The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-04
GRANT DELIVERS A
 BRILLIANT LECTURE
LYCEUM ENTERTAlNMEN ENTS ARE
 AMONG CHIEF ATTRACTIONS. LARGE CROWD PRESENT TO
 HEAR ROLAND DWIGHT GRANT.

The lecture delivered last night by Dr.
 Roland Dwight Grant in the High shcooi
 auditorium was one of the choicest liter
 ary treats presented to a Birmingham
 audience in long time.
 The auditorium was fairly we'll filled
 by an intelligent and cultured audience, which listened with the closest attention to a veritable river of wit and wisdom, which rushed along so rapidly that it
 required the keenest perception to detect
 the philosophy bdden away under the cloak of humor.
 The lecture was entitled, Snakes in Paradise" and was based upon the third chapter in Genises, but was not at all in
 the nature of sermon. Some idea of
 it's nature may be had by comparing it
 with the ''autocrat" talks at the break fast table. To attempt to describe the
 lecture would be like attempting to emu
 merate the contents of the Louvre or to
 counts the facets on a diamond
 The lecturer spoke of the Garden of
 which some people say was in one place
 and some in another, but winch really
 is in the cradle to be found in every home He drew a very beautiful picture of man in his childhood innocence ahd compared him to Adam in the garden, but later on in life the child opens his eyes to knowledge of good and evil when he leaves the Eden of home and finds himself out in the world, compelled to earn his own living. The lecturer spoke of life as a series of contradictions
 and as being dependent upon those con- tradictions for its existence. Among the many happy phrases he uttered was one
 which he asked the audience to write down and remember. "Education," said he, Ifs knowing what you want, knowing where to look for it and knowing what to do with it. Another of his remarks "Education. What crimes are commit ted in thy name" was followed by very humorous illustration of how the green horn is stuffed with knowledge, compar- ing the process to that of infiating a bicycle tire.
 Speaking of the enjoyment of life, the lecturer said that he was in New York recently and was shown the title deeds to beautiful tract of country which the owner never visited, but a poor old wom- an living near the place, sat at her door sewing and spinning and looking o'it over the beautiful landscapes and derived more pleasure from it than the owner in his office in New York. He said he would give Rockefeller all the oil under the Surface of the earth, while he would keep for himself the beautiful scenes on the surface.
 CongratuIates the South. pr. Grant paid glowing tribute to the south for it's preservation of political principles, which he said would, in twenty-five years, make the south the governing part of-the nation.
 From beginning to end the lecture scln-
 tillated with clear cut and brillian; crys-
 tals of philosophy condensed into the
 fewest words and shot at the audience
 like rifle bullets.
 Before the lecture began Dr. J H. Phil
 lips, the superintendent of public schools,
 announced that an additional lecture
 would be given tonight by Mr. and Mrs.
 Gilbert, entitled Panoramic Colorado"
 and that the next regular number in tie
 lyceum series would be given by the
 Owen Shakespeare company on Wednes-
 day night. December 12 F. l. Nj.