Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-16

rudimentary beginning of scientific in
quiry. In the ruder stages of intellectual
development Imagination plays very
large part. Crowds flock to theater to
see mimic ship or mimic railroad train,
because it appeals TO the senses. Look at
your libraries The librarian will report
at the end of the month
TEN THOUSAND VOLUMES
Drawn by readers. Nine thousand nine
hundred of these belong to the classical
ton which appeals to the fancy, to the
senses, if you viii. One hundred
volumes of the ten thousand appeal
to the intellect, to reason, to profound
thought, to study, to the love and worship
of God. Establish library of theolog-
ical works alone, or of scientific works ex-
clusively, and your librarians report will
disclose the paucity of interest upon this
plain of human attainment. The line
will be short, because very near the apex
developed aspiration. The shrine of the
Prophet at Mecca is visited by thousands
of votaries; but here, again, the imagina-
tive sense is appealed to. The aerolitic
stone, which is known as the prophets
stone, is supposed to work miracles in the
spiritual and physical lives of the pill
grims. Shrine-cure, mind-cure, faith-cure
are concomitant things The imaginative
in religion corresponds to the imaginative
in the dramatic and scenic art. You have
established museum. 1t will challenge
the interest of those who think 1t will
suffer from the indifference of those who
dream. Let it be given out that your Art
Gallery is haunted that noises may be
heard that at II o'clock on each night a
ghost walks among your statuary, and
points with bony fingers to the pictures on
your walls, and thousands will sit up all
night to witness such an apparition.
THE SUM OF ALL THIS Is
That the progress of humanity finds an
apt smile IN the march of an army. The
videttes are thrown out in advance of the
accommodating parties; the reconnaissance
line in advance of the vanguard the van
guard in advance of the advance line; the
advance line preceding the main body, and
the main body followed by the rear guard.
Some one has aptly said that it is the
firing upon the skirmish line which indi-
Gates where the battle of the future is to
be. In brief, the progress of mankind puts
but few in the vanguard, and the many in
the main body with the rear guard; and
this will always be so. Relatively the
position of its subdivisional forces will re-
main the same in all time.
THE WONDER OF YOUR CORRESPONDENT
Has been that so many persons in your
community have interested themselves in
your museum, not that there are so few.
You are mistaken, even foolishly mis-
taken, when you suppose that you will
acquire any achievements by attracting
the attention. of the masses. Your files
will come from the ranks of real appreci-
alton. Whenever an individual rises
above the line which marks the distinc-
tion between thought above and feel
ing below, reason above and imagina-
tion below, and below which line of sub
mergence you have the depths of the
imaginative, and above which line of
emergence you come into the clear atmos-
phere of thought and reason-I say when
one rises above this line, he has risen into
the realm of your activity and effort, he
thereby becomes one of you. Such an
acquisition is real reinforcement to your
purposes. You cannot take your museum,
with its treasures of art, below the line to
which it belongs. You cannot take things
which belong to the