Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-27
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in gold brocade AID white. she car
rios n scepter and a book. The hand
maids lay their gifts upon the altar
before her Then the pageant really
begins, away back in time. Oriental
priests appear, Hindus. Egyptians with
the symbol of immortality upon the
forehead Of the god they bear, Per-
slams, Hebrews, japanese and Chinese.
They chant in Sanscrlt while oriental
dancers glide in and move through
the rhythmic changes OF religious
dance, solemn and mystical. When It
ends priests and dancers pass to their
appointed place In the rear. in full
sight. though withdrawn, making way
for the Greek philosophers.
SEEING GREEK POETS WALK.
Oh. the serene and ugly old men,
We have seen them in discolored busts
all our lives. Socrates and Plato. Aris-
totle. Homer, Herodotus and Sopho-
Giles. IT is rather satisfying to see
them walk.
The Roman sages follow rather
heavily when the Greeks retire to the
rear. Again the battered busts of our
youthful memories of Saturday after
moons at the art museum. We know
old Seneca, and there Is Cicero. and
here come Virgil Plutarch and Marcus
Aurelius, who always looks like a
CHRISTIAN dpOSlle. lHbN SldTu TO look
again upon their Roman vintage
dance; but the brown and gray monks
take their places, carrying horn and
missal, pallet and brush. musical in
struments and ecclesiastical banners,
to show that literature and the arts
were kept safe buried in tho monas-
teries during the dark ages. These
sad-colored monks sing Gregorian
chant.
The new scientific spirit is abroad
now, and here Is Roger Bacon, the
admirable doctor, the forerunner OF
psychical research as he dealt In fu-
lures in his chamber over the gate in
oxford. Naturally he was called
wizard and imprisoned. poor Friar
Bacon, and nobody noticed when he
died.
THE MooRs AND THE RENAIs-
SANCE.
All. here come the Moors to remind
us what we owe to them at that time.
Their dance is n religious rite, pic
turesque, even uplifting
symbolic figures of science and his
tory advance toward us. followed by
men who represent the highest
achievements in the use of their
Cervantes, Racine, Goethe. Locke, Ba-
con- Luther, and a group of meister
singers with chorus and solos sing be-
fore them
Here come, too the student from
Oxford, Cambridge, Paris and Naples.
and Padua, singing the old
Gaudeamus Ighitur. common to them
all.
Can these be their brethren and sisters
Of the American universities. these
young people trolling out our college
songs? 1t must be so; yet in dart the
morris dancers here, Robin Hood and
Maid Marian, the dragon and tho
hobby-horse, youth CAD with stream-
ing ribbons. tinkling with bells and
castanets. AS they rush away Pestaloz-
ri, father OF modern pedagogy. ambles
in surrounded By hts German peasant
children. He educated more ideas than
little people. | fancy, but joy in his
for the child came in with
him.
Fourteen young women, dressed like
lymphs in woodland green, follow the
I'D teacher and show a series OF the
movements taught to
children to typify the passing from
autumn to spring.
TWO HUNDRED PILGRIMS SING.
See now! The trumpeters againl They
Usher in learning. industrial education,
md education of the blind followed by
character In sanity white and blue.
.arrying the winged globe that signifies
he soul which has given itself to SER
Vice. Peace and prosperity softly fol-
ow her, but in sweeps happiness like
he spring wind. n crowd of children
skipping about her. Around her stand
now the 200 pilgrims of the long march.
rheir hymn sung as one voice brings
IL impulslvely to our feet.
The pageant ends. my masters, and
MS we'll,