New-York daily tribune., 1849-02-21
Iecture on Don Quixotre.

tie Lecture room II tbs Mercantile Library ou Monday
night Tie creates, Interest has justly been bestowed
upon these lectures during their delivery, and those
who have heard them wi i0ng remember with pleasure
toe aeisht they s4orded. Tee perfect knowledge Of
human nature the moral precepts the pure and unre
strained gush e true eogcsnce. were all great ard ts
anctivs features Of those dissertations and many re-
gret that they had 10; been more extensive 90 Just
Va. the appreciation Of their worth.
The subject Of the concluding lecture was Don Qpix
otte-ihs Enihusi-st The lecturer sad there were
nsny kinds Of euthusss;sihe religious the literary
ard others TIE ssceuc = an enthusiast Let any cne
reed the lives of the fsthsrs Of the desert and be VII
fully understand What pat here in lew words The
mystic lives oui Of the rsl ons Of the senses he does
not think Of the teptati1u Of tee The ascetc
from his solitude looks back 10 the crowds from which
be has departed and has often 20 choke down the strong
desire Be with them again The sscetc behods
around him spirits be converses with messengers from
different spheres. BE- wlthdrsws into the dmmest
caverns Of as soul he holds communion with the
Invisible world be Il often transported from toe earth
y disereut portions Cf the universe he pursues DIS
Of which he alone that 'oucje. the extreme stars
Of eur system has any conensu/b 'des ne surveys
prOTinces passes every 0cgnd/y that science dis
ceru coming back unVearea /eIrspture snd gives
the history oi hls most siDsu/ experience: he look.
upon the degraded forms II ev.ldoers be listens 10
their unholy language be no see. the biessed-their
greatness aud yleiy BE- hears their sachlngs death
ceased 10 reign and love r,genersted by the ri
uinphs OF r.hieousness, has taken ts place.
The Thinker too i an enthlsisst and MS entnusi.
Asm q much more energetic than the mystic AZ
taoueht Is more permanent than feeling. Thought
slsO n lts very nature, s creative and progressive
action Of the mind 8 necessity OF thought The
thusssm OF thought Is no3e-ii b, an enthusiasm At
which critics may laugh Toe enthuslasm Of thought
has crigLatei Education and sustained It's Institutions
i mas provided shelter tor letters end iE has not ouly
formed toe scholar but Il mas created The Republic Of
Scholarship.
Toe Poet il an enthusiast vet no mere dreamer. By
the Poet would indicate msn OF pDwer-a man Of
Science vel a. msl OF song. Bat Ia song a. well
10 science, the Poetis more thsn enthusiast lie
is man Of reality msn OF bis age The greatest
poets have been those who have bad the most euor-
nous grasp of mans actual existence. The Poet des
pises nothing that bis fellows are engaged In. He has
strong memory. sni love for bis KIND; human love
mas Grown Of ITSELF and hunan labor Is the grandeur
Of human LIE. 10 would. therefore. be sad ides OF
Poetry that would exclude the meanest toll from
its aspirations.
The lecturer spoke Of those who bad been discarded
for their opinions those said he who denounced
the children Of the age and when t rejects them IL
is the very that has given them being Dante was
the OF FOrence although Il expelled him Socrates
the true offspring OF tie Athens that poisoned him
The poet OF stron. and large iDte lect large
lima ginaton and therefore whatever shape his work
may assume 1t will spring deeply with the desires and
around him and though 20 al generations !. may be
come mperishable, 4 was the hie of his geuera-
ton u may be- statue on a temple by PnidAs or An
geo drerent in idea or purposo-e ench true - s
purpose Phi1ias lives well as Angelo In hi glorious
work when the world first renounced tie idea OF
Pnidas and eNecrates its purpose-becsuse Genius IL
diyne and eternal, though ldoatry may be transient;
though Hesthe perish Genius will still survive.
