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THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1874—SIXTEEN PAGES. 9 is art and industry. We believe o of r:m;:emcut which ifr. Booth has s city hes been more successful than proceded it, and it is not likely ® comiog enzagement will be an excep- w182 e, Whatover criticisms may be g 80 pdividual impersonations. Lo stands "y the leading ronresentative of the best " of the drawa,.and a3 such o is entitled to iy welcome. o bese A BACKSLIDD=N CRUSADER. gx every o £ e whicl stgardity of the recent prohibitory cru- -1 io Obio i8 vers clearly mamfested in tha of the “xeform " of Vau Pelt. Our ers will readily remember Vao Pelt, as they fieralls pelted with him throughout that st oary campaiga. Van Pelt was 2 ealoon- o o taw the errors of bis waya, and was i< upon to close up his saloon for & con- glention which compensated bim for the ioss § busicess and ho then set himself up in the of temperance lecturer, stumping the stricts in company with Dr. Dio Lewis, o 3 comiderstion. Ven Pelt bad K % concearation of all villninies " gattach to the business of whicky-selling, e, therefore, regarded as & special brand i trom the burning. Van Pelt bad sold worst whisky in the State of Ohio. He had b wwidons and orphans” by wholesalo. Ho peenthe nero of manya knock-down. He fus the champion bruieer of the S:ate. He was e termor of all good men. He was the op- stofalllawa. Hewas the open enemy of €0~ Ze,t0d there WAS DO good in him. Van Pelt, Fé"'m’ w8 DO COMMON treasure-trove to the fasders, and thes wado tho most of him. e Faubibited by Dio Lewisas ondinstancoof what Jexstiog” could aczomplish. o was exlib- iy the Ciusaders as an examole for other siers and sellers of liguor to imitate. A lit- g piece was writien for bim, and he spoe it for (Eileprico all over Obio and Iodiass. In fact. fPel reformed 80 faet and oucstripped all faer whis§y-810De13 KO rapidly in angehe direc- gmthat theCrusaders entortaived strong hopes yzight blossom out befure the year wae over yacandidste for gome otiice upou & Prolibi- paticket. . Tois jost to Mr. Van Pelt to say that be gioted the moral hoights very fast, but 3 is pucfal to mdd that whon he 1 resched the top, without even s:opping ptzn ronnd, he slid down backwards with a ity that makes one dizzy to contemolate. pdteachod the bottom in ap ineredibly short podof nme. It is painfal to put upon record @atist that Joha Boy'e & Co., of Higginsport, 0.cavnfacture whisky, aod that, on the 24th 5ovember, they reczivad the following unigue Yasizgestive noto: ot di “WiLxINGTON Nov 23 . 3dx Poile rcinsport O Bt bund and in reply will crler 10 fead e o 0al110 gallon of the two year pad i i aatisfactioa § will order further by fraigut snd 3 wil remit By Poat offices order el 7 B Vanpelt Thus vavish, ons ‘Tyasruns the world away! ! yar tho other, the foud illusions we che filewehad o admiration for Mr. Van Pelt in Escenacer of reformer, but looked upon bim i+ahomoug, we have stiil less admiration for Yinove, and this feeling will be very generally T jrared bat this does not alter the facis in the,| sase, prmake it any the less the duty of thelate Cinsaders to stady this little leiter of their late tonvert, sad szeif it d-es ot teach some lessons ¢f common eense. The patiet student of Mr. Tan Pets brocbure will riud the explanation of tke fulure of crucading wrapped up in & nus- el RUSSIAN SECTS--1HE RASKIL. Inaprevious articls we reviewed the labors of L instole Leroy Beautieu on Religion in Rus- 4 fasdon the Greek Church. To-day we pro- § fuetosopolement that article by = review of _j Ktaborate pazer, from the pzn of the same faient writer, on the Raskol, or the Russian s, published in a recent number of the Rerue @1 Doz Mondes. Ruseia, epite of its autociatic- o rdwellvigh despotic form of Government; teof the fact, too, that the Greek is the st Church, swarms with secte. Tha walls' J iestately Unihodox Chuich are burrowed by 4 B mdustry of these schismatic orgzanisms, 18 the generic name of the Ruesian ol means schism. The Raskol, &wever, §s neither a sect nor a group of sects. bt ensemblo of dozirines or hercsies having 11mg in common but tacir origin andantagon-, o the Established Church. M. Beau- 4k finda that it is analogous to Prot- Jmbisn in the vamety and originality £ forms it assumes. There is this duffer- 4 tv bowever, betwzen the Russian Raskol and & various Christian secis which constitute Ezastantism : that the latter had their origin in \girit of criticism, while the Russian had { 1n in a stubborn reverence for the letter of { iBueinn ritual. The Raskol Las no central i 1 1 i ! 3 4 -at the foet of the figure. ity There had been sects n Russis be- laethe appearance of the Raskol. These have W gappeared, 2ad are now knowa only by uze The Raskolhad its ovigin in the correo- Yool the Lussian ritual. The Raskoiniks wor- L3 ta Jetter, know nothing of, and care Boting for, the spirit. In the middle ages, even LeBusnans were noted for their scrupulous ad- beneto forms, The dropping of a letter or & ¥edina prayer was ot times suficient to pro- h‘h!uhmm. A chronicler of Novgorod, who ¥sdin the fifteenth cecturs, tells bow a division 3 ' erated among certain sectaries because 4 itof them used the following form of invoca~ ¥2:%0 Lord, bave mercy on us,” while the Kaarpersisted in reciting eimply, “Lord have J Mreaus” It was the spirit observable here, 4 }uiit eminently Russian, that gave birth to the b To introduco the minatest change into :'nm of & prayer was to destroy its effect. 