{"id":194,"date":"2018-01-16T17:13:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T17:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/?post_type=chapter&p=194"},"modified":"2018-02-28T00:23:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T00:23:50","slug":"quarry-chapter-ix","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/chapter\/quarry-chapter-ix\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter IX"},"content":{"raw":"
\u201cMrs. Glover was a dreamer. Like Savonarola<\/strong><\/a> and Joan of Arc<\/strong><\/a> she had prophetic visions.\u00a0 Whether a dreamer is a visionary or prophet is determined by the future. St. Paul<\/strong><\/a> was a prophet; his dream of a great church came true. John Brown<\/strong><\/a> was a visionary- his scheme for freeing the slaves failed and, like Jesus, Savonarola<\/a>, Joan of Arc<\/a> and all \u201cthe noble army of martyrs,\u201d he died for his dream. \u201c (p. 61)<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u201cShe had been brought up in Oberlin<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> had attended the college there for two years, before she married Dr. Glover, and was fairly well-educated. She read whatever she could on the subject of the Negro in history. She subscribed to the current Negro periodicals and bought every new book that was written by a colored man or woman\u2026.When a certain mulatto writer published a book<\/strong><\/a> in which he postulated the inferiority of the Negro and the degeneracy of mixed blood and claimed to prove it by the time-worn arguments of failure and inadequacy of achievement, she was furiously indignant, wrote a letter to the author in which she stated her opinion of him in no uncertain language and another to the publishers, in which she expressed her surprise and grief that so old and honorable a house should lend itself to the defamation of an oppressed and struggling people;\u201d (p. 62)<\/strong>.\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\r\n
The book Chesnutt refers to is The American Negro<\/a><\/em> by William Hannibal Thomas<\/a>. Like Mrs. Glover, Chesnutt wrote to the publishers, Macmillan Publishing, expressing his distain of Thomas\u2019s book.\u00a0 Read excerpts from the correspondence between Chesnutt and Macmillan in, To Be an Author\": Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1889-1905. Edited by Joseph R. McElrath Jr., & Robert C. Leitz, III.<\/div>\r\n
\u201cOf these leaders the most conspicuous of one of the day would attain the desired by emphasizing the more elementary social virtues\u2014industry, patience, application to the simpler forms of labor\u2014agricultural and the trades, \u201ccasting down their buckets where they were,\u201d and building up the South, or in whatever environment fate had placed them, a community within a community, \u201cseparate as the fingers but one as the hand\u201d\u2026. (p. 65)<\/strong><\/pre>\r\n
Chesnutt is referring to Booker T. Washington<\/a> and Washington\u2019s controversial Atlanta Compromise.<\/div>\r\n
\u201cThe other, the idealist, buckled on this armor, graped his swird and set otut to slaly with the weapons of knowledge and reason and ridicule and sarcasm the flaing fragon re race prejudice.That cynics might sneer and declare that he was merely a futile Don Quixote<\/strong><\/a> tilting at windmills did not disturb him nor deflect him in the least from his steadfast purpose.\u201d\u00a0 (p. 66)<\/strong><\/pre>\r\n
Chesnutt is referring to W.E.B. DuBois<\/a>. For more information on Chesnutt\u2019s friendship with both men, see Part One.<\/div>\r\n
\u201cIn French he was less fortunate. There were no Frenchmen that he knew of in the city, and he would have had a very nebulous notion of spoken French had it not been for an Alsatian Jew, a Professor Adolph Neuman<\/strong>, who came to the city and opened classes in French and German for the white young people. At Donald\u2019s request, Mrs. Glover sought out Professor Neuman and engaged him to give her boy lessons\u201d (p. 67)<\/strong>.<\/pre>\r\n
According to <\/strong>Chesnutt\u2019s Journals<\/strong><\/a> the fictional character of Adolph Neuman is based on his French and German instructor, Professor Emil Neufeld in Fayetteville, South Carolina.<\/div>\r\n
\u201cLatin, on the other hand, he simply ate up, so to speak.\u00a0 When he had learned enough of the language to begin to read it, someone gave him an old copy of Anthon\u2019s edition of the Aeneid<\/strong><\/a> with its copious notes and commentaries, and in six weeks, during a summer vacation, he read the whole twelve books of Virgil\u2019s masterpiece- twice as much as demanded in most college courses in a year.\u201d (p. 68)<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u201cThese were not numerous, but there had sifted down into the Negro homes, from the libraries of white people, some of the classics of literature. The high school had a copy of an old edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica<\/em><\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> which some visiting Northerner had presented to it. From this he read the articles of Plato<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Aristotle<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Kant<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Schopenhauer<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Bacon<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Rousseau<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Goethe<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Spencer<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Mill<\/strong><\/a> and Comte<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0 Among the books of the Reverend Ebenezer M. Jones, his pastor, he found Josiah Royce\u2019s Philosophy<\/strong><\/a>, Paley\u2019s Evidences of Christianity<\/strong><\/a> and Drummond\u2019s \u00a0Natural Law in the Spiritual World<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong>\u201d\r\n\r\n\u201cHe would give the pharmacist a list of books he wanted, and the pharmacist would draw them in his own name and turn them over to Donald.\u00a0 Works on evolution were carefully excluded from the library, but he ordered through the local bookstore Darwin\u2019s Descent of Man<\/strong><\/a> and Origin of the Species<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 He did not learn of Frazer\u2019s Golden Bough<\/strong><\/a> until he went to college.\u201d (p. 69)<\/strong><\/pre>","rendered":"
