Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-15
ON THINGS
KNcWABlE AND UNKNONABLE

IAG2W versy. No one seems to know from
~ whence he came or whittier he goeth
S2fW S.RSGA We are told that man stands at the
47x SJAS1VV head of the animal creation Standing
1t the head givesu additional information Mans re-
aOn to the animal kingdom is matter Of every day dem
onsaon Apd nasmuch as man has given names 10 things
BY which they known the word. brute. was given to
signify animal lower than man in creation You can
therefore get the meaning Of the two terms thus: Man
animal having reason: Brute an animal devoid 81 rea-
and where the Of the brute takes on the appear
Of reason called instinct Nov it is man that 50
named and called things and we feel justified in assuming
that the word instinct was coined in self defense AS
matter Of fact no man ever did and never Will draw the
line showing where instinct ends and reason begins
and the further fact never hoaest ii dealing
with the question
a course tacs) in harmony with our conduct facts J
call them good and when the contrary We call them
bad When the conduct acs interferes with our peace.
health morals and the right Of life. we call il crime
As have said these names were given to distinguish
anma from another animal and an act from The nature
Of another act but remember in all this there is no expa-
nation fCr the arGn Of the animal kingdom Or the law Of
and effect that predetermined their existence
Predetermined for the visible fact is the law We call
the law Of life was before the man was born and remains
after the man dies.
Nov as FOR TIE origin Of the world from whence, and
whiher just be honest about it and say 4 don't know To
say believe, raise the tower Of Babel and from It's bald
head three thousand languages shout the belief ii two
thousand and religions and each in turn denouncnr
the other as fasIe belief
"a eoncerns belief il may be said that belief neither
creates destroys truth for the fact may exist whether
believe i or not Belief may put me in relation to
truth i may put me out Of relation to it. Belief implies
doubt; knowledge implies no doubt A man BY persstne
in the belief that certain thing is possible to accomplish
may accomplish the thing believed but when the thing is
accomplished he then says know the thing can be done
before he said think can do it, now he says know |
can doit Once he sad believes but now he says /
know Belief thing but knowledge is quite another
The reader will notice that belief IS mental act subject
the cooperation Of the physical power to accomplish
But how can man BY belief gain the knowledge of and
solve the riddle Of the universe" My friend We guess
you had better over and talk with us about some
thing we can understand that belong TO the practicable
things known and movable.
Take the animal kingdom as a whole as ii falls under
the control Of BY reason Of mans superior brain pc.
err and doubtless can 6nd food for thought pleasant 10
Us ALL Doubtless have noticed in the brute kingdom
how animal differs from another in power and in
sinct One horse is more intelligent than another end
just 50 throuGhthe whole list Of animals down IL the
angle worm the lowest man knows anything about.
Well alter thinking along this line. please turn the Iiqht
q your thinker another family oE animals called man
and if you cant see the difference of brain power
reasOn that you noted Is instinct in the lower animal
(the brue) Have you ever tried to measure Ire dil.
ference between the reason of Shakespeare and FOOL
Or that Of TcIstoi and rape Gend? II YOU have you
win have this puzzle to solve Where instinct ends and
reason begins where the brute ends and man begins
and when you have Thought over The mater don't te NE
what you believe, but what you know about L.
You may say asfor hepuzzle We rive Ii 10. But one
thing We know and that Is % degrees so nieIiaence
running through the brute kingdom we note the same
principle running through the man kingdom. with lines
cr6ssncandsculne cuthe ahI from whence and whittier
Nov as for acts and characteristics II the brute snd
man. We have 10 disposition to discuss: We pass up he
subject with the remark that our duty III police courts u
city attorney has been such as IL prove en ina women
au d acts where Inc brute has the Best u L inpont o
decency.
The conclusion q he matter then i that man Is an
criminal oE inherent powers capabIeof developments s
peror 10 al other animals and iese Developments are
due u physchoIcrlcal cause snd eject OF lhs PROPOSE
cplearnsdmen hsys dsasd into two schools oi shouah
'physcholoasls roplenapa lor Ihe sDras 81 souI Is
while lhe hostile sas denies Ire validity y he proof
Thus hes man Beer wandsser 0ysr lhs Bleak plains
u doubt nsndicunl bssaina lor re XIV u unlock ne
closed dcor IL lhe nyserohr temple &c lie while nature