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sions, and better than any similar publication we 

 have yet produced, not excepting even one. There 

 are five or six great professions, — the law, medi- 

 cine, the ministry, journalism, authorship, science, 

 philosophy. Compare these, and regard them as 

 peers. No one profession has a right to sneer at 

 another. But we have not in this country, as yet, 

 attained such a university life as to equip newspapers, 

 which are our special pride, in such a manner that 

 we can face without blushes the critical journals of 

 the Old World. We have more newspapers than any 

 other nation ; and more poor ones. We have, it is 

 said, more newspapers than all the rest of the planet. 

 The American press excels the English in the collec- 

 tion, but not in the discussion, of news. In view of 

 the multiplex mischief and shame resulting solely 

 from the deficiencies of our culture, it is to be rever- 

 ently whispered that the faculties of colleges are to 

 be prayed for, as well as their students. [Applause.] 



THE LECTURE. 



The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at Rome contains 

 a picture by Michael Angelo, representing the crea- 

 tion of a soul. He had only these words to suggest 

 the design of his painting : " Man became a living 

 spirit." What would you have made, had your task 

 been to produce a picture with this sentence as its 

 only suggestion? Angelo shows us Adam as a 

 perfect body, reclining upon a mountain slope, and 

 possessing animal life merely. The Supreme Spirit, 

 floating in ether full of brightness, draws near him 



