Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-11-26
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Peoples Forum
Natures Thought.

Ahousnt is mostly plagiariZed
from nature. Human mind is more
sensate than original. 1t polishes,
reforms and elucidates, but seldom
originates. Nature holds within her
bosom suggestion and inspiration
New thoughts spring eternally from
the womb of environment and be-
come our adopted children-our
thoughts and beliefs-before we are
aware. We revel in her offerings
and call the product original. We
appropriate her flaccid thread some
times without rhyme or reason and
often with discriminating care, and
weave fable, religion, pathos and
mirth.
Looking into the cold, dark re-
cesses of the earth, feeling of OBJ
livion oerwhelms us and we point
down to eternal perdition.
Surveying the vast concave DER
head, where the myriad dots of divin-
ity are scattered as if the Creator
in reckless abandon, from the tips
of his fingers had flung them, and
like spark from the sky the sug-
gestion of purity, immensity, etern-
ity From thense our conception
of heaven and we look up every
good and perfect gift"
We contemplate universal nature
with her unerring laws and manifold
forms-how magnificent and awe
inspiring in it's completeness and
perfection-every atom in it's sphere
contributing to the infinite result
Human, animal and vegetable life
all different in effect, and yet SC
closely related that the wisest brain
of man is unable to fathem the
depths of mystery relating them
All of earth's infinite mechanism
woven into the majestic panorama
that has delighted the eye and puZ.
zled the bran of man since his crea.
ton moves on and on with unerrine
precision to a destiny beyond oui
ken. Eternal life everywhere;
wrapt, sometimes in physical decay
blossoms forth again in manifold
form and more glorious array. The
mind is lost in the dazzling spectacle
and the magnitude and completely
of it shapes the thought that from
an Omnipotent Creator must have
sprung such matchless and perfec
creation.
The dark, ominous storm clouC
comes rolling on, defying the power
and ingenuity of man-the sky
ablaze with lurid flame, as lightning
flashes back to lightning flash ant
heavens artillery thunders in thu
sky" The storm monster roars il
daughter as it smites the trembling
earth and reaps it's vengeance in the
lightnings and the storm. From
thence the judgment day when "th'
heavens shall be rolled together lik,
SCROLL"
Demands of commerce wrought Il
practicability the powerful engine
with throbbing life of flame ant
steam, and threw out the winding
track of iron through woods and NJ
the mountain steeps-over river ant
: glen-until the evolution> of tha
r thought girds the earth with shininI
' bands and peoples her waste place
: with yeomanry, toiling for tn
' wealth of natures hidden vaults.
History is written in the rock
t and faults and fissures of the earth
, and in the action of everything tha
3 lives. It's phraseology belongs t
= man, but fact has ebbed and flowe
( -integrated and decayed-whil
! waiting for translation into nativ
4 tongue.
= Much of human thought is pla
S giarZed from nature, contact and ne
e cessity. Natural phenomenon SUI
S plies the thread from which is wove
] religious fabric; contact writes tn
: history of nations and of men; ne
( cessity forces the thought froI
e which inventive genius moulds tn
r power that drives to blessed fruitio
n all the whirlinp wheels of commerce,