Omaha daily bee., 1915-11-04

upon Us ny btluB
of the same human race with those VINO
can do such things.
There Is a hymn in one of our hymn
books the first line Of which runs, Can
such a worthless worm as l." Choirs
are not invited to SIM 1t as much as
formerly. We do not make God any
greater by calling ourselves worms and
treadinR upon ourselves. The mother
who calls her boy little fool is not
nearly as likely to rear him up to De
president of the United States as by
telling him that there are the markings
of a great man in him.
And we see how magnificent Is the stult
that goes to make man by observing
what results that stuff works out INTO
Every large achievement is fitted TO en-
nance respect for the race and TOT our
selves as part of the race.
II is a great thing to be able to say l.
Man is the only thing on EARTH animate
or inanimate, that can DO that IhaI III
itself makes him higher than the noun
tains and wider than the sea. On the
strength of It we are able to stand up
In front of the world and commence ask
ing questions of it; and II, like retrac
tory witness, the ground and the sea ana
the sky. with all there is IN H. uecnne
10 answer, we simply say, like the Judge
-, Az bench that we are here to find
out and that it will be just as well Tor
Won and more convenient for us IL you
. will drop your reserve and come down
promptly with the facts
Tbere Ia a good deal of human kingi-
ness curled up in the assured way In
which scientific investigation intrudes
into natures sanctuary, leans against its
altar. lunches on it's mercy seat, STUDIES
the designs wrought into it's holy hang
inRs and calculates the weight OF metal
I'm its consecrated utensils. 1t Is man
way Of saying-''this is a big world out
I am bigger. It is a mystically written
book. but 1 can road 1t
Discovery engenders the talent ror
discovery, and so. like child learning
to walk, It wanders from Its own door
way moro and more widely distance
that seemed at first difficulty is con-
verified into a facility. Man girdles the
earth with his thought, and the mathe-
rnAtician with his figures builds more
audacious tower into the sky than ever
the Summarizes undertook to do with Their
bricks, and the triumphant astronomers
are blessed In succeeding in doing what
the Babelites were cursed in their failure
TO do.
And so genius packs its gripsack and
goes voyaging and exploiting off through
the spaces 1t seems as though mind were
born with the rudiments of omniscience
and 20 were bound to be made impatient
by the discovered presence of anything
that declined to be known; and born
likewise with the rudiments OF omni
presence, and therefore bound to be dis
quieted by the sight of any frontier no
yet transcribed.
That Is one of the startling proofs o.
the vastness immanent in our nature
that, put a man in a room, no matter
how large the room, he wants the win
dows up; every place cramps, and W.
want to move out Not only are we irri
tated by limitations OF place. and tr!
to be ubiquitous. but are similarly an
noyed by limitations OF time and attemp
20 explore and to map the centuries tina
prefaced recorded history, and even tn
ages that thresholded the present era o
the earth and the heavens.
We are so accustomed to this habitua
Intrusion into untraversed domain tina
II can easily escape us what a certail
irrepressibleness immanent within us al
this betokens.
And this skipping out among the star
ard then coming home for a little Will
10 make a book Of what we saw there
what the stars. are made Of. how larg
they are, how much they weigh, whethe
they are young OF old and this crowd
ing back into the old years of our uni
verse toward the primeval days whe
the morning stars first sang togethei
and the sons OF God shouted for joy
tracking the progress OF events. or try
4 ing 20. deciphering the wheelmarks mad
in old strata, or In cosmic star-mist, b
the giant car OF onward movement whe
creations springtime was yet on, an
the coming quietly back 20 US today. an
in an easy chair by the fire eomplaeentl
penciling diary notes Of the world