New-York tribune., 1910-06-20
BACCALAUREAIE At YALE.
President HadIey Speaks on
Uses and Abuses of Faith.
DANGER IN SENTIMENTALlSM
Virtue and knowledge Needed
in America - Sheffield
Scientific Honors.

New Haven. June 10 (speciaD. Faith, Its
Uses and Its Abuses" was the topic on
which President Arthur T Hadley Of Yale
spoke to-day in delivering the baccalaure-
ste address TO the members of the gradu-
sfiae class Of the different departments
Of Yale. who to the number of nearly
seven hundred. occupied seats IN the audi
torium Of Woelsev Hall.
Dr.. Hadlev insisted that while faith has
been lost in some things il has been more
flsan regained in others, and that faith now
rests on surer foundations than ever, even
II the age OF faith IN miracle and tbs super
natural has passed. Dr. Hadley quoted ROD
ert G Ingersoli's expression. An honest
Gods the noblest work Of man, as one
that many who were professedly more re-
6gious than Ingersoll might take 20 heart.
DR.. Hadley said:
In the three decades which have elapsed
since my graduation there has been a re
raarkable change OF public sentiment
Thirty or forty years ago intelligent Amer
5cans were believers in liberty They
-Io,,o,,+ rha1 government interference was
an evil. and that the legislation which re
formers invoked TO stop special abuses
would generally create more evils Ihan II
would prevent To-day all this has changed
The new democracy, said clear slshl-
ed critic about the beginning of this period
that I have named. lis passlonateiy beneF-
oleur and 1,assionately fond of power
Tie combination is q dangerous one-hoW
dangerous Is perhaps best Indicated py tne
whose promoters loved liberty. equ2llty
and fraternity so much that they lndulSeo
in 2 carnival of riot and murder az
most unparalleled in recent history 1his
IS of course. an extreme instance; but II
IS the kind OF mistake which any one IS
likely 10 make who has more faith III gov
ern-nent ana Jaw than intelligence as 10
the way IN which government and law
must be administered The desire TO make
men happy is a praiseworthy thing, me
impulse 10 use government authorlty lof
this purpose is a natural one. but II mere
IS any point where vague senurnentallsfh y
dangerous and where falth needs 10 %
combined with virtue and knowledge IN
order 10 have any merit al all = Is N rem
dering unto Cesar the things that are
CyRsars and 10 God the things tnet are
Almost equally characteristic Of the pres
ent day is the danger that our faith IN
science may be carried TO the point OF
bigoted intolerance Of any philosophy OF
life except that which is based on partlcu-
lar fieiGs Of science This is not TO pe won,
dered al In chemistry and physics ana
biology the nineteenth century mas olS-
covered great many truths when Were t.r
coveries the means Of increasing man
power over nature and arneliorating the lot
Of the human race. But there is on TINS
very account great danger that we shall
cverestimate both the practical value OF
what has been accomplished and the theo-
retical certainty Of many OF our doctrines:
The man who would make the right use OF
scientific truth must know the lir11ltations
OF scientific truth 1t is a good thing 70
tr7crease the production Of food. II may De-
come a bad thing f Il leads man TO deny
that there are any other STANDARDS OF
progress except material ones; II IS gooo
thing to be familiar with the laws OF nlau-,
ernatical physics; il may become oa0
1htnS If il leads one to think that theSe are
the only laws worth knowing / would not
90 one word which could lessen the en-
1husiasnl OF the scientific deVotee Tor ms
specialized knowledge, or lessen me puphS
z.r,~ II Of "a %
The spirit Of discovery by which they are
obtained But let US remember that the
field is limited one, and that the sreatest
men Of science have recognized Its nrllta-
1ions The position of the agnostic, who
does not know or care for anything BEYOND
the results OF natural science, Is starting
exaronle OF what comes to a man who ex-
ercises faith without intelligence In theory
the agnostic is the man who does not claim
TO know anything that he cannot proVeIa
praiseworthy aspiration. IN pIdCl-CF .,! ne
too often uses the term TO enforce TINS
-opinion over that of every other secJIon-
our faith in God. as we to-day holo IL, IS
based on our faith in men, our falth IN
law and our faith in science. Il Is Tor Jhat
1-erv reason subject TO q combination of
the dangers which beset all three OF them-
the danger Of a compliment opIlIIlisIE 9
lraph of the right that il sometimes loses
sight of the means which appear 10 pc
necessary to keep the world moving II the
right direction.
Honors which have been awarded in
the Sheffield Scientific School for the year
were announced to-day as follows:
General two-year honors-Joseph Alfred
Amber, Danbury. Conn; Robert Bengis.
New Haven; George Henry Campbell,
Great Falls. Mont: Louis James Campbell,
Youngstown. Ohio; Joseph Marion Goss,
CentreVille. Iowa, and William Storrs Hoyt
Hamilton. New Haven
Graduate scholarshtps-Jacob Reuben
Bremen. New Haven; Berthold Francis
Hastings. bridgeport, Conn; Albert Will
lam Honywill jr.. Dwight Boyce Pangburn
and George Albert Sterson. New Haven,
ano Cecil George Young, Norwich. Conn.
Prizes-EleCtrical engineering, William
Storrs Hoyt Hamilton. New Haven; me-
chanical engineering. George Albert Stet-
son. New Haven, mining ersineertng, Ber-
1hold Francis Hastings. Bridgeport Conn:
history. Wilson Wadongham Mills. Las
Vegas y NJ: Eelknap prize in biological
studies Charles Dudley Elored, Joliet, H.;
Belknap prize in geological studies. divided
between Joseph Alfred Amber. Danbury,
conn and Arthur Joseph Hill, Meriden.
Conn; Tucker prize IN sanitary engineer
fne arthur Theodore Nabstedt, Davenport,
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