Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-04-01

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logium on Daniel Webster at Dartmouth.
Tragedy an comedy were born in the fes-
dvals of Dionysius a. Athens The lyric
and elegiac and epic poetry of Greece 500
years before Christ has its echoes in the
Tennysms, Longfellows and Bryants Of
l,S00 and l 300 years after Christ There
is not an effective pulpit or editorial chair
or professors room or cultured parlor or
Intelligent farmhouse today in America or
Europe that could not appropriately EN-
ploy Paurs ejaculation and say, II am
debtor to the Greeks"
The fact is this-Paul had got much Of
his oratorical power of expression from
the Greeks. That he had studied their lit
erature was evident when, standing in the
presence of an audience of Greek scholars
on Mars hill, which overlooks Athens, he
dared to quote from one of their own
Greek poets, either Clo1nthus or Aratus,
declaring, LAS certain also of your own
poets have said, For we are also his off
spring." And he made accurate quota.
tioE, Clcanthus, one of the poets, having
written:
For we thine offspring are. All things that
creep
| Are but the echo OF the voice divine.
And Aratus, one of their own poets, had
written
Doth care perplexP Is lowering danger nigh2
We are his offspring, and to Jove we fly
| 1t was rather q risky thing for Paul tc
/ attempt to quote extemporaneously from q
poem in language foreign to his and be-
| fore Greek scholars, but Paul did it with
out stammering and then acknowledged
before the most distinguished audience on
the planet his indebtedness to the Greeks,
crying out in his grafton, Gas one of your
own poets has said.
Grecian Architecture.
! Furthermore, all the civilized world,
like Paul, is indebted to the Greeks for
architecture Tho world before the time of
the Greeks had built monoliths, obelisks,
cromlechs, ,sphinxes and pyramids, but they
were mostly monumental to the dead
| whom they failed to memorialize. We are
| not certain even of the names of those in
whose commemoration the pyramids were
built. But Greek architecture did most for
the living. Ignoring Egyptian precedents
and borrowing nothing from other ma
tions, Greek architecture carved its own
|
its own entablatures, rounded its own
holdings and carried out as never before
the three qualities of right building, called
by an old author "frnitas, utilitas, venu-
stas'-namely, firmness, usefulness, beau
ty. Although the Parthenon on the Acrop'
oils of Athens is only wreck of the
storms and earthquakes and lombard
mcnts of many centuries, and although
Lord Elgin took from one side of that
building, at an expense of $3.50, 900, two
shiploads of sculpture, one shipload going
down in the Mediterranean and the Other
shipload now to be found in the British
museum, the Parthenon, though in com
parative ruins, has been an inspiration tc
all architects for centuries past and will
be an inspiration all the time from now
until the world itself is a temple of ruin
Oh, that Parthenon! One never gets ovel
having once seen it. But what must II
have been when it stood as its architects
Ikitnos and Kallikrates, built it out Of
Pentelican marble, white as Mont Blanc
at MONDAY and as overwhelming. Height
above height. Overlapping the august ant
majestic pile and rising from its roof was
a statue of Pallas Promachus in bronze
SO tall and flashing that sailors far out al
sea beheld the plume of her helmet. With
out the aid of the eternal God it never
could have been planned, and without th'
aid of God the chisels and trowels neve
could have constructed it. There is not I
fine church building in all the world, or I
properly constructed courthouse, or beau
tiful art gallery, or an appropriate audi
torium, or a tasteful home which, beesus
| 10th itr rtx-In n
some other style be adopted, is not direct
ly or indirectly debtor to the Greeks.
But there is another art in my mind
tho most fascinating, elevating and in
spring of all arts and the nearest to tn
divine-for which all the world owes
debt to the Hellenes that will never b
paid. Imean sculpture. At least $50 year
before Christ the Greeks perpetuated tn
human face and form in terra Gotta ant
marble. What blessing to the humal
+ family that men and women, nightly use
full, who could live only within centur
may be perpetuated for five or six or tel
centuries How wish that some sculpto
, contemporaneous with Christ could hav
, put his matchless form in marble! Blu
for every grand and exquisite statue
Martin Luther of John Knox, of William
Penn, of Thomas Chalmers, of Wellington
of Lafayette, of any of the great Statesmen
, or emancipatOrs or conquerors who adorl
! your parks or fill the inches of your acad
, emies, you are debtors to the Greeks. The
covered the Acropolis, they glorified tn
temples, they adorned the cemeteries wit
= statues, some in cedar, some in ivory
! some in silver, some in gold, some in siz
diminutive and some in size colossal
p Thanks to Phidias, who worked in stone
!, to Clearchus, who worked in bronze;
, Dontas, who worked in gold, and to- a.
, ancient chisels of commemoration. Doyo
p not realize that for many of the wonder
a of sculpture we are debtors to the Greeks
s The Art of Healing.
Yea, for the science of medicine, tn
great art of healing, we must thank tn
v Greeks. There is the immortal Greek dot
J. tor, Hippocrates, who first opened the doc
y for disease to go out and health to com
y in. He first set forth the Importance
d cleanliness and sleep, making the patier
n before treatment to be washed and TAX
|. slumber on the hide Of a sacrificed beas
n He first discovered the Importance of thol
If ough prognosis and diagnosis. He formr
}, lated the famous oath of Hippocratt
70 which is taken by physicians of our da!
1t He emancipated medicine from superst
j. tion, empiricism and priestcraft. He we
's the father of all the infrmaries, hospita
II and medical colleges Of the last 23 Gel
n turies. Ancient medicament and surger
N had before that been anatomical and ply
IS biological assault and battery, and Ion
E after the time of Hippocrates, the Gree
e doctor, where his theories were not knowr
= the Bible speaks of fatal medical trea
le ment when it says, "In his disease
10 sought not to the Lord, but to the ph.
o sicians, and Asa slept with his fathers.
70 And we read IN the New Testament of I'll