The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-01-28
Addresses Large Audience as
Lecturer on Barbouf-Pagc
Foundation.
CLASSES SUSPEND TO-DAY
viii Discuss Remaining Points
of His Subject, Ancient
Democracy.
Special to The rim.s-DispatehJ .

! a
ond visit to tho University oil VIZ
ginia to-day. this time as lecturer on
the Barbour-Page Foundation Tor the
session of l9,2-Isl3. lie addressed large
audience in Madison Hall tonight
80 will give the second and last lee
| ture of the short series in Caoeii tiaii
! to-,oorrow afternoon. His geneIai
subiect is Ancient Democracy
bassador Bryce arrived from
| Washington over the SouthcIh iNa.,-
vay He and his party rode IN A 4.
-rhom.s nrivate car. Mr.. Thorn is
1encr.i counsel of the Southern He
Was accompanied by Mrs. Bryce Nj;
and Mrs Thomas Nelson rage ai,u
| Mr. Thorn. Mrs. Page MADE possloie
the Barbour-Psgs Foundation oy 90
Mating 81 coo to the university Ior tno
OF letters or of science proughe 70 sne
university each year to deliver a spe-
cisi course. o,o,a-
whom universities, learned soeielies
and nations delight to honor, ana VINO
perhaps. has been awardco nloio 80 :,
orarv degrees than any other man OF
bis Generation. has been touched hgntly
BY the passing years. his eye IL o.
bright his mind as alert ana MS step
as Arm as most men of hali MS age. en-
mis- good humor has lost none Vi eho
rich flavor that has brought nun 81
miration and love wherever ne mas "Se"'
Glasses Will be Suspended.
To-rnorrpw the university VIII sus-
n,nd classes from IL until O'CLOCK, SO
tbat ali members of the faculty anu
students may have an opporIuli'y ~
hear Mr.. Bryce's last lecture
In his lecture tonight MT bryce pc
gan nv observing that IS7 years ago;
when Thomas Jefferson was EN- pioyeo
in drafting the instrument which nas
made his name famous, ana 49,
wears afterwards. when the great nisn
who prepared the Constitution "a ~
Irni+ed States were busy over the "orh
- AZ DS;iaS.Inhia there was in the whole
,ro-,d no constitutional government
ercent that of Great Britain ana no
Democratic republics except a re" tihS
Swiss cdntons- 80 he
..frbe great men of those days. ne
sa;d. were obliged to recur 10 eno
torv of the ancient world LOT $1,000
~ free REPUBLICS, for apparentiyln
o. 49, little about the Itaiiah re-
n,,tI;cs Of the Middle Ages 'ne
80 90 xhich had scarcely been 49, 49,
English or French. linus sn1se
,roat Americans took their thc
Of republican government li Ind
.Is Of the Greeks and Romans, go Sr
ares Of the Federalist are luli Va
a,.rerces to the institutions OF clas ,s. =,
.fa,;tv People drew from tnein -
I shose dsvs. not only politician .e S,Sins
( rs hut the most famous
~ n,,blic virtue and heroism- .dax
.srTbe knowledge that We nave err'
,.hI;cs and of Democratic govern.
e+s is enormously larger man - -
49,, he men of l775 and OF iIso cou.u
command. and we now see DC the
| hans than they did, now &c. sncient
! di4ferenced that separate Sho
world from ourselves ,-.,d Roman
xIoro bas lost none of its lhOeics
and little of its instruction ~ ~
H,,;sh~d and venerable patriaIch -
Aresrican classical scholars VIZ &c
honored alike by you mere az re-
in FngIand-Prof. GiloeIsle
Gently delivered to you IN .n under
sitv several interesting lecoul dis-
e. +itle of .Hellas and Hesperia,
a,,-sas in which he brought Ios.
$1,000 ord the United states. an
shsn trv and point out to you IN .nese
twoS lectures some political m oo,,n.
and some differences peIWeen -. +bs
tries and TO indicate brleny VIC ood
ancient world mas SUN W
I ern democracy.
Obvious Contrasts.
! among the obvious contrasts between
the nhenomena Of Greece and Italy
and those of the United States and OF
| the democratic British colonies. there
ave these The Greek and Italian
REPUBLICS were mostly city republics
/ confined to narrow area Nooern Tree
states are countries Inc anclei:s
republics rested upon slave idool anu.
therefore. the humblest class IN them
/ we're masters of slaves and had the
! lowest kinds of manual work done Tor
+ them. a position very different from
ours today.
THE ancients did not know printing
Their armies were composed OF citizens
/ They were almost always at war one
with another. They had no means
of rand communication. such as steam
and electricity afford to US; nor any
means of Transmitting news rspioS'
such as the telegraph now suppies.
I They had no industries on d large
scale and nothing similar 20 our III
dustrial disputes Their econoIhiS q i.'s.
J lions chiefly related to the distribution
/ Of land They had not discovered the
benefits of a representative system, ,
which. of course. was not SO necessary
/ TO them in their small, areas; and though
they elected their executive oincei ,:
/ they did not elect the members Q,
governmental councils. but conducted
! To,,cb 81 their most important business
[ bv votes in primary Assem- olies such q
Inc Armenian Ecclesia and the Roman
! Comitai.'
"gut still they had many things IN
com mon with Us Human nature was
automatically the same then ss y =
80 The behavior OF masses OF men
gathered together was marked oy tne
same general features. although the
I fs-ects we're far more cxcitabio than tho
citizsns Of most modern free countrie--
And. accordingly. a good many OF tns
phenomena of popular government So
And parallels IN the phenomena o.
oon.,lsr government IN our Own time .
Afr. Bryce then proceeded 70 deal
with some OF the features OF republican
and democratic government atnoAs
The Greeks. rcserving the poiitle%.
7 rherorncua 81 Rome and some genera
I reflections for his second lecture 70
morrow.