New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-01-24
THE DAILY CRESCENT.
TUESDAY MORNING. JANUARY "a, 1854
-.LEC TYRES.

LECTURES.
Five centuries ago, learning was aristoeTa'ic'
now it is popular. 1t was then connheo 10
class; it is now diffused through al classes,
The writer's OF old thought for all time but wrote
f,r onIv : few immediate readers Their SEN
fences wouid live, but the channels in which
their existence ran would be select and gen
orally unknown There were a few competent
to write. There were, propertionally. still
fewer able to read and understand.
This state Of things is now wholly changed,
Learning has become common. "A blacksmith
is touched with the inspiration of letters and
forthwith gives birth to essays on the Etrnscan
dialect servant maid is taken with the pains Of
poetic parturition and straightway brings forth
brace of volumes which pretend to nothing less
than epic grandeur. Every one reads and every
one writes. The knowledge of the world has
risen above the banks Of its olden channels and
overlooked the whole country, sages and sa-
vans have had their day There are not now
any Of those living encyclopedias Of all wit and
wisdom such as Powered and fourished before
Person, or Bacon, or Arnauld, or Erasmus. We
have an Humboldt, a Lardner, an Agassiz and
others equally noted but their learning is con-
fined to particular subjects and not comprehen-
sive of all. Exploration has gone so far that
one man cannot tread all the roads and does
we'll if he carefully examines any but all roads
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,f,;sconpse The Nav York naners make II a.
feature. and 4 verv nrominent one Inn in which
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bean Rad from, a dozan dests IF that ar,at c;tv
Men and women whites and blacks nhi1osonbers
and fools. neonla fanous 4 l;teratura and tbosa
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norted az axnress;no tbis on;nion ~. ,,nboid;nr
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tall;aanca H. Ratb1,ns has lset,,rsd as Gu
mon Sense, and park BENJAMIN On so,natbinr
; ditferent Mrs Blooner has fisconrssa ~ A. .
abolit;on If nett;costs and a Mo.saohnsatt.
niger on the abolition az slavery n Wen-
dali Holmes illuminated concernina poetrv ond
Rev Mrs Anto;netta Rrown co,,cornina W.,
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stract nbilosonbv ~ slao s;1r b,s hoen A.. -
into discussion and The eutbns,o st;c Naw Wi,
ers have rpsbed n hear a sll--tba ona 3D.
because thew believed tbs other beeofss ~ H., -
didn't. II il %. lao With oual;6cations II,
over the conntry We have onr T,voar,os .na