IN THE NOON OF SCIENCE 



stuflFed specimen in the museum would do as well. 

 Biology in the college class means dissecting cats 

 and rats and turtles and frogs; psychology means 

 analogous experimental work in the laboratory. 

 Well, we know a lot that our fathers did not know; 

 our schools and colleges are turning out young men 

 and women with more and more facts, but, so it 

 often seems to me, with less and less manners, less 

 and less reverence, less and less humility, less and 

 less steadfastness of character. 



In this age of science we have heaped up great in- 

 tellectual riches of the pure scientific kind. Our 

 mental coffers are fairly bursting with our stores of 

 knowledge of material things. But what will it 

 profit us if we gain the whole world and lose our own 

 souls? Must our finer spiritual faculties, whence 

 come our love, our reverence, our humility, and our 

 appreciation of the beauty of the world, atrophy ? 

 "Where there is no vision, the people perish." Per- 

 ish for want of a clear perception of the higher val- 

 ues of life. Where there is no vision, no intuitive 

 perception of the great fundamental truths of the 

 inner spiritual world, science will not save us. In 

 such a case our civilization is like an engine running 

 without a headlight. Spiritual truths are spiritually 

 discerned, material and logical truths — all the 

 truths of the objective world — are intellectually 

 discerned. The latter give us the keys of power and 

 the conquest of the earth, but the former alone can 

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