\u201cMrs. Glover was a dreamer. Like Savonarola<\/strong><\/a> and Joan of Arc<\/strong><\/a> she had prophetic visions.\u00a0 Whether a dreamer is a visionary or prophet is determined by the future. St. Paul<\/strong><\/a> was a prophet; his dream of a great church came true. John Brown<\/strong><\/a> was a visionary- his scheme for freeing the slaves failed and, like Jesus, Savonarola<\/a>, Joan of Arc<\/a> and all \u201cthe noble army of martyrs,\u201d he died for his dream. \u201c (p. 61)<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u201cShe had been brought up in Oberlin<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> had attended the college there for two years, before she married Dr. Glover, and was fairly well-educated. She read whatever she could on the subject of the Negro in history. She subscribed to the current Negro periodicals and bought every new book that was written by a colored man or woman\u2026.When a certain mulatto writer published a book<\/strong><\/a> in which he postulated the inferiority of the Negro and the degeneracy of mixed blood and claimed to prove it by the time-worn arguments of failure and inadequacy of achievement, she was furiously indignant, wrote a letter to the author in which she stated her opinion of him in no uncertain language and another to the publishers, in which she expressed her surprise and grief that so old and honorable a house should lend itself to the defamation of an oppressed and struggling people;\u201d (p. 62)<\/strong>.\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
The book Chesnutt refers to is The American Negro<\/a><\/em> by William Hannibal Thomas<\/a>. Like Mrs. Glover, Chesnutt wrote to the publishers, Macmillan Publishing, expressing his distain of Thomas\u2019s book.\u00a0 Read excerpts from the correspondence between Chesnutt and Macmillan in, To Be an Author”: Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1889-1905. Edited by Joseph R. McElrath Jr., & Robert C. Leitz, III.<\/div>\n
\u201cOf these leaders the most conspicuous of one of the day would attain the desired by emphasizing the more elementary social virtues\u2014industry, patience, application to the simpler forms of labor\u2014agricultural and the trades, \u201ccasting down their buckets where they were,\u201d and building up the South, or in whatever environment fate had placed them, a community within a community, \u201cseparate as the fingers but one as the hand\u201d\u2026. (p. 65)<\/strong><\/pre>\n
Chesnutt is referring to Booker T. Washington<\/a> and Washington\u2019s controversial Atlanta Compromise.<\/div>\n
\u201cThe other, the idealist, buckled on this armor, graped his swird and set otut to slaly with the weapons of knowledge and reason and ridicule and sarcasm the flaing fragon re race prejudice.That cynics might sneer and declare that he was merely a futile Don Quixote<\/strong><\/a> tilting at windmills did not disturb him nor deflect him in the least from his steadfast purpose.\u201d\u00a0 (p. 66)<\/strong><\/pre>\n
Chesnutt is referring to W.E.B. DuBois<\/a>. For more information on Chesnutt\u2019s friendship with both men, see Part One.<\/div>\n
\u201cIn French he was less fortunate. There were no Frenchmen that he knew of in the city, and he would have had a very nebulous notion of spoken French had it not been for an Alsatian Jew, a Professor Adolph Neuman<\/strong>, who came to the city and opened classes in French and German for the white young people. At Donald\u2019s request, Mrs. Glover sought out Professor Neuman and engaged him to give her boy lessons\u201d (p. 67)<\/strong>.<\/pre>\n
According to <\/strong>Chesnutt\u2019s Journals<\/strong><\/a> the fictional character of Adolph Neuman is based on his French and German instructor, Professor Emil Neufeld in Fayetteville, South Carolina.<\/div>\n
\u201cLatin, on the other hand, he simply ate up, so to speak.\u00a0 When he had learned enough of the language to begin to read it, someone gave him an old copy of Anthon\u2019s edition of the Aeneid<\/strong><\/a> with its copious notes and commentaries, and in six weeks, during a summer vacation, he read the whole twelve books of Virgil\u2019s masterpiece- twice as much as demanded in most college courses in a year.\u201d (p. 68)<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u201cThese were not numerous, but there had sifted down into the Negro homes, from the libraries of white people, some of the classics of literature. The high school had a copy of an old edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica<\/em><\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> which some visiting Northerner had presented to it. From this he read the articles of Plato<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Aristotle<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Kant<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Schopenhauer<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Bacon<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Rousseau<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Goethe<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Spencer<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Mill<\/strong><\/a> and Comte<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0 Among the books of the Reverend Ebenezer M. Jones, his pastor, he found Josiah Royce\u2019s Philosophy<\/strong><\/a>, Paley\u2019s Evidences of Christianity<\/strong><\/a> and Drummond\u2019s \u00a0Natural Law in the Spiritual World<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong>\u201d\r\n\r\n\u201cHe would give the pharmacist a list of books he wanted, and the pharmacist would draw them in his own name and turn them over to Donald.\u00a0 Works on evolution were carefully excluded from the library, but he ordered through the local bookstore Darwin\u2019s Descent of Man<\/strong><\/a> and Origin of the Species<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 He did not learn of Frazer\u2019s Golden Bough<\/strong><\/a> until he went to college.\u201d (p. 69)<\/strong><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"menu_order":8,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-194","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":174,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/194\/revisions\/196"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/174"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/194\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}