National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-03-03
THE PAST AND PRESENT.
WENDELL PHILLIPS GREAT LEG
TURE, "THE LOST Arts"

COMPARISON BETWEEN THE ARTISTIC
AND SCIENTIFIC CAPABILITIES OF AN
CLIENTS AND MoDERNS-THE ANCIENTS !
LITTLE AIIEAD-NoTHING NEW UNDEl
THE sun, NOT EVEN SHERRY CoBBLERs
The lecture Of Wendell Phillips at the Congre
gational church last night was attended by
Aatteringly large audience, though the ho1s
was not 80 much crowded as 1t was on the eccn
sion of the previous lecture On Labor, TEN
perance and Women" The audience repre-
scented the culture and respectability of the popu
lation of Washington, and the learned remarks o
the renowned speaker were received with marked
appreciation, demonstrating the intelligence ant
taste Of those assembled.
Of the sncients especially the Asiatics. the Egyp
tians, and the South Africans, in many OF the ars
which have been partially and imperieetly, q
modern times The speaker said that he intended
the lecture as medicine for chronic disease JET, o.
the Anglo,Saxon race-that OF self,praise' eeo'
tsm-which has led us to the habit oil
TAKING OFF OUR HATS TO OURSELVES.
This dissatisfaction is peculiar to the Anglo
Saxon race and is growing with time We can
do nothing seemingly new unless We want 70 write
tended to submit would lead us to a greater viii
hngness to sit at the feet of the old masters and
say that in these we nnd iiaed The Eassrn
countries had attained a level in literature and
art which equaled and even outstripped the best
The speaker then proceeded to show in detail
how in the matter Of mixing colors. We were far
behind the attsinrents of those who painted in
stucco among the Egyptians, perpetuating in
colors the habits, events and customs of their day.
Scenes in Pompeii, the buried city, painted in
today. when the covering Of seventeen hundred
years is taken off,i as the brightest silk Of the
present day. So the pictures Of Cleopatra, found
In Nero's subterranean palace, show q cheek as
rosy as that of the full flush of health. Our best
cOlors fade in thirty years. These have endured
undimmcd after from fye hundred to one thous-
and years, and are therefore pronounced to lie i'm
mortal. So in the matter of
The teft of metallurgy issteel; inside Christen-
dom is all science: outside is all art. English
steel can't be taken to India and preserved unless
can be put into q scabbard shaped like a cork
screw. In southern Africa the negroes have bet
ter razors than our best. The natives Of NADIA
sascar make better knives out of pieces of iron
taken from our visiting vessels than those ships
carry on board The first needle ever made in
art died with him. The question is: How did they
perform such wonders with such resources?
the aIgs das HeroSins m
us he saw temple, wrought out of a single stone,
weighing five thousand tons, moved ffty-six
miles. We consider it o great achievement in
Boston to move a building weighing five hundred
tons fourteen feet. and this at the rate Of inch
per day. We want to study Egyptian engineer
So in the matter of ventilation. The obelisks
were more perfectly ventilated than our modern
homes This is shown by the story told by the
historian of the separation of q cat from her
kittens in separate apartments. and in the morn
ing finding the cat with her little family, which
she had reached through the ventiating ducts.
So the ancients had canals and railroads. The
latter to be found at the mouth Of all the old
mines in Europe. Arrago claims that the ancients
invented steamboats,.
The more we review history we will find that
there Is nothing new under the sun. Animal mag
netsm and the cure of diseases by passes and by
water cure have been known since the flood; and
as n water cure it is presumed the flood killed
more than it cured. Revolvers are yet to be seen
invented in 1886. Colt only invented the action
by trigger.
SHERRY COOLERS
even are not new. The Greeks, returning from !
PSYf,a are told by Xenophon to have drunk their |
li0uids tGr6nSh straws. Heat by steam, photo
rraphr eieetrotypn g, the theory of protection by
fiphtninp rods were all known to the Orienta.s.
while the fabrics made in Eastern countries were
so fine that when spread On the ground they were
hid by the dew. 4 Hindoo girl, with seven suits
on. was ordered from an entertainment by her
father for being indecently dresset. Amid the
marble ruins of CsTtha &c are carved eeFfect like
nesses OF many spinning machnes
But in these days knowledge was eecret, being
,niy possessed by priests and kings. The pride
Of the nineteenth century is the utilization of
knowledge. Neither chemist nor mechanic saves
civilization. but the divine law that man has
right TO know anything he does not make service
able 10 his fellows.