The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-01-28

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house was built on Broad street, and his farm ex-
tended from Wall street to Hudson street; along
Broadway large field OF wheat grew at that time.
the spot where St. Paul's Church now stands; and
the tobacco grown by the Governor on his farm was
some Of the best grown in the country. He then al
luded to the habits and morals of the inhabitants of
New Amsterdam. They forbid tavern keepers to
keep open later than nine o'clock at night because
keeping tavens open late ut night corrupted the
morals Of the inhabitants. They gave no notes In
business transactions, their words were sufficient.
and they needed no bonds to make them keep u.
The religion of the Dutch in those days was the he
formed Dutch. He then went on to say that the
ancestors of the Dutch among the most distin-
guished men of our country De Witt Clinton was
sage magistrate. II the descendants oil the Dutch
changed their names, even by letter, 1t would be
the greatest blot that could be placed on the
escutcheon of their families. The Dutch were always
famous for their love OF liberty; some WRITER'S had
often cast a slur on them but there were none who
could boast of better ancestors than those whose
forefathers were Hollanders He then went on Gu
logizing the Dutch. On the very ground where the
custom house now stands stood the Staat House of
the Dutch government. When the English occupied
this island they built Congress Hall on the same spot
1t was in that building that Washington was inau.
gurated He then produced piece Of the arch of
the door through which he entered on that memoir
able day. He concluded by saying that the Dutch
were noble race, and that he was stranger who
came from Holland to this city, for this was the land
of their forefathers.
The conclusion Of this lecture will be delivered at
the same place on next Wednesday.
Rev. Theodore Parker on tho Progress OF
Mankind.
The seventh lecture of the Peoples Course was de-
livered on Tuesday evening, at the Tabernacle, be-
fore the largest congregation that have seen as
sembled at any previous lecture of the season. The
lecturer was the Rev. Theodore Parker, Of Boston,
and his subject " The Progress Of Mankind
The proceedings were opened by Voluntary ON
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He said:-Man began his career on the earth with
nothing but his hands and his head-a naked body
and an ignorant mind He could have had none of
the physical properties we see around us-he could
have had roads of iron, Of stone, of wood Of
water, or of snow-he could have had no arts no
science, no literature no religion, and no language.
All these require for their possession thought, toll
and age. At the present time he has great deal
more than his naked body and ignorant mind. Look
at this noble commercial city, with its sails whiten
ing all the oceans Of the earth. Consider the roads
he has nOw-c0nsider the science, the literature the
laws, and the religion of the present day, and You
will say that man has made some progress. The
naked Adam has nice family now, and nice little
property; and this he thought was reply to those
who say that mans progress is all downward and
all backward Look at the tools and mechanisms
he has provided himself with. At first, man had
only his ten fingers for his tools but now he has got
Lowell and London, and Manchester and Paris, and
Lepsic. Then look at his tools for fighting. Cain
the first had only his fingers, but the Gains Of the
present day have abres and daggers and lances and
Paixhans and Colts revolvers. 1t is one Of the po-
pular theories that man was on the earth only six
thousand years; but he thought this was too short
for the theory OF progress, since there stood on
the earth stone monuments OF five thousand
years duration, and man must have been many thou
sand years earth before he took to building of the
pyramids. renowned philologist in London was
asked how many years would it require for man start
ing with the present languages, to write the san
scrit, and his answer was that it would require at
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progress was Invisible into six or sixty thousand
years, still there was progress proportional to it.
The bear has got no better coat now than the first
bear had, and the last bear shall be no wiser no
wttier, no richer, than the first bear. But there
divine spirit in man. and all nature was his servtor
If mans house built Of clay does not suit him, he
builds house of wood, and if the house OF wood
does not please him, he builds one of stone or of
polished marble. The progress Of man was cOntnu-
Gus, but without order as sometimes it advanced
quick and sometimes slow. In our fathers time q
boy commenced his life in making moulds for chand-
ling, and ended with making treaties with kings;
and Franklin extended his long arm to heaven, and
represented the greatest progress of mankind. In
our own day another genius took the fire and water
and brought them together to travel the EARTH
Franklin taught the lightning to be civil, and to
stop knocking itself against clergymans houses, and
farmers barns, and gentlemens furniture, and hav-
ing thus reformed the rowdy lightning. the men Of
our day have taught it to read and write, and now
the tables have been regularly turned against the
lightning He thought that these proofs of the
advance Of the age. He who taught the way to
smoke fish, was a great benefactor of his race; and
the woman who brought a grain Of wheat into
Italy and planted it. the great beneactor of her
age, and was worthily worshipped and honored by
al grain crops being called Cereal after good Mrs.
Ceres. 1t is the first step that COSTS and any
fool in Spain knows how at this time to make
an egg stand on end. The Itaans-the modern
Greek, the modern Italan-are now in state Of de.
cadence, and have gone under to the new families
of the earth What takes place in small communi-
ties has also taken place on large scale. 60 back
three hundred years and the great article OF export
was oxen, and go back nine hundred years and the
export was not the product Of the loom the mine
but slaves. They sold them into Ireland and into
Gaul for slaves. And when good Bishop Woolston
went to Bristol to preach against this domestic
slavery they demonstrated with him, and said it was
all the trade they had and that they raised their
children for this purpose. There was some differ
ence between that time and the period Of the meet
ing at Staordshire House. There were three neces-
sares of progress. First, the Development Of the
power Of man, body and spirit second, the acqu-
stion Of power over the material world third the
power OF grouping man together into larger or lesser
companies 1t was the union Of these three necessa
ries which made what he would call human progress
The three most important materials which have deve-
loped mankind are language-then the mode of writ
ing and perpeuatng speech which made the transient
permanent-thep printing, by which the symbol Of let
tiers is perpetuated Under the stimulus OF hunger man
took his first step at thinking. Man is at his wits
end TO escape the lion or the bear-n fact, to make
his head save his heels But the wild beasts were
the scnoolHasters OF the time ana II tne boys mad
not their wits about them they fell under the rule Of
this remorseless master, who non-resistant.
Cannibalsm not thing unknown in New York
here two hundred and fifty years after. Cannbalism
is at the back of all civil society The little has
still TO escape the giant and this gives rise to the
great sciences OF war and defence And this nine
teenth century the first in which it be said that
the art of the producer much respected the
destroyer And still the former-the poet, the phi
losopher, and the producers not so honored as
great destroyer. France reveres the memory of her
great Conqueror; and the man whom England has
most reverenced for the last century is the con-
queror Wellington. The savage is always and every
where lazy animal; but yet he must get work done,
and for this purpose he snbdues woman, and makes
her work for him. The first thing that man con-
quered and annexed to himself was woman. The
superiority of man lies in three things-First, in
having the largest BRAIN second, q stronger arm;