Johns Hopkins University - Hullabaloo Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Jffoarb of Cruztees. C. MORTON STEWART, l'rusz'fz':1zt. FRANCIS WHITE, LEWIS N. HOPKINS, W- L,f1 5 1ff-L 'f-. . sn- f-f-.y mv. W. GRAHAM BOWDOIN, JAMES L. MCLANE, NVILLIAM T. DIXON, HALL PLEASANTS, JOSEPH P. ELLIOTT, ALAN P. SMITH. ROBERT GARRETT, JAMES CAREY THOMAS, BENJAMIN F. NEWCOMER, DANIEL C. GILMAN, ex-ofczb

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sale, but a rich structure for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate, and a thoughtful community will cherish the student who can take us by the hand and lead us into that delightful fairy land where the eye is never satisfied with seeing nor the ear with hearing, and it will have no feeling but reverence for him who can teach us a little of these grand and awful laws through which the cosmos is moving onwards and working out its mysterious destiny. He who can f'NVander away, and away With nature that dear old nurse Who sings to him night and day The rhymes of the universe, must often pass far beyond our sight, nor, so long as he does not forget his duty to us, should we dare to arrest him by rude and clumsy suggestions which can cause nothing but a tumble, although history shows that these lofty flights are not incompatible with service to man. The Florentine peasant, who in far off Italy before the day of Columbus saw with a prophets eye so much of the path along which Galileo and Newton and Lyell and Darwin were to lead the modern world, must have passed most of his spiritual life alone. When he Dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world and all the wonder that would be, there was no one to whom he could tell his story of the astronomy and the physics and the geology which were to be in these later days g yet he gave us the wheel-barrow and the Last Supper, the camera of the amateur photographer and the Mona Lisa. We must encourage pure science and the search for truths too profound to be f'practical in any material sense, or even generally intelligible, but no weak and foolish brother of the laboratory should be permitted to infer that he belongs to a favored class, or has any claim to support except for service rendered. He who, for his own pleasure or distinction, spends his life in fields which yield nothing except the interest of the exploration, must look to his pleasure for his reward, since science is no more exalted by turning it into an aristocratic and exclusive pleasure ground, than by making it a shop for profit. As both heaven and earth contribute to the use and benefit of man, so the end ought to be . to separate and reject vain speculation and whatever is empty and void, and to augment whatever is solid and fruitful that knowledge may be not as a Courtesan for pleasure and vanity only, or as a bondwoman to acquire and gain for her master's use, but as a spouse for generation, fruit and comfort. I7

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