St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-15

things that are already established.
know or no means of getting Truth other
than through mind as free as the air
we breathe. Anything that can be
Killed by criticism is not sacred. ANY
thing that has in it the true ring of life
VIII stand under the severest fire of
criticism.
L would preserve that blending of abil-
lty and humanity that gives him such
wonderful power. Ability alone, mere
lntellectualism, is often cynical. 1t Is
often Icy. ills often bitter sheer. 1t
Is like the sailors vision of the Merit
mac, with her terrible sheathe of iron
tnat turned away the shot from the
cumberland as she bore down upon
That sil-Fated Ship
very ''kraken, huge and black" IMAM
innate but terrible. 1t is powerful. mt
merciless. Mephistopheles going up the
side of the mountain in the wild pro-
cesslon OF witches, goats and swine
while trees are bowling in the storm.
while mountains are Quaking and groan-
ing, while fires flash ftfully from the
top of the hills-and this man of power.
unmoved, moves swiftly through all the
scene-this is intellect without human
lty. Humanity without intellect is fool
ment that has in itself no power. 1t is
full of signs and tears, but has no grin
OF things. Now 1T is in the union of
these qualities that you have strength.
Humanity makes intellect all the more
useful, and Intellect makes humanity a
motive force of new and greater value.
ms feeling OF humanity is seen in
Mr.. Ingersoll's visit to the grave of Ma
poleon |. There came to him piano.
ramlc view of all that great general had
thought and done. He saw Napoleon
putting down the mob in Paris-''at the
head of the army in Italy; crossing the
bridge at Lodi, with the tri-cOlOr i'm his
hand; i'll Egypt under the shadow of
the pyramids; saw him conquer the
Alps and mingle the
Eagles of France
with the eagles on the crags: saw him
in Russia, where the infantry of the snow
ana the cavalry of the wild blast scat
tered his legiOns like winters withered
leaves" But when he thought of the
lives sacrificed at the altar of this mans
ambition, the orator concluded: IL
would rather have lived in a hut with
vine growing over the door, a poor
peasant, with my loving wife at nv side.
knitting as the day died out of the sky
with my children upon my knees and
their arms around me; L would
rather have been that man, and
gone down to the tongueless and
dreamleSs dust, than to have been that
imperial personation of force and MUIR
der known as Napoleon the Great! This
was but sample of the humane spirit
that runs through ingersolI's speech
and writings. The speaker made espe-
clal reference to the ''Vision of War;
and said it would live because It was
filled with thoughts of home, wife,
mother and sacrifice. He referred to
the tribute on Beecher and the orators
sympathy with nature and its Influence
on life. This positive teaching, the adj
vocacy of right life, the purity OF home,
the emotions that cluster around domes-
tic life-all these, he hoped, would be
long remembered in the eloquent words
in which they had been spoken. For
himself, he believed in all this and
more, and he would add to what had
been given an intelligent cause and di-
recting love, and the upspringing and
undying hope of Immortality. and the
power of the ideal In the life of Christ.