The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1827-11-15


suetiOn while the asler cOud hardly ucs any part in
the intelligent creation anaded by such discipline
Yet while IL is acknowledged that great mind win
be great mind, however limited It's advantages, il
equally true, that under the influence Of thorough
managemement Il will become still greater. A giant
may be debarTcd the free Of his physical energies
by manaclcs and letters, but he is giant still.
The truth is, mental culture lies the very opRda-
ton Of all Improvements whatever be their nature and
the different stages Of this culture may be traced from
the bark of the savage, down to the finest spec
men of modern architecture. The ancients Iaboured
under peculiar disadvantages, arising from
views concerning the nature of the human mind To
this than any other perhaps, may be ascri
bed their very limited discoveries in physical science.
Block up the to improvement in the science
mnd and in the art Of developing its several facul
ties in other words the theoretical and practical part
Of education, and you clog at once the wheels of in.
ellcctual investigation in every department of human
knowledge. Advances in every thing pertaining to
human skill attributable the continually increa-
sing light thrown the subject OF intellectual phiios-
ophy. Strange indeed is it, If we have arrived at the
Ultima Thule Improvement in science and art,
on WHICH Is O0SeO every SCieHCe
prove which human invention is pushed to its utmost
limit.
Let facts, however, speak this subject. At which
period of the world have mankind been most distin
tinguisIed in intellectual acquisitions In the middle
ages, when
-" Learning dimly cleaned from grated cells"
when the great end of human investigation seemed to
be the decision Of the question, whether angel
can be in two places once least questions of
equal absnrdty, at that OF the nineteenth century,
when most of those absurdties have given way
rational views concerning the human mind, and the
question seems be, who is the most subtle and
acute reasoner, but simply "wha is truth land the
philosopher who is the successful in coming nj
tho truth is esteemed before the who occupies his
powe,s however great, in babblng over an intricate
sy!logsm!
Mr.. Snaith,-Your correspondent " wishes 10 know
whether moant to assert that no accidental fiat or
sharp should occur except to change the signature or
in the ascending sharp sixth and seventh in the minor
scale p
/ answer, l did not so mean, and / am not aware
that the passage to which he alludes will bear any
such construction. The words are these; every acct
dental excepting the ascending sharp sirth and sersnh
producing a ne,c key.
In speaking of fats and sharps, care should he ia
ken not TO confound those of the signature with the
accdentals for though they often produce the same
results, yet they are applied in different manner
it is necessary carefully to observe the difference be-
tween them. By the way while carefully reading the
above passage, observed the word lesser repeated in
such manner to signify nothing, to wit, erery
change osgatmre reores the lesser de grees or semi
tones to lesser part staff Whether the rcpet
ton Of the word lesser was mistake OF mine (Which
is quite probable) typographical error, it should
read-to different part Of The staff. -
1t is not little amusidg read the different ways
in which different editors notice the late munfcen do
nations in New-Nork the Foreign Missionary Soci-
ETY.. Arthur Tappan, Esq. who is reported to have
subscribed the princely sum of $1,000, comes in for
large share Of pity as well as abuse. Poor man
why did he not ask me how he should bestow his
plus funds could have told him better way than
waste it upon idle missionaries and lazy pagans."-
"WeIl," says another, i" it is not my business how
people besow their money but this squanderng it to
pamper fat priests and vagabond heather, is not fol-
lowing that blessed gospel which says, he that prov
deh not for his own household has denied the faith
and is worse than an nfdel,' and which teaches
that charity begins at home Had this wealthy
bigot" devoted this sum to feed the poor and cothe
the naked, he would have done much better with his
money; but upon the hard heart of Arthur Tappan,
the cries of the poor mako no impression" "Twenty-
five thousand dollars gone from to strengthen
the bands of priestcraf and be squandered away in
foreign lands, when have many callSfor charity
at home. Here is poor Capt Symmes suffering in
penury and WANT says the Literary Cadet, but he
can receive no hep,because all our charity is demand
ed for the support of foreign crusades." We might
60 on and fill columns of such like enlightened and
,ciSe sayings; but it is unnecessary, since similar
speeches may be heard in almost every town in our
land and as they usually come from class Of men
and the pulse of whose charity beats very high
an auecdote upon the subject will suffice for answer
to them ALA Tract agent in certain town in New
England, called upon forehanded farmer for sub
scription of fifty year, help support the funds
and operations of the American Tract Society. :" No
(says he'll I'll not give my money pamper up priests
and strangers; charity begins at homeland we have
poor people enough who need all we can bestow in
charity, without sending money abroad. Show me an
object Of charity and III give much as any one"
ado you know," says the agent, "poor old widow d.
who lives about two miles from this, the border Of
your north pasture and will you put in bushe Of
corn to make out small load for her comfort which is