Show 2 j lii aai I 1 is eliat inina ar fr alie per sonant nul earnt commemorated by aba it brono recently unveiled m kome are nu and to a few of the important ilet iila all uld be very interesting matter giordano Giorda oo bruno was ft eliom career began a few lears after that of ilia great astronomer copernicus per nicus being by nature prone to upon the dominas of liis churco tie tell t n i estimating lie new of liia day simultaneous with liis leaning toward a new aith ai a i it atre came impulsive mind the genns of dolbt as to the divinity great stumbling blaik to many goltl and prayers availed him noth aag in tie examination of inyo doama anil after with ilia doubts for a considerable tinne all abe while petting farther from a solution of alio aill logic at last downed him and thus becan bia of heresy which finally led liim a victim to alie stake fleeing from rome he sought refuge in geneva but ins progress he philosophy eoon excited the suspicions euspicio ns of the austere calvinists and safety was sought in ingland Ic gland he was in lor a number of years while lie made the acquaintance of bir philip sidnay and developed to more perfect conclusions hn ideas of the cosmos his theories were essentially pantheistic lie accepted the copernican belief eliat alie carlli and planetary system revolved about the sun and fol lonin out alie lent of his poetical fancies lio gave to the general a human population the 0 soul lie disposed of hy endowing matter etith innate intelligence li gence pervading the cosmos was an organism of spirit essence that gave to matter its tendency to combine in alie many lonus we behold it he thua accounted for alie phenomena of lita by endowing the several atoms will organism subordinate to the universal soul or cosmos with these theories lie visited tho university of oxford and taught ills new philosophy to th electors ol 01 learning there in a short time mr knight observes ho left england for aaris As a matter of fact he fled for liia life to escape the wrath of tho orthodoxy t or presuming to invade their time honored theology from aaris he led in the same manner likewise from germany finally swinging back into italy arriving at venice he was soon under the suspecting eye of the ecclesiastics who ordered his arrest for barety alter a number of years of confinement ho was conveyed to house where at the end of two years of unavailing vai ling effort on the the church to induce him to recant ha was ordered to be burned at the stake as an obstinate heretic few events of recent beira have afforded a richer theme for reflection than the unveiling of the monument it exposes to a light more searching alian ever before the worlds most and pathetic of evolutions the execution bas sustained its ghastly imago inviolate through receding centuries and today to day as it unfolds ila horrors to the gizo g izo of a more cailin and self restrained humanity no fee hovering about it detill the same grim picc cf ciata and deluged zeal the same intolerant cruelty that alired at poor bruno the laming touts that consumed his we smile at the unrest of the high chur climen aa flioy contemplate the honor bestowed upon their ancient victim abat the fretful pontiff lathing himself into a fury at the menace to hid divine authority which be perceives in this humble tribute to a mind eliat bould courageously assert its convictions in the face of such an appalling doom but in alie exhibition hibi tion of thia holy indignation there is something that is fir f ir from bunor oas in the presence of the pathetic and awful memories eliat it presumes to reconcile with human equity it teaches a lesson that the name of that victim of its ancient terror should burn indelibly into alie mind of every tanking being on the globe A awag disciple of charily siu imle As a south templo street mother was going through her wardrobe and abal of her childrens yesterday to select beruo clothing for the Johnson iown sufferers ers a little four year old who had watched the proceedings closely asked what it all meant and finally entered a vigorous protest against parting with a pair of shoes that had been worn but a few times there was a loua wail but she was finally quieted by the mother remarking that they were to bo sent to a little girl whose father haj been drowned and choso whoso mother had no food nor clothing for her tho little one gazed at the bundle for a moment and then when she returned she had in her arms her pet doll and a new pair of shoes laying them down with the other gifts he aid if the little girls papa is acad send her these too |