APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1932, Page 1

APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS

Science lias fulfilled Jier faction when she lias ascertained and enunciated truth. * * * * Thoughtful men, once escaped from the blinding inllueuces of traditional prejudice, will find in the lowly stock whence .Man lias sprung the best evidence of the splendour of his capacities; ami will discern in his long progress through the Fast a reasonable ground of faith in his attainment of a nobler' Future. . . And after passion and prejudice, have died away, the seine result will attend the teachings of the naturalist respecting that great Alps and Andes of the living world—Man. Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not lie lessened by the knowledge that 1 Man is. in substance and in structure, 1 one with the brutes; for he alone possesses the marvellous endowment ol intelligible and rational speech, whereby, in the secular period of his existence, he has slowly accumulated and organised the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of every individual life fn other animals; so that, now, he stands raised upon it as on a mountain top, far above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from Jiis grosser nature by reflecting, here and 'there, a ray from the infinite source of truth.