New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-03

you"" and pledged 10 him my word without bs ASKING
it, that would not assist Mr. Bowen in the hostility
which he had medtated against Mr.. Beecher." Now
gentlemen that about ends the narrative This you so
berry asked to believe just statement OF COM
muncaton between husband and wife. and OF commu'
nication between the husband and the paramour will
venture say that whether you regard that portion OF II
which undertakes to produce q woman's treatment 10
her husband, husbands treatment to the paramount
whether you undertake TO weigh and estimate tho man
ner in which good woman is led away, or the length
and BREADTH the weight and value OF the argument by
which wOmans virtue Is overcome by the tongue OF
man. 1t the verlest trash that was ever written OF
printed There Is not novelist that would not be iid
cued Dan to Beersheba, IT, wicked in purpose ana
wfu in malice against the good principles and conduct
OF society," had used his art to make adultery easy ana
palaabo and pious Why, gentlemen. the merest trie
OF the yellowcovered literature OF Paris or New-fork
that made for tho appettes and for the coarse
intelligence and for the vile morality OF the evil classes
has anything bad and vulgar aud pontless as all
this trash And what Is the reason OF this invention
II is because on the conduct OF the people their char
acers on wifos intellectual and moral character. as
still sworn to ut impossible to be believed unless 1t Is
because under all the conditions OF external
observation to which they hayo been subjected there
could be reliance upon the contact OF the Dody ever
having taken place, except by this fictitious presentation
OF IT, to carry O sort of notion with you that
there has been proof OF 1t as com
WHY gentlemen what sort OF adultery is that which is
no contact Of the body and pollution of tho soul Call
il uniatcra adultery Why is 1t adultery 1t Is wholly
transcendenta 1t begins nowhere ends nowhere, rests
upon no basis. But "transcendenaP' Is long word,
and those who most cannot give any very precise
definition Of it, Twenty-Five years ago 1t cano into great
vogue under lead OF great thinker famous, Mr.
Emerson and got into the language OF young women and
OF young students and the cergymen talked about It,
but still the question what transcendcntaP meant
Well on of the Mississippi River steamboats,, when
marcel of eminont returning from general
convention tho Presbyterian Church, they were In
high discussion about orthodoxy and the Old faith ana
transcendcntasm, and layman who enjoyed their con-
yersatOn of the lay delegates returning with them,
still felt little puzzled about what transcendentaI
and "transcendentasm" meant SO he venturcd to ask
the divine in whom he had the greatest Confidence
hear you use this word "transcendenta' and trans
cendcntasm." Now, what does it mean? "Well" says
the doctor OF divinity that is question that Is more
easily asked than answered" But they were passing by
bluff on the river Says he, Do you SEQ that blu hero
on the riverl" Eyes" do you see how pierced IL Is
with swallows holes I" "Yes, see that" "Wcl, now,
says he you take away all that bluff and leave nothing
but swallows holes, and hat is transcendentalisn'