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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1895)
THE COURIER. It THROUGH COLORED GLASSES with the booksellers. Not at all. They keep those books for which they have a Almost nineteen hundred years ago, of sense began to carry feelings and demand. The reason they fall to keep In Nazareth of Judea, there was born convey knowledge to the brain. The so many of the best works of the best In a manger In a stable the son of Jos- child was acquiring a conscious indl- writers and most advanced thinkers Is eph and Mary. And because he taught vlduallty. Its mind became a store simply this: The people of Lincoln do the brotherhood of man in a day when house of facts. The child grew to man- not care to read them. Dickens and the men were enemies, because he said hood. The man was able to reason, re- elder Dumas and Sir Walter Scott mark "Love thy neighbor as thyself." when fleet, deduce Inferences, build theories, our high tide, and the ebbtide Is meas there was hatred, greed, distrust and All these from experience: all experl- ured by Bertha Clay and The Duchess, war, because he elevated the souls of ence from the senses. The senses, acting of course there are people in Lincoln men and taught the greatness of spirit- on the brain, produced molecular ac- whose reading extends beyond these ual being, this glorious Prince of Peace tion; this molecular action was the limits clear up to Ibsen and Hall Is today the thorn-crowned king of the cause of states of consciousness. The Calne and Maclaren and way down to civilization builded In his name. For continuity of the states of conscious- Old Sleuth and Buffalo Bill, he, the meek and lowly Nazarene, by ness was the man. But the happy medium is found wlth- hls life and precepts, regenerated and Years passed. The man was old. His in the lines indicated. It very fairly purified the world. He taught that be- senses were blunt and dim and unre- measures our culture, lng was nobler than doing, that spirit sponslve. As a consequence, his facul- "Culture and refinement." said the was greater than matter, and of his ties of thought and reason began to dl- wise Caesar, "seldom penetrate to the lesson he was the living proof. minish, his memory to fall. His states provinces," Under his Influence, and the Influence of consciousness, accordingly, became of those who were under him, the world less vivid. AH this because the sense Theodore and the doctor were play has become spiritualized. organs found the brain molecules less ing chess. The doctor was working Spirituality, with art and music and sensitive and so less responsive. hard. His nerves were tense, his face literature as her handmaids, has made Finally, the senses failed to act; rea- was rigid. AH his powers of concentra man a creature of high ideals and noble son gave way; memory was gone; con- tion, combination and computation were purposes. In his soul once more is kin- sclousness ceased the man was dead, centered on the game, died the old Promethean flame, and his Did his soul go marching on? Did his Theodore, as usual, was whistling heart throbs responsive to the music of soul, which was a result of states of "Sweet Marie" and waiting for the doc the spheres. consciousness, an effect of molecular tor to move. The doctor, after long stu- The visions of ultimate truth and action and combination, continue to dy, moved K-b to Q R 3, and announced beauty, away up beyond the snowy exist when the molecules were scatter- mate in three moves, heights have quelled the stormy pas- ed and still? Then "the gallery"came In; Bixby and sions of a barbaric race, and in a com- When the block house, which was Nagel, and Kennard and Brown and mon brotherhood men march on and on only a combination of blocks, has been Judge Hall and General Webster; and toward the higher goal. shattered when the combination of they all turned In to down the doctor. All this is theory, understand. The blocks has been destroyed Is the house A Babel of voices were lifted in words facts, in truth, are hardly consistant still there? Does It go on existing? of advice, and a wilderness of fingers with the theory. traced out on the board multitudinous This week, while an hundred million Is Lincoln a cultured city? With all roads for Theodore's salvation. Above knees were bent in worship at a com- Its reading circles and culture clubs, all the din of advice rose the shrill mon shrine, and that the shrine of the does it really keep up with the times? cackle of "the count" with his "Go Prince of Peace, the massacre of the Does it appreciate the best of modern