Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-10-20


Some Of the orations delivered a
the Tourgueneff memorial services
held at Paris on the I'd instant, were
characterized by uncommon beauty Of
sentiment and expression Edmund
About, speaking for the Soclete de:
Gems de lettres, said: Ivan Sergriev
itch, thou hast indeed ceased to suffer
yet thou has not wholly ceased to live
Thy warm and generous bloyd still
circulates in thy books; and the good
thou hast wrought is craven upon q
m etal more imperishable than brass
the Gratitude OF the Just. Wherefore
we mourn thee not with tears;-the
lmmortals may not be wept for.
These are beautiful thoughts; but
they pale before the mightier words OF
RenaD:
###"By that mysterious decree
which creates human vocatlons, Tour
gueneff received the noblest of gifts
he was born essentially impersonal
His conscience was not that OF one in
diyidual more or less gifted by nature.
it was, in certain sense, the con
science OF Nation. Before beins
born, he had already lived many a
thousand years; infinite SUGGEST rus Of
dreams we're concentrated within the
depth Of his heart. No other man was
over so truly the Incarnation of an
entire world. A world lived within
him-a world 81 axe through his lips
generations OF vOiceless ancestors, lost
in the sleep Of centuries. were in him
recalled TO life. Thus was his mission
wholly one OF pacifcation. He was
even as the God of the BOOK Of job,
Who maketh peace in high places
What 10 others would have produced
& rending asunder. in him became a
principle Of harmony. 10 that broad
breast the most opposite forces mutu
slly embraced; ansthema and hatred
were disarmed by the magic Of his art.
Il Evenement. Sept. 3.
This was one Of several discourses
recently pronounced by the ilinstriOus
ethnoloeist and Orientalist which in-
dictate that in the near fu'ure science
will be the mother Of eloquence. There
is an erroneous popular idea that pro-
found scientific study dwarfs or stiff IS
iancy-clips the wings Of Imagination,
On the contrary there is no branch OF
mental science that has not enormous
ly enlarged the mental vision Of man,
and elevated him immensely above the
peitiaess OF every day existence
In the isolated fact, the
Scientist beholds not only
the fact itself, but all that vast class
Of incidents to which it belongs, and
the eternal forces that have produced
it,-snd their ultimate tendencies
and their dim relation to infnite and
everlasting laws. The modern as
tronomsr, familiar with the courses
and the .appellations OF hundred
Thousand suns, has surely nobler
conception OF the universe THAI the
grandesi Of ancient poets who sang
the beauties Of the dawn. the phys
oloeist studying the mysteries OF hu-
maD m0rpholoEy. finds more wonders
10 the body Of man than the greatest
OF Grecisn sculptOrs dreamed Of; and
TO the bot1nisi, Who knows the evolu>
ton Of petals and the marvellous Rea-
son Of blossom>eolors, flowers have a
deeper charm than Persian singer ever
Euessed Even the student Of dry
bones. discovering in moder heads
the characteristics OF prehistoric
races, reads a romance grander than
Honerie epopsa or A.thurian
idyi; Gnd the chemist, perhaps, has
more nearly OWNED the nature Of the
Law than ever prophet Of old,
seeing that all forms are erystaliIed
into being (Ehethef meu or suns,
whether flowers OF starsl By the eter-
nal chemistry OF God. Its little 70
know men and things as they appear
through the deceptive medium Of
those senses we may involuntarily ex-
ercise; it is everything to know them
IN their relation 10 the visible uni
verse and to the universal soul; and
thus will they be more or less known
and studied by the great thinkers aud
writers of the future. Science will 50
develop art and thought that to the
men Of coming centuries all that has
been done will surely seem as the
work Of children, as the voice Of
~ infant erying in tie night.
An infant crying for the light
And with no language but q cryi