, 1875-11-05
IIOBBY.leIDING.


Lecture by DR.. j. G. Holland tn tho
Stur Course.
Dr. J, q. Holland ("Ti,uotly Ttcomb"> loo
turn1 in tho Rsar Course last evening In plynl-
outh Congregational Church, corner of Michigan
avenue aud Twenty-st1th street. He waa intro
duc1d to tho inlmenso audseuoo by tho Rev. DR..
", Alvin Bartlett, who wna bsioi but compli-
mentary In tho performance Of bis duty.
DR.. Holland, after some preliminary obae1-
vat.ons, aaid that ho had come tAero
10 lecsuse On Hobby -ndiug," or
speciattes, becAuse the ago Of speoiaItiee Was
approaching, II 1t hal not plrsady arrived, Tho
first question asked by tho average Eug'iahmxn
on hearing OF . man was, =" What 10 his hobbyi"
Thoro was more roaaon in tho Interrogation than
might appear on tIo aurfacs. although nun
mIght often he misguided on this sane hot
by-rIdlng. For example, tho puuy boy.
sssss as ehedd n .pd ths IT,
sound OF firearms At safe distance:
a man afraid OF horses oiton made hobby of
horso-ractnR hut man should not he Judged
BY hs esc,ntrtottos: Tor they might 20 ~ % xar
was pretty well dosined. that man could ba
great only In ono apocial Inc. IL ILLS experiences
Of twenty Year, leotuElng before the Atnetlcan
people no pr. Holland e.er found them Wiling
sido OF lifo. Existence was 20 bsief. aud
expesionoe 10 dearly bought, tlias \ man bad
really no tinlo to lenEn more than oue brauuh Of
knowledge we'll. The average Amerlcan was
tho busiest creature III tho world. had ioss
lolsure thhn any other mortal, and attempted 10
spseAd himself over 10 mauT bltDcles OF
science, art, and literature thst Ne had become
nation Of snatte1ers.
Yet III history showed that tho world would not
allow man 70 he great, except in aoIno one line.
Sit phlsip Sidney was al onoo poet. soldier, =
statesman, snd cavalier, but ha waa only TO-
membered ~ tho tinest gentleman Of hla sgs, net
having devoted hlnsslf to anything apeciRi.
Nuskln delighted tho world with his crit[cisnl
upoA art, but 1t he wrote treatise upon poll.
tics the world would opsn tts eyes In wonder. or
would b. teg.rded ~ = grc4t, poet II
he were not tho foremost OF our philosophers,
Milton Was Z great st&taaua&n, but le WAS re-
msmbered ~ a poet. ColeEidRe was profound
theologikn, bnt did hts fame rest upon that ?
Dickens and Thsckefsy wrote graceful verses
speoAtios ruled the world.
had 70 prospered That pooplo Of
tlo old school could no longsr count
| Tho planets, and hand-booaB OF science more
than trs years old esoame absolutely useless
: shout revision: Amoug tls scholars, tho
specialists wets slways those diatineuishea from
tGo ho1d. Tlke my branch Of flearulng-rhiloso.
! phy, history, geology. criticism. theology, and
The fpHt, in t!lsso ths specialist was oVsr tho
The lecturer gave saveEa' example&-Nutabpldt,
Neiston, esc..-by Way OF illustration.
| He said that The morning. newspaper had bo-
come "a indispensable agent to civilization. It
Waited every house, Vls read IN every family,
and had como to stay. Bo had tho magazine.
Nc family conld shut out eithsr tho Newspaper,
! the mag szne, or the novel without ahutunK out
| niyillxatiQu TIE pEsiplica Ut the world limited
\ tnRp to his specially, 10 mAtter what might hs
she comp1 p1ahelsiYeuass Of hls intellect. Thazo