Smyrna times., 1855-12-19
The Peoples Literary Institute.
Lecture Of Hon. Horace Mann.

The first of series of lectures was deliver
n ed on the evening of the 18th inst, at the Mu-
, sical Fund Hall, Philadelphia, by the Hon.
q Horace Mann. Subject" Man higher than
the brute-Man lower than the brute" The
lecturer, and the objects of the Institute, were
introduced to the audience by his honor Mayor
Conrad, in a short but eloquent address.
The distinguished lecturer proceeded to saw
that I" he proposed to consider man svntbetical.
ly, and not nalytically, as the philosophers
were IN the habit of doing. The origin of all
created things is the same-they all begin in a
cell; and sometimes the cell is so small that if
has only an outside and an inside Lord Bacon.
and tadpole, were alike in the respect that
Doth were once covered with cellular sub-
stance. There was great variety in the hu
man race. Some were the bees, active and
industrious; others were the tlrones, who were
good for nothing.
Oysters were the marine droncs, but they had
the advantage over the human ones. nasmuch
as they We're good for something after their
death. 1t was theory with some strange peo-
pie, that the souls were put away somewhere.
Qhey do not say where) until called for, and il
would appear as if some people had the wrong
souls given to them. Some men have rot the
souls OF serpents, or nice, while some women
1t has been slanderously said, have the soul ola
wasp.
The lecturer said that he would introdnco
the moral elements Of man, one by one. "The ;
mouth is the great family feature in every face.
ana the bounty of nature is strikingly display
ed IN furnishing the wants Of the mouth The
lower nature of man was shawn in the case of b
lIpplers and gluttons. Swine are considered =
he lowest class of animals, but who ever heard '
'f any but blpcd swine, that could not lift :,
himself out of the gutter.
The drunkard pawns everything, even his c
oul and honor for rum. In this he is below d
ne beast Were tiger to madden himself =
With drink and go home to Mrs. Tiger, and =
ralp her and her little ones, and then carry
ne scalps to the nearest pawn broker, and
hedge them for rum, all tigerdom would rise {
n Indignation, and say that he was as bad as = &C
nman being =
VANITY and pride were closely allied, and be
ome men were only too proud to be deemed th
ain. In England, all the bulls of Bashan an. be
"ered TO the name Of John, and in America r
ourth of July orator considers himself the III
merican eagle, the founder of the Constitp- he
on, the man that declared independence. the du
IssIssIpPl river, and large. portion of the Ia la
Ocky Mountains combined. ~ ~
French vanity is shown in their love of the
hoIesale slaughter Of Napoleon, and the hol- at
W pomp ot the court of Louis lie Grand. and be
duces them to suffer a dancing jack TO rule :.
er them now The vice of avarice wa, ~,
en- touched upon, and a humorous picture in
avn OF the power of pinching in the human the
ce. Gel
" dying miser will pinch dime until the H., IT,,
gle upon it screams elm
The distinguished lecturer, after treatinc
on the drctul effects of inquisitvcness and mo
lbItlon on the human race, concluded at ubout sli
IT past ten, one of the most entertaiping Iec- Sr
'es 1t has been our good fortune to have over CHI
ard. rec