The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1827-10-04

eight years Of age, but aR University-Or, as
Mr.. Campbell explains the word, place of
universal education for persons Of all ages,
and all opinions. 1t is idle, in such case, to
talk of the religious instruction which the ps-
rents can afford for when he looked at things
as they really are, who will these parents be!
In general, and at best, they will he bankers.
merchants, or tradesmen of responsibility ::
men who may be very sincere and very ra-
tiOnal believers in christianity. vet who will
probably have taken up their system of faith
upon practical grounds; and who will he unable
to retute scientific objections, or satisfy the
scruples of young sceptic, although their
sound good sense may be sufficient antidote
to the effect of such scruples upon themselves.
Science must be opposed to science the ex-
ceI!ent advice Of an honest s',ap-boiIer, or the
plons eXhortation of an honest SOAP boilers
wife ,w'!i be but an equal match for the par
tIal facts and subtle plausihilities of an infidel
metaphysician, or chemist, or Psychologist.
The inevitable conclusion IS, that religion and
human knowledge should be taught in con-
Jnnctl"n--shouid be engrained together on
the intellect, and accompany each other
through all the process of scholastic educa-
ton. We wish to see religion considered as
the Alpha Omega--the beginning and end of
wisdom; not as dark and repulsive mystic
ry, placed in opposition to it. We wish to
see the knowledge of the Deity in education,
what the Deity himself is in the Universe
the directing and vivifying principle of the
I whole"
! C0nGdG--The following paragraph from
the Montreal Gazette, seems to indicate that
the apprehensions, of late entertained by the
loyal inhabitants of Canada, of the ultimate
lnsurrection, are also kept by the government
of the mother country. The mountain in
the back ground of the city of Montreal Of
iers the only position by which the town might
be overawrd or defended:
We aTe informed that it is the intention of
the government to proceed forthwith in the
execution of the measures contemplated, g.
which received a partial commencement last
fall respecting the lortifcation of this noun
tain in the rear of this city, and the erection
OF such military works as may be Judged ex-
pedient for its security and protection. The
estimates for these works having been sane
TONED by the British government, an,. no OBJ
stacies existing to prevent an immediate be-
ginning. Thomas Porteous, Esq. of Montreal,
Edmund Henry, Esq. of Laprairie, with sew
eral officers of the engineers appointed for
that purpose, We're engaged on Tuesday last !
Gin the neighborhood and site of the intend !
ed operations) in valuing such private prop
erty as it will be necessary for the govern
ment to take into its possession. Another |
means ofoccupation & employment is thus af- {
torded to the nd99 e f9 mechanics and Iabo
Cd rfs at p ffe expense of others. It shows the
value the British Government attaches to
the occupation of these provinces, and we
indulge hope that the wealth and resources
of Great Britain are to be employed for no.
bier purposes and more exalted views than to
give perpetuity in the New World to the dark, !
iiIiberal antBritish and anti-social Institutions
of the feudal ages from which the old world
has long shaken itself free.
Effects Of aoar.-It is remarked in statisti-
cal article in a French journal, that the effect
Of the wars Ofthe revolution has been to dimin- |
ish the stature of the human species in that
country.-This is explained in the following
manner: Soldiers are formed only of men,
who, for their physical formation, are the
elite of the youth of the country. For the
space of 80 years there was an immense con-
sumption Of such men; and in the mean
time the care of re-peopling the coun-
try was left, in great part, to those men who
were UOt idTSC cHOuBu, SuOtlS ChouShs vi wei
enough formed for soldiers. The large pro-
portion of men who are of short stature is
proved by the following facts: According to
the report of the operations of the conscrp-
ton in France for the year 1916, IN the num-
her OF O33, 4S3 young men who were exam
ined by the officers Of revision, S8O,2lS were
rejected because they were not feet inch
es in height. The French foot is about three
quarters of an inch longer than ours, and con-
sequently 4 feet & half inches Of our
measure. After the rejection of the above
proportion of men for the French army, it is
ascertaned from the inspections, that 81 in a
hundred are under feet inch in height,and
only as in hundred over feet 2 inches.
From these facts it would seem, that after re-
jecting in the proportion Of one third, for
want Of sufficient size, one half the soldiers
of the French Army are under feet six inch
es of our measure in DISQUALIFICATION Daily
! Adu.
THE GHOST AND CONJUGAL AFFECTION
A True Story.
Mr.. Samuel Fisher, the inventor of the
golden snuf-box, was acquainted with
widow lady of excellent character who re-
sided at Cork. This lady was inconsola-
BILE for the death of her husband the day
was spent in signs and lamentation, and her
pillow was at night moiStened with tears of