Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20

pressed in the old philosophers formula, 81 think
Life is thought consciousness is thought. And that
which is thought in us that power in conscious
which plans and executes the power that unites
the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, that builds great
buildings and digs tunnels, is the same power,
although feeber, in the jeyfsh, which floats at the
will of the waves which shows thought" only in
feeble capacity for Withdrawing itself from danger
Man is a wonderful, thinking, living being compared
with the mass of Jelly that we call ielyfsh He
probably has in the great suns that the telescope
shows bigger and older brothers. that are far
above him as he is above the ellyfsh.
Time never began and never can end Space has
limit and have none.
Matter itself is probably infinite, without end We
have no reason to think that our little corner 81 in
finite space is occupied and the rest empty"
Contemplation of this universe, any effort to get
and little plans of life tires the mind but it
Man rises above the animal only AS HE RISES
terests.
To readers we again recommend the article
upon which this editorial is based-wrtten by Sir
William Ramsay-in the current number of Hearsts
Magazine.
1t is an article that intelligent men and women
should read.
Hearst's Magazine sets good example and does
useful work, making the best scientific thought plain
insisting rightly that the people of this country are
interested in great questions and that the bigger the
question and the important the truth, the greater
will be the interest of the average American citizen
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What is life? We don't know. We only know It is
the power that enables to think and progress and
by the use of fierce control matter.
When did life begin-hOw did it begin-when viii
it end?
and that our duty is to it well can, show
ing gratitude for the work done by the living beings
back of by doing that which Will make happier the
living beings that are to follow.
LIFE, FORCE, MATTER are the three things which
we see, or believe see.
We know that matter and force are intestructlhle
Faith science and common sense teach us that con,
seriousness lfe the power that controls matter and
force must also be ndestructible.
Matter and force undergo changes. Life or COM
seriousness may undergo similar changes
Matter and force may be the same, for all matter
may be reduced down elecrOns units Of electricity
And all force may be a demonstration OF electric
power in different form.
Everything except the little work that we are
doing the cleaning of the kitchen, the preaching OF
the the digging of the ditch-ali outside OF
that is mystery to -
And we know by the experience OF a few thousand
years that history records and by the experience OF
millions of years that geology reveals to us, THAI
THIS EARTH IS GOVERNED WISELY, JUSTLY AND
SAFELY.
We see rolling through space suns with their plan
cts that are hundreds of millions of years older than
our little solar system. We live earth warmed
by a sun a million times as big earth. And we
see with the telescope another a million times a
big
We know that everything in this vast universe,
from the greatest to the smallest living germ OF
life, is under just government.
We no longer imagine God the ruler Of this great
universe as Michael Angelo imagined him. We do not
think of him a with beard and cloak But
we do know that the ruling power is JUSTICE,
changing law and that life is worth while, since the
humblest possessor of life and consciousness is
sharer in all the activities of the universe and may
hope for progress and change amending and leading
to the highest.