Litchfield enquirer., 1836-11-17

"atia mother smiled, kissed her
 daughter again and again---embraced he-
 new son-in-law---told them to bs, ro,I sr,I
 agrecable---that there was no hurt done
 and next Faesday she should give a nar,v
 to the friends of the family. I will go there and see how Maria and
 her handsome young husband looks. God bless them s---N. Y. Herald.
 THE SPIRIT OF INSTRUMENTATION.
 We derive the following pregnant ex- tract from a recent address by Dr.. Beech CT, entitled .s q plan for colleges It will be read with interest and profit. . <.b"aThis tendency of personal liberty to the subversion of laws is with us the epic demic of tl,e day. The genius of our gov- ernment has hreathed spirit Of relaxation through all our systems of education from the cradle upward. Instead of increasing the efficiency of early discipline aud hab- its of subordination through every form of social preparatory government, we have thrown the rciAs presumptnously upon the neck of childhood and youth, trusting {,o the efficiency of law to meet and curb and tatne the fiery ins1bordination. In our contempt of the arbitrary inequalities of monarchial governments, our zeal has oyer- acted to the overthrow of, those coI,stitu- tlonal distinctions of intelligence. and vir- tue, and authority, inseparable from the ex-
 istence 0f well regulated society. +I Instead of environing the rising genera
 ton with parental vigilance and a mild ef- l fcient government, to qualify them by ha- bit for coming responsibilities, we have blamed the severity of our fathers, and ri- diculed their pariicplarity, and in the su- premacy of our wisdom seat our children ungoverned at homo, to meet the responsi- bilities of the school, of the college and of public life. And they, rocked to sleep in tlle nursery by the songs alid eulogies of liberty, deem it unseemly indignity 10 their native independence to be compelled to obey, and their republican blood makes insurrection, and the wise weak hearted perent submits, hoping they will be asham- ed of their conduct when they come to years of discretion--an era which few un- governed children ever reach. The sam0 unsubducd spirit of republican independ- cnce goes nnurn.uring through the common school with oft-repeaied breakings-out of a rebellous will. The academy some- times conquers and sometimes is conquer- ed---sometimes compromises, or comedies aatruce while in the college, with increa- sing frequency il attempts the subjugatioi of tilc powers that be to the popular will.
 lin the meantime our patriotic politicians land never wasia nation blessed with such a multitude of them) have so long and So constantly assured the sovereign people of their powers, and their own implicit subjec- ton io them, that they have taken 1t into their heads to be above not only their ser- wants, but above themselves, as acting by their own officers and their own laws so that, by the dGceitful influence of our insli- tutions, that efficiency of government. and those habits of subordinatioD, so indispcn- sable to qualify us forypontaneous obedi- ence to law, are fast failing and the law is called to disclose it's impOtency to control a population, from abroad and at home, fn- rious in passion, hauehty in pride, and in- don,table in will. The result is, that, in the absence ofthe power, and in contemps of the dignity of law, brawls, and assaults and batteries, in high places and low. and duels, and assassinations, and robbefies, ahd confagrations, and murders, and rnobs, and treasons, and all the symptoms of a fast approaching dissolution, begin to appear. l Thc truth is, we are fast going down stream, with all the accalerating power of
 passion, wind, and tide and, unless the na-
 iion can be awakened, we shall go down"
 IMMoRrALITY.---Man, at the age of 20. retains not particle of the matter in which his mind was invested when he was born. Nevertheless, at the age eightysyears, he is conscious of being the same individual he was as far back as his memory can go--that | is to say, to the period when he was four or five years old. Whatever it be, there fore, in which this consciousness of identi- ty resides, it cannot consist of a material substance, since, if it had been material, | it must have been repeatedly changed, and
 the source of identity had been destroyed.
 It is. corse quenily, an ethereal spirit, and as i, remains the same, throughout alI the alterations that take place in the body, for it is not dependent on the body for its ex- istence, and is thus calculated to survive the ever changing fIamc by which it is en- circled. ----- assf
 Descripfion ef LOvs.-Love is like the devil, because it lorments-like heaven, because wraps the soul in bliss--liks salt bgcause ii is relishiug-like pepper, bee cause i. often sets on fire-like sugar. be- cause i. is sweet-like n rope. becanse it l is ,olien the death of 2 man-like . prison. | because it makes . maA missrable--like wine. because i, makes us happy--like . man, because he is here ip day and gone to- I n,orrOw---like woman. because there is