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Show Willian1 A. Phillips. mysteries of space. The pious authorities of his day cast him into a dungP.on for aying the world went round the sun. As the door of that dungeon swung again t him he exclaimed, "It ITOC. round yet!"- and it di1l. Copernicu~, who was befo1~ him, searcc dared promulgate his theory of' the universe, in an age immortalized by hi. 11nme. One of the mo. t philosophical of early chcmi · t ~ beguiled n. long impri ~onmc·nt with his science; and the py of a learned monarch, \\'ho watched the philosopher in prison, reported to his ma tcr, that, "lie hath got so many e·senccs and spirits of thing , that the only thing that seems to be lacking i the Spirit of God." The inventor of the printing pre s was charged with a league with the devil. The inn~ ntor of logarithm ~ was . uspcctcd of witchcraft. JE>op was a slave. Seneca, Socrates, and many other learned ancients were put to death by their contemporaries. Cranmer, Ridley, Latimer, and a host of other-, were bumcd at the stake for herctiies, which arc now the great axioms of religiou, truth. As John Hampden rode ii·om the field of battle mortally wounded, he did not go to the obscurity of the builders of the pyramid . lie will live anti speak while there is a protest again ·t unju t taxation, and the doctrine survives that taxation and representation must go hand in hand. Algernon Sydney did not peT·islt on the scaffold. 'I'he cruel and tyrannical Stuarts could put the coldness of death on the lips that declared, "governments were of the people, and for the people,"- that they deri vcd the it· just powers from the "consent of the governed;" but they could not, in their puny littlcne s, stifle the immortal utt erance . It " 'as to the scaffold of Algernon Sydney, Repuulican Liberty owes the impres ive les on that, "whcncYcr the people find their government evil they hav a r(qht to change them;" that "magi tratcs owe an account to tl10se for whom they rule;" that "governments arc fm· the people- not people for the government." 'Vas it not worth while to pour out one's ljfe l>lood to seal with it such a heritage to the race. Williarn A. Phillips. I have t I Ill ~ ha~ti ly glanerd OY<'r th C'se ]n 1 k · · • • < n( mnr -. of !11~- t. ory- tll(.'se . llghthou.s 'S o. f the a("l' es- to ",, llo w tll., tt 11· 1:--l ory IS but the lu=-tory of a . few - tl1at '· t few me.n :~-; t amp I hc•1. r character~ on the age 111 which they li\'r _ tl. t 1 • _ • , • . . ' 1.1 t 1e .J udg-menb of th p1 e~cnt arc no m<lt l'fltlon of' 1nc ··t 1 . • 11 , - t 1at moral IcgncJCs arc alo11c unmortn1 <lnd O'OO<lllC · 0 1 b . • . ' b · · 11 y can ear the scrutiny of tnne. A word about the antiquities of thi" cotln'. W 1 • • • :j lly. e l:l.Ve the most HH]ubltable evlClencc that (Treat 1 0 ·t' f 1 · . n '. > 1 !011 ' 0 t 11:5 COll-tmcnt were c1 .' nscly populated ' '· tt ·•t remot c, (1 a y, by people far advanrNl m the art~ and S<'i c'nct'~ \VI t 1 b · . • · ·· • 1a la ccome of them? \~~~y .dtu ~hey p 'ri~.h withont leaving an intellio(l'iblc record ? I h. . 11,· .n:m.~ are WitI~ 1y ~'Catlered over the coulltry, but t1w mo:-.t cxtc 11!-:itvc yet d1 covered 'lr f 1 1r > • · • Olln< at .. xn1ai and ~ alCil(JUC', 111 the soutb-ca~t coast of .1\IC'xico. At Uxm:d are 1mmc· n:-;e pyramids, coated with tone •tn1I n 1 1 ' . • , ' -111 :H ran g11 ar stone <·dlftce:) and terrace-. The !YI'(''ttc•"'' of' tile. · 1 . . n ' ""- ::-e py l'< l llll l :; IS one bundr 'd ami tlurty feet hi (l'IJ and its . 't . o , ' . I'Ununt support~ a tcmp1<'. On one ol the fiwad ,,· of thi, ,... 1 . r 1 . ; · ... mp cnJe1our 1uman figure. cutn.l stone, with grcnt ch.•(l'ancc UJI(l accuraey. At Pa-lc. nque arc 1mmcnse ruin -. Onr t<'llljllc' , tJ1·•1 t of Ce pan wa:; stx ln111dred a~'HI fif'ty by flvc hundred :mel tw<·nty fPet. 'fh 'l'C arc the magnrfieent remain. or a rO)':tl })(· d·(t cc~. , (: lllcl of' :1 1 1 1. 111- men·e city, which antiquarian ('Xp1orcrs comJHlte to J1.1 . b . . • \ e ~c ~ Sixty md<>~ in circumference, and to have eontain ccl three mdh~n of souls. The style of these ruins has n li ttl(' 0 {' the GothiC and ~·:gyptian, but there is sufTici('nt e\'icl nee of a distinct •a r c1 11 t cc t ure f rom a 1I th' rrco~n ized 1'tylc~ of the ":orlcl. Rich carving:-; and numcrou · hicro(l'lyphiC' show the h~gh cultu re of art, anu the progres. of tl~onght; but thc~e hJCroglyphic · lmve lo. tall th <• i1· cunning, and no longer speak to the <•yc or the lH"l ·t f 1· · c · ' 'I o IVtng man. entul'l •s mu ~t have elapsed- age.-; in wllieh progrc~s mu t have strurrrrJeu with con::;crvat · · 1 C')b •. Ism, ere sue 1 an advanced .;) tate of thing · could have CXJ.-tcd. And now the evidence of the great fore~ ts ;~ l .;;. |