4 B Meacorite was lost in spunbolism. The letter { {idestroyed him. Maving become Christians Zorder of thoir rulers, and not from convic- 13, the Rusiana Jooked upon the change as & X35 of rites and forms, not of belief. Their q ¥t Paganism sl lingered under Christia o As Mr. Besulien says, the Muscovite otly the body of Christianity when ne pro- “dioembrace it. His mind and soul re- .their_ancient mold. This is to be ac- o for in grea: mersure by the historical + Bographical relation of the Russian Em- “kich separated them from all Chriatian spo The Tesult of the pievailing igoorance 2eountry on all religions matters was the W earruntion in mauy parts of the liturgy, & o tntrodaction into it of local sud {0 peculiasities. To remedy this g & Mogcovite Prince, Vassili IV, M'aflnaq 2 Greek monk, about the begin- bt the sixteenth contury, to make & rovis- o U liturgical books. Maximus, s the 1‘%&1" the revision was called, was con- 1 [ 33 heretio for Lis puins, and sent to » ¥ vy DOURStery by 5 Council, where he was i luinl bis liberty. A second attempt at a8 made about the middle of the fol- l,,,;;‘,:‘“flry. Kikono the Patriarch made a '*lxn:hm og manuscript liturgies in the oy Slavonic lauguages, with the view of g g O0PRed, and of obtainiog a cor- g, S om them. The new missals were M‘fli tided by tho secular power, the by forced their use upon all Muscovite & m'fh- Tevision was not welcomed by Pl .H: Their fecling on the guestion WwCL msy be expressed in the B ‘! €onYist of the preceding century: o 'hedm 2llms limts, and was seized with w D:u €0 Maximus the Greek ordered me to g n +C0le of lives in one of our church Yo, d.,.n" s sacnlogious band, it was sud, P ":u:h the eacred books. The higher %'m he clergy and the father of Peter the et “ained the Patriarch and his revision. Tapy Oders opposed it. Two bundred h:l' ® Passed since the dace of the Tevision ; u, :’?-rsa oumber of Russians still adhere ALy Bnm.nsduciplne. Hera was the origin E l;ol. Moaks, doacens, sextons even, “%Cu Nikone's currections as step towards olle Chusch, or towards Protestants ism. Nikono was, ten years after, deposed from the Patriarchsl dgmty for causes Dot connected wizh the rovision. His opponeunts, bowever, supposed that bis condemnation was tho condemnation of the reform he had intro- duced. Bat tho very Council that had deposed the Patriarch excommuaicated the opponents of lus reform. - The poiats that diviaed tie Rasirof from the Orthodox Church are all exceodingly childish. They are the sign and form of tho cross; the direction in which religious proces- sions should move, to the east or to the wost ; the reading or not reading of one of the articles of the Creed; the way of spelling the name of Jeosus ; tho inscription over the crucifix ; whoth- er the word alleluia should be repeated twice or thrico; and the number of Eucharistio loaves which should be consecrated at a time. Or- thodox Russiava , cross themselves with three fingers. the Raskolniks with only two. The formor allow only tha crosa with two beams; the latter use one with four. there being a cross-beam at the hozd and The reasun assigned by the Raskolniks for using only two fiugers in crossing themsetves is that, by so doiug. they honor the two nstures in Christ. The echismat- ics call themselves Old-Believers and Old-Ritual- ists. ‘They worship thu latter, because they say that the form and substance of religion are in- dissolubly connected. To surrender tha ons 18 to surrender thoe other. In every word tnoy find a hidden meauing. Forms are riot the mere drap- ery of religion, but its very fleeh and blood. Ritaal and dogma both come from the founder of Christianity. Both ara unelterable. A Rus- sian Judge not long eince was counseling certain of these sectaries to give up their clandestine religious ceremonies. They answered him that they were the rites of their forefa:hers, that the Government might send thew into exile, but that they would mever surrender the freedom tu worship God as their fathers had worshiged him before them. At the end of the seventeenth cen- tury & Raskolnik writer objected to the Orthodox priests that they studied *thiat thrice-cursed languago, Latin,” and wondered that they did not deem it a sin deserving eternal damnation to call God Deus, the Father Pater, or by any other than the Slavio term Bog. The name of Jesus, Tissous, derived directly from the Greek, they rejected becauso of its **disbolic form,” and adhered to the popular corrup:ion Jssous. ‘The origin of the Raslol and the introduction of foreign influence into Russis are contem- poraveous events: and the Raskolniks have con- sistently opposed every reforia which bas been made since the timo of P'ster tho Great in tle consitution and manners of the country, Eave the emancipation of the serfs. Petor the Great bawildered tho Raskolnik. He chauged every- thing. Ho changed his Church, bis bome, the fasbion of his aress, the names of places and thiugs, the alphabet, aud the calendar. He made the year to begin with Jan. 1 instead of Sept. 1, sud dates to be reckoned from tke birth of Christ instead of from the beginning of the world, as had been the custom previvusiy. He made the men shave their beards aad the women drop the use of their veils. Nikoue the Patriarch . and Pater tho Emperor wera as- sociated togsther in the minds of the Ruossians 28 the apostles of chauge. Peter introduced tho cnstom of regisiering births aund deaths inio Russia. This