Morning herald., 1839-12-27

This lecture ana amongst the euolence wcaS So
snmbsr Of young and beautiful women The iecs1.
stands absut 5 feet 10 inches in height, 10 aeoa'
q years old, with spare bat well ProPortionsd
frame, light brown hair, light eyes, atain' nea"ny'
pale face gracsful action and great energy and SIM
plicitv Of character; although there was something
Of the pedasogue in the peculiar Of has
hair.
He commenced by stating that the mass Of man
hind were ignorant Of the meaning Of the word
Self: and that to know this constituted the bsst
r.rt Of human knowledge. The error in education
i that certain something, called by common con-
.eut Educatios," 10 generally considered all that
H. necessary to constitute education; whilst all,
in the faculties Of man and woman, that Is really ne
cessary and useful is not called objectionable, and Is
therefore despsed and neglected.
A sad error consists in only educating part Of a
nation, part OF town, part OF family, part OF .
man or woman, and part Of child. There is a ten.
dency to cui;s only portions of human being at
a time First, TO cultivate the animal nature, then
the intellectual predominant faculty; then
character or feature is brought out, and 10
garded not rs intellectual aggregate, but spi
ritual individuality. The evil consists in consider
ing part of man worthy Of instruction. land all the
rest unworthy. Sometimes. for instance, child's
intellect only is instructed, and not the animal
ture. Hence the precosity Of intellect and subse-
quent imbeciiity and the alarming precocty Of dis
case in children. Hence springs up the expert lin
xuist asd the profound nathe matisian, whose body
tsmbles in the wind, and whose voice cannot be
heard across the hail, and who go down to an early
grave, sacrifice 10 the system OF educating the m
telectual part Of man, and negecting his physical
faculties. Hence man becomes excellent for =
particular display of intellect, and at the moment
he becomes valuable, he disappears.
Self education is right appreciation OF the whole
RI char2 fe r al mar ON ar a
vation of them Is solemn obligation to Him who
entrusted these talents to use whether of mind,
body or heart All the faculties must be cult vated
the physical powers must be nourished, strengthen
ed and controlled; the higher intellectual faculties
proportionaby cultivated. Self education is sys-
tenn of internal Improvement; and If we runa psral-
lei between it in and the internal improvement
system in states, the resemblance will be wonderful
The self educated are said TO be arrogant. No
wonder They grow not mp under the formed opin-
ions of the world. They cultivate all their faculties
and think and act for themselves; their roots are
struck in the whirlwnd, and their branc stren 9Th
ened in the storm! What wonder that they should
be arrogant We are all educatedby circumstances.
Even religious opinions the code Of cir
cumstances. And il men draw in their rcli-
gion with their mothers milk. what wonder that
they should draw in their other opinions from
those by whom they are surroundcd; and these
latter the least likely TO arrive at pure
truth in any things they dare not the strength
Of the platform upon which they haze built their
faith lest they should be though even more AFRO.
heard of religion until he has grown up to manhood
would be much more likely to form right notions of
religion than those bred up rtan universally re-
ceived notions and systems.
The mass Of the world are self educated, and these
latter generally right than the schoolmen
and scholars in the common cant phraseologv.
Shall we call those only educated who toll in COL
eges and schools amidst learning tha. is useless for
all good and practical purposes of life No would
not degrade man who had wasted his life over
Greek and Latin, bat he is almost useless being
nnlr eha faA vyhn L..-u
been rightfully, asefuly and continually exercised
for good and practical purposes. The lily well
edu rted are those who have all their faculties cult
vated
Suppose law was passed to compel all to learn |
Chinese! And yet there is much valuable lore |
wrapped up in the Chinese language. The ethics |
tne morals the SCIENCE the poetry aud the phioso-
ply Of China are imperfectly understood, and vet |
tney are wells Of treasure and learning And yet |
how ridiculous siU..ia .'.i. s'.os~ assisted
that education consisted IN LEARNING Canesc because
Of the knowledge and mysteries e science and |
history buried beneath il Why should we spend
our bright youth, (when the disposition puts on
inouiring form, when a knowledge Of mankind is |
most easily learned in trying to acquire that which
can be learned any wherel Why try to make our |
bows full grown linguists, critics, phrenologists.
moral philosophers (when to become thes requires
wears OF maturity,) and thus waste their youthful
energies, which oughtto be cultivated and educated
arightf
In England mea are supposed to be edacated for
the business Of life. And yet what do they dol
They forget all they knew in three years after thev
leave college, and can't.consirue Latin sentence IN
ten years a ter. The best speakers IN parliament
have the same arrangement OF Latin words year
after year and frequently imposed upon by false
Greek. The few scholars who love the dead Ian
suages for the learning they cosain, and who elicit
valuable trath. therefron, have merely right TO
be placed by the side OF the self educated man, not
before him
self edscated cover the whole surface Of
the earth. The mass Of mankind are self educated.
Those called the literally educated are IN fact
self educated than otherwise. The lazy Turk is
sef educated in spite OF himself for he As educated
20 incidence. We are always Undergoing the pro-
cess ef self education. What education 10, we
know. What il ought to be, we ought To know
What sell is il becomes to find out; that mystic
rious creation which s educated all its life long BY
shifting cifcunstances.
One process by which we can know this "Sen'
is by means Of true phrspolsgy, not derived from
suack. Another processis, by self anslization We
must not depend upon the estimate our associates
put upon eur talents. We have something in
our own hearts by which we Judge OF our
abilities to 10 and 10 achieve great things
We NAV all measure oar capabilities BY our
yearnings for certain requirements;
the night mare Of ambitious intellect. No man or
woman loves or yearns earnestly alter that which
he is untitled 20 reach. The man is not born 10
whom God gave such feelings. unless IL be the mad
man. and he soon finds his way iato lnrstic asylum.
Dare something. Try Fail. Incur ridicule. Try
again. Fail again. Try once more. Succeed Hit
the mark. Go ahead. Gain the goal. Let all who
doubt their ability 20 achieve a.y thing sit down
rourf ever their ma sf eHorts and how rh