The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-01-20

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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Interesting Lectures ,bY John Pix
'Isia ss4S 5 insIIondon. 50 1;;''tIsY1
Correspondence clnrashatt Commsseiai9,s4
ao 90 LONDON, Dec. r22s
l hAYsssecen,ly written, yGpAboutf III
passion for Sunday lecfnres % 1Scisnct
which now pfe2ails H. LODdQh.I Aunop[
those which have been deliTefed mont
have attracted more attention Than I've
which have on the past two sundayl
drawn very large Alid iences 10 South Place
Church, FinsbnIy.i The lecturer was On
American, Mr.. John 'Fiske; anthofof an
excellent. work, t"MYths and Myth.nIa-
kers,n which has been repro nced i6ithis
country, and lecturer 10 1870 at Harvard
UnIYersily, Mr.. Fiske has been for dbou,
two months occupying On apartment Just
opposite the British Museum where he ID
revising the prooto 0 large work on Evo-
luton which Macmillan Is to bring out
next year In this country and America.
he has enjoyed the society Of! Herbert
Spencer, Huxley, Darwin and otherseien!
tifc men who hEve long known him as
the most trenchaht writer inUpppstiou ID
AgaSsiz in the, matter Of Evolution. AL
though Agasaiz J;was much valued by
scientific men here he was regarded as d
specialist, and the general opinion Is thai
along with his service. 10 science he has
done for America the same injury that
Cuyier did for France by his opposition
toNGeofffey St HilAire, that 4, retarded It
in scientific progress by throwing the
weight OF his name sgainst the great gen,
eralization ot.the age, by aid Of which
Germany ana England are obtaining such
vast results. Undoubtedly this persistent
opposition to the theory OF 'Deriva-
tion," In which, among men Of eminenCe
AgasSiz stood alone, has greatly Injured
his reputation in England and Germany,
aud the dryness and hreVity OF the notices
ELECTED by his death reflect the fact that
for many years hislame has hardly been
mentioned 10 thescientifc discussions Of
Europe, 5y1 I
SUNDAY MoRNING soIENTIPIc LECTURES.
But 70 return to Mr.. Flske and bis lee
lures Mr, Darwin and Mr.. Herbert
LsIors nne or more If ,be "ss;n n ;"a,
lions In London . hnt NJ F;sL.Ss or ns
ments for visit TO the Continent could
not b9 adjusted with the times which
were eagerly offered him; and under
these circumstances certain religious
society was found glad to- turn. their
chapel for two, sunday mornings into a
scientific institute 10 listen to the Young
Harvard philosopher. The audiences,
mat gathered on both Sundays were, as i
have sale, large, and at the same time
contained some OF the most eminent liter!
Ery and scientific men In England. And
there was but one opinion expressed-that
inns community had never heard scientific
subjects treated with greater skill aud
comprehensiyenee0. Mr.. Fiakei has no
rhetorical flourish, about him; without
any enort without any gesture beyond
occasionally adjusting hisspectacles, with
periectIalmost dry-simplicity, but with
clear honest voice, he states his facts !;
o1! inc Iacs are 50 striking, and 80 art
igiy 5mashlAued IN illustration of his
t9ougnt, mat me effect 10 that OF the finest
effort on the part of old members of The
chapel to SUPPRESS the annISnse n, SS
frequently thresteneii No invade the ds4
cotam pt tneplace. bgut al ~,
gREcRDNa TER LECTURE WITH HYMas.
The lecture was oreceded nv 5bvmna
selected from the poetry al Enlsrs6iI and
LoupfelloFg and nv RSriNfnI,d jSo;SSs ~
from az PanIl SHiiT MANN H - nj, NJ
reading from 81 Paul was that chapter in
which ne speaks got Ithel whole erosion hs
groaning and travelling in, labor until
now, waiting for the liberation of the
sons q god, and i gave rise to Q PRO-
pheeg.h By. Herbert SPENCER that II @8ould
not be many years before thee logians Will
i be busy showing the Whole Darwinian
theory recorded in the Bible The reads
a IN %aiSa 70 pad tribute e Reason, and