the Raskolmiks oppossd. God alone, they said, had the right to take the num- ber of his subjects, as witness the chastisemeut inflicted on David. The reign of the Czar bo- came henceforth the reign of the Devil, or of Anti-Christ. The end of the world was expect- ed. Peter himself was looked upon as theio- carnation of the evil one. The Book of Revela- tion was being enacted in Russis. The name of the Beast was found in Peter's name. ‘The Raskolnik opposed tbe iatroduction of tobacco, tea, and cotfee and sugar, for reasouna avelogous to thoso for which he opposed all other novelties. There wers those who would not waik over paved streets, because they wers an inuovation and sn invenition of the Devil. When the potato made its appearance in Rassis, a Raskolnik counseled that it ghould not be used, becauso it was the frui: by meanaof which Batan had seduced the woman in Eden. In view of the chsnges intioduced by Peter the Groat, & new decalogue became necessary, end the Raskol published it: Thou shalt not sbave thy face; thou shalt smoke no tobacco wnor any other woed: thou snhalt put no sugar in suy of thy food, etc. Sach were the new commandments. A Raskolnik and & member of the Osibiodox Charch were diinking togetber. The latter lighted a cigar, + 0O the hellish poison !" excllim:d‘tha Raskol- nik. **And whst about brandy ?" asked the troe believer. * Vino,"—for o brandy is called in Ruseisn,—answered tke heretio, ** was appre- ciated bv our grandfather Noal.” All the Greek could do was to assare the Raskolnik that there was no evidence that Noah did not smoke. An appeal to antiquicy was the highest that either knew of. The Raskolnik chenshes bis beard. The beardless face hae been called the libertine face. “To shave the board is to disfig- ure God's imsge, in which man was made.” Man was created with .a besrd, soys the Raskolnik. No, answers Lis orthodox opponent, the beard grew after thoFall, and hence in the years of innocence—that 18, in youth— man Las no beard. A beard and the trans- | gression of the law came to him et the ssme time. The Raskolniks do not recoguize the Emperor as sovereign since he changed tho title of his dignity from Czar to Imperator, wears & mustache, and carries s sword like & common General. The Raskols have no clerpy. They would ac- cept no priest orduined in s Church which: they condemned, ard conld devise no means to inan- gurate a new priesthood. Hence they have no sacraments, Dot even marriage. Hence immorality of the most degraded kind. And they are satisfied to remsin io this condition, for the reazon that they expect the end of the world at an early day, and. do not think it worth while to increase and multiply when it i 80 near. The earth they look upon a8 handed over to the Prince of Perdition, and they not unfrequently end their existence here by murder or suicide to escape from it. Fire alone, they claim, can puri- fy this polluted world; and hundreds of these sectaries bave been known to cast themselves st once into the flames, end expire in he nct of offering up prayers and eing- ng bymos. Some of them believe that Chiist hss slready reappeated in the worid. Other adors Napoleon the Great -2s their re- turned savior since his Russian campaign, and beliove that he will come again to complete their emancipation. Such 18 the Raskel,—that embodiment of radi- " cal conservatism which will admitof no cnange inreligion or in politics. The Russians are looked upon 28 & very docile people, the tool of every tyrant. Their religious history, whatever else may be thought of it, disproves this as- sumption. R S A singular ambiguity diatresses the adjoining counties of Rock Istand auvd Whiteside. The Legislature iu 1854 passed an sct defining tho boundsry between the two by section lines, thus throwing 1,900 acres of swamp-laod drainsY by the latter to the former. The salo of tlus I by Swamp-Land Commissioner Josln, ten years ago, was prevented by an injunction which bas just boen made perpetual. In rendering s do- cision, Judge Pleasants main:iains toet the couanty line was established by the Legislatnre in 1831 through the middle of the Blough—the thread of s mythical stream which connects the Missigsippi and Rock Rivers. As thisline is as clearly distinguishable as the track made by & duck through the water in 1831, the decision must be regarded, oot only a8 highly luminous, but practically valuable 88 susiaining ths in- junction. & SO —— ‘When plain Dr. Vincen: Hurlbut becomes Sir Vincent Hurlbut, then the troubles of Dr. Blsnchard and Dr. Carpenter bresk out afresh. Dr. Hurlbut, of Chicago, is just at present Sir Harlbut io New Orleans, with cocked hat, white foather and sabre, a Knight-Templar marching In eroases, squares, and triangles, aod other ge- ometrical forms of Masonio iniquity, Sourishing a sword, weaiing a white apron, shneking Jubi- Io, jubila. juciium, going on picnics, making ex- cursions, and orherwiso perpetrating thoso Ba- sonic horrors which are so shocking to the sen- ‘sibilizies of the Anti-Secret Society. Itisin or- dor, therefore, for the Soctety to rise up in pro- test against Sir Vincent Hurlbur and demand Lis immediate resumption as Dr. Hurlbut. A STORY OF GERMAN LOVE. MEMORIES: A SToRr or Gemsax Love, Tran Lited from the German by Gronu: P, UrroN, Chi 21go: Jaueen, McCiurg & Co. 1875 This is oue of the most charming little books we hiave ever read. We know of only one other story to which we can compare it,—the exquisite tale of Paul sud