Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-04-10
Mrs. Liyermore in Montpelier.


general and increasing iuterest--so much SO that
it would be difficult to name public lecturer Of
any sex or profession who would have met with
warmer reception and liveer appreciation than
did Mrs, livermore in her visit just closed. Her
first appearance was on Saturday evening, at VIII
lage Hail. in her popular lecture,
1.-THE COMING MAN"
The house was very well filled with an I'M
usually intelligent audience, which bestowed al
most uninterrupted attention for nearly two hours
After an introduction by Rev. j. f. Wright, the
speaker began with an allusion to what must have
been the prehistoric state of man, and gave a
strikingly graphic sketch of his progress in civi
cation through the different ages To the present
time Mrs Lyermoie evidently accepts the theory
that the human race began in Asia, and thence,
by successive waves of migration, peopled the
southern and western part of Europe. This is the
commonly received theory, though writer in a
recent number Of the Iudntjc Monthly has pre-
scented n very forcible protest against it, The
march Of human progress was traced all the way
from the settlement of Greece, where mankind
attained lis achievements in the fine arts
to that of Rome where the race accomplished
such marves Of legislation as have received the
cline of the Roman Empire, the prestige was
transferred to Central and Western Europe, aud
this brings us to the middle ages-the age of feu-
dasm, or Vassaage. Now begins the great en-
lightenmcut of the fifteenth century, caused by
four great events, namely; The discovery of
America, the invention of printing, Luther's Ref
otmation, which, we presume, may be taken as
the cause, or at least as example for Henry the
VIII 5 quarrel with Pope Clement VII and the re-
viva of the arts and literature. From this period
the speaker led her audience, by general but
comprehensive resume of the principal events of
the time to modern and quite recent times, treat
ing of the invention of railroads, the magnetic
telegraph, steam enginery and the more recent in
ventons of the telephone and the monograph.
She went on to speak of the stages OF perfection
to which the discoveries of these instruments
hope to bring their inventions She spoke Of the
wonders which might be accomplished with that
most wonderful and powerful of mans servants
electricity. one Of the strong points OF the lee
ture was the necessity of physical education, the
need of training the hands, feet and all portions
OF the body. 1t was demonstrated completely
that Americans, as u class, are greatly deficient
in this respect. 1t was maintained that there
should be no eft-handed and right-handed people,
but that every one shonld be able to use either
hand with equal facility. And now comes the
." Coning Man" What will he be? First he
will he "A healthy man. as "A clear. wel.balanced
and vigorous mind is never found in q veal, and
undeveloped body; and in order for the future
man to progress or even keep up with the advance
ment already made in the arts and sciences he
must be possessed of strong, active, evenly-bal-
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man smoke, chew and drink Intoxicating liquors p
Mrs. Liyermore answers, unhesitatingly, No
Science has proved all these to be deeterous to
the physical and mental organizations, and they
must be eschewed by the progressive men of the
coming generations in order to maintain that
health OF mind and body indispensable to keeping
pace with the advancement of science
We regret that we cannot give more complete
and worthy report OF this intensely interesting lee
ture, but as space is limited, and as we report
only from memory, We find it impossible to do
anything like adequate Justice to it, Before we
close we wish to notice great feature of Mrs.
Livermores Coming Man" She insists that
manual labor mere drudgery-is fast getting to
he a thing of TIE past; that what is in demand
now is SkV'ed tabor, not the g bone and muscle
labor, That the digging and ditching of the
future will be done in the active minds Of scientific
inventors. The work Of the future is to he
brain work.
We only regret that more OF our out-of-town
readers could not have enjoyed rs fully as we
did the pleasure of listening to this lecture,
AT THE CHURCH or THE MESSIAH
Mrs. Livermore preached Sunday morning at
the Church of the Messiah, upon the Immortal
Life. irving rs reasons for her faith some of
those considerations which in times of sorrowful
bereavement had been helpfnl to herself Among
these were the facts of the universally of the
hope of immortality and the intense yearnng of
human hearts for the loved and lost" God
she argued. would not be the good God we wor-
ship certainly not the infinitely loving Father,
ro,o,lad q, ~, La, his Son y,era tI,ese in.tinrts
o.,,i,,,. q nj .;ro+iors y,i, scien,is,s de,,,nd
nosi,i,e nroof of the immortnIitv of the souI and
this mt ,iven nronounce IT pndemonstrable vet
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