The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-02-17
RIDERS LECTURE.

the young men OF the congregations
Church; and took place in the paslors OF
that church, which were completely
filed with very apDreciative audience.
The subject fare we Tending to
Barbarism':~-is one that gives great
scope for discussion, as it covers the phy-
steal, social. political and moral condi
lions of society.
We of the present age proudly refer
to our advance in civilization; but are
we very highly civilized, cultivated
and noble people, There is in the life
of all society the remnant of barDarism,
that will continually show itself in one
form or another. AS the water Of the
eyer-foWipg river carries with it the
impurities derived from its source and
surroundings, so the stream Of mans
noble thoughts are rendered more or less
impure by this germ of barbarism which
is carried onward with this stream OF
life. The difference between barbarism
and civilization ia not in the conduct.
but in the thoughts of the race. Behold
the difference between the novels Of
Egypt to- day, and the magnificent civil
ization Of Egypt few centuries ago.
The howell is the fit emblem Of what is
row the inward nature Of the people.
Where now is the Boosted civilization,
arts ard tastes Of Babylopia, Thebes,
Greece and Ronaep All gone--followed
the same stream that Egypt did-de-
basemen. Of thought. 1fyou lower the
ideas Of The people and peryert tic ele-
ments of advancement, are you not tend
ing to barbarisms ard was not this the
fate of Babylonia, Assyria, Egypt and
Rome
Human society has come up from man
tat first alone; clad in skins, savage,
depending On his hands and his club for
support and defense .. Then. man armed
with stone weapons and aiding himself
along In life with stone implements
Then. with weapons and implements
Of bronze; and SO Oh with varying stages
/ of civilization up to cur present boosted
advanced condition. The progress Of
the people Of the earth may be likened
to the sailing Of ships---not as steamers,
for they steam right onward. regardless
Of wind or tides-but as sail vessels.
Sometimes the wind is fair and the
ocean smooth and they move along
RAPIDLY and easily; then the storm may
arse that shalt toss them hither and
thither, and many of them TO destruction;
then, perhaps follows the calm, during
which they float on the tide, making no
progress. This is Just as the human race
has moved in the past sometimes pro-
crossing brayeig onward, sometimes
tossed and torn by destructive commo-
tons, then becoming stagnant and aim
less.
Whence came the ancient people
people of which we know nothing except
what we learn from their dead +? Who
erected the buildings Of Central Amer
;ca? Who built the mighty structures
of Mexico? Who piled up the mounds
Of North America? Races that lived,
fouriahed aud died. over whose graves
we, the third race Of this land, are now
treading. Where did the Esquimaux
come from? | don't think that Adam
was an Ezquimaux! There are people |
in Del Fuego. who are the fag-end of a
people who once lived there. [ don't |
think Adam was {, native of Del Fuego. |
These people.are no more thererresenta-
tive Of the people Of former Zines, than
the present common council OF Chicago I
the morals Of that city. When
society ceases to breath good ideas, then
it has the consumption. The greatness
Oh Tue uht1Ou lS 1uutCaCCN " t1IC SlSoV
ness of its ideas. The communists talk
as if it is an easy matter to take society
to pieces and re-adjust it. What folly!
1t ,s an easy matter to take society to
pieces, bus it is not SO easy to put II to-
gether again. There are four cardinal
social virtues, without which civilization
is failure allegiance to God, adhe-
renee to the family. obedience to law.
and the right Of property. These are
the four corner stones Of modern society,
and If either are set aside, we arc tend
ing to barbarian. The cry of the COM
nune is, down with the rich; Gown Withl