St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-24

VIC OidtoI VI Jue udy, was introduced ana
cordially greeted. Like the previous speak
ers, Mr.. Davis experienced difficulty in
making himself heard in the great audi
forum, and only those seated upon the
platform could hear him with any distinct
ness. Whenever his remarks called
forth applause from those near him,
it was taken up by the entire concourse,
and people who could not even hear the
sound Of his voice cheered and clapped
their hands simply out of eXuberance To
wards the close of his address, which was
somewhat lengthy, some signs of impatience
were manifested by few who were seated
at the further end of the amphitheater, but
the great majority sat patiently until he had
finished. Mr.. Davis address was in SUBJ
stance us follows:
Mr.. President, Ladies and Gentlemen:
About the year 1921, Francis Bacon, having
paid by his downfall the debt which, in all
time, calumniating mediocrity has eXacted of
great genius, was, nevertheless. suffering
under the agonies of that Judgment, from
which he appealed 'tO mems charitable
speeches, to foreign nations, and the next
ages" But the sway over that realm of
thought which extends into eternity still was
his, and he then left to US that glorious but
interrupted dream of the New Atlantis, as a
description of one of the provinces of his
kingdom. 1t is vision of society in which
perfect utility is achieved by great knowl-
edge. In that conception of a state, purer
than the golden age. he represents the means
by which that knowledge is attained, and it is
by house, grander than anything man has
ever builded. He called it the House of Sol
omon.. There were gathered for instruction
and use. all the productions of art, science
and industry that can contribute to the well
being of men. The ruler of that dominion, he
wrote, instituted that house for the finding
out the true nature of all things, whereby
God might have the more glory in the work
maDship of them, and man the more fruit in
the use of Them Nowhere in literature is
to be found such a complete ideal of the in
stitution which has here been brought to
completion by the wisdom and
LIBERALITY OF A MODERN CITY,
and which we this day dedicate so auspi-
ciously to the same lofty objecUs that filed
the soul of the dreaming philosopher when he
reared his visionary structure in an island of
an untraversed sea. The house in which Ba-
con wrote was not university, imparting
knowledge by abstract teaching. 1t was a
vast exposition, where knowledge itself ap-
peared in action, and where the stages of
growth were marked by experimental devel-
opment into visible forms. Its object was to
use his own words, 1.-THE knowledge of causes
and secret motions OF things. and the enlarg-
ing of the bounds of human empire to the eff
fecting of all things possible 1t is strange
how long the most suggestive thoughts often
remain fruitleSS, and this conception of Bacon
thus lay barren for more than two centuries,
until the year 1851, when the Worlds EXPOSE
ton was opened in London. Since that time
there have been several such international
displays, where the nations have placed in
comparison and competition the essential
forms of their arts and sciences, and have
borne back to distant lands the PROJECTIONS of
many races. Nothing has ever done SO much,
not even martial conquest, to break down the
n finia, do
so make hospitality take the place of exclu-
sion. 1t has taught the Persian and the
Turk, and has caused the immemorial
and enormous mass of Chinese polity to yield
to the influence of nations, whose Inhabitants
forty years ago were called, according to the
Able Hue, with Mongol insolence, 1.-The red
haired devils of the Western world" These
pageants of the useful and the beautiful have
widened the scope of human thought to the
conception of d federation of the nations, in
which the brazen voice of war shall be heard
no more, and Peace shall brood over the
world
LIKE REJOICING SKY;
in which the contentious, the needs and the
abuses which now array classes against
classes, labor against capital, the city against
the country and states against each other
shall be abolished by Christianity and knowl-
edge, reconciled and working together.
OF the purposes of the Exposition, Mr. Da-
Wis said:
/ shall barely touch upon it as means of
amusement. although in that respect it is by
no means unimportant. In moral point of
view it's functions are much more apparent
and important. tits singular how slow men
are to learn the lesson that while morality is
commanded by laws and ordinances their eff
cacy as teachers in that respect is very feeble
No law ever executed itself, and all expert
ence shows that the dread of consequences
little deters anybody from possessing pres
ent enjoyment. The world is full of statutes
and jails, but the former have seldom kept
anybody out of the latter. Morality in prac-
tice does not so much consist in intelligent
obedience to law as it does in the routine
practice of disposition which has been
so trained as to create habit. To convert
this tendency into an enjoyment, is the great
object of practical philanthropy. Too much,
in this respect, cannot be said in praise of
the home but, the plain fact is that it is
sometimes tedious. One becomes tired of
turning the leaves of the same books, of fret
ting against small details, and of sitting m
der the stare of the same portraits from out
the background of the same change
less wall. Relief is sought too often
from these in exciting diversions. and
those often OF the most trivial, and some