St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-14

hotel and was accompanied by his wife
and daughter Maude. He was busy dur
ing the entire day with Banker Root,
from Jamestown, n. D., attorneys and
others interested in the Davis will case,
in the trial of which he is
soon to participate at Butte.
In the evening Col. Ingersoll
lectured at the Lyceum theater to an
immense audience. Contrary to gen
eral expectation, he did not reply dl-
rectly to the Baconian theory of Ignatius
DOnnelly. although he made several
side illusions. His address summarized
is as follows, as far as its salient points
are concerned, for 1t is impossible to re-
duce to cold print the gorgeous beauty
OF his maSterful address:
The Lecture.
Shakespeare belonged to all nations
and to all lands. He deals with elemental
things. He knew that locality coIors
without changing, In all surroundings
the human heart remains the same. He
experienced the emotions of all man.
kind, and was the imperial spendthrift
of the world. His outStretched wings
of thought filled the sky. lie was the
intellectual crown of the universe.
Those who think that universities make
brains, that lapidaries make diamonds,
believe that Shakespeare did not
write his plays. We know Bacon
as dishonest man and corrupt
judge. If Shakespeare did not write
his works there is no evidence beneath
the stars that Bacon did. Look through
Bacon'S works and you will find his
philosophy mixed with foolishness
that would have prevented him from
writing great drama. He was lament
ably ignorant of every branch of science
and advanced theories that child must
laugh at. He turns to natural philos-
ophy, to biology, geology, metallurgy,
and medicine, and shows the fool in
every subject. He wrote that Love is
ever matter of commedy and tragedy;
or fury" We know that
the author of 'Romeo and Juliet,
never wrote that. We know
little of the extent of Shakespeare's
knowledge. But we know that Bacon
could not write one scene of Hamlet"
Is it possible that Bacon fathered his
failures and threw his successes to
Shakespeare? Is it not wonderful that
he did not leave line of good poetry
among his papers. Shakespeare claimed
the authorship of the plays and nobody
in his time denied it. 1t is said that
Bacon was afraid of the fame attached
to the name of playwright. We know
Bacon, the corrupt judge. Bacon's
best compares with ShakeSpeare's COM
mon, and ShakeSpeare's best is above
Bacon's best like domed temple above
beggar's hut.
Greatest of Poets.
Shakespeare was the greatest of
doets. What Rome and Greece pro-
duced had been great till his time, but
lions make leopards tame. He was not
only poet but dramatist. He put
the ideal in words and made actions
speak. i saw short time ago play of
Tennyson's. The actors might as we'll
have been in cot-beds, we'll tucked in.
There was plenty of poetry but no dra-
matte action. Shakespeare cared moth
ing for authorities or schools. He was
an inconoclast. He violated all rules
and violated all classics. He knew that
sushine fell as gladly on coffins as Oh
laughing meadows. He placed them
side by side. He was intense and dealt
in lights and shadows. Men of talent
create types. Men of genius create char
acterS. There is as much difference be-
tween talent and genius as between a
stonemason and sculptor. Men of
genius think ofs character as an en-
tirety. Shakespeare threw off char
acters so complete that they thought
and acted for themselves. Shakespeare
elevated wOmanhood more than all the
other writer's of the earth. He reached
heights which others cannot imagine.
His mortals made of clay outranked the
Olympian gods. He was great enough
to know that all human beings prefer
happiness to misery; that there is no
darkness but that of ignorance.
Master of the Human Heart.
If we wish men to walk in the high
way of life we must let the sunlight of
intelligence fall on that highway. He
was the master of the human heart. He
said:
"Love is not love that alters
When it alteration inds.'
That is the sublimest declaration ever
envolved by human mind. He gives us
the generaliZed result without the proc
ess of thought: he stands where all
truths meet in the perfect climate of
the soul. He is the master of imagery
and comparison and definition.
He was the lord of language, the mas
ter of expression and compression. The
confdant of nature, he mingled laugh
ter and tears. l love his sudden changes
from grief to joy-so that the tears of
grief become the dimples of delight.
He had an observant eye, quick ear,
and brain that setaiped pictures. To
him the world paid tribute, and Nature
poured ner riches at his feet. Shake