New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-09
: TBEPAL THOUGHT IN AMERICA
PEOPLE ARE LIVING NOW IN THE Auh
OF THE DECOMPOSITION OF oRTlio-
MOVIES SAYS JOHN F1SKE.

rrboea uho heard Professor John Flske yesterday
afternoon at the Berkeley Iyceum VIII not SOU"
forget his beautiful and inspiring lecture on Inc
Progress Of Liberal Thought I'm America IN S"'-
stance his address was as follows;
.Ir searching for the origin Of liberal thought IN
America. we cannot forget that the discovery VI
nov continent was mighty stimulus 10 nv
,,.,t,c From the earliest days OF civilization me
.or,d.s stream OF trade had flowed through the
| ar,o channels Nevcr did the human mlhu GET
euch wrench out Of It's accustomed sIooNr' q"
,rror Columbus sailed west 70 ma the Fd9. az"
! Cortez stood face to face with Hen OF me 9'oIe
| ,o 4 study OF the contemporary recordS S'o"'
US what romantic 'H'" INV
gave the world" ,,, ,..,.o, .
@,t,ar demonstrating that the brilliant intellect
/ ,oi oforcscence Of the sixteenth ceh'u'! ""9
/ ot only TO the revival Of Greek learhhs' p"' '''
| "a the maritime discoveries oil tne u''''' ,,,.
! w.. mont nj, 70 show that from the time OF he''!
/ ,.rtrs rcvol; from the Papacy TO the rrNo'""o"
/ 49, 49,, nroqrcss Of liberal thought In Engah" ia"
e., ,bc nature OF the growth OF toler"'lo"
4 tforry VIII indirectly increased tha' Sp''. -
| ,o.L,ng Nh religious orders ana mahI's NV
/ mt, - the church a matter OF dispute i'''''I
P hitch had been almost crushed IN 'he P'e-
,,,ons century. lifted up Its heau "s"'" "
,o,rod as Puritanism In fun paL'P!' -,
P' ,,,h.,h,s time there were three classes %
-. tte Moderate Reformers, the hoo' anu
,,.a,,b Reformers and the independents i'e -
,s ,,ouId have been content with mercy - -,
/ 49, teachings and customs oil the mn
,ord class would have extern iha'eu "''
60 rho third class held that an! pouE Vi
prah0" ...,ri,n themselves into a congreGa-
/ p'Of, t,,r,b as autonomous as Greek ''"''.
to'', ,,so preliminary steps toward tolerau'" u
! r,o,,s scots came diminutoh Oh '"o
| .o- of the Church or the SoVere'e'' ,,
/ n,morica's inheritance is mostly 'C''' ILL
,,rao Of Henry VIII England was pohn-
f.rfGr ia q
/ ,rhn PapaCy had never established :" oi'''i ,,H ,h
/ ,as Establishments intercourse VII" '"'
IY,ch increased their spirit OF 'olera''Pn ,or,os
Du.0" ,hc Atlantic. five of the twelve cooii'S
,.a in the seventeenth century "''e
I PC, Cor thclr liberation in religious ma.
guished lo' ,or,os of New Netherlands. Mary
lh'E -. Island Pennsylvania, and Delaware
l""u, t,,or Island the Dutch carried out ile
,,,,. ,bev had maintained at nome Inc P'o
-. -, Narvaud wished 10 make '' P'V't'No
',l home for Catholics. ana h'"oc VIC!
S'"D' 80 shane a policy broad enough TO lhclude
oo"h'u "a contrast to independently. william
CathollVS -i,.rtsr REPRESENTED IN fellhsE wanna d
notable advance in lndild1ainp Protestant right TO
Hol" WUams represented the ~
individual JuuSIhnrrh and state. and was the first
separation u ia larry out a theory OF religious frte-
40 ,or, broad enough 10 be approNeu "S nv" Vi '
Day, as only after 1916 that the principe Oh re-
,,,inus freedom WAS geneTal.y r,|Pu ~ st,t
me- chief gonst IN that cohI, Mn1r Isffer
ne .tVrginta ana the victory was won uuu'r SsnDt
OF VI Madison. Through the aSSlstHicc Vi wv
son an ~ ana the Germans, VINO eIn'Srat"d 10
ScotCnri., Of the Shenandoah about IN me party
the Nalio! sI,rcreded not only In abOshing primo
OF Jer and entail but also In disestablishing the
tenluiuii' Snurch In America. Madsons Religious
f.nsISH 49, 81 l7sJ very important ana IL
Frtlp pnningious freedom In America almost az com
mace r. .,.tslaturcs can make IT, The word al
pIel. srd adyiscdy, for IN certain states or the
NOS dn belief IN God l. today required OF oilice-
mon mon erd Jurors. fact that indicates the sur
NiNal q! =" me nineteenth century liberal thought
,I5,t,ianced farther in MASSACHUSETTS, than IN any
md yet
otI.eI nowh.rr greater exhibitions OF Intolerance.
MeIe p Two sources for liberal thought-the secu-
lneir nature such L. typihed In Franklin. or
n ",.nsc devotion to spiritual Ideals that never
ihe ,i rea son as Is typihcd IN Emerson. In their
thrtfs.s, davs the people OF Massachusetts never
,I'ii hsigbt Of reason. The State was built up on 8,
,,IG,rocrSfic policy. Surfrag" was limited TO people
'n,,i a 80 ,e.eive the sacrament. Tn growth OF Ill
sod class put the rulers Ia lime AT varl-
nro uffh mo people There was d"ad"ning OF re-
nnious zeal hut from l13p TO 100 there was "A
great awakening. H. -. 1870,
h,.Ionothan Edwards. who took part In that revival
n, The sprit unconsciOusly prcdisposed people, by
his various teachings tq Methodism. pointed the
mav 10 Ir-iversalism. hastened the coming OF Uni
tarianism. 10 such results would have been posi-