The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-06-04

HI dime to overlook every established historic
sS2 law W. wRsS ase sU
natIons ms among indiylduals, Who can a, be- 9,
leTe, even from an abstract historic view. thai
modern civilizations What arc is promises
sSrg ~ SfoTs nss he * & 1
We braa and boast and are complacent beyond
we for our belief that coming ages are to be
less exposed TO tho tragic vicissitudcs Of his.
tory than those which arc past2 No nation or
HE lighting age. Cultivation has ways beer
followed by luxury. and luxury by ruin. There
dss 1S Hn to Ss aG sqRs
IN every nation. When this has been lost. all
has been lost There is 0 SlTays so snS
TIerctore ]" toast to re nehtI9g class Il, !:
something wonderful. Considering that the
s5 nS ana ana snrsd phSSsS
Investigation to point at which it stood for
m orc than 1000 years in some cases 1000. as
If Incapable OF advance. its movement In 2
ply Of tho world developed to the confusion q
later Investigations in, chemistry. the ptiliya.
ton OF the forces aud the hitherto hidden
stores Of nnture: through it,, means and other
wise. are something marvellous.
Cromwell In his great straits manifests him
scli tone a nuoynntman; ull OF energy. force;
active and not stubborn will. who says him;
self he" can laugh and sing in ms Heart
while he speaks Ct di!isplties, heinz Injured
TO them and feeling able to encounter ana
1t is this tremendous mounting reso ut ton
and which prompts him TO tell Parliament u.
can get on somehow with or without them IL
The }" great sisS fact in his case is that he is
man sfwar. He won by war and he wi main
tain iy war, Il NECESSARY he may re con
not loGi ,a, and he Is not Intellectual,
ing how hN reached them. The logic Of his
rule he cannot explain. hut he e., can most most
man. essentially Just. honest. truthful. and
Tho interview Of George Fox with Crom..
well shows tho latter to have been great
hearted and true hearted man, The Pr9tee-
cuties with the extravaganza manifestations
Of, dissent rife in those days Of unsettlement,
his way to the Protector and. as no himself re-
ports. had much discourse with him"
am sa again s1nf a my s% By i
wo should be nearer one to the other | wish
Whenever cromwell was not lighting or
cnercine nr threatening to light or coerce;
the Almighty. he tioundered like numbering
ship at sea without wind, He WAS good only
in storm. and his whole life was a storm.
agree with him. He seemed never to he sus-
ruled By " the terror q his inv ineibe sword
He was great military ruler. but never tho
elect of Englanj. by any means.
History is only being developed In our times.
II n rad ara lu0 n hn II now FfNn nf
had Just begun.
Hume only lived a hundred years ago. and
noeoiy goes back OF Hume for general his
Gihbon is the authority on Rome. and Grote
GrSeSe vc,aire dsavssloPsd the age Of
history OF Cromwell. as it 1t was to Irving to
give, that OF Columbus
American. French. and English have signal
esshR wpe ath Il historic ground and thor
In this way all modern history and much
ancient is gone over and ex posed in its details.
treated ntellieently by one or another.
Ihe aGsreGate forms yaiuaeIs addition to
Generally does to but iitte may anu
Our modern great historians are really only
worthy little students. who do good Job each
Tor. but who should not claim to be great men
In consequence.
ton; and the measure may carry In our day.
but it should not lie forgotten that all such
legislation on regulations can be repealed
hereafter. and will be.
The things we know that PythaRoras and
Aristotle and Plato and Cicero aud Caesar did
minis had our modern discoveries been made
Yet in the domain of pure reason and OF
imaginatio on. in the art OF expressing thought
by speech or writing. we have made no adj
vance. The moGerns make NO better speeches,
n Par
tories. argue no more acutely than did the
men Of Greece $500 years ago.
left to the M derns to discover the true solar
system 5 to cirSSumnayigate the GLOBE: to util-
the stores Of coal and oil treasured up in the
earth. to read its geological Autobiography.
that cannot he paraeled by preceding HIS
tory, with only here and there nm exception.
Wellington in lis acts erisin from e loyalty and
duty to his sovereign and country.
~ this he was remarkable. but he is matched
those Of the chiekahom!ny and the %ildern less
0 s sfssiTs Ssys 1odf k S6 cur do
Lions march from Acre to Ascalo was u
great and perpetual battle Of eleven days.
no regard I" the opinions q mankind nor to
ne rights Of individuals. They defer to moth
They are sim ply outlaws. A man moro des-
!itute OF regard Tor decency. mora or ply steal.
! ban Annoleon E"rapRrte never lived. Peter
the Great was the same. and Charles V. not
The way in which the great scourges Of man.
KIND call upon their victims to contribute to
their personal glory is one OF the monstrous
chapters OF human history.
NY glory. said Napoleon. MY glory"
sald Louis NV soc in this an object to
which great nation should devote itself"
MAS there ever such sublmity OF uudacious
and concet
Tho idea should have been met by instant
ana EnOinnons punishment.audit won y have
neeh were The people not reduced to brutes in
and p"ltrOons in action.
" Is. at least. TO Ingland's credit and ours,
VINO come Of English blood. that such n de-
GsI ih sentiment has neyer gained currency
IN me English race. On the contrary, recent
GGnglish history, has almost everywhere. from
Cnntham 70 Wellington, nobly repudiated it.
me old Egyptian civilization WAS in advance
OF that o. the present day. The Egyptians
holh that It was a criminal usurpation Of the
iGm,s OF ne great Osiristor. as We should say.
human rlEhtsi aud u mad presumption in a
ru ler to give his vii! for law.
!. a man who expresses n sentiment Of this
klnd IN france to-day is considered a "Radi-
cal Gal Ned Nepublican." person Of eceen-
trlc and extraNagant views.
Aenophon records Of Cyrus that, percsiy-