, 1864-04-16
pITGET SOUND HERALD
sTEILACooM, w. T.,
Saturday, April 16, 1864.
TIIE Uses OF THE LYcEuM.

Port Angeles, before the members Ci the
Lyceum Of that place, by DR.. Redfeld, Of
the U. s. Marine Hospital:
THE Uses OF THE LYCEUM: This is
the subject upon which | have chosen to
address You this evening. 1t would be
natural to introduce it with history Of
the rise and progress Of the institution of
which our own is humble representative;
but must BE- cOntcG: with mere aIlusion
to the first Lyccum, the famous academy
in Greece near the temple OF Apollo Lyceus.
from which it took its name: the seat OF
classic and philosophic learning. where the
refined Athenians listened to the wisdom
Of the Stagirite, and drank deeply at the
fountains Of the Aristotelian philosophy.
Passing f,em this, can but glance at the
pref atory schools for the universities, on
the continent Of Europe, where, century
ago, the philosophy OF Aristotle was taught,
and which therefore received the name Uf
Lyceum. ..-....
The literary association Of our time de-
nominated the Lyceum claims very little
connection with the original institution
from which il takes its name. Though it
might well be ambitious to trace u success
sion from the famed school Of the most
famous master Of. antiquity, it makes no
effort to do SO. And yet it might do SO,
probably, with as much propriety and faith
ialncss to history as any modern church
can trace its succession from the Apostolic.
For the popular, worldwide Lyccum Of the
present day, which is SO ubiquitous that it
Is found in an ou.-of-the.world place like
Port Angeles, in the dark evergreen woods
surrounded by the most untutored siwashes
II say that the popular Lyceum Of the
present day, of which our own is an inte-
gral element, possesses more Of the char
acter Of the ancient schools If learning in
Greece and Rome than our academies, co.,
leges. aud universities, which cultivate lit
lie else than classic lore, and found their
dignity upon the science and art, the
learning and refinement, Of the ancient Re-
puSlics.
Dismissing all that might be said Of the
Lyceum, ancient and modern, had we H.
btaries and documents ut our command,
sleaving the things that arc behind; let us
press forward to the things that are be-
fore" Members of Lyceum, and peri
patetics thai we are, that is, ,calksrs, in the
sense Of progressires, like "the followers
Of Aristotle, so called because the founder
Of this philosophy taught, or his followers
disputed questions walking in the Lyccum
atAthens,a we ask ourselves the question
"What arc the uses of our institution !.
and, by implication, what are its abuses!
The inquiry looks TO the future; to what
We may, become BY the means at our dis
pOsal; to the high destiny, Whatever that
mar be, which is . our beings end and aim :"
Towards the future we grow; towards the
past we dwiudie and dwarf ourselves; we
become shfouded with tho cobwebs Of SUI
perstition and bigotry, and buried under
pyramids Of musty tones, as they should
who are the .'sdead bnriers Of the dead"
"Remember Lots wife, /" who looked back
and became a pillar Of salt---a monument
Of conservatism standing as petr.fed fix-
ture for the warning Of all fiusure genera
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Then to our questions. (fOr il is the busi-
meas Of o Lyceuln to ask and answer qucs-
tio1s) 3 What are the uses Of our ins;itu-
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