heah! go-heah." Innocent has gone on unpunished in literature? If you believe It does. Just And the doctor went. He kicked over Armenia. Why? Because Christian na- make a pilgrimage through our book the table, grabbed his umbrella, and tlons were too selfish to Interfere. The stores some day and report. went: blood of Cuban patriots has cried to I made the rounds last week, inqulr- "Explunctlflcated," commented BIx heaven unavenged. Why? Because ing for a certain one of Ibsen's plays, by. "Well, well, well, well," said Brown. Spain has a God-given right to murder Of the five book stores which I visited, And Theodore sat whistling "Sweet and oppress. The rumor of a war be- none had a single one of Ibsen's plays Marie." tween the two greatest of Christian na- on its shelves. The intelligent clerk at tions has been greeted from seventy one shop, on being asked for Ibsen's Thev sat s,de bv sIde on the sofa ln millions of people with joyous acclaims. "Ghosts," was prone to request the the doctor's waiting room. They were Why? Because we long to imbrue our "author's name again, please," It was evJdentlv father and son. the father a hands in a brother's blood. very evident he had never heard the rouSh. gruff looking man. dirty and ill The brotherhood of man! Wars, and name before! I tried again this time kem' the son a mtIe fellow of eight rumors of wars, powder and guns, ar- In fruitless quest for Lewis' "The or nlne' pale' wan and scrupulously mies and navies-do these go with the Monk." for I thought that our tastes neat and clean- with h,s eves swathed golden rule? Do they bespeak a high, might possibly incline to the old mas- in many foIds of whIte ,Inen bandage, spiritual plane? Do they indicate that ters. But judging from the succession The father's eyes were restless and we subordinate doing to being? Our of blank looks that met the demand for rov,ns: under them were circular hol social and governmental organizations this book, it seems perfectly safe to lows surmounted by dark blue puffy the very competitive system, the hazard the guess that Lewis and his swellings. A great red bandana was framework of our civilization-do these "Monk" was literally a sealed book to wound carelessly about his neck. One bespeak the brotherhood of man? all the booksellers. of his shoes was ripped the whole Utopia-it is a pleasant dream-but a Smollet and Fielding and Boccaccio lenSth of one slde- Hls hat was on his dream nevertheless. In reality the were conspicuous also only by their nead- world, A. D., 1893, is barbaric and sel- absence. The son sat motionless. His pale, fish and material just as it was B. C, I came back to modern times again. I th,n features were untouched by mark 1895. Our culture, our spirituality, our tried Tolstoi and Tourgeniff and Szien- of thouSht or feeling. His heavy un "common brotherhood," our avowed ciwitz. Of these authors, one or two der llp hune down and revealed his ideals and aspirations all are of the book stores had a stray work or two. large white teeth- HIs shoe strings outer, not the inner, man. The baser But they were evidently sorry they had were neat,v t!ed m d"ble knots-never metal is within. Only scratch off the them. for. as a clerk said, "there is no h,s own work- with h,s Pr' bandaged polish, the varnish and veneer, and call for them." eves- And I saw a loving mother in the man is as much of a brute today as he x tried the poets Swinburne and Wat- background. was when first emerging from primeval son and Maetterllnk and the. result H,s mtle hand Iav m his father's caves, he pushed back the shaggy mane was the same. I believe I did succeed great and hmy palms, quite motion from off his eyes and glared in amaze- in finding a 59-cent compilation of some ,ess The father's hand stroked the hand ment at the sun. of Swinburne's "selected" poems. lt held sently, and oh! so tenderly; ca- But nevertheless, 'mid softly pealing A quest for Maarten Maarten's "God's ressed and fondled it. with almost a wo mellow bells we have wended our ways Fool." and the novels of George Mere- man's touch as the sat there patiently to gorgeous shrines to bow in chastened d'th met the common fate it was fruit- awaiting their turn, worship at the altar of him whose life Iess. H. E. NEWBRAXCH. and teachings are but the antitypes of And it was not only in standard au- The Merchants' Dining hall, corner the lives and practical teachings of us thors that the book stores failed; the Eleventh and P streets, has heretofore who bend the knee. failing was just as marked in the edi- been run as a regular dining hall. 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