The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-05 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5.

Toss organization of another Arctic Expedition
is persistently opposed on utilitarian principle; as
involving an exposure of human life to risks
which are not likely to be compensated.
Undoubtedly care for human life and tender.
ness towards suffering are among the greatest of
the distinctions between civilization and barbarism.
To the barbarian a man's life is less than a dog's
with us ; weakness or incapability of self-support
is a social crime, which the very instinct of self-
preservation impels the stronger to get rid of
as soon as possible ; and to sacrifice any
number of lives for passion, superstition, or
even whim, is as legitimate as the feats
of the Sparrows' Club men, or the cork and pins
of the beetle-hunter. It is a great step forward
to get from this brutal state of strong-handed in-
difference to suffering into the gentler conditions
of our present manners. But it is the tendency of all
principles to exaggerate themselves : there is no
virtue that can be named which has not its reverse
side, and no wholesome oonditionof man that may
not become vitiated by excess. Tenderness may
become morbid, regard for life and hatred
of pain may degenerate into cowardice
both for others and ourselves, the dread of
exposing those we love to danger may lead
to a wide-spread national effeminacy, and if once
these feminine fears penetrate our public life
the power of England will be at an end, and
the reign of her manhood destroyed. Rome was
never greater than when her mothers could give
their sons to die for her welfare ; and if the Spartan
women had not been strong and brave, the Spartan
men would never have been the exemplars of cou-

rage and endurance to all future generations.
Life must be given that life may live pp greater
glory, in richer endowment, in wider fame than
now ; and the fathers must die that the children
may inherit. Life has not been spent in vain
if it has kept the love of scientific truth warm
in the hearts of men, if it has roused any
other soul to noble endeavour, given a higher
aim and a braver daring than would else have been,
or rescued even one from the thraldom of cowardice
and pleasure. But not one of them all asked for
present gain, nor doubted that his life was nobly
spent in this seeding for the future harvest.
What would have become of our explorers bad
this principle of cui bow been the chain and bullet
fastened round their wrists and ankles ? Grant
that lives have been lost in the North Sea,
in the Australian bush, in the African wilds, on
the American prairies, and in the heart of closed
and hostile countries, where would the world have

been if men had hung back timid or calculating, and
bad balanced the commercial gain with the probable
lose of life and the certain loss of health, the danger

and the discomfort of • wild enterprise in search
of some problematical good which the present
does not recognise as good, and which only a
handful of enthusiasts care about at all ? We
should have all gone to sleep and got petrified in
our Chinese conservatism long ago, resting and
being thankful, more or leu, according to our de-
gree, but not attempting to scale one rock the
more, or to skirt another precipice beyond
what we had already safely passed. And of all
states of humanity that of finality is the most
dangerous and the most deadening. We lose
more, too, than what we directly seek ; for it is
one of the strange things in human life how very
little of the good we have attained has come
through direct endeavour. A man is pursuing
one chemical experiment, and he falls on a law he
never dreamt of, and discovers properties he had
no trace of before ; a hunter is out in the wilds
seeking for game—he finds none, but he comes
upon the source of a river or the shores of an inland
lake which one day will change the whole social face
of the country ; another goes to search for gold, but
finds instead new plants that will transform the
art of medicine, and add a large appendix to the
pharmacopoeia; another is casting about for grass
laud for • farm, and clips off a bit of quartz yel-
lowed with gold. So much comes by side-blows ;
so little is done u we would do it ; the law of
human history seeming to delight in unexpected
readings and tortuous windings of the way. So
that if we omitted all that has come to us indi-
rectly we should omit half, and more than half we
have ; ant if we were now to resolve to limit our
energies to what has a certain return and • definite
result we might almost as well die out at once : the
locos-eating of supinesatisfaction with ourcondition
being in point of fact a nation's death, or the
tomb and burial of its manhood. Of all terrors to
the generous soul, that cui &ono is the one to be
most zealously avoided. Whether it be proposed to
find the magnetic point, or a passage impossible to
be utilisedif discovered. or a race of men of no good
to any human institution extant, and of no good to
themselves, or to seek the unicorn in Madagascar, and
when we had found him not to be able to make use
of him ; or the great central plateau of Australia,
where no one could live for centuries to come ; or
the great African lake, which, for all the good it
would do us Englist tout, naiglai as well be in the
moon ; or the source of the Nile, the triumphant