The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-13

'A%N'NNH'ot theoS AiptOtiH uEcos NNhitC hub
out-llved Its time. Its habits, its industries,
Its arts are the habits, the industries, the
arts of by-gone time. Its place in the
world is Its place in history. Its art is but
that of copying. Its industries have stood
still while the world has marched on be-
You'd them. As you look at the Venetians
OF to-day you feel as you would, If you
saw the lineal descendants of Oliver Crom-
well crying buns and mullins in the pur-
lieus of London. You keep wondering IL
this Is the old heroic race which one time
were the Vikings Of the seas,if these wood
en-sippered, ragged losfers, scratching
themselves beneath the arches of the pal
ace, can be the descendants of those
doughty old seamen who dominated the
| Adriatic.
OF the Inquisition and its belongings,
they show you as little as they can. A few of
the Instruments of torture more curious
than savage are hid away unemphasised on
the shelves of the arsenal. The rooms of
the councils are picture galleries. They
show you few of the cells made memora-
bic by the great names of those confined
in them, the place of execution, the CORR
dor of the Bridge of Signs, that ia all.
The showing somehow seems to imply that
this one page they desire to be forgotten.
In the prisons you see the work of fire set
by the populace at season of public rioting.
The deep, fierce hatred the common people
hold to the memory of the Inquistion is
such as to carry with it in some measure
the church which fostered it. And
doubt not that to-day, if it were possible
by sinking, the palace, the prisons and the
cathedral they could sink into oblivion all
the memory of it, these structures would
be quickly sent down to those fa,homess
abysses of the sea, which leaden pummct
never yet has sounded
The churches of Venice have a sort of
Byzantine, oriental look. They are alike
yet unlike those Of Rome. In Rome you
see gathered the gift offerings of yearn-
ing alteration; things of wondrous beauty
and OF wondrous cost In Venice you see
things of wondrous cost and not wondrous
beauty. In Rome the money appears well
laid out lovingly, lavlshly, because of the
lavish beauty it buys. But in Venice the
money seems somehow to have been vim
dictiycly expended, cost, not beauty, being
the dominating purpose. In Rome the
churches are imperial in Venice, imper.
ious. In Rome they are august mauso
leums of honored saints, in Venice the tenn
} pies of the church-a church imperous
fuller of self assertion and human power
than of alteration or pilgrimage. They
stand like the old feudal strongholds on the
Rhine, self-reliant, governing rather thar
guarding the humber things around them
The churches are grimmer than the dun.
geons. The iron in the heel is more obvi
Gus. You cannot help wondering, here al
in every city in italy, how so many
| churches could ever have been built, eacl
, at SO great cost amongst all the wan
and poverty which surrounds them
have tried to make some estimates witt
mental reckoning only.at the probable cap
: atalized cost, and l think | am within
the bounds of sober truth when say, that l
all the first cost of the Italian churches b,
added to the current cost of keeping an(
$ both be rendered in the form of publ,
, debt two thousand dollars per head of citi
zens would represent tia sum sufficient
after furnishing all which according t
our American notion, is needed for the com
t kingdom with railroads, to drain ever
,...ita .r..s s...siu,uin the pub
lie schools needed for every branch of edu
I cation. Whatever tic church may ilav
4 been in spiritual matters, however she ma,
y have been the custodian of letters throug
the dark ages of fcudal rule, in none
matters, in matters economic, no fable
4 old man of the sea ever held throug
. long ages, more leaden seat on the shoul
q ders of Italy than she did. This as yo
know is all changed now, nor does tn
: church accept the situation with any specia
S sweetness OF temper-nor is that sweetnes
S anyway improved by the conduct of the Ital
n ians fresh looscd from the despo
:, ism of the church. They some
times jeer and taunt or abus
d the priests not so much oIt of hate, thong
s they have some of that, but rather out Q
=, that kick up-a-heelativeness which mark
: the boy Just let out of school or the III
l. looscned horse Just turned out to the fret
d dom of his pasture. Hardly time enoug
is has elapsed to see much of the change. l
# the churches it shows itself in the absenC
- of the throng of clericals, in the paucit
n of great ceremonials, in a certain lis
l. lessness in the ritual, and in certai
If slowly creeping seediness just beginning I
/, show the thread at knee and elbow. I'll
IL church seems grouty; am sorry to see i
er 1t does no good here. 1t only loosens sti
b. more its hold on the affections of IL
n people. The truth is and ! was surprise
to see it, the Church, the Roman CATH
II lie Church l mean, is more respecte
in America than it is in Italy. Its fral
If chise and its property are safer in Vernon
=. than here. 1t would outrage public opi
~ ion in Rutland, past all bearing, we're OF
If half the indgnitles offered on its streets
v, Father Boylan that | have seen inflctt
!. upon priests in the very shadow of Il
- Vatican. However, much one may be
n protestant or however, little he may be
of Catholic, he is sorry to zee this, as well
ID for the occasion for it, if indeed there
any Just occasion for it.
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