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Reverend George Gilfillan THE REVEREND GEORGE GILFILLAN About August 29, 1849 in Emerson’s journal: Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self. [The Reverend Theodore] Parker thinks, that, to know Plato, you must read Plato thoroughly, & his commentators, &, I think, Parker would require a good drill in Greek history too. I have no objection to hear this urged on any but a Platonist. But when erudition is insisted on to Herbert or Henry More, I hear it as if to know the tree you should make me eat all the apples. It is not granted to one man to express himself adequately more than a few times: and I believe fully, in spite of sneers, in interpreting the French Revolution by anecdotes, though not every diner out can do it. To know the flavor of tanzy, must I eat all the tanzy that grows by the Wall? When I asked Mr Thom in Liverpool — who is Gilfillan? & who is Mac-Candlish? he began at the settlement of the Scotch Kirk in 1300 ? & came down with the history to 1848, that I might understand what was Gilfillan, or what was Edin. Review &c &c. But if a man cannot answer me in ten words, he is not wise.” “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project George Gilfillan HDT WHAT? INDEX THE REVEREND GEORGE GILFILLAN GEORGE GILFILLAN 1733 In this oil on canvas at the National Gallery in London on the popular topic “Time Unveiling Truth,” the winged naked old guy in the sky with a scythe is personifying TIME, and what he is doing is, he is exposing the nipplicious charms of a sweet young thing personifying TRUTH as she likewise reaches out and unmasks a fat old woman personifying FRAUD. Bing bang bong. Meanwhile, personifications of the Four Cardinal Virtues are kneeling in tribute. Of these four FORTITUDE is calmly caressing a lion emblematic of her courage, JUSTICE is clutching a sword and a scales emblematic of her power and impartiality, and TEMPERANCE is posing with a pitcher of water symbolic of her abstinence and moderation, while PRUDENCE is accessorized with a snake symbolic of her wisdom. The globe that TRUTH has her foot on ISIS happens to be the planet Earth (on which, if you inspect carefully, are inscribed the name of the artist, Jean François de Troy, and the date of this painting, 1733). La de da! Meanwhile, establishment of the church in Scotland as an “Established Church” meant in effect that it would be the central government of the nation, rather than each local religious congregation, that would control the mechanisms of church governance. According to the legislature’s “Patronage Act,” local landowners had been calling the shots during the selection of a minister for a congregation. In this year Time must have Unveiled Truth, however, for a counter-movement led by the Reverend Ebenezer Erskine achieved the creation of an Associated Congregation of Original Seceders or “Secession Church” in which in the future each congregation would be in control its own choice of minister (there would of course be further such splittings or realignments or Unveilings of Truth in 1761, 1820, 1847, 1843, and 1900). HDT WHAT? INDEX GEORGE GILFILLAN THE REVEREND GEORGE GILFILLAN 1813 January 30, Saturday: George Gilfillan was born at Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland, where the Reverend Samuel “Leumas” Gilfillan, his father, had been for many years the minister of a Secession congregation (his father would die during his early childhood). SCOTLAND NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT George Gilfillan “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX THE REVEREND GEORGE GILFILLAN GEORGE GILFILLAN 1836 March: Having been educated at the University of Glasgow, the “probationer” George Gilfillan was ordained as pastor of the School Wynd congregation, a Secession congregation in Dundee, Scotland. His stipend would be a not inconsiderable £220, plus of course a manse. SCOTLAND November 23, Wednesday: At Dundee, the Reverend George Gilfillan got married with local girl Margaret Vallentine (the marriage would be childless). SCOTLAND LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project George Gilfillan HDT WHAT? INDEX GEORGE GILFILLAN THE REVEREND GEORGE GILFILLAN 1839 Toward the end of this year, the Reverend George Gilfillan prepared a volume containing five of his discourses. THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project George Gilfillan HDT WHAT? INDEX THE REVEREND GEORGE GILFILLAN GEORGE GILFILLAN 1840 The Reverend George Gilfillan began to contribute a rather regular series of sketches of celebrated contemporary authors to the Dumfries Herald, which was being edited by his friend Thomas Aird. THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project George Gilfillan HDT WHAT? INDEX GEORGE GILFILLAN THE REVEREND GEORGE GILFILLAN 1842 October 2, Sunday: The Reverend