The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-08-14

He was held in bondage by natur,
because he was not only ignorant Blu
because he feared to investigate. II.
looked at all the wondrous thing.
about him with supertitious awe ans
was consequently awed. He rever
enced idols and gave them all powcl
over his actions. He was servant
not master.
The savage of the remote part g.
the world today is scarcely better off
Changes of miraculous nature have
occurred on all sides of him yet hi
has refused to give up his superstj
tious ignorance and instead of using
the beneficient qualities of nature to1
his own purposes has allowed his
fears to master his every action an6
thought
Watt did not make the power that
runs the steam engine. He simply
made the vehicle in which the mighty
force OF steam could be made to work
Tor man. Potential steam always was
but 1T remained for Watt and some
OF his smarter contemporaries to see
the possibilities in such power.
Benjamin Franklin did not discover
electricity in the clouds but he opened
peoples eyes to the fact that electric
ity in the air had potentialities that
were of inestimable value to man.
He did not fear the awful thunder
bolts OF the clouds but experimental
with them and discovered that they
were really electricity.
| Today we cannot concieve Of a
world devoid of the knowledge of cleo
tr1city but it has not been many cen
turtles since any thought of using that
mighty force was deemed the most
oil lf
or such thoughts a common ass
Marconi did not invent fireless
telegraphy; nor his successors the
wireless telephone. They merely
sought out the truth, knowledge of
the phenomena of nature and applied
that particular phenonmen to the adj
vancement of man.
The earth has existed some humid
reds of thousands of years. During
all that time the forces of nature have
SNAPPED the destiny of man to a more
or less extent. Only with the brief
space of few hundred years has man
been enlightened enough to begin to
shape his own existence by using
these forces
AS long as he succumbed to the
forces of nature through ignorance
he was alive to al 1.-The elements. In
every storm, in every thunder clap,
In every volcano, in every earthquake,
IN everything he saw the hand of
some malgnat devil trying to bring
about his determination.
He feared all that walked, crept or !
flew, and all that was, ascribing it
all to the influence of distempered |
spirits working in hormony for his |
utter extinction. He was abject in
the uttermost before nature
Yet how different it all is today. I
Nature has remained unchanged Yet
nan no longer bows down before her
mysteries as he once did. He is no
longer the craven victim of such SUI
)erstitiOn thinking that all that sur
rounds him was meant for his des
ructiOn.
Today man has conquered a larger
percentage of his ignorance Conse-
luently he has conquered many of the
mysteries OF the once maSterful ma
ure and has harnessed her forces for
us convenience and comforts. He no
onger fears the spirits in the light
ing, the volcano, or the earthquake;
Tor does he believe that all that ex-
SITS in nature has as it's prime object :
he humiliation of man.
He has rather come to see that the
orces of nature are for his use. With
us knowledge of electricity, steam,
ther waves, and the thousand other
'henomena he cast aside much of his
it1ful ignorance and used the things
o bounteously supplied by nature as
stepping stone to his happiness and
'rogress.
Every invention and every discov-
ry is both the result of Ignorance
asst aside a 10,
asts more ignorance by the wayside.
Columbus discovered America for the
cry reason that he overcame the
etharglc ignorance of his day; but
ut is discovery released man from
1any OF the links that make up the
mains OF ignorance. So with all dis
overies and inventions-they are
9th cause and result of enlightm ent
But since progress and advance
lent are the result of ignorance dis
lpated we are but a step upon the
bad to progress. We have alleviated
lie bonds of ignorance in a large de-
rec, but we have merely scratched
lie surface. ~
A hundred years ago it was thought
lllacfous reasoning that would lead
nyOne to ventue that man would i
'me day fly through the atmosphere.
he photograph would likewise have
zen ridiculed as the height of i'm
disabilities. And the wireless tele-
none and telegraph which are such
tai factors of modern life, weren't
zen thought Of
Every day new discoveries and new :
ventions are being made in fields
r remote from the average but :
ings nevertheless, of farreaching
lpotance to each and every one of |
). The X-ray, radium and countless j
her things are being made to
.hieve new purposes for man. L
We have advanced more in the past
fty years or a hundred years THAI in Il
the centuries that have gone be- K
re. Yet we are just beginning. We /
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