The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-12-31

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Those races who have done things ~
I the industrial world have seen IN nature
an architect and they have searched Tor
those forces which actuate nature. Ihe
boy or man who prefers to use MS own
thinking power instead OF adopting the
accumulated wisdom of the race is like q
sailor who rejects the proffered pilot.
| France as a nation, once attempted to
accent matter as mind and saved them
selves from being blotted off the face of
the earth by retracing their steps. As
/ naticn we have become industrial rather
than social, but that is better than to be-
come military, as IN Europe.
/ have thus far considered modern
psychology as atheistic, but l now see
that it is as great an insult to man as it
to the Almighty to say that there is no
mind in nature apart from the activities
of matter. Though the Bible is more
often misinterpreted than otherwise,
its teachings have proved true as far
as the human race has progressed In
experience. Its theory of creation and
domestic, social and civil life prove that
it's writers had superhuman insight in
to the workings of nature. We read
there that there are bodies celestial and
bodies terrestrial. Man has discovered
forces in terrestrial bodies like gravita-
ton, electricity, adhesion, cohesion, etc.
He observes the effects of these forces,
but can notcomprehend their nature
more than he can comprehend his own
nature. He does not attempt to deny
the existence of these forces because he
cannot comprehend their nature. Why
should he deny his own existence be.
cause he can rot comprehend its nature?
Socially, and civilly. we are still living
in a Jewish age of the world. When we
come under the Christian dispensa-
ton in any true sense, wars will cease,
all will be allowed the privileges of
society and be provided with the ne
cessities of life. AS a means Of bring
ing this about privileged classes will be
abolished; the good qualities rather than
the evil will be sought in all classes.
Elements of good will be fostered by
culture, and elements of evil Will be
over-shadowed and smothered by some
thing better. Psychology started right,
but it got derailed and it is the work of
the present generation to get 1t back on
the right track. A popular psychology
devotes nearly 200 pages to a discussion
of the methods by which record OF ex-
perience is woven into the nervous sys-
tenn. This they declare is all the mind
there is in man. This record OF activl-
ties is manufactured much after the man
ner of monograph records, and man has
no more soul than the photograph.
Though emotion, intellect and will are
briefly discussed, they make no attempt
to give their relation to the individual
The blind experiences and observa-
lions of the psychologist will be useful
81 ,bon ba &c form nf
life into them. He can not deny that
there is animal and vegetable life in the
world. His laboratory methods are pow
erless to create either. From the days
of Columbus to the present time, life
giving principle has been acknowledged
which is as much above electricity and
gravitation as they are above the hum
blest forces in every day life.
AS we read in the Bible man is an i'm
age of Creative Energy and he has per-
formed some very credltable works as
witnessed in our modern Industries. His
flying machines are very interesting
rivals of the birds of nature. If man
had possessed no existence superior to
his body, these manifold works of man
never would have existed. Is it of any
interest to anybody that hundreds and
thousands of the flower of the Amer
can people are being taught mater
ialism with the same degree of en-
thusiasm that Germany has been taught
the duty of war. Though some claim
that all leading universities are teaching
materialism, some are going to the op.
posite extreme and teaching that all
things exist in the mind of man or God.
Thus the pendulum swings to opposite
extremes. 1t was from the Bible that
the early founders of our nation got
suggestion of every process of nature,