Virginia, by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. It were difficult indeed to say whicn of these two littls books is the more ad- mirable. They are both gems of love-stories, and those who are scquainted with the Fronch one can have no bhigher aesurance of the excellenoe of the German than thatit is not it inferior in intereat or poetic elovation, As tus translator remarks 1n his preface, this story of German love is without piot, incidenta, or situa- tivns. The memories are a conneciod history of the writer's love for Marie, the heroine. The hivtory of his exquisitely-refined and unselfish love runs through tho whole of the little book, giving uuity to the parts. And how besatiful the history of that love is | The title of the book is, “A Story of Ger- man Love” It might equally well bave been entitled, A Story of Ideal Love.” All love is ideal or false; and no one who haa felt ideal love but ehould reed the story, and live his love over again; for the love portrayed 60 well by the writer 18 not 80 much German as it is human, It is not the love of an age.ors natiopality. It is the love of a youth whom tho world has pot yet tarnished—of one who had kept the whituess of his soul—for a most charm- ing character, a specimen of the genuine woman, one worthy of the love which only such a youth can give. ‘The story is told in & manver worthy of such & love. The author 18 undoubtedly toll- ing his own experiences. In the firat Memory, he gives us his first recol- lections; and they are full of besucy. Take this one: *I beliove I can remember when I saw the stars for the flzst time. They may bave seen me often before; but one evening it seemed a8 if it wero cold. Although I lay in my mother's lap, Ishivered and waa chilly, or I was fright- ened. In short, something came over me which reminded me of my Lttle ezo in no ordinary manner. Then my mother showed me the brizht s:ars, and I wondered at them, and thought that she had made them very beaatifully. Then I felt warm again, aud could sleep well." Here was Lis birth to a coneciousness that bo was him- self, with sn individuality distinct from every thivg about lnm, Soon, however, childhood iy over, and be learus todraw s distivction be- tween bis father, mother, sisters, aud friends, aud the * multitude of stranga people.” Aud €o, when, 1 the second Memory, Le i8 intro- duced to the Priucess in the castle, he is repri- manded by his father for runniog up to ker be- cansashis was beautiful snd smiled so loviogly, and throwing his arms aiound ber neci aud kiss- ing Ler, ss he used to kiss b mother. Ho fs told tiat ho should uot do that to strangers, of the existencs of whom he had no: yet dreumed, —the boy's first disappoiatment, first- reminder that the world is not all love, and that even the Lest promptings of the heart must bs sup- pressed in obedience to tbe commands of 2 wisdom whoso sourcs is in the perversity of mao. The joyousness of opaning being is sdmicably dopicted in thia and the following Memory, where we assist ac the birch of lovein the heat of the child, at the preseoce of the Piincess danglter, the Countoss Murie. It is the man that is relating the story of his youtt's love. I guow not,” he says, **when I saw her for the first time. She eworges from the darkness of memory, slowly and graduslls,—at first like an airy shadow, waich grows more and moro dis- tinct as it approaches nearer aud uearer,—at last standing before my svul like the moon, which, on sorso stormy night, throws back the cloud veils from across its fuce. She was always sick, aud suffwiing, and silent; ana I never saw ber except reclining on her couch, upon which two gervants brought beriuto the roow, and carried her out again when ohe was tired. There she lay in her flowiug white draperv. with her hauds generally folded. Her face wau 80 pale, and yot 50 mild, and ber oyes 50 deep and unfuthomable, that I often stood near ber, lost u thought, and looked upon Ler, and asked myselfif she was not one of the *strange people'alao. . . . I do not kuow how old siae wes at that timo. Sbe wass 80 helpless that she seemed like s child, 20d yet was o setions sud siient that she could not have been'one.” This isthe woman whom he loved as ounly a boy could love, and whom, in the end, he coula call his only for a few hours; for, as the Hoprath informed him, the night after she had said to bim, *“Iam yours. God willed it. Take me, justas Iam. SoloogasI live 1 am yours; ana may God bring ua togetber agamw in a more beautifal lite, and recompense your life,"—sbe died. ‘We do not care to give » sketch of the story from the beginning of tho boy's love to its cioss when he was s man, with ber exit from the scene. We could ouly do injustice to the story, which is so short that condensation is imposei- ble. Besides, no idea of the tale can be obtuin- 8d except by reading it itseif. The moat we can do is to acquaint the reador with some of the besuties of the book by a few more extracts from its pages. We do 80 almost at random. Here is one : 7 But, if this ali, with fts smnlleat and its greatest, with fts wiedom ‘aud its power, witt the wonders of its existence and tho existence of its wonders, is the work of a Being 1 whose presence thy soul does Dot shrink back, before whom thou falless prostrate in 2 focling of moekness and nothiugness, and to whom thou risest sgain in the feeling of is love and mercy ; i€ thon really feelest that something awells in thee more endless and eternal than the cells of the