Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1838-06-26

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precious stones. ready to be made subsidi-
.ry to his every enjoyment. Gravitation
enables him to make the dashing, foaming
perform the labor of a thousand
lands. The winds wait him the riches
md products Of every land. In fine, all
he natural and physical laws, unfoldcd to
him by knowledge, are rendered subservi-
mt and willing caterers to his ease and
wealth.
Further, and in conclusion knowledge
IS happiness. In illustrating this branch
Of our subject it is necessary that our no.
tons of happiness should be enlarged and
rigidly defined. What, then, is human
or, in what does it consist End
less speculations and differences Of oPln-
ion ever have. and do yet exist on this sub
ject. One individual tells you it Is only
to be found in savage state of nature;
and noyelists, poets, and even Philoso-
piers have dwelt in songs of sweetest me-
lody on the ''paucity of its wants, the sim:
plicity of its pursuits, and the solidity Of
its pleasures" tits here, we are told, un-
sophisticated nature revels in all the luxu-
~ of primeval innocence. Unlearned in
crime, undebauched by efeminaey, un-
practiced in the duplicity, treachery and
cunning of civilized life, the spirits, free
as their own mountain breeze, quaf de.
lights, constant, and without alloy. The
sensuazst tells you it can only be found
in sparkling bowls, in sumptuous racy
viands, and in the revels of the Seraglio,
The miser points to his heaps of shining
gold, and says, behold! there Is happiness.
The poet and the philosopher tell you il can
only be found amid Parnassian flowers
and Accidents shadcs-that fancy, rea,
son and judgment are every thing-that
health or sickness, riches or poverty, pain
or pleasure do not even enter into the &C,
count of human happiness. Another as
sures you tits all summed up in these three
words-wife, children and friends. AnC
still another, that it consists only in thc
observance of moral duties. Now, these
positions are all wrong; and the errol
consist in the disjointed, one sided and su
perfclal views taken of human nature
One has looked at man only as animal
another as a social, another as an intel
lectual, and another as moral being
They have seen these faculties of his ma
ture in lively and pleasant exercise-they
have INDUCED in the pleasures of sense
they have mingled amid the sweets of SO
cial intercourse; they have drank at tn
Pyerean Spring, and they have experienc
ed the calm peace and joy arising fror
aconscientious discharge of moral duty
But they have looked at these sources {
happiness, one at a time-as isolated, a
part, one from the other, and incapable {
being enjoyed all together. The perfec
ton of human happiness consists in tn
accordant exercise of all the power.
physical, intellectual and moral. TIL
constitutes the highest point of huma
perfection on earth; and as man is a prc
gressive being, the continued and illimi
able development of those powers, Dur
fed and spituralised, will, no doubt, CO..
stitute his never failing happiness in Il
abodes of theblessed.
In the constitution of ourfaculties G.
]. has designed our moral nature for the S,
:. dy Of Himself, our intellectual for the 81
IN dy of His works, and our animal for 1
i. preservation and perpetuation Of o,
re selves. Then, in all our getting Of kno
5: ledge-let moral culture be the corr
u. stone. 1t is the link that connects "
IS, Angels and Jehovah himself-and in
n. zing upon the King of Kings, we 81
on be changed into the same image, Fl
es, glory to glory. Guided by animal
er. pulses alone, we are no better than
re. beasts that perish. Intellect with the
he stretch of all its gigantic powers unc
use trolled by moral principle is at best bu
The blind Cyclops-a Polyphemus with
lu. thunderbolts and a demons heart TO o,
his them.
to Anmalism-mere brute propensity,
tut are sorry to say it, is in the ascenda
la among us. Its results you all see in
re- vice and crime prevalent in our land
nc And vice is a contagion of the most
Is, rlble Vlrulence-more contagious and
els tai than plague or cholera. Our old
lgs have died of it, our young men, many
md them, have also caught the disease,
use they too win die, yes, die eternally, if /
no. are not cured. Our children are now
its posed to the same contagion. What
er- rent what philanthropist, then, car
ion still or be idle, amidst this moral des
mic tion. He deserves not the name, nor
ght habitatioL Of a man who would not be
ne. and doing. The mountain defle, tn,
the gers lair, or the den Of the hooting
ity, would better suit the moral and inteIle
pa al sluggard than the abOdes Of man.
march Of MIND. the n,.rrh ,c