How Little We Know

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 19, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 12.

How Little We Know

How little we know, by our own research, of the common things of life! How theories supposed to be founded on observation and confirmed by experimentation go glimmering before some stubborn fact which faces them! The old nebular theory of the origin of worlds is utterly set aside by Prof. T. J. See, of the Mare Island Observatory; and many believe that Mr. See is right. The spectroscope has revealed what seem to be wonderful things concerning the substances of suns and nebulæ; but how do we know that there are not elements and combinations of elements in the distant suns or nebulæ which are altogether different from what men conclude them to be, tho they seem the same through our imperfect media? Again, what effect has sin had upon this earth? Has it perverted the laws of other worlds? How little we know after all. How needful the revelation of God in His Word!