SIR Giles, in Glludng % Genius said that IL ndi
genous 10 certain places and ID removed would lose s
Identity shsksPeare could no, have changed situations
with Cslser0n Cervsn'es could no, have written Don
QuXOt'e In the Nineteenth Century. or In Eng snd-no-
where out Of Spain II IS not al ne impressed with the
chvary but Il i alive with the feelings of spsnsrd
MS bravery that appearance OF dignity which no scholar
can conceal and pride OF race which no ndisence can
humble Don QuiXOtfs no sooner appeared than al
Europe hailed il With applause.
The enthusasm OF the Poet iss fesh-sndblood en-
ihusiasm IL hss heart h beats responsive 10 others
Il has mead that thinks others think II derives rs
me ana motion from IN" same source Eninusash Is
not content with idle musiug Il Is enhusasm that
calls the whole nature no play IL has Visions more
marvellous tnhn mystcs ever sa~-gislOns tIht orsnt
and don't deceive II does not alWsys dwell upon tho
level earh but carries the souls ot others into the
skies aud when it moves on the dzzlest heights 1t
bears them safely on its Obedent wings.
Speaking Of the creative geniHs OF the Painter he
made use OF the following eloquent language Behold
that holy face VI sOrrOw, pale with coming death the
marble brow spotted with dark drops Of clotted blood
perfect transcript OF divine and human love victo
rous over injury and a.Ony. oh, how long must tnat
face have dwe upon the painters heart and no" dear
IL must have been 10 hlm who held IL as long In It's Nv
ing shrine. Again contemplate IL cast over with Sc
cret desire affection mets into grief snd the amos
phere about Il is mist Of tears aud while the observer
weeps before H. he thinks thar such dream could on
ly be dream of Heaven.
Join said Mr. Gile, speaking Of the attributes Of the
Apostle join the qualities Of the prophet with those
of the hero and you have apostle; give him soul
united 10 tenderness simplicity with impulsve 'ene'
nence, and you have Peter give him nrm snd ODE.
dent will aBd strong yet humble intellect brilliant
Imagination and subduins eloquence; faith that
doesn't wiiher and love that doesn't fall, and you
have Paul But II Is not to this order OF apostles
20 which would alude Conceive poet rich IN All
that the science OF his day give and let him IN un
derstsndng be rapid and comprenensive-to tnls JOIN
fancy which turns arguments into anaogies and anal
ozes into arguments Inspired with sn unshaken trust
has only In single beheld then send him on tne
unneasured ocean. aud you have Columbus facing
toward the shores OF America You have the Moses oi
the ses-sreai herald OF the nations, leading inem 70
the Land Of Promise Give me the man who has enc.
supreme thought and clung 10 IL who mas aimed
80 glorious end give me the man who nss taAen
recuses cell and continues in his solitude, and IN nm
discover ss,rong and noble faith fanaca as ne may
You csnnOt conceive said the lecturer OF De
ing devoid Of enthusiasm The great Germsn Poet
who has succeeded in giving the true picture OF as
bOlical existence, has done 50 BY excluding from y
all enthusiasm. Take from the heart its feelings OF
love ia aspirations and desires It's present belief and
future hope, and you render being perditon hil
enthusiasm 10 the soul and you Kill the soul itsef-
hill the affections In their purity, for you destroy
the neblest and sweetest sentiment In tneT sourcs-
Bsht the budding romance OF the girl crush not
down the rapture Of the boy II in th. age Of progress
reform have girls and boys let the purple light
rest upon their morning lei the dew rest upon the
aowers-they will have 10 leave this happiness and 90
forth - care and labor and hard realty experience
will come with s sdamantne pact b break the charm
Of poetry and substitute the prose Of duty.
owing to the want Of accommodations for reporters
give shove but very imperfect sketch Of the lee
ture a. under the creumsAnces was impossible in
our notes 70 do justice 20 the speaker.
Emancipation In Kentucky.
The LOmsrMe COurer holds the following Ian
gusge TO those who imagine that the cause OF Emsne
patton has met with = hnal defeat in Kentucky
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