St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-29

is ready to believe in miracle as far as the
plays OF Shakespeare are concerned, willing
TO- believe that ignorant boy, who could
neltner read or write. except his name, could
write these plays, but willing TO believe in no
miracles so far as they apply to Christianity .
we find in Shakespeares plays
& Stupendcus Fact
proving beyond question Shakespeare never
wrote the plays. They are publishing under
the auspices OF the Cambridge university a
new dictionary. They have been several
years getting to the letter C. They give in
that dictionary the first place where any
word was ever printed III the English Ian
guage, and in 200 pages they find there were
S3o words that appeared for the
that at that time they had not passed beyond
the letter A. 1t shows therefore, that 5000
or 6;0O new words were added TO this En-
giish tongue by the man who wrote the
Shakespeare plays. How were these added?
Many OF them were Improvements upon
words. Abreast 'Air-drawn' dagger of
Macbeth. There is a vocabulary Of 1500)
words IN the plays. In the British mu-
scum are Bacon's manuscripts. He was
stuoylng how to make the rude
English speech elegant. On one page writ
ten at the same time as Romeo and Juliet
we find Rom aud a mark over the e. No
other word could be meant than Romeo? We
ma the great man experimenting with
words rouse ye.' get up uprouse,' and
,uprouse' appears in Romeo and Juliet
for the first time in the English language
ana side by side are the words golden
sleep. In Romeo and Juliet you find
Uprouse thee from thy golden sleep
The purposes behind these plays were d.
vine. Addison says: His prayer was like
the alteration of an angel
1T makes me sorry
And Sick and Hearts
he said, to see an American plunge head
long as fools rush in where angels fear to
IgAfn fl.A IL
winch he knows nothing and charges Of
lenses against this illustrious man, when
ne should be on his knees thanking
COO that He gave the world such q
man But the colonel would perhaps object
10 thanking God, for l think it is his belief
that the universe is a dog churn,' minus
the dog. That there is no master mechanic
behind the scenes. Oh, Francis Bacon
summed up the whole thing when, with the
reach of his divine intelligence he saws:
I would rather believe all the fables in
the Talmud and the Khoran than to believe
tnat this universal frame is without a mind
My friends, think l have shown enough
to show you that Mr.. ingersoll knows moth
ing about this Dacon-Shakespeare question;
that he Is the merest tyro upon it; that he is
unfair and has never studied it. He would,
Indeed, rldicule my great book.
THE CryptOgram.'
but if he had taken the trouble to have read
1t he would never have sprung his remarks
on this Intelligent community.
Bacon dared not appear poet He was
lawyer. If there was one of your young
lawyers here who dared publish an ode to
spring he might just as well close up his
once; we don't want poets for lawyers we
want hard d-headed men,
Il could cite authorities upon authorities
showing the whole prodigious progress of
human thought came from this magnificent,
tremendous man with his indicative
philosophy He described the principles of
that attraction of which Newton passes for
the inventor Noltaire says: Before Bacon
experimental philosophy was not known
Scarcely one has been made since not in
dicated in his books. He made pneumatic
machines and Col. Ingersoll calls it dog
churn.'
''It is enough, my agnostic friends to make
me turn tail on Robert Ingersoll and rush
right back into the bosom of Christianity. a
dog churnr | would just as soon think of
sounding the fathomess depths of the At
lantic ocean with a champage cork as to
fathom the soul of Bacon by this orator."