flowers, the spheres of the plants, and the life of tha insect ; if thou recognizest in thyself, as iu 8 shadow, the reflection of tbe Eternal which flluminates thee : if thou feelest in thyeelf, and uuder aud above thyself, the omuipresence of the Resl, in which thy scem- ing becomes being, thy troubls rest, thy solitude universality,—then thou knowest the Ond to whom thou criest §n the dark might of life, * Creator and Futber, Ty will be done, in Heaven a8 upou Exrth; and a8 on Exrth, 50 aleo in'me,” Then it grows brght in and about 'thee, Tho daybresk disappears with ite cold mists, and & uew warmth streams through shivering Nuture. Thou hast foursd a Hand which never again Jeaves thee,—which hoids thee when ihie mountuins tremble and moons are extinguisbed. Wherever thou mayat be, thou art with Him, and He with thee. He 15 the eterunlly-near, ard His isthe world, with its Jogs and sorrows, . . . With such thouglt L went on my waz. - And this other: Oue loved » maiden, and the love was returned ; Lut Be wus poor, she was rich, The fathers and relatives wrangled and suocred, sud two bearts- were brokeu. Mhy7 Because the worid looked upon it 6 a misfor. tune for a woman 10 woaz & drers niude of the wool of 3 sirub in America, cud uot of the fibres of a worm in Chins, Another loved o malden and was loved in re- turu ; but he wus a Protestant, ube was a Catholic. The iothiers and the priests bred ‘miachief, aud two Liacts wero broken. Why? On account of & politi.ul gawe of chess which Charles V. and Heury VIIL pluyed togethier S00 years a;o. A third loved 's maiden, aud wau Ioved in Toturn ; but he wis u nobls, she a peas- sat. The sisters were augry «nd quurreled, and two hearts were broken. Why 7 Bacause, & hundred years ago, one soldicr alew another 1 battle who threatened ‘ife of his Kivg. This gave bim titie and honars, great-grandson expiated the bl shed at that time with « diesppointea Life, We mishr produce other extracis rivaling thesoin beaniy: but space does not pormit. The book we most heartily commeud as = holi- day-gift. No handsomer volume was ever jssued by a Weetern house. The tranelation is excel- lent. We ouly regret that the name of the an- thor of the original, Max Muller, the celebrated philologiat,has been omitted from the title-page. For this omussion we can see no good reason. A literary genius is nasting his sweotness in TUtica. He writes to the boys and girls attend- ivg the schools of that town, offering his valu- ablo services as author of their origiual essays, orations, and declamations, 2dding that he has taken mauy prizes for students in his five years’ experience. His terms are the pond-lly of modesty: Forfive-minute declamations, §1; for ten-minute ditto, £1.50; orations and eszays, 25 cents per 100 words; mo charge less than §3, except for declamstions. Such & mau has = fortune in his pen. The recout elections are the tide in his affairs; be i3 the man produced by an emergency. On then to Washington. Even at his modest figures not & speech on the currency question but will net him a com- petency ; not an oration in favor of & railroad steal but will make his fortuna. He can point to tha Congressional Record as a teatimony of bis facility, agd being confessedly a rogneof five yeary’ stauding, can fluently adapt himself to the ueeds of tho occasion. —_——— THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION. OUTLINES OF COSMIC PHILOSOPRY, BASED ON THE DGCTRINE OF EVOLUTION : Wirs Crrmi- clsus ox THE PouTIVE PaiLosorir. By Jomn Fracz, AL A, LL. B., Assistunt Librsrian at Har- ~ard Univernily. Bosion : James B. Osgood & Co. 1875, Two Volumes. Tn soeking to convey to the general reader any satisfactory soconnt of those volumes, the re- viewer, in the limits of & newspaper-article, 1abors under a disadvantage which is manifestio an ondeavor to state with brevity and clearness the scope and bearings of the subject with which they d=al. To thus ot forth the principles and data of a Philosophy of which two closely-print- od volumes profess to contain but an outline, would, if it were possible, be 5o bald and frag- mentary a sketch that it would render but small Justice to an author, snd remain probably a dis- paragement to the originators and defenders of & doctrine 8o grand in its proportions, sad so far- reaching 1n ita applications, as that which, com- prebended under the titte of Evolution, is now s:auding on trial before the scientific world. It would be difticult for & witer to appear who would be enabled to claim the merit of any very great originality while the man who, years ago, marked out the courss, sketched far ahead the outlines, aud defined the boundaries to which Evolution should conform, still lives, and devel- ops with a mastsr hand the details of his Philos- ophy, AMr. Spencer, siowly and carefully enun- ciating his doctrines, and binding them by the applications which Scivnce in the past, and, fn- deed, almost daily, by tho discovery of mew facts, places at hia disposal, has reached rather more than half of tho distance to that goal for which he set out alone, unsustained, and ex- posed to the hostility of adveree critics. A host of writers have meanwhile arisen, who—pro— jecting into thefature, in advance of Mr. Span- cer, tha implications they deemed to follow upon the estabuehmeut of his First Principles—have eondemued or exalted the Evolution Philosophy, a8 thoy were its opjonents or defenders, Mr. Fiske, indeed, claims but little, in his pages, of original matter. He