The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-05

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and the fate Of the young teacher
who fails to secure a schOOl are Sube
jects under consideration. Last year
ffty-four teachers were graduated
from the Normal School and only
thirteen have secured appointments
STATUE OF DF.NIOSTHENES.
Archaeology and Other Sciences Use
Inferential
Sunday Schoo Times.
The method of biblical archeoloe
gists who identify a building by a SIN
gle stone, or a statue by a small TraS<
ment, or an historical statement by
| the recovery Of a few phrases, has OF
ten been belittled and ridlculed: IL
is characterized as special pleadlng,
" a wish that is father to the
thought" etc. 1t will be a Well 70 see
| hat it is not only biblical archeolo-
| gists, OF especially those, who make
tuse Of this method, but that 1T has
been equally used among classicat
psychologists, among whom the sclen-
tiic spirit has been supposed TO reign
supreme; certain it IS that II IS not
subject to the dangerous CD ln~
fuence Of faith, about which some
people are SO fearful.
The method under consideration
has received recent striking llluStra-
ton in the restoration OF the statu'.
OF DGInOSjneIlcS ny IOISCoSeuo. -
arch notes incidentally, but with dis
tinctness. that the famous statue Of
D~emostheneS by this artist had folded
hands. Two copies Of the statue nave
been known for a long time, one III
the Vatican museum and the other
at Knolle hall, England. but both OF
these statues nave hands holding q
scroll. The hands Of the Vatican
statue had been restored, and that
seemed an easy solution Of the diff
fculty. But unfortunately for this
explanation, the Knolle hall statue
had also hands holding a scroll, and
this statue was thought not to have
been restored. A very close scrutiny,
however, revealed the fact that the
restorer had been at work here, also.
though most Skllfully.
The way was now open for diSCOv-
cry, if such there might be. At last
DR.. HartWig found in the gardens of
! the Rarberini palace in Rome a pair
: Of clasped hands Of marble. They
! were found to complete most artistl~
{ cally the Vatican statue, but as frag-
) ments, they did not precisely fit into
5 the break in that statue. A little later
= a foot also was discovered in the same
palace garden. 1t was found to be
, also a foot of a statue of DemOsthenesr
but it differed slightly from the foot
Of either the Vatican statue or the
statue Of Knnlle hall. Now the mys~
terry was solved. This hand and foot
. from the Barberini garden were parts
Of a third replica Of the original
statue of Demosthenes. It had clasp
ed hands, as Plutarch says the origi-
nal had. Thus the two known copies
!, have been incorrectly restored. When
correctly restored. the great orator
and patriot stands out before us in the
sorrow and majesty and impressive
10 ness Of his later days, which are Who'll.
d ~ wanting in the statues as former.
ly restored.
- Thus such a triling variation in the
is fragments Of three replicas Of an orr.
~ glnal work of art led to the recover
r. of the exac form Of the original. M
one will challenge the correctness O
70 the method in this case. The yer,
~ insigniicance Of the evidence and it
10 entirely Incidental character increase
N it's value, because the insignificant
and purely incidental lie, from thei
very nature, more surely beyond tn
region Of collision and fraud. Il
-. fact the method of attesting grea
&c things by incidental trihes is thor
oughly scientific, and is used in othe
re sciences than archaeology. The nat
urallst dares to restore a whole fs]
,ol or animal from a single bone. I
of whoie stratum of the earth's surfac
70 is Identified by the discovery Of a fey
mo1lusks, or the remains Of a few i'm
rs preSslons IN stone showing forms q
the vegetable world. The planet Men
d. tune was discovered mathematical
nd by 9 trihing, variation, or ''error.
ms found in the recorded movements {
ke other heavenly bodies; the great ey
W Of the telescope was turned to a dis
res heavens, ana, 10, theT
- - granger III space. S
IN biblical archaeology does not rest insf
ed cureiy when it makes proper use ,
Is very fragmentary evidences.
tn -
Ich The Reece Blair Medal.
Troy Montgonerian.