Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-04-01
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"THR LOST ARTG.n
ADDRESS OF WENDELL pnILLlps.

ADDRESS OF WENDELL PHILLIPS.
Last evening one of the largest audi
ences that ever filled Library hall as
sembled to hear, Wendell Phillips speak
on the "LOst Arts,n Mr.. p. was dressed
in faultless attire, face closely shayen,
with the exception Of a slight tuft Of
grey whiskers. He has the magnetic
presence which Cicero says is 50 es
sential to the perfect orator. His style
of oratory is calm, deliberative, incisive
and emphatic. There is an entire alb
sence of rant and violence, and instead
we have an orator as cool, unembar-
raised, and unimpassiOned as a statue.
he is not difusely ornate, like Rufus
Choate, nor p0ndorously brilliant like
Daniel Webster. He is as precise as q
judge, and never wanders from the
issue. His strength lies in his master
ly powers Of statement and generaliza-
ton. Like Grafton in Chatam, he
often gives as the sum total Of an ora
tiOn In q single short, pithy sentence.
His lecture, the Lost Arts,u was COM
posed some twenty-three years a 90.
That period WIS the rosy dawn of his
young ambition. But the subject il
not overdrawn. The lecture Is nothing
n ore than splendid philippe against
the claiIns-the Lnfounded claims OF
modern progress. His claim for the
antique is grand, scholaf-lIke, and un-
answerable. He spolza Of The present
as an age Of self-conceit, aid referred
in his peculiar sarcastic way to the
way Judge Story used to preface his
lectures. He would Invariably lead
I OF with the declaration that 'sThis is a
most extraordinary age The same
thing Is quietly assumed in a hundred
ways; but In reality It |: the veriest
sham What have we hu is worth
having that the ancients / l'enot?
With all the sarne ed vi % If earth snd
time"
what is that stats Of JLI progress, and
wherein in arts, scienes, &c, greater
than those nations who Il ng since have
lain down in the sepulc1 ofages.
Mr.. Phillips Feferret one o. the
earliest industries-Gla Itlgas noth.
ing new. Plate, and c. and ground
glass, which we can NV nope 10 equ-
al, are buried inthe ru n, laya-bound
Pompeii. The glass the anG-
ent had, with . goldel it, modern
chemistry very wisel g nothing
about. MaleabIe glass lich can be
broken and again ham q together
asstrong aseve is som d yon which |
chemists are minOlh v .ient. The
engineering arvels o. toned by |
HerOdotus, ha never / 1 equalled, |
nor explained They b sidewheei
steamers, as ay be sc IN /. the mar
bles Uf Ninev a. They we mowers
and reapers w at Wien a, more than
one Thousand years old. photography
was know to the phs ician Galan
1000 years 20. Balloons IS perfect as
any sent FRI Il Paris, cal be seen to-
day on the 1arbles Of N neveh, repre-
'enting the popuiace looking up at
hem.
The glass ads from Carthage our
artists havel ,ver pretended to initiate.
lissius says mat on thu Egyptian mar
,les may be Sc N has. reliek of the spin-
ling wheels aud mos. OF the similar
Industries of modern ei tligatlon. The
lectric telegraph was sEiewfl In 1850,
nd probably much earlier. Franklin's /
Ightening rod Is nearly thraN hundred /
ears old. "Sherry c0bblese0 were 1
rank BY Xerxes' sOldiels--anN the ex- !
ract was purer than the tire Waters' 4
fto-day. The anclonfs Invented Ian
uage and that is sa Eat required more \
ltellect and genius than the invention 4
the steam engine. IL
There Is not chemistry enough In Ii
EUROPE to make another Barhaxint y
ase, or explain the one made, The v
leatres like The eollalnxn sEa q mar I.
ellous in design, eonstructcn. nn,l
lassiveness. TIE sthaanafells taf an Il
inns" could seat q. zoo and 4 theatre !,
the Albambra 1000. The secret 81 II
e stuce0 conapoallinn e the ancients IN
/, and pf0babl y WI d d 4 n nvsfeFv A
ero had his sardonyx ring. and lis !,
oera glass, for scanning the hatchery
hich "ggaced Z roman holiday. = The Al
cret Of the manulatIuEe Of the 4 ! san II
lrple has died with ifs inven oFs.
ley had all the mechanical bowers. Al
I'd knew how b use them better nan
:, since they could transport hI0eks OF
masonry weighing Loco tons, enc lfa
Indred and my miles. They vents m
ed even their toDbs, while We have
t learned 70 Tentiiafn or lWellinfs. II
mails were known il Eeznt 400
ars ago, Railways made lo fn6 il Ill
me grooves Are older than elslIs q I 81
Ne,alleIey s The lIEs1 known ~ s.
? arts a4 we read II Genesis. and
eFt & found only there u IaslIselIols + !.
day. The wisdom 0f Athens. fha + N
mmerce q Ehenfeia. the science uf a
'ypts and the valor 0f Rome will Ill M
W. remain proverbs The aFt ofl hi
king colors was carried ID eraat ner. N
zion among the anclanta. h.al II fer-
"a with them. Ait Ehe nnnefal W
& of nr. Phillips nAat fFe ~
,Ws conclQaiVsly the hollnz E.nse II -
valn-gloElqus haa - abat.l n.
heed soleHges &c. Nearly M nar
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