would bave us understand that his book is illustrative and explauatory of Mr. Bpencor's Philosophy; sud that, scatterod through the volumes, is much matter corrobora- tive of and sustaining Mr. Spencer's position ; aod, in she bigher divisions, working ont more in detail, unid in advauce of Mr. Speucer's owa volumes, tue application of the principles of Evoiution to tus sciences of Sociology and ilo- rality. It 1# bardly within the province of a newspa- per to explain tho dotaila of & eyatem of Philos- opby, or to espouso 1t canse. The Philosophy of Evolation is now attracting a share of atteu- tion among thinting porsonw which places it ebove the patty criticisms of fanatics or bigots. A vast vumber—indeed, it is claimed the ma- jority—of scientifo men sdumut its many oxcellences io explaining the various ob- scare phenomena of inorganio and orgauio pature. In the Sciences of Life, Mind, and Society, no less than in Physics, ithas beon a powerful aid in the solution of questions which for centuries have been a stumbling-block to the foremost thinkers of every geueration. In Law, in History, in the comparisons of Language, Literature, and Religion, its inflaence has been fels; =nd it hss revolutionized the conceptions of men 23 to the origin of tleir civil:zation, aud of their 1deas of Life, Society, and Moraiizy. Leaving asido for the moment the considera- tion of that first question over which so much argument—and ink—bay been wasted, tie na- tare of the First Causs of all things (remarking thatit is not tae causeof changes of creation with which Evolution i4 coucerned, but the man- ner of their operation), let us brietly indicato the startig-points of the Philosophy : We bave, 2a the fouudation of all phenomena, two factors: an enduring sud inextinguisbable matter, and a persistent and impetishavle force. These two, howaver they wore originated, sod bowever they ars snstained, form tae basis upon which all visible effects are built. Exbibited under all aspects; permeating the entiro Coa- mos; equally at home in 1norganic aud organic forms: 1nthe piece of coal wemine; in the chemical substances we build up in tbe labora- tory; in the plant and tree whick grow: in the suimal which moves and has a seutient life; in the Infant whica arrives at last at maa's estats, snd io all the fallness of miad and intellect he displays; io the sggregstion of men into societies; and of all departments of knowl- cdge over which they have sttained dominion; in the engine which moves their bodies, and the telegraph which tranaters their ideas ; in the laws which govern them ; in the esthetic feelinga they exhibit; in the ewmotions they display, and the sentiments they cherish,—there is the same rhythmical in- ter-change and resction of this undying force upon this ever-changing but never-disappearing matter. Acd the all-comprehonding law of Evo- lution is the 8ame eternal law under which thess changes take place, now and from the beginning ; and the manner of its operation, in the techui- cal language of philosophy, is *an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of mo- tion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to & definite coherent hetorogeneity; and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transforma- tion." Behind thia law, with a reverencs born of the knowledge he has acquired, and a cantionsness of statement which comes of a familiarity with the failures of & long line of earnest philoso- phers and thinkers whose descendant be is, tho believer in Evolution proclaims that ** There ex- ists a PowEs to which no limic in time or space is conceivable; of which all phenomena, 38 pre- sented in consciousness, are manifestations; but which we can know only through these man- ifestations. These formalas, it may be said, are difficult of comprehension; they are not clear to tie under- standing of every-dsy people who desire to know what Evolution mesns. Like Lepidus asking, * What manner o' thing is your croco- dile #™ they ask, ** What is Evolution 2 * It mattera little that the formula in which is expressed the doctrine of Gravitation is incom- prebensible ; that the grand sentences of St. Paul in the Corinthisns, so often repeated, in which men profess an unbounded faith, are = mysiery not yot fathomed,—they require that this theory of Evolution sball be made plain sa a primer, that he who runs shall read and undor~ stand. But, =a there is no excelleuce without grent labor, 80 is there no comprehension of Ev- olution (or. we might add, of the Differential Calculus, or the laws of Political Economy) without bard study. In our time, when the very foundations of creeds and religious (so-called) aro trembling under the rovelations of the workers in natural koowleage; when faith is ehaken; when the old traditions, one by oue, are swept away by the advancing wave of scientific demonstration,—it behooves every man who, mindful of the tendencies of modern thought, seeks an explanation of the phenomena of Nature which shall be in accord- auce with that basis of fact which cannot be gainsaid, to examine closely and patiently £ enidence upon which it is based ; to meditate— Iaborioualy it.