The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-05-31

men or angels are built upon this
corner stone. Remove it and all be-
comes chaos and man is reduced to
the level of the lower creation.
Truth is ideal; it is self-conscious
intelligence only, relative and in
proportion to the sum of each in
dividuars knowledge; that it con-
sists of sensual and mental elements
and the harmony of these elements
in the same consciousness, is the
criterion of truth. When a child
we viewed the sun as large globe
a few miles away; but when we
studied astronomy our mental con-
ceptions corrected the physical or
sensual and we came to know him
as he really is. Thus we arrived at
truth by the harmonization of the
mental and sensual elements of
knowledge.
Education, therefore, is the sum
total of our stock of knowledge and
development. AS the larger circle
entombs the smaller so each sue
cessive advance in real knowledge is
the stepstone to greater circles of
our possible future.
The brevity of human life and the
carelessness with which we treat
passing opportunities, alone bounds
our possibilities. Man is the acme
of Gods lower creation, and he
alone has inherent power to rise in
the infinite scale of knowledge. Man
was created in the image and like
ness of God. Image means resem-
blance, likeness represents. So man,
as recent from the Makers hand,
was environed and destined to look
like God and to represent Him in
His lower creation. Z All things are
Gods handiwork, but man alone is
like Him.
David said "The works of the Lord
are great, sought out of all them
that have pleasure therein"
The miner must dig for orc, the
scholar and disciple must search the
formulas in earth and sea and sky
If he would arrive at the fountain
of truth and liberty. Man has not
descended from ape, babboon, or
IF opvtbino IN aortb u,oe
creations final cause beside man
then he illustrates that cause and
inherent design. Man continually
counteracts the earth's primary de-
sign and governs forces, as the light
ening rod bids defiance to the cleo
trical shock, steam to the force of
gravitation, electricity to distance,
optical instruments to the weakness
of the eye.
The Mosaic account of creation,
assaulted by ignorance and
inf1del minds, like the granite sum-
mits of the Peyrenees, remains un-
harmed and unscathed. To-day it
rises in sublime grandeur out of the
chaos of superstition and criticism
and commands the faith of the tallest
intellect and the endearing homage
of our stricken race. To this ac-
count all humanity points and
around it every moral and intellect
ual planet, satellite or star, must
move. This alone in the literature
of man commands alteration and our
hearts happiost meditations.
Evolution from the days of the
Babylonian Empire in one form or
another has swayed the hearts and
thoughts of men. But it remained
for Darwin to create the last analysis
of that heather system of philoso-
ply. According to his philosophy
man is nothing but an improved
beast. His religion, ethics and
aesthetics, his domestic and social
virtues are all brutal. 1t represents
all nature as battle ground, a per-
petual warfare of each against all |
In the combat for existence, and the |
victor only as worthy of existence
and the vanquished as ripe for de-
struction. So might is right and
the cardinal sin is to be the weakest |
party. Therefore in all assassina-
lions or slaughter among men or ma
lions, the weak were doomed before |
birth and the victor is neither Gull
pable or responsible.
In the Victorian ago this school
denied the freedom of the will. They
Taught that everything was poten-
tial in the nebular mist and that its
development is under the control of |
4 law as memorable as that which |
directs the course and momentum of |
the rifle ball. Some comedy writers
rs Arnold, Tennyson, Carlyle, Rus
kin and Browning never entirely
from it's fatal influence.
The following verse will show shades
Of this philosophy.
Then star nor sun shall waken,
Nor change of light;
Nor sound of watnrs chokan