Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1829-01-27
From the National ADVOCATE.

Mr.. Editor-I made one of the numerous assem-
blage of males and females who crowded the Mason
&c Hall on Saturday evening last, to hear Frances
Wright Esqr's lecture on Carnal Knowledge The
androgena lecture commenced with definition oil
the word morals and defined 1t rule of life'' and
then proceeded in the most logical manner magma
be that is by simple assertion, to establish the po
sition that every individual has an infallible stan
dard Of truth within himself, namely, his appetites
and passions of the moral fitness of things mans
conscience was the only judge, and to be conscen-
tious even if in error was beyond all controversy TO
be right. The doctrine of peace on earth and good
will to men, >s' stolen from those holy scriptures
which she despised and abused, she pretended was
that of all men when in state of nature and uncor
rupted by religious instruction, and there was no
need Of any other light to guide through the
Of life than the illumination of nature within us.
She spoke of dying SquaaU to prove how calm the
free from the cowardly apprehensions which agonise
the bosom of the dying believer in the blessed Saw
our She spoke of Socrates. (but not word of his
wife,) and thought he nearer her idea of per-
feet man than any Of her familiar friends the an
clients. except Epicurus who was the nonpariel of
good fellows. OF Plato she neither limited spoke,
because he wrote against the Atheists presume but
Of many other learned Greeks she spoke with appro-
baton and wished the miserable priestrldden dupes
die game The five senses were the only portals
through which true knowledge could find access t.
the human Uranium. History was probability, Pos
sibty or fable, according as our infalllble reason
pronounced judgment upon it, and k,aoac-ledge wa:
4 wisdom, and wisdom was knoU-ledge ; repetition
liberation, 6. confusion worse COMPOUNDED" -l wa
anxious to get glimpse of this 9 learned Theban,
aud ask her - what was the cause of Thunder whe
t lo! : at once there rose so wild yell, within tina
y dark and narrow dell" where the Delphc Prestes
> doIed forth her inspirations, that | raised mysel
simultaneously with the hair on my head to enqur
! what was the cause of these unearthly sounds whe
# horrd to relate, thought had glimpse of 'la
J. place where the smoke of their torment ascendeth
forever and ever. A strong smell of something a
), offensive as birthstone filled the room, the light
If burnt as blue as Fa,my's stockings. How though
. of Corah. Dathan and Abiram, and all the mlscrean
}. whom divine vengeance ever overlook. How II
GREETED having rejected the earnest entreates OF m
poor wife, now almost widow. not TO tempt Pr
mi violence by ventnring amongst such awful lnilde
st Fire Fire! Fire! resounded throughout the Who'll
" building, all was uproar, fierce, and wild dismay;
of on they drive, pursuing aud pursued 3 wedged
I'd a dense column of fear struck philosophers. wi
borne now and then with touch Of foot upon the flo
of towards the narrow portal of this i'll constructed roor
H. which provldenally cleared without touching an
in thence whired along in the rapids, descended Il
fatal stairs where an unhappy fellow citizen, sho
o. time since lost his life, and was finally popped in
he the street in like you would shoot che
H. ry pit from your fingers, without having sustan'
.at any other Inconvenience than a hard squeeziI
pe and sound fright MIR. Editor if you can aga
- find me in company with Fan Wright you W
ID. catch A WEASEL.