University of Tennessee Knoxville - Volunteer Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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mm the days of the ancient Greeks an their idolatrous awe. h e of light, mankind has experieneed a grainul hut profound ange in attitude toward this all-powerful f0 . Paralleling this i with it in a cause a effect relationship is the trend of man . ntellee- $ To the imaginative speculative Creek, the mysteries surrounding nature stru phenomena 0n the senses. t feelingr of alarm at the erashes of thunder, 0f gladness at light of day, of terror in the darkness of night, and of the stran ness of death persists today. To Pheidias, . and Aesehylus no works of seienee aHorded exp ' sueh majestic oeeurrenees. In such a primitive condition of life, perhaps nothing was regarded of grater importance or more mysterious in its nature than fire. Its heam dispelled the dread of darkness, and its warmth removed the chill of winter. The fire of the hearth was the eenter 0f domestie life. At the forge tools and weapons were fashioned. It was an emblem of the life of man, with its flash and sudden extinction on one hand and the illumination: of its prolonged hlaze 0n the other. In storms it was seen deseending from the sky, and in voleanie eruptions it was seen issuing from the earth. The souree w iWi in the elose keepingr of As man inereased his eontrol over ighW he began to regard it with less awe. Respeet for its utility gradually replaeed the dread of its power. Fear of this mysterious furee waned as a natural eiTeet of the growing 1kg familiarity with the muse 0f the evelnents MI Consequently, light today has heeome the symhol 0f aehieve- ment in all fields of l turning.