A Dip in the Great Salt Lake

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oped by Newton from the dim gropings of Kepler, the element- ary truths of Galileo, and the fascinating but wild speculations of Descartes. Newton's own attitude was expressed when as an old man full of honor and renown, venerated, and almost wor- shiped by his associates, he voiced the following words: "I know not what the world will think of my labors, but to myself it seems that I have been but as a child playing on the seashore; now finding some pebble rather more polished and now some shell rather more agreeably variegated than another, while the immense ocean of truth extended itself unexplored before me." He had sufficient vision to see that the great things of God — the numberless harmonious laws of the universe will ever re- main to man a subject of study and a source of wonderment. His modest expression is almost an echo of the words of Job: "Lo, these are parts of his ways, but how little a portion is heard of him; the thunder of his power, who can understand?" Logan, Utah

A DIP IN THE GREAT SALT LAKE Mr. Olef Miller, Scout Master, and Tooele M. I. A. Scouts, sporting in the waters of the briny sea. No more pleasant nor invigorating exercise can be listed on the curriculum of innocent recreation.