The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-02-13
Taking the Ninetee3nth Century
Down a. Peg.

The Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown, of Liver
pool gave a lecture in Dumfries last month,
op The Good Old Times. We extract
the following passages:
Men did as wonderful intellectual feats
1000 and 5000 years ago as are done in
the present time. If it be true that man
was only an improved gorilla, we don't find
that he allowed greater resemblance to it
then than now: for his own part, he belicv-
ed there were more monkeys now than then,
and possibly the gorilla might not so much
represent the race from which we sprang az
the destiny to which we are Fastening. -
Abraham he believed to be as thorough
bred gentleman as any in the nineteenth
century; Jacob as good a man of business
as they would find on the Liverpool Ex-
change; wnlle Joseph was a statesman, and
Moses legislator worth a great deal more
in their time than all our lords, commons.
and town councils put together
We think we do fhings ona grand scale.
and cockncy will boast that the largest
ttcatcr in London will hold four thousand
DcoE!"i th!Ny thousand weuld scarcely have
filled the Coliseum of Rome. St. Georges
Hall, LlvclpooL is Justly regarded as very
magnitlc mt building but it was olly re-
production ,i very little bit of the baths
~ D;oolo+;o, ,,-l L -. -
OF mile square, the whole structure being
a very great deal larger than our Houses OF
Fal lament. Some mOderns said If the
people Of the ancient times could revisit
the earth. they would be very much aston
ished. lie had NJ doubt they would, but
ha would b. SO r. if they did in case they
should only laugh at u.s. Possibly our
~ ncat.ia'Hei' Mno iiveu 10 mat stu 'idGst OF
an ;Li ;el,.1 1'i'a' @ the tIsh'eeh'n' Wouli be a.
,u'lSheu ,'nana o0' not 'he men OF TWO thousand
'e1iS S.Ws asI
" = Ihouetl we haa mace great progress
III Ganllaly science, out 9eheIeo we were at
o'lau' an,ase c2h'''feu WI l, n the ahclenis
bn+Ls bn hso.s aJ aiono .neTe refe HVo'V05 Puohc
o"tlT, anu ! meyer nav ~ ~ ire tnan nan the
pe pul1nVloh nh l"'huon. Ihcy NAG, nad not, cod
.dppi Ga.ls, ana Somethihg IKE our lurk'
iSh pa'l's' anu "hat was Detfcr sun the
people col!!S'ail'!Y uSea 'hem. We boasted
- our cly!i y! ehglheefihF' put It was ques-
.ionaplf II II ha2 !, advanced much much since the
le !'.ne "nttl we h"llan" punt their acque-
uuc'S' "h'cI' were carried over Vailes' sup,
por.eG on thousands OF afches, or tunheled
lor mileS .ilrongh the e, soild rock. while the
greatest Sclehtlnc skill was required to give
te1V Pp'' " '1PVi = Siaue. -
~ lner was great deal Ct talk about
~ .la' Woaueliel trlpIMPh lI OF genus bringing
.ne water Oh I!och Marine to Ulascow, but
ne .quanli!E OF water aeilVered to every IN,
liaOltaht ol nome was Ten times the water
sepplleu 70 London: An abundant supply
O water w was special charlstlc OF ancient
cues " often M read OF the inhabitants OF
d oFseieeu clty suneflng from hunger, but
rarely, II ever, from ,l! thlfst. And there was
mo- no o:velrcl[?.wulng; I'VE .g; N,neyeh contained GOO,
wv lLhaoltantS' II put the population OF Lon
u'n Wa ~ lor i's ga, nVe tunes as dense as
1nat G' uneven Inc anclents dld not AZ
~" tne oeau 70 oe puriSd within the. walls
pl tHeif Gltles-a practice only beginning to
pc apoilshed with u.s. In point OF cleanll
ness dlSo' they were more careful than we
uie' t.c reau the otIler uay or 'ome pep
PIE 'aklhg cholera from y, Washing the clothes
oi persons VINO nag qied of that malady.-
Aecorging 70 the Mosaic law these clothes
SIiouiu M, nave peen pufiGd' Moses would pot
ailow people 70 live IN houses that were un
nSeailpy Dat II was no use turning the peo-
Ple ouo aiiu allow,nG the mouse TO stand; ne
hl5w people YOU'D I'VE IN lt II 1t trema,lfed,
ana ana 80 ne sara: Down with every stick and
ln .ne matter OF sewerage eV the komans
l "ele superior 10 US ne M CITY was quilt on