The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-05

ward their country when needs require It
! The individual is the center Of all activi-
ty and consciousness. All notifications
! of national life come through the indi-
| vidual; progress is due 10 influences act
| ing on the individual and retrogression
/ commences as soon as the individual
! ceases TO feel the influence of higher mo-
tives and impulses.
GAIL V. RHODES.
The drama originated among the
Greeks. 1t arose from the festivals OF
Dionysus, the god of wine. Hymns were
sung, telling of his victories or sufferings
in his progress over the earth From
| the gloomy side of the festival, tragic
drama arose.
In England. also, the drama began in
religion. There were first the miracle
plays and representations; then the
Morality, a play in which the charac-
tiers were the vices and the virtues. The
impulse of the Reformation FASTENED the
demand for a tragedy and comedy
There are three principle differences be-
tween the Greek and English tragedies.
First, the Greek dramatist represents
eternal events. Second. the Greek trag-
edy as compared with the English is sim
pie Third, the Greek tragedy is ideal.
The English tragedy is more varied
and complex than the Greek, is less re-
ligious and gives a fuller representation
of characters and OF life 1t postulates
the intense life of human nature The
English tragedy is real
The principle of passion which governs
the Grecian and English conceptions of
tragedy is expressed by saying that the
Grecian is illustrated by what we see
in sculpture, the English by what is seen
in painting.
CHARLES C. IsELY.
Some form of sacrifice has always had
a place in human activity. The ancient
animal sacrifices were supposed TO please
the gods. Sometimes men thought it
necessary to offer their children TO please
gods, and so human sacrifices were in
stituted. The story of the sacrifice of
Iphrgemia. however, adds another point
namely that by her death good Will come
to her country. This idea is similar to
that which impels a parent to surren-
der his son as a soldier. The civil war
is a case in point. The death of Lincoln,
however in a more especial way, served
a sa balm to heal the wound caused by
the civil war His death brought good 10
many The call to sacrifice is still made.
1t is transformation of lower form
to a higher good. 1t consists in putting
something into the world instead of TAX
ing from the world We call the men of
today who get much. successes; but in
men of the past we ascribe that title to
those who give much, men who sacrifice.
So the term success consists in sacri-
hcing.
LUELLA M'GINNIS.
One of the most impressive evidences
of the goodness of the Creator is the
fact that His works are capable of inter-
probation by the mind of man. God has
placed us in most complicated realm
of natural forces, but He has given us
the power TO read the realization of His
thoughts as they are recorded in nature.
But the universal harmony does not
appear on the surface and is to be
detected only by investigation and by
study.
Science has its foundations in the prim-
tive instincts of humanity 10 understand
the laws which govern the external
world
j
made their gods of the natural forces
which they could not understand and
supplied nature with spirits which felt
all human emotions.
The modern attitude is very different
from that Of the Greeks. and begins TO
show itself in English verse very soon
after the Renaissance.
The spontaneous Elizabethans sang of
nature because II impressed them direct
" 4 joyous season called forth joy
Gus song. while winter in the world was
in their verse.
But nature poetary soon became more
intricate and the poets saw in the exter-
nal world only the manifestations of his
own moods.
Wadsworth's beautiful conception of
the world has gained for him the title
Natures Oracle. while Tennyson's keen
interest IN the scientific progress around
him has rendered him the most intense
~ modern Of all our modern poets. His
Is the voice of the new epoch. when
poet and scientist labor together to ex-
press the majesty. the glory and the sub
Unity of nature.
Science labors to broaden mans con-
ception OF the world, while II is the poet
province 70 express the manner in which
the truths OF science affect the emotions
and thus sway the human soul
HARRIET SEWALL.
IN tn earliest development Of science.
was Of fundamental impor-
tance. But in modern science. astronomy.
biology and psychology. measurement il
D. especial Importance. BY the spectre
scope the secrets Of the suns are re.
vealed TO US. and by the comet. the as
proves 4 universal law Of gray (
tation.
in biology we learn OF the origin and
development OF species by the aid OF
In psychology. most OF /
al. measurement has made most rapid
development. especially in measuring Wv +
6ness Of Imagination. By numerical cal
,ulation. the science Of today IS bald
ng toward the accuracy OF tomorrow 1