The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-09
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last two thousand years that had not oc-
pressed in language more potent than the
language or phraseology Of this day and
time can compass, Why should not this
be the case? Anatomy and physiology
teach us that every man born since Adam
was expelled from the Garden of Eden, has
had the same anatomical and physiological
organization, some slight anatomical
differences being perceptihc perhaps, in
some Of the lower orders or races of human
kind. We may take the grandcst states
man any age ever produced and man
of the same race of hut ordinary
mental capacity and the organization and
formation of the brain of the two is exactly
the same. The statesman viii have a
greater amount of brain, and it will doubt
less he of . finer texture, but otherwise
the one Is just the same as the other 1t
is just like the physical organization of
two men, as whole. Each may be six
feet tall each weigh the same, each meas
IRE the same around the chest, around, the
arm, the leg, the loins, etc, and each have
had equal practice and experience in physi-
cal labor; still one will he the stronger and
ADLER man of the two aud generally the one
with the weaker mental organization. Each
brain that is made has the same functions,
and divisions, some with great, others with
weaker powers. On the day that President
Garfield was buried Rev Mr. Errctt of
Chicago delivered a memorial ser
mon in common with thou
sands of other ministers of the
country. This sermon was 50 exceedingly
excellent, so eloquent and touching that
notonly did the papers Of Chicago publish
it, but ii was reproduced by number Of
metropolitan journals throughout the coun-
try. A few days aftorward, the Chicago
lntcr-Occan cnme out in severe criticism
charging that the sermon in question was a
plagiarism of an Grafton delivered by Hon
Edward Everett one of Americas grandcst
orators, on certain 22nd Of February,
Washington's birthday, ON the life aud
character of Washington. The minister
replied that he had when boy, year, ago
read that Grafton, but remembered none of
it, and if his sermon was a Plagiarism, it
was an unconscious one We believe the
minister told the truth When great man
dies, when u man who lives in the
hearts of the people, passes away, and
the deepest fountains of their emotions
are stirred to their uttcrmo,t depths, as in
the case Of the death Of the
late President Garfield, and the same emo
tions that are awakened in one ease, the
same functions of the mind that are aroused
in one case are awakened and aroused in a
simiarca whether it be in an age that is
past, or in this age. When Edward Ever
EFT made the grand Grafton in question, the
chords of his heart that were swept by emo
TONS trembling fingers, the functions of
his brain that were excited to undue activ-
ity by tho grandeur of his theme, were the
self same chords in the heart, and the self
same functions in the mind of Rev Mr..
| Errett, of Chicago, that were ahnormally we
say, excited aud made active by the dealt,
and burial of President Garfield, aud
the very same thoughts surged through
his brain that lived in the brain
of Edward Everett and found expression in
the AnGlo-saXon language, the language o
both The scientists who.dabblc in psyco
ogy and biology, perhaps, might give learn
ed reasons for this, hut we are content t.
let science remain with the scientists
! giving only our common sense views o
such things. Never has there been song
sung that did not breathe its music in the
chambers OF some other mans heart. All
what wonderful things are in human mind,
| the brain and tho human heart The ply
stefan in his cold, practical knowledge Of
the two, may talk To us about the lobos OF
| the brain, the ccrc hclum or little brain
and the other divisions of this organ, it,
gray matter, etc, and he may tell you o
the ventriClCs, tho vona cava, the right
auriclc, etc, ctc., of the heart, but he
in this scientific and prac.
teal anotominical lecture will forget
all about the visions, the hopes, the
cravings, the ambitions Of the one, the
emotions, the tendernesscs and bitterncsSe'
ofthc other, In every heart there is sea
sometimes calm and placid with its ripping
waves, all aglcam with the sheen Of n sur
that knows no cloud and again hcayine
under the influence OF mighty tempest
its waves all whitc-coppcd and blood
tingcd, beating upon its shores that are
black with the shadow of deep despair OF
a mighty anger. In the midst of that sea
are green islands, all ilower.begirt, ,on tn,
sands OF which the brightest shells from
glorious subtcrranoan cavorns and grottoe,
lie, murmuring sweetest music when
listened to, In their groves are brilliantly
plumaged birds, and the melodies they
MARBLE are of heaven or hell, as the sea may
be smiling or venting les fury in fierce
music to the solemn monody OF
shrieking storms, Shakespeare, tho great
original, the grandest, finest that ever al.
ministered ut the literary altar, that ever
dispensed tho holy water OF genius over
tho multitude that knct at his shrine, was
in tho common acceptance of the word, but
a plagiarist. They say Shakespeare never
wrote his plays; that II was Bacon and
Others of that day who only use the name
OF the theatrical "supe" to cover their
identity. To hades with the iconoclast