The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-22
SEES SUP RENACY
Of C0MING SOUTH.
DR.. c. Aiphonso Smith Discusses
Interesting Subject and
353;S Makes Predictions.
GREATEST I;I7. ] WORK + 10 Be . J: II
Most Important Contributions u
Literature Of Country \ ct
to Come.
GREAT EST W ORK TO BE DONE
J to Come q

5S@s Under the auspices Of the Richmond
Education Association, DR.. G.. lAlphonso2
IS Smith, professor of Literature in tho
& University or North Carolina, spoke
IS last night in the ls..l of the House
vi of Delegates to cultured and appre-
8cinuve audience. Choosing for his sub
5ject "Literature and Inlustrialisln," l,a
a showed thorclation between the growth
SEo of manufactures and the rise OF tile
literary ms tinct, developing the idea
hat the age Of action was also the
age of the best literary production.
u t Vision of the South.
99.58 The speaker Of the evening was ms
troduced by DR.. Il. w cartwright.
g: president OF Richmcnd College, 9$whu,
paid a handsome tribute to the COM
,nercial interests OF Richmond DR..
5S Boatwright spoke of DR.. Smith as g
II master Of hiss subject, and one who
4 could well show us how to combine
3 literature and industrialism.
pr Smith opened by saying that,
unlike the cats tail his lecture would
n nptsbe fur" to the end. t9a @
It is'ta trIam,"h he declared. ''to
Il say tia tho age in which we live Is
@ an sage Of cohmercialism, In no other
81 section of$the country has the progress
IL In industrialism been SO pre- eminently
u marked as in the South. So swift
Ii have been her strides In this direction
NJ That statistics become obsolete almost
e. Before they are issued" "a.
IA Continuing, Dr. Smith took up the
K manufacture of cotton as an inustra.
8 lon, saying that tho raw cotton was
not king, but the manufactured artlclc,
"a future of Industrial supremacy is
II the vision to Which the South may
look forward" he asserted. ut is 4
s7onth whose gaze Is not only. on the
d nost4 OF which l am to talk There
+ sre many who see In our industrial
III progress menace to our literary life
i II ms view or an Inherent antaEonisir
between industrialism ana litern tn,
4f5 seems to imply a radical nisconce,,.
# tlon OF both. .Sf.'9
lndusralism means happy homes m,
WI increasing the agencies of culture rh,
state or Virginia has made n vast nd
VI vance N wealth In the last ten wears,
s{ = ie F9ta.e mas made a much greater ad
vance, however, in cultural things.
MINK thht the conception OF literature i
10 less perverted. The guardians OF Iii
era ture would seek to cthcrealize lltera
81 Eure ana anatlleniatze industralisl,
. i.atalurs Is not handicapped by tn
s bounds Of industrlalism. 1t cannot h
ss4 700 strongly urged that literature mean
i NE, and that the fuller the literature {
8 an age The fuller the life viii be.r
Industrial Periods.
pr. Smith then took UP tho three gre,
iS industrial periods Of modern times cal
ing attention to the fact that there ii
been at the same time aliterary reyiy.
t55 N each age. The first was the reign
Queen Elizabeth. England at this tin
dld not make UP her products. but In
ported her Woolen5 goods from Flauder
slss Fh4 The economic changes in this reign wc
striking and afford q parallel 10 the CO
nitions IN the South since 1870. EliZ
ss petls reign was peculiarly one of indu
trial effort, fet u was a time when t
literary star OF England was In tlae a
y cendant, 5
The second period began in The "a
ll75. In the twenty-five years follow
" e this period the English factory syst,
tras inaugurated and England gained
f,es delevnpInont Of continental Euro
IL Il ny Pho hundred years. In these TWEEN
Is2.s3 Siye years literature pnssed into her
"a yaalsHp end. These were the years
yeats. Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth q
Walter Scott, Tn elevation of theme 4
brio history these years take preGede
II L i III the Elizabethian period.
Az The other great industrial era (!
IN the twenty years between $50
$3.50. In those years telegraph lines W
laid, railroads bull & gtfaln-propel!ed /,
9 scls crossed the ocean, and The wf
is5 4. VAS brought closer together,
yeanyso IN 81 \, writes ~ the fut'