Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-05-26

EItfact from Sunday evenings lee
ture by ID. J. Pierce.

ture bv d. J. Pierce.
Scientists and iinsuists seen vel
sRne7n tnAt IN Persia ssd india ga,
ooiH lne cradle Of the human
t@s caoviy. almost impereeutibiy
oes sarsly, the course Of civilization =
-, As kneSn has gone wesfzard until
.etiAy = toucbss the Pacific Ocean and
looAs toward toe last empire of con
guest m stable AonRolia, who's
hsrces, however. harasssd the advans
ing columns. India, Assyria. EQypt
Jerusalem. Greece and Rome have in
tnrn eacn seeDed 70 be the great esntei
Of the vorid's progress.
nov the primitive people first ap-
Peafeo We have no record. bot upon
.aeAe, 10 successive emigrations the
AflAn rHces have swept over Europe,
nov recnitInR as IN Greece. Rome and
Britain 20 form ruling eivilizssion nov
pinngin9 into primeval forests, 20 rouse
new aspsratitons amsng barbaruus
hofnes, bat always proving q p1rifyinR
element, oarning and full of FIRE, y
wolch should prepare nsv structures Of
human progress.
Abraham esme from the sastern Char.
ran TO drive the earlier Canaanites from
rniestine. Pheniciaus from the eastern
coasts Of the Mediterranean. founded
Iona, while toe nesting Of the different
streams IN Asia Minor eliminated IN
the homerie bard aad the Athenian
philosophy.
From the blazing hres of sncient
Troy, 10 Asia Minor, ths poetic Eoe-s q,
OF Virgil, wandered westward aniii be
reoched the Adriatie peninsula, aud
foanded the kiagdsm Of Lstium. which
Ter i've hundred years ruled the world.
Rome, as she carried her standard
over The Alps, across the Rhine, and
across the British Channel. renewed ihe
oounict, which, however it might
eoe and how, Vas the insvita-
Die result Of this ceaseless current,
ghieb like reslstless tide swept all be-
fore its progress and prepared Europe
for modern civilization.
Yet Rome, the mistress Of the world,
Was not destined, a. her proud people
supposed, 10 be the eternal city 20 hold
perpetaal sway over the baFbaric ma
lions, but rather to be broken in frsa-
menfs Ike the hard granite before the
power ef the waves, 20 minRls with
barbaric soil and form q neg strata of
society which, after ages Of darkness,
should produce the modern civilization
OF Russia, Germany, France aud Brit
ain. The Gothic nation has had re-
markable prominence in this history.
Exteadines through the center of
Europe" says Merivale. from the Bal.
t,c 10 the Black Sea. between the limits
Of the Dixina ana Dnieper or Don,
pressed equally upon the Franks and
Germany IN ths west, and upon she
Roman power in tue south and west"
Richard Grant White says they were
nrst heard from near the Black Sea-
They originated from the northern
stream Of the Aryan emigration which,
ages before, moved west from Central
Asia, leaving a. they vent perhaps the
Cauc iasstans, and pressing on peopled
Europe. exterminating OF dFivIaR be-
fore them the moe primitive races.
I've hundred thousand warriors under
the Christian fritigern appeared upsn
the banks Of the Danubs, harassed by
the plandeFine Huns. duriSg the reian
OF ValentiniAn, and asked TO be trans
ported and ailoved to settle with their
families on Roman soil. it vas grant
ed, but 90 poorly done that the disaffect-
cd hafharians determined 10 take ven
geance upon sheir miserable bsnefacs-
ora. and opened the noodgates behind
them for the renowned bot terrible
Alaric, who swept over the entire south
and appeared before the gates Of Rome.
DE was bribed 10 20 away, but reap
peArcd in a year.
Alarie was destroyer, yes the pro-
gress Of Christianity was FASTENED BY
bis rayaaes. Ulphiius. full eentary
before. a. . slave among the Goths, had
taught the principles of Christianity
among tho Goshs, and, as MebsteF's
Dieilonary says, laid tbs foundation Of
tae oefman language by his translation
OF tne bioie into a tongue never before
written.
This Introduction OF Christianity
among the Goths constitutes an ep0ch
in Eoropean history, aud shows hou the
btole became civilizse by reducing
languages TO written form and hasten
ing learning by the ever present mana
seftps Of the Scriptures.
Scarcoiy less romantic was the BE-
ginning OF Christianity among the
Franks Clovis, the founder OF she
French Empire, was severely besst BY
his ensmiea. In his strait be pledged
himself 10. become q Christian IL shs
Chrissian God would help him. Victory
was his, ai.d his wife noe reioiced in q
Christian husband follouing her long
eherishsd faith. Three thousand Of ais
sabiects ai once joined the Christian
Church.
these weFs ruae and external begin
ninRs of higher religious power which
gradually von its way until the whole
vas lesveued..'
saint Patrick Of Ireland il q strictly
historical character of remarkable 500
cess, though We eannot credit ell the
traditions Of his miracles. Ireland be-
ing beyond the limits Of the Roman
Empire, 10 10 supposed thas many Chfis-
tians escaped thtther daring the pesss-
easiAns ef DtooletiAn. and thus laid the
foundAsian Of future snecess.
We cannos judge Of this woaderful
carrens OF hanan life By the psoaress
of single century.
10 Ia oae of the central oarrensa Of
history, which like the equatorial ear
rcnt about the contiaenis. never ceases,
boa belts the earth With It's presence.
Says Arnold Ia Affects more or
lees, the Hhole west Of Europe. from the
hsa 4 Of the Gulf Of Bothnia 10 the most
southern prumontory Of Sicily: from
the Oder and Adriasie % the Hsbeides
1AAA AAaNA-tAAs 1NAAAA244Fa eAAE A4aN (AtA1-
tFies, SRitzerlAnd, Tor the most part
Den0ark, Norway and Sweden, snd our
oun islands Great BFisainl are ali, in
Language, in blood, in Institutions Ger
man. msss decidedly.
but ali South A1nerieA b peopled with
Spaniarda and Portueaese. al North
America and Australia with Enelish-
men. ! aAy nothing Of the prospects
and influence Of the German race in
Africa and In India. ID n enoaeh 10 cay
that half VI Europe and al America and
Australia are Gsrman, more or Iess
oomplateiy, In race, IN language or in
insiitutsoias or In all" Quoted BY Ora
sy's Fftsan Decisive Rak ies.
Nov tkis . German" race Of which
Arnoid apeAks 20 eloQpently waa eoiaed
ont ef the 0siro1oshs and Nszieotha of
Central Europe By The power Of fAiltne
Rome.
England, being the fsess OF several
streams. the Celtic. the SAx0n. the scan-
ainaviAks and SofmAns. reached =
more rapid prosress and hlosssnssd into
masarity three handre9 years AGc. snd
b noe beltino The esfta usth her coi-
snial ineasnes Ia IHdia. IN Aastsalia.
In China.
Germany Il new uakins TO The Hrsi