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029 - Intellectual - Chapter 8 · Short History of Pittsburgh

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  Speaker 1: Section twenty eight of short History of Pittsburgh by Samuel
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  Speaker 1: Harden Church. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Read by Tatiana Chichilla, Section twenty eight intellectual Chapter eight.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps the most important piece of literature from a local
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  Speaker 1: pen is Professor William M. Sloane's Life of Napoleon. This
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  Speaker 1: is a painstaking and authoritative record of the great Frenchman
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  Speaker 1: who conquered everybody but himself. Doctor William J. Holland, once
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  Speaker 1: Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, now Director of the
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  Speaker 1: Carnegie Museum, has given to the field of popular science
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  Speaker 1: The Butterfly Book, an author who knows every butterfly by
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  Speaker 1: its Christian name. Then Andrew Carnegie's Triumphant Democracy presents masses
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  Speaker 1: of statistics with such a lightness of touch as to
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  Speaker 1: make them a stirring narrative. His other books, An American
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  Speaker 1: Foreign Hand in Britain and Round the World, present the
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  Speaker 1: vivid impressions of a keen traveler. His word Life of
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  Speaker 1: James Watt conveys a sympathetic portraiture of the inventor of
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  Speaker 1: the steam engine. His Gospel of Wealth is a piece
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  Speaker 1: of deep thinking discursiveness. Although it really seems a superfluous thesis,
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  Speaker 1: for mister Carnegie's best exposition of the Gospel of wealth
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  Speaker 1: unfolds itself in two thousand noble buildings erected all over
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  Speaker 1: the world for the diffusion of literature in those splendid conceptions,
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  Speaker 1: the Scottish Education Fund, the Washington Carnegie Institution for Scientific Research,
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  Speaker 1: the Pension for College Professors, which has so much advanced
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  Speaker 1: the dignity and security of teaching, the Pension for aged
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  Speaker 1: and disabled workmen, the Hero Fund, with its provision of
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  Speaker 1: aid to the injured and to the worthy poor, the
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  Speaker 1: many college endowments, and greater than all, the Peace Palace
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  Speaker 1: at the Hague, through which he will make his appeal
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  Speaker 1: to the conscience of civilization during all time, to organize
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  Speaker 1: and extend among nations of the earth that system of
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  Speaker 1: arbitrated justice which has already been established within the borders
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  Speaker 1: of each state. But if I continue to group our
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh authors in this arbitrary fashion, those who come at
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  Speaker 1: the end will think I mean the last to be leased. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: let me pursue the theme indiscriminately, as I meant to
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  Speaker 1: do all along, had not that same Pegasus in spite
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  Speaker 1: of my defiance, run away at the very start end
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  Speaker 1: of section twenty eight