Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-10-13

naradox was only in seeming 1hN
ture was in essence a violent PiolesI
against the tendency to reduce All fl'.ts
10 mathematical demonstration. IN the
t,o,irntng no differentiated the fact OF
the scientist from the truth OF the ar
tist This keynote grasped, IL was
doliehtful Measure 20 follow the lec-
turer until he closed.
Mr.. Zangwill lays no claims 10 ora
tory. He has not the right, unless ora
torv be distinct enunciation, clear ana
toirlv strong voice lucidity of Thought
and exnression. with q decided tendency
towards the epigram. He has no ges-
tures His lecture was delivered WIN
ont his resortlng to single trlcK VI
oratory. ,ro
He has a striking stage presence. lie
is a slender man, Of medium helght'
most accentuated Hebraic cast OF couIlte-
nance. clean shaver, a heavy sun
of raven hair worn long, and brushed
oaraf,,iIv hack from his forehead. Two
very black and very bright. eyes look
through a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.
There is in his face an expression OF
nassing strength Of character ana intel
lectuality. .x-e.~,r,
INTRODUCED BY DIR. CALISCH.
Rev. DR.. Z. n. Calisch. who was chiefly
instrumental in inducing MT HahBWll
TO come TO Richmond and appear upon
the lecture platform Tor the only tiine
this year expressed his pleasure In IN
Producing the speaker, and opening the
third course of the Richmond Lyceun
lectures. which had been so much enjoy
cd and so highly beneficial to those VINO i
had had the privilege Of hearing the. DIS
tingujshed speakers which had peen
brought to Richmond. He said those
who had mapped out the course In the
past two years had always endeaVored 10
I'm view this year, and felt they had done
SO when they secured one OF the. greatest
authors who write in the English tongue
to-day-Israel Zangwiii.
THE LECTURE.
Mr. Zangwill was given a cordial re-
cepti0n when he came forward. Nhen
he had announced his subject he said
by fiction he did not mean advertisements
nor political writing. Fiction is the high
est form of truth, not the form OF 1alse-
hood for which the highest price Is paid
If he agreed with Robert Louis stevenson
that the novelist IS only society enter
tainer. he would go out OF the business
The material which a novelist uses IS
human life. He must not use II with
leyity. He can deal with anything, from
Entomology to cod-fsheries. II know it is
said, Fools rush in where angels fear to
tread" no said: but what are the an
gels afraid Of? The critics, possibly. How
ever, angels do not tread; they fly"
and he would not stay for an answer.
He probably acted wisely He might have
been waiting yet. What is truth? This
poor Unconscious glass Of water Is a
| meeting Of thousands OF truths" said
Mr.. Zangwill, holding up the glass. He
then, in a very ingenious and wholly at
| tractive manner. dwelt upon the thou
| sands of truths which might DO drawn
| from the water and the glass. THE
| truth passes through the glass" he said.
| ''It never stops in 1t. Truth never rests"
| TRUER THAN HISTORY OR SCIENCE.
| "Fiction, which deals with the full facts
| OF life, Is truer than history or science.
| When ] was a youth. studying mathe-
MATES and philosophy, ! had a contempt
| for fiction. Later ] saw fiction came near
| to containing all Of truth. Science breaks
| up the world into cold distractions, and
| apportions 10 each branch a piece-to bi-
| ology to geology, metallurgy, and what
| not, It's share"
| Cutting people when you meet them on
| the street is said 20 be pretending not 20
| know them in a way TO make them
| know you know them. Some scientists
| know things in way to make them
| know they don't know IL; others in a way
| that keeps them from knowing they don't
/ know.
| The utility of science was boldly ques-
| toned. We lived well enough before all
| "the fairy tales of science" were taught
us. He did not know that men had been
| so greatly helped by knowing of the mil
lions of enemies of health which lived IN