The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-02
Lecture OF MIR. Wendell Philips on the Los,
Arts,


Last evening Mr. Wendell Philips of Boston deli
Eered lecture ut the Tabernacle the lost arts He
said perhaps the most prominent feature the people
of the United states is self conceit You all know
how we voted the model republic and lest we
should forget it, several days set apart remind
oft Like little Jack Horner, sit in the and
think ourselves very big boy (Laughter) This self
coDoeit Is Lot peculiar TO it belongs to other nations
also The hour allotted to to night may not be mis-
spent shall succeed in broadening views 1t may
be found that not the tall giants fancy
selves but dwarfs sitting the top giants In the
fine srtsin all that relates TO the imsgnation-we
far behind the people Of antiquity In poetry for in
stance, the highest praise besow upon poetica
composition to call it Homeric and to say that pic
lure il after the model Of Raphael is the highest eulo
GUM This is true Of every thought, almost every
newspaper jest. Even Irish jokes from the
sLcents TINS dominion Of the Imagination is broader
SAIL. The inundation OF fashion that comes to us
tWice year and sets crazy 1t is that these
fashions come from the wit Of the French 1t found
by commission ordered by the English parliament
that to the superior education of the French de-
sgners who copied the Mosaic the Arabnsq ne and the
Medieval Of past ages the superiority Of French de-
achieved by ancient mechanics but these have been
Iarded as fabulous, in much that Herodolus the
father OF history was regarded the father Of lies but
recent discoveries proved tn 1t Herodou was right
and he again regarded the father Of hsory-so that
The HeIodotus il up TO par IL Therefore in
my citations night i shall tell you some wonderful
things must consider that the facts are taken from
abe most undoubed sources-from men nine out Of ten
of whose admitted to be tru, and there
the tenth IL to be regarded equally true
though we cannot do the same thing The first
tce be would refer TO was glass qusrto volume had
been written, to prove that the ancients knsw
nothing Of glass, when some peasauts stumbled into
large quantity Of glass at Pompeii all kinds of it,
ground cut pressed and colored The lie and its reua
tion came thus together IL was like DR. Lerdner in
not crsss the Atl.ntc while ia that same month the
srus made her voyage to This country Net oalv did
the sncients kno~ how 70 make glass bat they knew
Of Ii than do. They could fue the dior
ing matter into the body Of the gass which we caunot
do In the ancient cathedrals Of Europe we had the
evidence Of this In the beautiful stained glass to which
Milton ref red in his poetry The celebrated Portland
yOse is found to be relic OF Egyptian glass Other
b,sufiful upon which little ock was Mpre
scented sith all the coors Of that bird we're fonnd ~ no
II the same msteial Aristotle spoke Of masable glass
which Is slso mentioned as being known to the
Arsbians In The seventh century. But this is
Unknown 70 us IL was said that Alexander had
abe Ilisd in nut shell. This impossible unless
tnert were spectscss 10 read IT, IL history
that certain individual across a promontory which
" one hundred miles across. There must have been
s fsNo this The coliseum at Rome contained
eVNVv peftons and the emperors box was at one end
put ~ s ted hat by OF Q gem he could see
W. = tooss no were quite close and with the naked
cpers glass Puy also spoke OF the gem angrsy.rs "a
rso that the spstrd found coneaye glasses In south
AMtnca Ibe pfog,ess Of astronomy among the an
clients proved that there must have bssn tsiscoss
thoec days Coors were also known 10 the m r;ant
better than they are kbowD tous lie had saen sa.
o. Cleopatra tainted Il ON lie that was a. fresh and a.
bpe NJ ruhJ as when that famous beauty won The a.,
cafsr The pictures Of Raphael and Michael AM
wre instances Of this. The colors of Egyptian bnnsa
that were buried seventeen hundred years wars
fund ss ffesb a. when they were first painted
The Egyptian Tors except green chan eess Tbs
1yran purple Yves renowned all over the world lie
Dext sdverttd to metals spd wonderful control the
sscisbts had over them The Damascus and Ferrara
blsdes ueed by the Cufaders dear a. CRYSTALS
nnd worth their weight IN gold they would rust and
tie point eouid he bent 70 the hit At this day the
80. people q the country Of the Purituh uasefa "a
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