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ocles and a modern Cicero exulted in all
the elegance ol the Greek verse, and the
grace of Latin prose respectively. The
brush was again drawn with a renewed
earnestness, and a critical glance only
showed that rest had facilitated design and
ennobled the conception of the artist The
chisel was again brushed from the rubish,
and a stroke of the mallet told too plain,
lyof the new genius that was awakened.
And the Gothic style of architecture
flourished under the new incentives to industry.
Tiie fugitive pilgrim from the Holy
Land now bestowed upon Europe her
richest gifts. If the secrets of modem
warfare were not borrowed from the infi
dels of Palestine, the crusades at least
taught men that something besides mere
physical strength was necessary to arrest
the rapid progress of Mohammedanism. If
printing found not an origin among the
eastern nations, ils consummation was only
an outgrowth of the social convulsion.
With the germs of a njv state of society
partly developed, social institutions were
essential to their preservation. The her
ald, the star of chivalry, was now trans
formed into the ambassador and diploma
cy rendered tyrannical and ambitious
statesmanship dependent upon the nation
al will. As a result, peace characteristic
of a nation became the characteristic of
the citizen. Willi no leader to sound tho
battlec-ry, society turned her energy to tho
field, the laboratory and commercial
interests. The mechanical arts now res
ponded to the demands of trade and traffic
and the resources of the earth, utilized by
the more recent inventions, brought hap
piness and comfort into the domestic cir
cles. Literature in a new tongue gleamed
and sparkled, the poet again awoke his
muse, encouraged by tho restoration of
order and tho abolition of terror. The or
ator again found a father-land upon
which to lavish his patriotism. And
which for its, restoration revived, again
lost art of oratory.
Scientific, religious and political differ-
ences could no longer be limited to con
versation and the accomodations of the
rostrum. The journal, the newspaper and
the post opened a now field for ambitions
and enterprise. Tho foundaries were rich
in their hidden secrets ; the earth luxuri
ous in ils secreted mysteries.
Not satisfied with the teeming industry
of the earth, the problem of the universe
was again proposed and propounded at
length. Confidence confirmed by reason
lent stability to action and argument to
design. Land and sea rendered to man
their treasures. And philosophy embod
ied in the minds of a rescued civilization,
a nobility of labor and independence of
thought and action that today bend the
currents of social, religious and political
opinions.
These, the immediate characteristics of
the new Renaissance and the outgrowth
of liberal patronage by a reviving culture,
were but the shoots of the mountain pine
hurried beneath tho commotions of selfish
and tyrannical Europe. Rcmovethe rub.
bisli and the massive forest below was ap
parent. Quell the surging tide, and the
germs of hurried life, rank by luxurious
decay, would leap forth with a newness of
life. This, the crusades accomplished
and in the work they so wearied and fa
tigued the unbridled ambition of Europe
that quietude was an acceptable offering,
and the acceptance of tho gift gave once
more the germs of a submorged civiliza
tion an opportunity to honor the existence
of human genius. Oktega.
THE SILENT PARTY.
0 powerful has the word "party" be-
come in this country, that every en.
terprise seems to hesitate as if begging
for a little of its mighty favor. To such
an extent has this feature in American in
dustry prevailed, that it may well be con
sidcred a hazardous untertaking to seek
assistance through legislation upon thereat
merits of the case. Without a strong ap