Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-10-20

his life, and received his early eda-
cation in the local public schools.
He has had a wide and varied bust.
ness experience, and for several
years past has been engaged as
salesman. This is Mr.. Lewis first
time to aspire to public office. Ii
successful, he proposes to devote
his entire time and attention to the
work at hand and work to the end
of economy and efficiency.
(Pol. Adv.)
BAND IN THE STATE" Mr.. Mat
son knows this statement is not COR
rect. Mr.. Matson "does not care t.
split hairs over triyialities like the
schoolmen of the middle ages, etc "
Mr.. Matson, evidently is little rus
ty in his history of the middle ages,
or he wouldn't resort to innuendo.
The schoolmen of the middle ages
did lot more than split hairs, and
YOU haven't got man that you can
, produce that can hold candle 70
1 the men and women of the middle
ages. Ruskin says that the prop
I er estimation of the accomplish
ment of period in human history
bcan only be obtained by a study OF
] three books. The Book of th2
Words. The Book Of the Deeds, and
! The Book Of the Arts. "UndeI
these three heads the scholar sees
/ that the glorious civilization of the
middle ages was the dawn of on.
modern times. This period heard
the lyrics of Petrarch in Italy, tht
Troubadors and Trouveres II
France. the Minnesingers and the
Mastersingers of Germany, The
Golden Legends the legends oi
"Arthur and the Round Table, :
/ the Holy Grail Spain created the
romance of the Cid France "Ths
Romance of the Rose" Germany
the tales of "Reynard the Fox
AS the fitting crown of glor
| ious age, Italy in 1865 brought
forth Dante Alighieri, one of the
| very supreme poets of all time
Dante, in his immortal masterpiece
"Divina Commedia' reflects the
genius of the middle ages, sums III
| its philosophy, visualizes its art and
noetry. it's strifes and loves, its
conscious powers and its divine
/ ideals. 1t was the age of the found
| ing of universities, the greatest uni
versities which the world can boast
of. the Universities of Paris, pre-
eminent in philosophy and theology
Salerno in medic ne, Bologna II
! law, oxford in the liberal arts. This
was the age of Albertus Magnus
Dun Scotus and hundreds of power
full figures The age Of Roger Be-
con who is honored today by his
fellow scientists who still use his
magnifying glass. This was also
the age which gave us the magma
Charta," which is the foundation
stone of AMERICAN CONSTlTU-
TIONAL FREEDOM. This was the
age Of three world discoveries.
These men were Copernicus, who
revealed the astronomical world
Gutenberg, who opened up the
larger world of letters by his inven-
ton Of the printing press, apd CO
lumbus who gave us the mighty
world Of the western hemisphere
The greatest masterpieces of art
were produced in that age of chair
splitting schoolmen.' Thousands oi
tourists from every civilized lansi
90 from city to city in Italy, France
Spain and England and Germany to
look upon and pay tribute OF un'
ceasing admiration to the cathe-
drals, domes, spires, the marvellous
creations of painting and sculpture
and architecture which make this
chair splitting age" the Golden
Age of Civilization, for the art~of a
country is the revelation of its
ideals and a measure of its civiiiza-
ton. Not her heroes, but art made
Greece immortal. It was the age
that produced the Cathedral Of Pisa,
known as "a cross of chiseled flow
ers," the age in which the bronze
doors of Ghiberti, We're called by
Michael Angelo worthy to be the
gates Of Paradise.' 1t was the age
which produced the Cathedral of
Milan which has been called "that
miracle Of glistening white marble, +"
which Mark Twain calls ''the prince
liest creation that ever brain of man
conceived In painting it was the
age of Dalmasio, Guido Reni, Fra
Angelica, Raphael, Leonardo da
Vinci. | have not time to cite their
masterpieces which are admired the
world over. Truely, this age which
Mr.. Matson honors by the epitaph
of "the hair splitting age" was the
age of poetry and song, the age Of
beauty and all loveliness, the age of
the greatest creations of the hui
man soul. I have been forced to
answer these things which have alb
solutely no bearing on the subject
under discussion, simply because
Mr. Matson used all this extraneOus
matter to take the minds Of his
readers away from the real points
at issue, because he cannot AN
SWER THEM. He wasted fully a
half page of his paper denying that
my statements are true and that
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