New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-30
The Martyrs Of Yesterday-The Heroes of
To-Day.
BY REV. wN W PATTON, or HARTFORD.

REV WIN. W PATTON, or HARTFORD.
The third lecture of the Peoples Course was
delivered at the Tabernacle Tuesday night before
numerous audience by Rev. WIN. w. PATTON, Of Hart
ford The lecturers theme was The Martyrs of yes
terday-ihe Heroes of today" The lecturer observed
that the world in fact always in love with heroes
spurious in the present but genuine to the past
When once individual seated In the pantheon
Of fame undisputed merit attributed TO him.
and the poets historians, painters and scuptors in all
times We'd with each other in rendering him homage
When viewed in this light, it was no wonder that we
longed occupy the position ofthe hero Butperchance
the ardor of enthusiasm would be lcssened when
we became more familiar with the manufacture of a
hero for indeed Il was strange to see 70 what
tent the hero of age identified with the martyr
of former one. The men who were now our heroes
were condemned, revied and prosecuted by their
contemporaries, and IT, during life, praise
did reward their refoTmatory or progressive la.
bors, il was but when the could hardly hear
the words OF commendstion-when the eve was
almost shut ont from the view Of external life Take
for instance the cGse OF Roger Bacon, the monk phios
opher OF the thirteenth century-a man Of recognized
gcr;us nowthe prosecuted and reviled supposed deal
er in dfabirie then He was man ofhigh at.ainmcnts
in natural phlosophy, understood at that day
acquainted with the power Of the lens also with the
camera obsonra, and moreover classical scholar
OF Lo small atainments his talents should have more
universal praise while his character was at the same
time above oil reproach. Being supposed to have deal
ngs with the devil he was forbidden to teach at Ok
ford, and lsnsushed in prson for many year, alone
and utterly neglected. Such was the reward of
, the master spirit Of that age Nowadays, the
traveller might see at Cracow the celebrated statue Of
Copenieus, by Thorswalden-the testimony of mod.
ern generation TO the genius of former No sooner
had Copernicus promulgated his theory as to the solar
system, that the the center with the earth and
pisnets moving around it, in contradisnc.ion 10 the
old idea Of the earth being the center, than
be was asssicd on all sides an inidel, and
as having sold himself to the evil one In fact, three
attacks were made on the printing house in which his
work Oh the Solar system was in course of publication
icrihe purpose oidestroyng his production and it was
but upon the very day OF his DEATH at an advanced age
thst the fret complete printed copy Of his work was
placed In his hands. His book was condemned by
tic Court sfIome and the nterdict upon was not re.
moved until ls2S; but it a book that would be
read and appreciated when the Popes of Rome were
forgotten (spplsuse) Another Illustration Of the per.
seeuion and suffering TO which men who advanced
rev idess az to science were subjected afforded in
the life ofGsleo. who followed Copernicus in the same
field Of thought Though all the engines OF inquisto-
rial oppression were brought to bear upon the devoted
astronomer, and his physical infrmities so played
upon as to drag from him reluctant formal renuu-
citation OF his se-cailed heretcs opinions relative
TO the motion OF the earth. he srill niut.ered
in tie proud consciousness Of truth, I'll SC nunye"
DR.. William Harvey, the FIRST to observe the creull
ton OF the blood. instead Of being held 10 be beae
ite'orto h;s race was riceuled in his day and many
supposed him irane' the physicians (of whom it was
ssd none over forty years of age acquiecod in his doc
iriDe) were among his principal and mos: bitter oppo
nen's The email Pox rSvised the world until rene.
dial agent wss discovered in Turkey inaoculs.ioa
which was hrcaaecd into England by the celebrated
Lady Mary Wortiey Montsgu. The new PRACTICE in
,keirer'mer, Of Tie disease encountered nuchd
much 30 that became the subject Of sninairerson
from Tie prpit. And when Jeuner introduced va,ei.
naion substitute for nnoculaon it wss boxed NJ.
Cd as impous trsnsni! The disease Of 81 animal 10