| Show GETTING TOO WELL knows KNOWN ids the boston lecturer is becoming better and better understood throughout the country while he m made jae ige rife huh hub his chief sphere action and moved but a little distance from that centre of science b hard a words eed aad baked beans his fa I 1 abroad and his name was t a tied with learning and loquacity and save a little fun made at his expense now and then by b y newspaper men who penetrated the veneer of his ins verbiage and found sham instead of sub substance stanco beneath he ranked among the great public speakers of the times As saon soon as be commenced to travel however and his coarse presence encoyand and vulgar manners became known his vain pretensions also displayed themselves and it was discovered that his conceit was no greater than his plaz plagiarism i arism and unreliability popularity rity and pelf relf being his objects that he caugh tat ll ideas and surface subjects I 1 aiming dining to tickle tile the eans ears of tho the mul ra mather rather ther then than to impress their minds and to win tho the applause of the moment rather than to correct error or establish truth his barangue harangue in this city a compound of ignorance and malignity disgusted thoughtful people of all classes and provoked strong censure from many ladie and gentlemen in whose company lie traveled as the only elead clead dead head passenger on the coast his superficial expressions pres and gand evident disposition to float with the tide instead of reaching down to the depths of things elio elid elicited the digap disapprobation probation proba tiou of the press and his character for veracity has suffered wherever he has presented himself and his bis rash as assumptions sump garnished with 11 glittering guttering generalities the following which we weel clip elip ip from the sacramento JJ anion union nion serves to show the opinion now becoming general concerning concern in this boston specimen of nineteenth nineteen th century pious varnish and shoddy religion joseph cook book is continually getting till himsel himself into finto difficulties difficult ies les through his sarong strong propensity ro casity to draw on hin his imagination ima lma for his facts it is not very long since he tie was ignominiously convicted of a very flagrant garbling of the text of haeckel the great german biologist biolo in support of his position and now h he c stands convicted oc of having made false statements regarding g arding the venerable balzli i waldo emerson it seems that in in I 1 his public lectures recently cook stated that mr emerson had renounced all his early conviction convictions and become satisfied of the divinity of the bible and the truth of orthodoxy of course courso such suell a statement was calculated to carry dismay into the camp of emersons disciples and followers but the sage of concord has commissioned his son edward waldo waido emerson to deny emphatically the truth of the story to say that his bis father never reads cooks lectures and that fhe hie he fie has not joined any apy church nor has he retracted any views expressed in his writings after his withdrawal with drapal from the ministry it is difficult to understand how a man who thrusts himself forward as cook does in the character of counsel for orthodoxy 1 can fail to perceive that his h s addiction addic tio li to misrepresentation of this kind is certain to do his cause diore more harm than all his flashy lectures leg leq tures ean can do it good 11 |
