New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-29
SKETCHES OF LECTURES.
Political Causes and Raeets of tue Eefsrns-
tion.
~ THOMAS p'Asov xeexE.

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\ ~ THOMAS p'Ascv scexE.
This gentleman delivered lecture on We'd.
B~dsy nishi at the Tabernacle upon The above heas
He aid tbG. be had been reqaes,ed By the aCatAos
Institute OF the City Of newborn TO repeat iesrs
which he had some tine before delivered on IN. Pe,ia
4 cal Cases and Effects Of the Reformation A h
never wrote down his Hectares he could not promise
that he could repeat In the words the lecture 10
had before desverd. bui be would mako use Of the
same arguments and which he considered coa.snsl
the only sound views thai could he taken u the sab
Get Al every turn ore meets the expressoa OF Be
fols and After the Re.ogsason-thus proving that tas
Ntnt marked important period N the history Of
man Kind IL highly Important ts-sl both 90 tns
present geRerson and psseriy that he true csass
sboald b. known, aud then prsons woaa ass take ~
aud repeat parrot CRY poltts or morals eat OF tae
foundsron 81 which they really knew nothing ias
true or itlse Reformation Is said BY sonic wrs 20 have
occurred in 1877 when Luther proctz med his rsopoa
tons in his church In ANertenhuyr; by otssU u
lsss. on the pro,es; of the seceders from the
Diet a. Spires IL began however, In she hrA
hsfo the sixteenth century Il theu ryesens iscif
answ conner, stranger and CHALLENGER. and has no
right 20 srraign those who were before I'LL has arS
proved If right 10 the field To do this should havs
come recommended by the previous uscis'aess IL hSd
conferred on mankind Is political elects he only wsuu
consider and leave the theological % vhors specially
WIS entrusted that part fthe When csFae into
the worla IL received gladly for being chill -
the world. the wcrld knew IL well; and was bora a
Gernau:c barbGrc pride and nlependeneei AMI q pro
duced the frat French Revolution IN the eighteenth cou
rry and the attempts OF which we have been spectators
In the nineteen,h Ii would be worth inquiry Why
tins psrticul,r time aud no other-~hy. u an
countries IL should have commenced IN Germany
why IN Ssxcny more than any other part OF Gerusny
Not 10 disparsge German scholarship Italy France and
Spain were 80 that period too cnlhgened 10 coumsne
such a change And the Saxons were no< the mos
learned poes Of the Germans, snd they ever asp
ft, faw
They knew more Of cookery than literature. and x
that time they imported most OF the proiesssn
they had in their colleges Luther got all the hon
or such n was, of originating the Raformsnon
Tb, WAS not true for the combushle mafora's which
cont bute 10 that event collected long before that
person was born aud he only, Ike sill pa~sesej IN
cendiary sppled the match that causei lhe csnlara
lion The discoveries Of the Ft sonth Century brought
% Europe a commercial spirit whih cnycntcred ava
rice and At variance with the Chrissisn spiiu a
charity then forced by thc Catholic Church, shd ina
merchants desir, to set rid OF power that would pro
vent them acquiring wealth and exercising tyranny. AZ
tbs time the Eector OF SaNcny desired to have nhs
ence In the Gertnanic Diet ard encouraged Luther -
il supported him. in his Cndcsyor. TO cripple CAsriss
Vth In England. Henry With commenced T. rs he
wanted for moral Of his own to abolish the az
thority Of the Pope Mr. Niece commended that as the
Reformation d. MED and varied with authority, that me
governing powers OF Europewere forced 10 centrsss
their power 10 preserve their authority Thus Paris DO
came France and London England, and thus was tyranny
introduced anil that twas thercvoaaonsry spirit OF ths
dueed revolution attempts vt reyoutonj but that DO
fore th. event when the Pope was recognized a. an ar
bitter In all disputes that there was no tyranny no IN
Justice no standing armies tax gatherers to nnd sup
plies 20 support them lie combated the idea that DO
cause some maintained that Re- pubcanism WA not ~
for every people that they then opposed " that
form Of Government This was not tho case, but be-
cause every people not ht tor Repu5licansm ho
instanced Mexico where the genius OF the people was
sguinst tina, form and where nothing but contusioc
would exist tin that form changed there lie hopsd
Mexico would &c, master fort, own sake and that hs
master would be one of ts sons-for not IL woaid
soon ne absorbed by the United states or some other
p.wer He did not believe that the prcsen1
Republic of the United States was because ~
the incipes Of the Pilgrim Fathers brought here bot
because the greater number of the persons thai ea-
grated here, were working people, and none eon'd
claim superiority only what his skill gave hfn-but
that the former In the regular order OF thing TOTS
was not the In Mexico TO which place the Princes
and the great families emgrst, and introduced arsto
cratic principles and fcelngs He passed an eulogun
on Louis Napoleon who he hoped would restore order
and prospery France aud hso remember that there
was Rock called a. Helena, and acid called Waterloo
lie contendcd that, notwithstanding al the money ex-
pended In Billie Societies. that the Reformation had not
converted single pagan nation Hc illustrated thesc
propositions at great length and by several quotations.
from writers from the period OF the Reformation TO ths
present day.