APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
The lightning was the angel of the laird; but it has pleased Providence, in these modern times, that science should make it the humble messenger of man, and we know that every Hash that shimmers about the horizon on a summer's evening is determined by ascertainable conditions, and that its direction and brightness might, if our knowledge of these were great enough, have’been calculated. * * * * Why should the souls [of philosophers] he deeply vexed 1 The majesty of Fact is on their side, and the elemental forces of Nature are working for them. Not a star conies to the meridian at its calculated time but testifies to the justice of their methods —their beliefs are “one with tile falling rain and with the growing corn.” ISy doubt they arc established, and open inquiry is their bosom friend.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1931, Page 1
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139APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1931, Page 1
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