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tak# Mr. Phillips himself as tbs tjpe of lecturer! u a class, what he said of theirj superiority to bins of interest, ofjiasceptibility to the fear or favor of the people, zday be true. But bow many Phillips are theie in th® land ? The truer criticism of the prone 'ft cot that it truckles to olaaaw, or fawn a on individuals, but that it ia too rooklese, too meddlesome, that ita freedom rune into license, and its independence in to in to I trance. Mr. Phillips gave King Caucus some hard knocks, and bo is a dishonest old lasosl and should bo do throned unless he re form a his Court, but will ho show ui abetter way? IVe cannot, however, bring about the political millenium by refusing to vote or attend caucus, as Mr Phillips did refuse to do' for many years. After descanting upon the needs of the Lyceum, as an educating force, and no one has done more than Mr Phillips to illustrate it! power over the National mind and to raise the lecture system to the dignity of a noble profession, of a fine art, so to speak, than Mr. Phillips, [the orator psuwod gracefully on t# the theme of the evening, remarking that the leotffro system, us organizod io New England, was intended, by its originator, to supplement a common school education, taking the sarae place in New England aa the Meohaniog* iufctitule in old England. He remembered the first time that he lectured before the Boston Lyceum, tho boys ran op and down the galleries, stamping their heels, and raising such a disturbance that he believed listening was among the “lost arte.”George Bancroft quieted them down, A lecturer on the earne day week had been bo completely shut down by the boys that a constable was called in. The lecture he would deliver was intended to act as as on of antidote to the American foible—self-conceit—an exaggerated idea of fhe poSL-tion occupied by this country among the centuries. His intention was to lead hi* hearers back to the coo si deration of the excellence- of the nineteenth century'. He believed in the possibility of an universal taking down of the vanity of tho Yankee nation by ahotving that the game men had, jq past tunes, done the same thing lu regard to works of imagination, poetry, painting,1 and so forth, there was a general coOdnon that the nineteenth century sat at the feet of the past. This was evidently the case, as exhibited in om phrases, An artist goes to Italy **to study the old mart ere,” who were in tbeir graves. Shakespeare borrowed his plays from the EibI; Bulwer found tho atorj of his moat excellent novel in one twelve handred years old. There
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Titusville Herald
Titusville, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Mar 15, 1871
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