The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1909-06-04

merely material fnf \ few meffy iests
from the llvht hearted jokcsmlths,
though there Il ample excuse fof ~
least = smiic IN the very conception
NJ \ human heins setting up y device
bin enough ~ attract the sttentien ~
intelligent beinss a6,ooo,ooo miles
swsy. Mars Ia ~ the people on the
earth uoly a red pin puInt ~ the I'm
measurable spaces " the upper ether
The red planet IL, Il IL true, only one.
seventh ~ large as the pompnus
sphefiod called the earth, yet the lat
ter can hardly hope to he more than a
tiny flicker Of light IN the vast
sidereal void. Hut the smile that be-
gins NJ the thought ~ the poftcn
tious figure the earth beings Imagine
they are cutting, with relation 20 the
other planets Of the known universe
dies away at the reflection that
human beInps should conceive such |
concept as to boldly challenge the
mysteries OF the illimitablc void.
Something that must forever sepnr.
ate man from the other animals OF
creation turns his face upward 70 the
heas ems and makes him claim fellow.
ship with the stars. His voice has
gone out across the mighty battle
ments and over the depthlcss chasms
OF the skies, demanding the meaning
OF the stupendous riddle OF the count
less millions Of orbs that sprinkle the
midnight fields OF the great blue
canopy. With an audacity that is
sublime he weighs the spheres 10 the
,, balances OF his science, aud, un.
daunted by the barriets Of which the
rest of creation has never dreamed,
| he has wandered into the unfa.
thomed depths OF space on the mag.
nifccnt forays OF his genius until he
has charted the oceans Of the air and
mapped the heavens with the land
marks OF countless voyages. That is
an achievement that ought to com.
pel the admiration OF Divinity itself.
i Man alone OF all created things has
had his face set toward the stars, and
this latest effort to establish com
munication is not the only one he hal
ever. made. For countless centuries
he has been talking with the stars
He has declared, with splendid logi'
chat he has no thought OF his owl
iusigniicance, that II is no more won
derful that Mars, for instance, shoul'
be inhabited aud that other planet
: should be thu home Of sentient being
bearing some anology to human crea
lures than that this little glob
!, should be the only one OF all the mil
y lions fashioned by the same Almight
9 hand. There is the hint OF a pre-
q found signinance 10 the fact tina
astrology was so closely linked wit
Q the first religions. Crude and runl
o az 1t was, II was the tangible bon
8 that held the tinitc fast TO the thron
Of the inflnite. Man was never 1
puny that he did not Indulge In u
T. splendId eQotism that he was pal
s. OF the universe, that he was son
q infinlty who could not be disinheritc
II Even though his 1rst conception vi
81 little higher than that OF the sla'
,t forces that had TO be propitIated
q sacrifices and appeased by self abss
ment, yet he never conceived b
- thought that be could by any possit
az means repudiate the condition
e1 which ne found himself lie nev
wanted to.
"a AS the centuries passed be did q
bow so low and gradually he cal
ou Into the full stature OF sonsliip IN
ny the doctrines Of historical relIgic
were formulated, each arrogati
more and more OF the preroaativcs
- divine relations until they finally 9
70 minated in the conception Of
~ ~. fstl,erhood Of God and the broth
ing hood OF Christ. which Is only
lief apotheosIs Of the utter oneness Of
2ne 2 life with the God.nature 10 Nirva
Many grotesque variations on (
ent Fundamental and intultivc conc
re- have entered into the development
ais. The religious Instinct 10 man. Or
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