The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-07-12

opens, and then becomes the home.
Pulaski was born a son of liberty.
He was rocked in the cradle of
troubled hope, His lullaby was the
dread and dream-like music OF a
mighty drama drama Of heart
rending suspense aud the gathering
tumllt of innumerable armies. It
was a drama of unutterable leave
takings and eternal farewells. He
was educated by fire and sword, by
the tears and blood OF a deSpairing
and stricken people, by infinite out
rage, by fathers face and motherN
voice, by holy rites and public patriot
ism; to live with his own people 10
free and liberated Poland, or, falling,
to die for them that they might dwell
10 free-born homes beyond the sea.
In the irony OF fate he died, and his
glory is in his tomb.
The stellar vault that bends above
is filled with cleaning stars of vary
ing magnitude.
The once powerful kingdom OF
Poland, now blotted from the map Of
Europe, has set the jeweled armament
of heaven with many a gem Of daz-
zling brilliancy that shines on Poland
and on US.
Nicolas Copernicus, whose name Is
traced in star dust and written upor
the throw of the morning." was q
Pole. or all the world his bralr
refused to wear the confining crown
Of popular tradition, He believed il
the iconoclasm of the real He taught
the world how to think. He loYet
truth. He lived an upright, usefn
life, and dying, handed down to al
time an immortal verity-"The eartf
/ is not the center Of the universe; tht
earth moves round the sun"
Truth is soldier; it everywher'
meets resistance; it has forever hat
to break chains; it never won battl,
by ease and acquiesceuce; it fight
pride; it breaks down ancient custom
combats implacable hatreds born 0
wounded vanities; it is the mos
splendid warfare of the world
it is the war Of one alone VIII
is right against all; 1t is the gran'
war Of intellect against blinded pas
sion and prejudcet Fit skaters all tn
wooden images OF immemoria
stupidity; IL conflicts malice wit
reason and conquers it with kindness
And this great Pole, who mad
enemies by his brain, who suffered tn
ridicule and contumely OF mankin
through the envy OF offended ignC
rance and the malignity Of falsifyin
and ignoble pride, this man who ha
2 the audacity to think and to tell hi
, thoughts, uttered a single, slmpl
sentence, "The earth is not the cer
! ter Of the universe;" and in doing
reversed the entire worlds process {
? reasoning.
With single sentence he humble
the egotism of centuries and brougt
! man face to face with new propos
: tion-intellectual truth, Before h
came, man was the king OF the sol'
system; when he died, that thror
: had crumbled into unremembere
= dust. If he bad done nothing ell
but TO teach the humble fact ths
: self-complacency is the death
virtue and the grave Of progress,
! would have been enough But he di
more. He was the father Of moder
thought. And as night came to Il
arrogance Of egolsm in bis birth, so
spark issued from his grave to inspi
the brain OF Kepler and Calico
He vas a countryman Of Pulaski
Empires may come and 60, al
many dear name may float and FAX
] away but his name and the count
I, and the people to whom he belong
! will survive forever. He lived to for
the trumpet we ale souodlng toda
he died leaving behind him an el
:. taph such As only great and good mi
aspire to-
= do net ak the pardon accorded
y Paul;
\. T do not hope for the grace given
it Peter.