ectual and intelligent inquiry science is the discoverer of all
things. It unites present and past, reveals the history of bygone nations
and events, and confers upon man today the essence of all human knowledge
and attainment throughout the ages. By intellectual processes and logical
deductions of reason, this super-power in man can penetrate the mysteries
of the future and anticipate its happenings.

Science is the first emanation from God toward man. All created beings
embody the potentiality of material perfection, but the power of
intellectual investigation and scientific acquisition is a higher virtue
specialized to man alone. Other beings and organisms are deprived of this
potentiality and attainment. God has created or deposited this love of
reality in man. The development and progress of a nation is according to
the measure and degree of that nation's scientific attainments. Through
this means, its greatness is continually increased and day by day the
welfare and prosperity of its people are assured.

All blessings are divine in origin but none can be compared with this
power of intellectual investigation and research which is an eternal gift
producing fruits of unending delight. Man is ever partaking of these
fruits. All other blessings are temporary; this is an everlasting
possession. Even sovereignty has its limitations and overthrow; this is a
kingship and dominion which none may usurp or destroy. Briefly; it is an
eternal blessing and divine bestowal, the supreme gift of God to man.
Therefore you should put forward your most earnest efforts toward the
acquisition of sciences and arts. The greater your attainment, the higher
your standard in the divine purpose. The man of science is perceiving and
endowed with vision whereas he who is ignorant and neglectful of this
development is blind. The investigating mind is attentive, alive; the mind
callous and indifferent is deaf and dead. A scientific man is a true index
and representative of humanity, for through processes of inductive
reasoning and research he is informed of all that appertains to humanity,
its status, conditions and happenings. He studies the human body politic,
understands social problems and weaves the web and texture of
civilization. In fact, science may be likened to a mirror wherein the
infinite forms and images of existing things are revealed and reflected.
It is the very foundation of all individual and national development.
Without this