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heIu, mas been precipitated, by the logic
OF all the centuries that have gone before
the problems that are the product of all
with which they dealt, and these prob
lens, IN the hands of the American
people, and in their solution, bound and
measure the new arlstocracy of intel
lect; the aristocracy that knelled the
doom OF tyranny and slavery, and the
| dlVlne right of kings, and the domi-
nance OF priestcraft and ignorance, and
mas so lifted and conserved all progress
that almost TO all men all things are pos
slDle, and the ballot trembles in the
nngers OF those who were but yesterday
slaves.
Inc lash has not beaten manhood out OF
tne slave, nor Custers arms crushed out
saVages; but liberty, enlightment, books.
arts, reason, humanity, religion have
erected for the slave the hope of man
hood, and for the Indian the possibility
OF clVllizatlon, and given them and all
others leave to think.
His rapid sketching of the invisible
forces OF historic time was brilliant, and
his conclusions sound. His tributes were
very nne To genius and mind that nut
rope the hunchback, Byron the cripple,
anc Shakespeare, whose breath smelled
OF gin, upon the role Of the true aris-
locraey. Ills comparison of ten centur-
les of struggle. in which manhood
] IL.
gleu or were not, with a single century
IN which they were, and triumphed, was q
wonderfully beautiful passage-the most
prlIllant and logical of the lecture.
adorned like the stretch Of a noble
avenue with the statues of Peter the
Hermit, Abelard, Joan dare. Colum-
pus, Savaronola, Galileo, Luther, Shakes
peare Milton, RuDens, Newton, and so
on down 10 our own time and day, when
the humblest man who walks the street
Wleids ballot that invests him with the
power OF King to undo Presidents and
fashion the laws.
When Mr.. koehne came down to the
practical application of his subject to
these times, to anecdote and humorous
SMILES, he was more delIberative, and
won the smiles and the applause of his
AUDITORS, though even then at times his
intensity ran away with delivery in
the meteoric rapidity with which he
flashed his figures athwart the intelli-
gence of the audience.
his conclusion was that America was a
necessity in the march toward the new
arlstocracy and away from the time when
Womanhood was slavery and to think a
crime, Just as in some churches it is even
now. The arstocracy of the monarch
and the priest went down amidst the
richest civilization of the past, and it lies
a skeleton upon the banks of the Nile:
the aristocracy of classes perished in the
midst of the intellectual and magnificent
civilization of Athens. But in America
the new aristocrat, triumphant over
monarch, priest and class, is the citizen
with the ballot. II such a heritage is his.
argued the orator, how sacred a thing
should be the exercise of the power il
confers.
Whence, he asked, did it come. this
llDerty that gives US the new aristOcracv?
Born in Egypt, thrOttled, protesting, a
thousand years, it became a war cry in
the eastern hemisphere, and ushered in
the Christ who taught the brotherhood OF
man. 1t was for iour hundred years the
bone of contention between rulers and
ruled, the object of persecution and mar
tyrdom, and came at last through the
elevation of woman, the demonstration
of the right to be free and think free, the
trial by jury, the establishment of the
right Of government, the dignity OF
labor. to be the heritage of this people, in
democracy that is the throne of the new
aristocracy.