The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-02-06

4 Packed House Heard the Distin-
.gnished Shahespearean Scholar.

pcarc Is one III Hfe.s wholly unalloysd !
pleasures. aS everybody In this State
who knows anything knOws-and 30 a
house packed to the doors heard him At
the Baptist Woman'S college yesterday /,
evening on "S~aakeSpeares Ideals Of Con
duct and Life The master OF Il style
that IS the despair Of every man who
wishes 10 write well and speak we'll. and
knowing Shakespeare is few men have
known him. DR.. Hune's lecture could De
appreciated only when given without the
emission Of i word.
The distinguished lecturer saIt in par-:
They combined theory and practice in
the age Of Shakespeare, the spacious
times of great Elizabeth. Iney thought
and they fought. They dreamed dreams,
and discovered new lands. 10, Raleigh
estopped from voyages wrote the history
Of the world, prisoner in Il room ten feet
square. 10. virtue anG beauty i'll Sid
neys life and death. 10 the Fairie Queen
Of SpeEder and his political secretary
ship In Ireland. Lo. Bacon. p~arliamenta-
RAN. judge. essayist, philosopher, dying
IN a scientific experiment. Then the
correlation OF thinking and doing. The
author OF The tragedy Of Thought was
spacious in the possession Of dirt,
Shakespeare grew rith on malt and tax
lti me III VI tiN &SNoi
ture,- the nsw romantic drama, which EN-
bodied the best practical morals, not the
morality OF school or c~loiStcr. but of Eli
zabcth Knight. of makers of the King
James Bible. The book that has made
the English people. the Divine Book to
every human, was now taking ITS peerless
form and Shakespeare shows the I'M
PRESS OF it's thought and dictiOn. Note
his aHuSion to it as h Book OF Life.
the word. Holy Writ, his direct quota
tons from Proverbs and the sermon on
the Mount, to Scripture p~ersonages from
Adam to PLATE, Mr.. Quickly c"nfounds
Father abraham, and King Arthur. The
| essentials of Biblical theology are III
our dramatist. CIIere the speaker proved
the point by elaborate and interesting
| Selectionsl, atonement, the future state.
recognition in heaven, eternal penalty.
the inward hell of conscience. the recon
| citation of justice and mercy, the psyche
| logy of sins progress, the relations of
conscience to the mystery Of sleep, are
all here.
1.-THE tenets Of conservative English
professionalism are definitely presented in
his plays. Every phase Of human
thought, railroads.&c.. superstitious, Ortho-
doN, is given with the dramatist's faculty
of entering into all experience. But you
do MT therefore conclude that at one
time Shakespeare is infide and at an
other Roman Catholic and Il gain Protes-
tant in his personal convictions. In Lear
he raises your spirit. thrills and purities
your soul, and with enlarged grasp You
settle the problem for yourself. \ poem,
a play is not 4 treatise on morals more
than the Bible is a text book Of science.
.Thus Shakespeare avoids didactic form
and teaches You by stimulating and
guiding imagination. His morality is con
sistcnt with true instinct and born nature
Folly and lust unfold in action theil
suicidal unreasonlbleneSS. Falstafi
/ loses at last his power to fall on his feet
| in disaster and goes down in ineXtinguish
able,4aushtcr after having confused your
fanr- and feeding by his brilliant viva.
city and ,humeur. This concrete ima
ginativc representation OF life is worth
more. than whole volumes Of philosophit
| ,liSurtsition. There is a tonic quality il
his best work. Life seems worth living
Love and purity triumph in the death oh
DeSGcmona. There are in his writing:
sudden conversions and gradual trans
formations ais there are in life Il:
Juliet and Henry V. prove. His histor
zeal dramas are AZ enllvening health!
prcSentment Of the best ethics in action
Selfish mobiles, weak kings. true heroes
live and move before us and God IS seer
10 he at work i'll his world