Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-23


iiate needs are placed at $1,000.
The council referred the matter TO
Mayor Carlson for investigation.
Members Of the board of directors Of
the hospital, in whose name Mr.. Rich
ards made the request. are Mrs. Flor
ence u. sleight, F. H. Guessing and
MIR. Richards.
what We touch taste. smell, see or
hear. is in fact force.
This then brings us TO the view
point of materialistic philosophy and
psychology, from which it further ap-
pears that the mental faculties which
we call sight. hearing, etc, are differ
ent forms of vibration, and conse-
auentIy what we see, hear, feel, taste.
or smell is 8 mental impression. In
every case it is not matter or an OBJ
tect which cognizes or is oognized
but mental phenomenon experienced
in consciousness. Thus we see that
we are conscious of existence mentally
and the things we are conscious OF are
mental impressions biectified-sense
phenomena. Il is evident, therefore,
even from the point of view Of modern
physicists. although perhaps not yet
admitted by them, that existence is
consciousness and that our present
universe is our individual impression
or concept of the universe, the way it
appears TO us through the five phys
ical senses Thus existence is wholly
mental All its activities. appearance
and phenomena are mental and must
| be dealt with mentally. Christ Jesus
proved the mental nature Of matter
and existence when he walked on the
water. stilled the tempest. healed the
| sick. raised the dead and oVercame
other material conditions.
Matter Not Substance.
| THE chief difficulty in realizing the
mental nature of matter is the belief
that matter is substance.
One of the fundamental properties
OF substance is substantially. which Is
defined as being that which is lasting,
that which has real existence, that
which is actual and not illusory This
means that substance is indestruetibie
and permanent. and matter cannot
therefore be real substance, since it is
both destructible and transitory; it is
relative, not absolute; a mental con-
cept, and not a substantive actually
outside Of consciousness.
Substance is that of which anything
is constituted. its body, its structure
| Hence whatever exists must have sub
stance and this must be indestructibie
/ To illustrate, mathematical idea, ii
true, has substance. This substance Is
not material, it is not the visible figures
nor the chalk or ink with which they
have been made, since these can be
destroyed. It's substance is its truth, 4
right idea can never be destroyed 1t is
lunchanging, permanent, IL has tbs
power to remain itself. The substance
of all real things is right thought
which We do not see physically but
mentally. Matter, therefore, is not sub
stance since il is not substantive. Il
is but an appearance OF substance tc
physical sense.
I'm the analysis OF being 1t is ex-
| tremely important TO perceive thai
there is substance apart from what is
commonly called matter This exists
solely in the realm of mind or meta
physics and is conceived of pureIy
metaphysically, for thus only can ths
substantially Of truth or spirit b,
seen, and that which St Paul refers tt
as The substance of things hoped for
be realized.
Another difficulty in getting ava,
from the material sense of things il
the dimensional concept Of existence
Physical sense can perceive only finiti
or physical things. For example, til.
dimensional concept which the senses
have of mathematical ideas is project
ed as finite, concrete figures or guam
titles. But it is not the mathematical
truth which they see, for this truth il
not In the figures. II is in mind an,
is cognized mentally through mathe
NAUTICAL understanding.
Physical things are but the sym
hols Of reality, The ideas which the,
may express are not limited to III
physical expression but exist every
where. Every truth is unlimited an,
thus infinite for it is everywhere an,
Indestructible. There is but one ide;
six and that six is everywhere, can b
known and used by everyone, it cal
never be altered, exhausted or destroy
el. and consequently it is infinite,
Life Apart From Matter.
All this leads to the perceptio,
that there is no life in matter sine
one OF the fundamental characteristic
OF life is continuity of existence which
as we have seen, cannot be prediete,
of matter.
We cannot effect Mathematics
truth by anything which may be don
| 10 Inc ngures, nor can we effect III
II