The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-28
GREAT MEMS VIEWS Oh SOCIETY.

t PSMepi ao Byron yan considered Ills ase one
] OF bronze. and made a dark picture q
past. yet lie thought the tendency Of his
| age was toward Democracy. lie sad; z
The king times are fast finishing: hl ,,o
will conquer Bona paiie PRO- hesIsd that ;,t
IN fifty years Europe would , be G4ssa AZ
age pnsillanlmous;s g.all things had .,ir-
Linked themselves Sand = ted 4 in n end
Hess sea OF talk" His ideal time. as
. the tWeIf IL century, ~.
Wendell Phillips, In spit e, Of the success
Yhch gabyef, rs
took a dark view. OF the, future Herbert
Spencer predicted ~ mil tary dcspotisnl;;ts
and despared Of the reasonablsnIes 10 q
Schopenllauer and Hartmann have no
hope for this 60 or for mankind. IolstolH
declares that the only means OF 4arrestlng
ethics OF Christ and simplicity Of living.
,rennvson, in his later, days. ga NJ: the
world .Wallowing of zolalslfr 4,
iam and Merrls ef fro,n spGehb
lleved the future would be soctalistic.
Ruskln thought the world was getting
ugler and worse GARFIELD declared TIM
humanitysis a giant, some lines stumbling
and falling. but rising up "a ga In and goinE
onward. Phillips Brooks believed hat sllu.8
1nanty. hy Its increased lSnowledg Sc ana :. ~
beginning OF its brightest era; lie said VI
1.-THE morning scoinetll,.',' Browning was
Thoroughly optlmistic and saw progress,
ais right in The world Walt ~ hitman
saw In the modern age the beginning
of uniVers democracy, larger, mahiioo ;.
and 5truerts brotherlloo cd. Is ping finds good,
strength courage here and seems
to believe that PROGRESS Is stre.s I ss5
Victor Hugo wrote |: Let us not fall
century n which we live. The nineteenth
century is the grandest Of all csnturi Is
and ask w,X9 Because 1T, Is Is se
and first issue OF the French r Revolution
freed the lave in a meric ca ele ted me
Iipaliahs In Asia. cxtin gnis he'd The funeral
/ brands of the martyrs stakes In Euro pe;
lis clvilizing Turkey, Ia causing the COS.
pei TO penetrate even to the refutations y.
j theright 81 might q 4 he. Nigh Of right
I snppresses nracies, softens suffering
/ makes 1 he galleys Who'll some. throws the
dennis the deatl, pena IT,: takes the ball
i from he foot of the galley slave, a boil
ishes corporal punishment. desrades and
takes s.; agnyte sass nfGm
tears out The claws of grants. This.
i century proclaims the soyereignty8of the
nation and the invlola bilityi OF life: At
II crowns the people and consecrat ties man.
Il In art It has all varieties of genius; writ
ers. orators, poets, historians, publictsts.
philosop hers, painters, statuarics must
A bril- lancx.t depth, color form, style IT.
4 leinpis rates .itself#at once in the real
A and 4 he ideal, and arries In It's hand
l3tlese two underbolts--tlle true and the
/ beautiful. In science 1t performs every
4 miracle; 1t makes saltpetre out Of cotton,
Of steam a horse, Of tn 9 vol aic pile 81
ger Of the sun a painter. waters itself
4 with subterranean5 waters till 1t warns IT.
d self with central fire; It opens on the Two
4 inhnittes those two vino ows.theS tele-
scope on the Infinitely llttle-and It finds
H In the first abyss stars and in the second
I Insects. which pro =. sod 70
/ Certain Of these Instances would seem seer !,
J, souls are especially sensitive to II the, evils
q assume in their minds undue proportions;
q that these men. falling to remedy evils,
+ become. at least temporarily, dlscoura ged
s that great men are som times, but mot
I always, hopeful Of the}tendencles Of their
! times: that they OTTER. d espa!r, but work
& On An their despair, We infer. that the
f to be greater than that o. Individual
We have an impresson that The y h church 5f B,
WG1e aksS and tha
4 do Inc bodies OF men who are Without
Il Christian faith sS8s . ~ " III y,
:. Views az modern men, who believe. In evo-
Tuition in general are likely 81 th ta
r he more hopeful Of lende,nc cls y, Of ~
: no great leading idea5 In regard to PRO.
. gress ono Of the trumpet Y, VOICES .of &, the
: modern pulpit DR.. Frank W. g unsau!l
q las said something worth, using as
Z Anal tf,ought an this subject cd Is "
t earnest aud God will sllc e e9d1,, s;i5
. North Carolina Sentiment.
9 1,he yinston-salcmB sentin el SAYS :sas b
9 1t develops that both the ,Demoerali'
? nominees have relatiyes az Nortn IS, Gafo
!, l3argujnents which 90 show J, hat they
!; aresthe Two beat men hat could bo found
{ he is the way the Charlotte chron
& L. blows. s, ,,.. /.
= What should the people who, liys. y
9 The strike could not have come at !