Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-06-07
The stoddard Lectures.

The Suoddard Lectures.
B. W. McCrillis OF Boston is now in our
place taking orders for the Stoddard
Lectures. Inquiries received at Red Lion
/ Inn will receive attention.
The Tribune, Medscatine, Ia, says
"That a man should be living, and in the
prime OF life-less than fifty-who has
travelled more than the equivalent of ten
times around the world. more than $50, 900
miles, visited practically every spot OF in
! terest on the face OF the globe, and in
preparation of these journeys read
thousands OF volumes that he might see
(, for himself and others discriminatory;
spent years In personal observation OF
manners and customs OF various races and
peoples; that he should have done all
this with a single definite purpose in
view, to enrich the worlds knowledge OF
The world; that in all these busy years,
he should have been able to reach the
pinnacle OF fame as a travel lecturer, ad-
dressing in the last eighteen years OF his
life more than 5000 separate audiences,
numbering in the aggregate more then
5000, 900 OF the most critical and refined
aud cultured men and women OF the
civilized world that be is now able to put
forth as a result 0! his own and accom-
panying artists labors the most COM
plete, graphic, authentic encyclopedia OF
tlh
not the greatest marvel, OF individual
achievements peculiar to the nineteenth
century.
Lord Bacon said: Travel, in the young
er sort, is a part OF education, in the
older. part OF experience. Young men
travel under some tutor or grave servant |
allow well; so that he be such one that
hath been in the country before whereby
he may be.able to tell them what things
- he in "
where they 90, what acquaintances
they are to seek, what exercises or dis
cipline the place yielded How well the
Stoddard lectures do this work for old and
young, and how mpletely-those who
have heard Mr.. Stoddard lecture and
those who have examined his now pub
lished works most cordially witness.
Macaulay SAID The chief cause which
made the fusion OF the different elements
OF society so imperfect was the extreme
difficulty which our ancestors found in
passing from place to place. OF all in.
ventions, the alphabet and printing press
alone excepted, those inventions which
abridge distance have done most for the
civilization OF our species. Every i'm
provement OF the means OF locomotion
benefits mankind morally and intellect-
ually as well as materially. The stupen-
dous work which Mr.. Stoddard set him.
self to do, when boy of thirteen years
old he wrote OF his plans aud purposes to
Bayard Taylor, could by no possibility OF
human effort have been accomplished in
he days OF which Macaulay was writ
irg, and in the matchless illustrations,
about 1000 in number, fifty encased by
{ he printer and binder, comes to every
door in this closing decade OF the century
a fulfilment OF Macauley's prophetic
thought, aud a wonderful help to the
forces which are working Sin the swift
course of time to produce the fusion OF
the different elements of society," the
OF the world
We cannot do better in closing than to
moreto the grand contrasts,
social, political, and ethical, which these
lectures bring to view. We advise our
readers to travel with John L. Stoddard
by their own fireside where they may
view in most endless variety, the piano.
rama OF the world we live in"
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