The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-23

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The Rev. HuaH SrowEL1 BROWN, of Liverpool
gave lecture in Dumhies last month on s'The
Good Old Times." We extract the following pas
sage: ...u.
Men did as wonderful intellectual feats 1000 and
5000 years sgo as aro done in the present time. II
we don't find that he allowed greater resemblance
to it then than now; for his own part he believed
there we're more monkeys now than then, and pos
sibly the gorilla might not SO much represent the
race from which we sprang as the destiny to which
we are hsstening. Abraham he believed to DO as
oena as gooa a la of bs
as they would find on the Liverpool Exchange;
while Joseph was statesman and Moses legis-
ali our Lords, Commons and Town Councils put
together.
ries, there were hundreds Of men who, for brains
and the use OF them, would stand comparison
with any that adorned this century: We bad some
splendid remains OF architecture in this country,
and We vainly attempted to equal tho cditices Of
are only bits taken from odinces erected hundreds
OF years ago. Our mechanical appliances for build
ing are far superior to what could have been known
to the peope Of the olden times, 1t they reared
snas arc the Just annos esaa Of
may copy them, but ut we may copy painting. Of an
as good as the s Pathenon sos or srasSsurg
Cathedral, we must knock down to the old times.
We think we do all things on grand scale, and
London VIII hold 1000 people; 80 600 would scarce
y have filed the Colossieum Of Rome St Georges
bal, Liverpool is Justly regarded as very mag
nlhcent building but it was only reproduction
Of q very little bit Of the Baths of biocletian,
which we're neartt g quarter Of a mile square, the
than our HOUSES of Some n
said II the people of the ancient times could revisit
the gaSh ad they SoS wpqd ts be very much @
so1y it they die in cise they should only 1augh at
Us. Possibly our great-fathers who lived in that
stupidest Of all centu1ies-the 15th-would be
astonished, but not the men Of 1000 ye ars ago.
We thought we had made great progress in sani-
tary science, but he believed we were at a disad-
alone there were 800 public baths and it never had
more than hal the population Of London. They
ia 1aa not eoid a and +yaPor bathsand something
the people constantly used them. We aoastcd Of
our ciyl engineering, but it was questionable if it
had advanced much since the time when the Ro-
mans built their aqueducts, which were carried
over alleys, supported on thousands Of arches, or
tpnnened for miles through the solid rock, while
she supply proper grade.
There vas q great deal of talk about that won
Loch Katrne to Glasgow, but tie auantity nit Of Of
water delivered to every inhabitant Of Rome was
ten times the water supply Of London. An abun-
Of ancient cities. We often read Of the inhabit-
ants aaso OF = oeseged city suffering from hunger but
hrs And there
itants. but tie population of London was, for It's
area, i've times as dense MS that Of Nineveh. The
the walls Of their cties-a practice only berinninn
to be abolished with u.s. In point of cleaniness
also, they were more careful than we are. He read
washing the clothes Of persons WHO lad died 81
that malady. Acco, ding to the Mosaic law these
clothes es,o should have been buried. Moses would
healthy, but it was use turning the people ont
and allowing the house to stand; he knew ,e peopie I
would 1--we IN it If it remained, and so ha said
Shown with every stick and stone of it.n
N the matter OF sewerage, the Romans were SUI
per1or to US US The city was built arches for tho
mains a sewer in Rome wide that cart loaded
with hay might pass through it. Excellent and
well conhived aims had been discovered in Nine
yeh and other towns. The refuge Of the cities was
burned in the open plains The hand-looms oi
thirty-thousand years ago produced cloth Of as
as We can produce, and the Hindoos and some d
the A1rleans: kneT the process Of manufacturing
iron and steel, which led them to look with con:
tempt, and to reject us rotten, the specimens 81
these metals which we sent them. In all these
points the past compared favo,ably with the pres.
No doubt the present had it's achievements. r.
had the printing press and railroads, telegraphs,
and extensive manufactures. He believed that its
OF production, and in the wider diffusion Of wealth
and knowledge than obtained in the past, rather
fnan1 fhan IN sg & infringe s C. excellence or beauty bril-
ceAed, H. the ex ent to which it had investigated
She Laws and operations of nature, and applied
them to the increase OF human power over nlatter.
Before, however, they boasted themselves too
much of modern progress, they ought to inquire
whether tho progress made was Commensurate
there were any room Tor boosting Looking at
the wretchedness, profigaoy, drunkenness, and
genera! degradation, which characterized our large
Sanes, ne could see nothing worse in the days Of
the past; and instead Of boasting it behooYed this
,a;gs to confess with shame that i had avanced so
nttlH anq that IN some things it had not advanced
drink now SO much as they used to do. which
mght be true, but he was afraid the great bulk Of
Ia rr1S%n s,~k.
were, if they ever were worse than they are now
which he could hardly imagine. =