The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-12-02

any nottee 81 WHATEVER nature after o'clock
p. IN. IA fharssiaS.
sEacroRs IN TIRE EORLD's Pro
y aREss 2, 81. D.
The lecture given by DR.. Ka.
than at the NJ. e, Church last
Sabbath evening, on Factors in
the Worlds Progress, !" vas we'll
attended, and The Enterprise
takes pleasure in presenting to
readers a short synopsis Of the
address, In mentioning the var,
led factors he touched upon COM
merce, literature, architecture,
music. painting, war and Chris
tia ,ity, as among the great forces
In the worlds Development
In speaking Of commerce, Re
said it was as old as history it.
self, citing as proof the purchase
of the field OF Ephron by Abra-
ham for 400 shekels of silver, and
the sale of Joseph by his breth
rem to the Ishmaelites bearing
spices, balm and myrrh to Egypt.
He also mentioned the fact that
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the Phoenicians Of Tyre and ST.,
don received ivory and corn from
the Nile, and oils, silks aud dyes
from western Asia; and that Ar
abs as ancient as the descendants
of dshnnaei and Esau, were for.
esgn traders and merchants. He
showed how commerce had fixed
the foundation Of great cities. as
London on the Thames cities on
the Severn and the Clyde, on the
Euphrates. the Nile and the
Gauges, and gave as a striking
illustration the establishment, by
commerce, of Boston and New
York in those magnificent har
bors, and Chicago on the lakes,
now the greatest gram and stock
market of the world. By way of
contrast he mentioned China, a
non commercial people having
made no progress since the days
of Confuscius; also the defeat of
the Persian hosts under Xerxes
10y Greece, a small but CONNER
cial people. He said that when
Alexander wept, while his horse
was drinking at the river Indus,
he had no knowledge that there
was such country as Chiaa, for
at that time mo vessel had brav.
ed the Indian ocean, nor passed
round Cape CONFORM into the
bay OF Bengal .
He said that invention was to
great extent the outgrowth of
commerce, and that discovery
owed nearly every thing to it., as
commerce had discovered the
Canary Isles in 1880 and sighted
the Azores in 1431, and under its
Inspiration Columbus touched
San Salvador, Jamaica, Puerto
Rico, the isthmus Of Darien; and
saw the waters of the Orinoco.
The second factor discussed
was literature, which the speaker
said implied an extensive civil
cation. He mentioned the mag
nifcence of the Ptolmies as only
equaled by her literature. He
said the glory Of Alexandria was
her two great libraries, one con
tanning 100000 volumes and the
other ZOO, 600 volumes, both de-
stroyed by Caesar, who set fire
TO the feet that lay in her har-
Dor, the flames accidentally ex-
sending to the city aud destroy.
ing its literature. He showed
the retrogression of the world
during the dark ages, when liter
allure was largely destroyed or.
suppressed. He said France was
highly civilized country, for.
she had more literature than any
other country in the world, the.
National library Of Paris contain
ing 1920, 900 vols. That Germany
was the home Of great libraries,
and Berlin. Munidh and Dresden
were literary headquarters, out
of which went Slererinacher and.
Luther and Melancthon; that
Vienna has LOO libraries, and that
ST. 2 Petersburg is under the infu-
ence OF q library OF LOCO, 600
printed vols, while the d. s. has
1900 public libraries thrown OPP
en- to the reading world.
Mr.. Kathan then asked If we
could spare our literature, He
said, let us take away a single
branch, as poetry. Let us take
Virgil and Horace from the Ro-
mans, Homer from the Grecians.
Shakespeare, Milton and Tenny.
son from the English. Burns