-may be—upon the opinions ad- vanced, the reasons given, and the facts brought forward, which bave, within a few years, created anew school of Philosophy, aud remodeled our conception of the Cosmos. To the earnest and painstaking thinker, who desires the acquisition of this knowledge, thereis much Iabor in store ; and these volumes of Prof. Fieke will give, In the shortest way at present attainable, the Information conoerning the scape snd data of the doctrine of Evolution, Withont the clearness and detail of exposition displayed in 3Ir. Speacer's volaminous volumes; with much of a critical estimate of the Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte, whick is perbaps superfluous to the general reader,—thev, vever- thelees, coutain a sufficiently full and detailed account of Evolution to commend them to the inquirer who, possesaed of sufficient time aud industry,—aud at some sacritice of ease, and, todoften, careless thinking,—is willing to master their contents. H. The Most Attractive Place on Btate atrect yeaterdsy was the store 130 Statostreet, opposite Palmer House, filled with cholca selections of the finest English, French, snd German Lolidsy goods, French chins dinner and tea sete, bronze and marble clocks, opera-glasses, and 3 lurge and attractive array of useful and ornamental articles selected with great care especially for the grand auction sale which 18 announced in our colmnus to commence Tues' 8y ext, at10 8. ., affording an opportunity to pir- chase from this elegant stock any acticle at your owu price. Messr+. Edson, Pomeroy & Co. make the sale, which is & suficlent guarantee {0 our readers that they 'will buy goods just as represented. The Place for Young Men. H.B., Brysnt's Chicsgo Business Coliege and Poly- technic Behool is doing » good work in elevating aud enlarging the sphere of its usefulness, Very littieof tho oid style commereial college is recornizable in this higher and_ brosder institution. Thorough inatruc- tion fs now given in bookkeeping, commercial law, business arithinetic, peumanship, readiog, spelling, Grammar, algebrs, geometry, trigoonmetrs, surveying, engineering, architectural draw.n;, mechauical draw- ing. plionography, German, sad Freach. Tue jostitu- tion occuplos nearly two entlre storics of the larize Hale Building, southeast coruer State and Wasbington strests, The Alaska Diamond. In purchaetng for the holidays, don't fa!l to visit 78 ‘East Madisou streat, and view the exhibition of Alaska Dismonds. They are without exception the most re- ‘markable goods ever brought o the notice of the pub- lic; in brlliancy equal to the real diamord, and mouited in solid 18-carat gold by the best dlsmond setters, thus giving them all the effects of the genufne dint:.ond. Those who bave not secu thew cannot form any ides what tuey are, sud the prices are within the redck of every oue, Ouy depot, 76 Eust Aadison Stroet, beiow AcV ' ro. ‘War tothe Hilt. There 18 no reason why the people of Cliicago should bo compelled to pay from 10 0 15 cents per can more for oysters than remoto country dealers, Butsuch was the case until F. J. Ruth’s wagons appeared again on our stroets with his old roliable “Square Braud.” gave the ring the grand bounce, and kuocked the boi- tom out of the monopoly. Dealers and consumers, he has reduced the price for you. Cll for the *Square Brand,” and tuka 00 oth- &rs, or go to No, 155 D-arborn _street, where you will always tind toem, and us celebrazed solid meats, 10,000 Charm Bells Free. In order to make the nolidays “ ring ” more sweetly, Guather, confectioner, 78 Madison street, Las decided to commence to-morrow to distribute his remaining stock of the celebrated Court-House charm Lelis free, to every purchaser of a box of his fuwous candies, As thia will probably be the last chance o%fered to the pul- licto get theso pretty wouvenira of our Greut Fire free, it bliosves all to mske note of tha fact. Prices, 24 usual, 23, 40, and 60 cents » pound, Ladies’ Choice Furs. Messru, Bishop & Darnea, corner State and Morroe streets, the popular fur manufacturers of our city, atill continue to supply tho demands of their custom- ers with the choicest assortment of Mink and Seal Sacques, Sable, Sllver Fox, Marten, Lynx, and Er- min Also, » full stock of children’s furs o eve- ry description, Fur repairing in all fts iruiches promptly attended to, and at the lowest for firut-cluss work, _— Imported Cloaks. Ladies, before you buy velvots, veivet or cloth cloaks, dor’t fail to examine our stock. Wein port velveta in great quantities, conscquently can seil them vory low, Weshall open, Mondsy, a large. fresw im- portation, which we shall sell at §12 per yarl, .ame en 200 quality 28 sold at $18 last year. W have also Paris closks, bought very cheip, which we wiil uoll at price, Howuln, Vaimer & Co., 137 and 139 State street. I Ladiss' Suit Store. Do the ladies kuow thst excallent saits of alpaca (in all colors) are now sellizg at §10, $12. §14, and $16, Cashmers wrappers at ¥7 and $3, Empress-cloth suits, white Swiss overdresses snd polonuises, and all of the very latest make, equally low, and perfect fits guoran- teed, at the Ladies’ Suit Store, No. 258 West Madison strect? Wonderfal [ That fawhat all excldm woo visit the populsr Stein's Dollar Store, as they certainly have everything that you may desirs for a Christmas present, and notling higher in pricethan One Dollsr, such a3 you will puy three timen as much for eisewhero, Go early nd avold tharush, 105 East Audison streot, near Clark. You Can Rely upon This. We are going out of the retail jewlry trade altogeth- er, and, in oxder to convert our very largo and fine stock of diamonds, watches, Jewelry, plate and molid silverware, French clocks, etc., Into cash, bave mads very large bona fide reductions all through, It will re- pay