovine as to
be understood by almost everybody.
In addition to the regular" hearers,
there were great many city school
superintendents and the principals of
the high schools of the state. State
superintendent of education Stockwell
was also present.
DR.. Bovine first drew attention to
the naturalism that was not passing
and would not pass-the naturalism
of science, where we meet with the
uniformities of co-existences and Sc
quences. The field of science Is that
of natural law.
There is a naturalism, however, that
sets itself up as a causal explanation,
and the explanation is made by the
passing of relative, Indefinite. inco-
herent homogeneity into q relative,
definite coherent heterogeneity by diff
ferentiation and interrogation. BY
several cogent Illustrations 1t was
made manifest that this explanation
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