Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-12

| the grand central organizations of which
| Rome gave the first model and of which the
| French revolution reproduced the ideal, and
| you VIII always find a vigorous moral ele-
| ment. and strong sense Of the public veal.
| Individuality was but little secured in
| Sparta. The petty demOcracies of Athens
| and OF Italy in the middle ages were nearly
| as ferocious as the most Venal tyrant. The
| Roman empire reached partly through the
| influence OF the East to an intolerable des
! potism.
| German feudality bordered upon brigand
| age. The French under Louis XIV. al
| most emulated the excuses of the Mongol
| dynaStieS. The French revolution fire.
| quently compromised liberty in no trifling
| degree, but prompt reactions have always
saved these nations from the consequences
OF their errors. The Scientific east has
never known any medium between the
complete anarchy of the wandering Arabs
and sanguinary and unlnitigated despotism.
The idea OF the public veal or the public
good IS entirely wanting in these nations
The true and complete liberty such as the
Anglo Saxon race has realized
grand state, such as the
Roman empire and France have
engendered have been equally I'M
known 10 them. The ancient Hebrews and
the Arabs have been the most free of men
but conditiOnally subject TO having on the
morrow q chief who takes of their heads at
pleasure. In art and poetry what do we
owe them2 Nothing in art. These nations
have but little art in them, but in poetry we
hold in common with them more than one
point in resemblance.
Milton, Lamartine, Lamennais would not
have existed to-day without the Psalms.
The Psalms have become in one respect
one OF our sources of poetry. IN science
and philosophy we are exclusively Greek.
The search into causes. knowledge for the
sake of knowledge, is something of which
there is no trace previous TO Greece Baby
Ion had science, but not the real elements
of science. Egypt had knowledge. but she
could not produce the elements of Euclid
Arabian science and Arabian philosophy
are often alluded to, and during one or two
centuries in the middle ages, the Arabs
were our teachers, but only for while,
until we became acquainted with the
Greek originals. When closely examined,
moreover, this Arabian science
HAS NOTHING ARABIAN
in IT, Its foundation is purely Greek.
Among its originators there is not a single
true Shemite; they were all Spaniards and
Persians, who wrote in Arabic.
If we examine the question of morality,
we shall find the Scientific morality very
high and very pure
The Mosaic code contains exalted ideas of |
right. The prophets are most eloquent |
trlbunes. We must not forget that the |
OF the gospel was first preached |
in Scientific tongue. As regards industry, |
invention, material civilization, we are |
much indebted to the Scientific nations |
Commerce and the industrial arts were first |
carried on on grand scale by a Scientific |
people, or least by q people speaking the
Scientific tongue in the Phenicians. In
the middle ages the Arabs and Jews were
our masters in point of commerce All the
Injuries came from the East up to the
Seventeenth century. There is one in
iisputable gift-a gift of the highest order,
and which should place the Phenicians
Yearly on a par with their brothers. the
Hebrews and Arabs, in the history of
lrogress-our alphabet This we have
rom the Phcnicians. the characters
which We now use are, through thousand
transformations, the same with which the
he Shemites first expressed the sounds of
heir language. The Greek and Latin
-Iphaoets from which our European alpha
lets are all derived, are no other than the
'hBnician alphabet. Phonetic writing,
hat luminous idea Of expressing each ar
equation by sound and reducing all
heSe artlculations to small number |
twenty-five was an invention of the Shem-
ties. They have thus fixed the essential
ondltion TO all firm and precise exercise Of |
I thought. We do not owe to the Scientific |
ur political existence, our art, our poetry,
VT philosophy nor our science. What then