basis of investigation, development is impossible. Therefore
seek with diligent endeavor the knowledge and attainment of all that lies
within the power of this wonderful bestowal.

We have already stated that science or the attribute of scientific
penetration is supernatural and that all other blessings of God are within
the boundary of nature. What is the proof of this? All created things
except man are captives of nature. The stars and suns swinging through
infinite space, all earthly forms of life and existence whether mineral,
vegetable or animal come under the dominion and control of natural law.
Man through scientific knowledge and power rules nature and utilizes her
laws to do his bidding. According to natural limitations he is a creature
of earth restricted to life upon its surface, but through scientific
utilization of material laws he soars in the sky, sails upon the ocean and
dives beneath it. The products of his invention and discovery so familiar
to us in daily life were once mysteries of nature. For instance, man has
brought electricity out of the plane of the invisible into the plane of
the visible, harnessed and imprisoned that mysterious natural agent and
made it the servant of his needs and wishes. Similar instances are many
but we will not prolong. Man as it were takes the sword out of nature's
hand and with it for his sceptre of authority dominates nature itself.
Nature is without the crown of human faculties and attributes. Man
possesses conscious intelligence and reflection; nature is minus. This is
an established fundamental among philosophers. Man is endowed with
volition and memory; nature has neither. Man can seek out the mysteries
latent in nature whereas nature is not conscious of her own hidden
phenomena. Man is progressive; nature is stationary, without the power of
progression or retrogression. Man is endowed with ideal virtues, for
example intellection, volition,--among them faith, confession and
acknowledgment of God, while nature is devoid of all these. The ideal
faculties of man, including the capacity of scientific acquisition are
beyond nature's ken. These are powers whereby man is differentiated and
distinguished from all other forms of life. This is the bestowal of divine
idealism, the crown adorning human heads. Notwithstanding the gift of this
supernatural power, it is most amazing that materialists still consider
themselves within the bounds and captivity of nature. The truth is t