The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-03

THEME OF EDWIN ID. MEAD'S LEG
TURE AT UNITED CHURCH.


'i's is present history
Before an unusually large audience at
the United church last night Mr. Edvvin
n ,roaa 49, s,
''Ae' ''''
toriah, ueilVerea an instructive ana IN
teresting lecture on the subject 1.-THE
Jassons In History The FOLLOWING 20
-
History Is Fast Politics, and Poll
tics Is Present History" is a famous
word Of Historian Fraarnan IF Wa
.s 49,.
80 a. 49,, III $50. III ~.
III ,i..a III !. '.-os, tie
a,s4 s go. 10 ~ - = e. ~ aas,,i
49,, w - ~ - 9,sa,,eao;ont ia a.
~ a,r- 800 rosh,,a
49, .e't. ~ 80 1.,,a, ~
~ ~. - CO., 800 ~ nota a., 49,,
iiio'i' sii1t o,oe 81. 40 .ie VIC 90
49, .,4,, r. ~, ~,
- $3.50.
nv, M ~ ~ eo,
- PEG. :. p1
80" ~. n e., 800. Hs., T.,
~ $500 s coi,sl',r,,
.ne e,S 40 IIrtN,., 80 80
etiu a. - ~ 80
" Inc tivaty " neliin' NC nv,
~ 80 - -. '. CIR,
.,0 iien - ZIG 80 lo@0 " 49,
.aa' - a. ~ uaSs ~ enese tons so; 80
Mto9e sNaies ~ .os
$50. 70 - ~ :. ~ ~,
So ,ss -. $50. 80
~ pAo'So. ooi NV w z 80 ~.
looA "alu ~ .nv ICY, -. ~ 80 s-.o
He"spaper % "S eiiaii reau "Aen W
are eooi ovei 'ne ISSUES, " Ioiioiuet nv"
Tue nsh. o'ei ene 'aiii, " .,ie oqii eiios
WI !ooA WIEN vieweo ~ me peispep.
eiNe =, "s iiieia - ~" w" .iie -
~ ~ eie ~, "a w. ~ 80
,' G.eyeiariu any ", W iniaAi NioiNin-
les anu ". :, niyon, WI qoio ~, osase
~ rs - ~ lug iiew , w, 49,
~ tisufe ~ the Volumes u poiie.eaAs
"reminiscences, lnen az iasl ceh.uiy
celeprilies' IKE Wnhes' anu oaiiiuei
Aualis now ny anu ny as iheuievai
men, IKE some conrad OF franconia'
ana the Englishman. HereWard. ana m
Time enough IN the ilsts OF ancient oo-
scurlIles sucn as may potner the scnooi
boy o1 Inc ysar soos, as tney Dotner
now the scnooi boy OF 1888. IL IS usetul
ana important TO LOOK at ponies ana
history SO, 10 keep IN mind the sense
OF community Whlch gives the sense OF
proportion. IL keeps US from oelng rev
erlsh IN our polltlcs ana from readlng
hlstony colaly ana vaguely. IL Keeps
us from confoundlng ratihcation
meeting or even republican national
convention with the day OF Judgment,
enabling us to laugh instead OF shud-
der, when the Hon. Warner Miller of
the pivotal state OF New York cried out
IN recent election, that 1t IS one OF the
greatest struggles for freedom in mod
ern history, and at the same time, 1t
keeps our sympath1es quick and unlyer-
sal. 1t Is good to see, With Freeman
that in our politics we are making his
tory, that politics is present history,
and history is past politics.
But history is more than past politics.
1t is definition of history that we are
making; then we must say that history
is also past religion past literature past
art, past science. past philosophy. His
tory is the record of the whole move
ment of the human mind, the story of
Ill tlldt uleIi nave tiiOuSul dIlu Stlu anu
done. Lincoln, Longfellow, William
Hunt, Agassiz and Emerson, Themis-
tocles, Aeschylus, Phidias, Euclid and
Socrates, all alike belong to history
Hegel plays a vastly more important
part in history than Frederick William
III, Copernicus than any grand duke,
Prussian grand duke or Polish politi,
clan, Michael Angelo than the whole
Medici magnificence, Francis Bacon,
writing his essays and his Novo Organ
um, than Lord Venitian, Viscount St.
Adams. keeper Of the great seal and
lord high chancellor of England, and
Paul of Tarsus, planting little churches
along the Aegean coast, than every
public functionary Of the time, from
the tetrarch Of Galilee to the Caesar at
Rome. How many pages, think you,
will be needed, when the history Of our
own time is reduced to final form, Cor
the deeds Of the members for Stockton
and Preston, the governments Of Geor-
gia and New York, and David Bennett
Hill, beside the pages necessary for
Stevenson and Albright, for Eli Whit
ney and Robert Fulton and Thomas
Edison?
If we would understand the spirit and
history of any people we must an
proach that people on many sides and
learn how each form of expression af-
feets every other. ,,hase of the nationaI