2A Baccalaureate Launches Graduate Rites at BYU Continued from Page One “Progress,” the speaker said, “comes not by some magic word and not by government edict, but from the thoughts, the toil, the tears, the triumphs of individuals who accept the challenge of raw materials and by the grace of God-given talents produce results which satisfy the needs of men.” The atomic age, true to the nature of the atom when it is disturbed, burst upon the world with a suddenness and fury which for a time seemed to threaten to destroy the world and all the people in it, he said. “But is it not likely that man, the discoverer, and to a degree the controller of these mighty forces, is himself possessed of power and resources as yet undiscovered or only partly developed? Is the atom with its hidden power more intriguing or miraculous than the intelligence which discovers and utilizes, directs and controls this power?” he asked. “The thoughtful study of man and his God-like status inspires awe, reverence and humility.” Quoting from a recent talk by J. Reuben Clark Jr., the speaker said, “It is not possible for me even to suggest the infinity of physical detail known only through the microscope that makes up the universe of physical man. They form worlds of marvels upon marvels, of greatest beauty and artistry. The mind stands aghast at the microscopic immensity of their creations. “THE WONDERS of our majestic material universe, stretching out through space across billions of light years, with its billions of galaxies, seem to my own mind with its great limitations, no more wonderful, as thus far discovered and known, not so complex or so intimately related as the cellular (all but infinitely small) universes that build this body of ours - each organ and gland and circulatory system and bone and muscle and sinew and tendon a galaxy - all bound relation that baffles the Quick, Minnie - the TUMS! Mate relation that baffles the human mind to comprehend. To my own mind the majesty of the physical world is far over-matched by the yet unsolved miracles involved in the body and its operations,” he said. “Along the same line I read a paragraph from A. Cressey Morrison, past president of the New York Academy of Scientists who said: ‘No atom or molecule ever had a thought. No combination of the elements ever gave birth to an idea. No natural law ever built a cathedral, but, obedient to certain impulses of life, certain living structures have been made which contain something to which the particles of matter are in turn obedient, and we see as a result all the wonders of civilization. “‘What is this living structure? Atoms and molecules? Yes, and what else: an intangible something so superior to matter that it dominates all things and so different from the material of which the world is made that it cannot be seen, weighed or measured. The soul of man is master of its destiny but is conscious of its relation to the supreme source of its existence.’” The speaker then declared the Apostle Paul may not have known anything of atomic energy or hydrogen fusion, but he knew more than most men about the power of God and how to release and utilize it. “He knew it to be available for man’s salvation through the gospel of Jesus Christ, which he declared to be the power of God unto salvation to all who believe and obey.” “The gospel teaches us,” he asserted, “that the key to the release of this power is knowledge, for we cannot be saved in ignorance; and as the glory of God is intelligence, our glory will be measured by our intelligence. The rules governing the use of this power are honesty, honor, integrity, chastity - rules which must be followed throughout eternity,” he said. In a salutatory address Mrs. Darcus Davis Hyde, Provo, mother of six who completed the four-year course at BYU in three years, listed some of her personal convictions, “My added years and somewhat peculiar circumstances have forced upon me.