present bugers to cation us. Weudell & Hyman, No. 235 Wabash avenue. —_——— A Creditatle Firm. Btrangers in the city who wieh to buy dry goods ought to visit the mammoth estatlishment of Manne helmer Bros., in the West Division. The address.is 298 and 300 West Madison street, Thelr stock s one of the lazgest in the city, and fn their especial feature of closks for ladiss, misses, and children, are second £0 00 house in tho country. air deal- Those who like f: ing and low prices wiil do well to visit them. f 2nd we wirrint it to contain 20 injarious ingredient Galo & Diocxd, 5 Socth C a7 arreat. Fianos for Reat. Fine new T-octave roscwood pinos. Rent money dedncted if purchaeed, Prices, $0J to $100; wur- auted fivo Teels Tewpio of Musi, 'No. 92 Vanu Baren gircet. o Bottled Mineral Waters for Families by Buck & Rayner, makers of the *Murs Cologne.” JEWELRY, | Rich, New Jewelry. Fresh, new Styles in Diamond, Pearl, Cameo, Coral, Onyx, and Fine Gold Jewelry, Gold Chains, Fine Geneva and AmericanKeyandStem- Winding Watches, rich- ly cased innew designs. French Clocks, Opera Glasses,and choice little fancy novelties in great variety for HOLIDAY GIFTS. During the month of December our store will remain open evenings. HAMILTON, ROWE & G0, 99 STATE-ST. SOUTHRAST CORNER WASHINGTON. If LLINZRY. 244 Wabash-av., ‘Would invite your attention to a largo and exceedingly choice stock of FRENCH FLOWERS, Consisting of Carnation, Camel- lia, Begonie, Sweet Pea, Panza Geranium, Iva, Jasmine, Pond and Calla Lilies, Hawthorn, Alder, Apple, and Orange Blos- soms, Leaves, Fruits, Berries, Ferns, Fuchsias, Forget-Me- Nots, Roses and Buds of all kinds, which we will make into Bridal, Dress and Bonnet Trim- mings to your order; also, our entire stock of Trimmed work, which we continue to sell at as- tonishingly low prices. All orders will receive the prompt and personal attention of Mme. Gelineau. [Bxquistte, Tadies wishing something really exquisite in #7~ ner and better class of French Flow- er Bridul or Party purposes, or those Wue ~ant strictly first-class MILLINERY GOODS, are invited to call on. 1185, JAMES HAVENS, 231 Wabash-av. HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR. Fine Chromos nnd Engravings. Messrs. Elison, Pomeroy & Co. will sell to-morrow at helr salearoom, 8 and 86 Bandolph atreet, a splendid collection of fine chromos and elegant steel engrav- ings, all nicely mounted in elaborate frames, Parties intentending making purchases for the holidays should aitend this sule, which 1s duly snnounced in our auc- tion columna. i 2 The *‘ Golden Sun " Fire-Place Zeater 18 Just as cheerful and uses but half the fuel that sm opex grats does, and, at the same time, heuis the rooms above. Call and see it at ouce at Bangs Broth- azs, Btate and Van Buren streets. Phillips Enows It. His experience the past mnth has demonstrated the fact that prices on miscehaneous and blank books, stationery, &c., considerably under ruling prices, wily make business good even in duli times. Heuce tha rush to No. 132 Dearborn street, just across the way. A *‘Golden Opportunity,” Gents. Parties ordering » garment of auy kind of us be- tween thisand Jan. 1 can rely upon a discount of 10 per cent from our previous low prices. Ordway & New- land, drapers and tatlory, No, 209 West Madison street, Apology. In our article on ** The Holidays " we omitted to mention the popular tailoring house of J. L. Gatzert, No. 183 South Clark street. This estsbilshment justly deserves credit for making excelleut work at the fol- lowing prices, to-wit. : Stylish pants, frun $8to $12, and nobby suits and overcoats, $25 to 0. P Merchant Tailoring at cont for the mext thirty dny¥: Overcoats, $30, and §40; pants, $8, $10, and 312 ; dress-wuits, $45, $50, aud $55. The sbove goods will be gotten up in firat- elass style for cash only. I. Grahem, the young-mea coat-outter of Chicago, No. 121 Lake street. — - California Blankets at $8.50. Housekexpers inding thoir supply of woolen blank- ota short will plesse remember that they can buy 3 really good article for $3,50 where they are selliug out the Hollister & Co. bankrupt stock cf furniture, oar- Ppets, &c,, 117 and 119 State street, Gp-stairs. Reduction. A reduction of prices of furniture of every descrip- tion by Colby & Wirta, 265 and 267 State street, pre- vious to their removal to their new and elegant atore, Nos, 217and 219 State street, built expresaly for them, which they will occupy when completed. Going to Quit Business. And shall sell every singla pair in our large stock of boots, shoes, alippers, overshoes, Tubbera, etc., at an crifice, a3 we must convert it into money enormons by Jan. 1, 1875, Porter, Plerce & Co,, No, 311 Wost Madison street, between Carpenter und Curtis, Ttility should be considersd in making selections for either Bolldsy, wedding, or analversary peesents. At Abram French & Co.s, Nos. 101 and 103 Wabssh avenue, au immense stock of useful articles awat the fnapection of purchassr—. Dendan. You will not regret s trialof tho tooih-powder “ Dea- 4an,” It gives s peazly whiteness; deliciocais-Aavorad, Ladies', Genls', and Children's Ho- siery and Underwear AT GOST! For 3 Days Only! This is & rare chance to get Hosiery and Underwear cheap, and ladies who care to SAVE MONEY will do well to look at our prices bofore purchasing elsewhere. NO TROUBLE TO SHOW GOODS. JHLBAVET &L, OPEN EVERY EVENING TILL 8 O’CLOCK. USEFUL HOLIDAY PRESENTS BANKRUPT STOCE. 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