George Gilfillan preached on the subject of “Hades, or the Unseen” (the Unseen State of the soul after separation from the body), and would soon publish that sermon, causing himself to come to be popularly known as “Gilfillan the Hades Minister.” This contained such novel thoughts before their time as to bring him under the scrutiny of his co-presbyters — and ultimately it would need to be withdrawn from circulation as having been somewhat too adventurous (Thomas Carlyle would comment “How he contrives to hold such notions, and be a Burgher Minister, one cannot well say”). The Reverend William Ellery Channing died at sundown in Old Bennington, Vermont. When news of the event was circulated, the Unitarian churches of course all tolled their funeral bells, but every other Protestant church was very noticeably silent. On this occasion, in Boston, only the bells of the Catholic cathedral chimed in with the bells of the Unitarians. Although his statue stands today at the Arlington Street and Boylston Street entrance to the Public Garden, the gravestone which bears his name is behind the Old First Church that fronts on the green in Old Bennington. It happens to be one of the few gravestones ever to refer to the hour of a person’s death: “In this Quiet Village Among the Hills William Ellery Channing Apostle of Faith and Freedom Died at Sunset October 2, 1842” HDT WHAT? INDEX THE REVEREND GEORGE GILFILLAN GEORGE GILFILLAN 1844 January: At the Watt Institution and School of Arts in Adam Square, Edinburgh, the Reverend George Gilfillan made a bold stab at reconciling geology with Scripture (or, Scripture with geology). SCOTLAND Francis Galton needed to accept a “pass” standing in his class, with no honors, in order to be allowed to graduate from Trinity College of Cambridge University (which presumably might explain a whole lot about the subsequent trajectory of his thoughts on the topic of inborn merit). WHAT I’M WRITING IS TRUE BUT NEVER MIND YOU CAN ALWAYS LIE TO YOURSELF George Gilfillan “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX GEORGE GILFILLAN THE REVEREND GEORGE GILFILLAN February: At the Watt Institution and School of Arts in Adam Square, Edinburgh, the Reverend George Gilfillan made a bold stab at reconciling astronomy with Scripture (or, Scripture with astronomy). DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD. George Gilfillan “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX THE REVEREND GEORGE GILFILLAN GEORGE GILFILLAN 1845 Prosper Merimee’s novel about CARMEN, a feisty Gypsy girl in an Andalusian cigarette factory. Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley was invalided by what would eventually be discovered to be a tumor in her brain. John Quincy Adams wrote to the Reverend Samuel H. Cox: “In my early youth I was addicted to the use of tobacco in two of its mysteries, smoking and chewing. I was warned by a medical friend of the pernicious operation of this habit upon the stomach and the nerves.” Thomas De Quincey’s “Coleridge and Opium-Eating” and “Suspiria de Profundis” appeared in Blackwood’s Magazine. His “On Wordsworth’s Poetry” and “Notes on Gilfillan’s Gallery of Literary Portraits: Godwin, Foster, Hazlitt, Shelley, Keats” (which would run until 1846) appeared in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine. SUSPIRA DE PROFUNDIS Perry Davis’s patent vegetable painkiller consisted of opiates and ethanol and –as is evident in the globe map on its label– originated from that known center of “Joy to the World” sensory satisfaction, Providence, Rhode Island: CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT Winter: We have an indication in Henry Thoreau’s journal that in this season he was reading in the Reverend George Gilfillan’s new GALLERY OF LITERARY PORTRAITS (Edinburgh: James Hogg). EMINENT LITERARY MALES George Gilfillan “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX GEORGE GILFILLAN THE REVEREND GEORGE GILFILLAN Winter 1845/1846 before February 22d: Then in dark winter mornings in short winter afternoons the pack of hounds –threading all woods with hounding cry & yelp unable to resist the instinct of the chace –and note of hunting horn at intervals showing that man too is in the rear– And the woods ring again and yet no fox bursts forth onto the open level of the pond and no following pack after their actaeon. But this small village –germ of something more –why did it fail while Concord grows apace– No natural advantages –no water privilege –only the Walden pond and Bristow’s spring privileges alas all unimproved by those men but to dilute their glass– Might not the basket making –broom mat-making corn parching –potters business have thrived here making the wilderness to blossom as the rose? Now all too late for commerce –this waste depopulated district has its rail road too.
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