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this university three or four hundred years hence looking back on the 

 history of man. With larger perspective they will see two grand 

 thought movements; the first, oriental, marked by oriental lack of 

 curiosity about natural law, a great moral and spiritual movement de- 

 veloping along the Nile, the Tigris and Euphrates, out of five thousand 

 years of hard human experience, culminating in Judea in the faith 

 that nature is the continuous handiwork of God, in a supreme stand- 

 ard of righteousness, and in the simple expression of the human law 

 " thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." 



Another movement begins six centuries earlier in the inquiring 

 mind of the west, always characterized by curiosity about nature. It 

 was the search for natural law. Its rapid progress among the Greeks 

 sadly terminates with the fall of Greece. After nineteen centuries it 

 revives with Copernicus and Galileo and culminates in Darwin. Man 

 is a part of nature; in the study of nature man finds intellectual 

 delight; in the laws of nature man finds his physical welfare. 



The conflict of opinion aroused by Darwin will subside like the 

 evil passions of our Civil War. Surely the reverent study of nature 

 can not lead man astray. These two great movements of love and of 

 knowledge, first of the spiritual then of the intellectual and physical 

 well-being of man, will be seen to be a harmony and not a discord. 



