Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-12-17


forest that they arrive at once, to the highest state
Of perfection which they destined to attain.
The beaver aitans at once the highest ends of per-
| lection TO which its class arrive Not so will
man; he is fitted out with the fewest possible ia
cuties Of external character, that without the
exercise of reason his life shall be subjected all
| sorts Of dangers. Therefore, look for perfection
not in the individual, but the race; for long
cesson Of ages is necessary to the full development
Of that perfection to which it is possible human
| ture attain
Thus we see that the early ages were laid
crifces ON the altar for the benefit Of posterity
| Does any call for illustration To prove how
truly the present is the child Of the past let look
only at the article Of Dress how many experime ns
have been made in past times, before it at last
ascertaned what metals the earth held in her bosom
that could be compounded for identifying the APP
| parel of poor humanity What pearls were hid in
oceans dark and deep, that could add lustre
| to the beauty of the female form! What beautiful
fabrics hid in the down Of the cotton plant, or
| what wondrous devices could be worked from the
web of the silk worm.
But still better illustration occurs in the deve-
lopment of the English tongue through Successive
ages 1t is but an aggregation of the tongues Of all
natiens Of past tinos In searching for the Etymo-
logical derivation of many words in the English
language, we find that they are not of Norman
nor of Saxon, nor of Latin, nor of Hebrew, nor of
Greek, nor of Gaelic, nor Of Danish, nor of Swedish
origin; but that their genealogical affinity is to be
found far away in the heart OF central Asia to long
ages back; in the mountains of Thibet; to the tenn
pies of Bramah; to the heart of Hindoostan, in
the DAYS of a state Of civilization of which all
other trace is lost but these sounds. And THUS
e., ,Js- nd hac hy h..
from lip to lip through untold centuries, escaped
the wreck of time, and passed from mouth to mouth,
from generation to generation, order that il might
enrich the languag: of this age and nation (Chees
Go into the infant school aud listen to the letters
taught to the innocent lispng blooming babe long
as you may; you cannot trace those letters origin
And of the simple numerals that we use to count
with, the trace of their parentage is lest in the
steppes Of Central ASIA and the darkness of untold
ages. So true it is that all times and ages and
tons connected in common destiny So true
it is that this generation only be enriched and
the happiness of its existence increased from the
countless energies Of untold nations.
We see through all society the tendency to indi-
viduality-,he desire that every man has to an in
dyidual and separate existence; at the same time
we see the tendency Of all to state Of social union
And it is by the collision Of these two elementary
PRINCIPLES and the tendency of all to unite them,
that the powers Of man are developed. 1t is true
that Individual seliishness VIII every where be
fou nd to exist. Bat what Of it p! Ii does not i'm
pcde the great progress Of human development.
The race goes forward in the aggregate. And the
separate struggles of individuals, and the uaitcd
movements OF the mass, resemble the trees Of a
crowded forest, where individual trees, whilst ad-
vaneing in the aggregate, yet nnpelcd more strong-
y than others BY the hold they have upon the EARTH
thrustorh their branches, struggling to escape from
the crowded mass surrounding them, ard painting
for an individual enjoyment Of the freedom Of
light and air, burs; through the letters in which
they are confined by the neghboring trees and still
point upwards to the skies. cloud aad continued
applause
And the same principles which apply to the in
terna relations of society," apply with equal force 10
the external relations AID TO those between nation
and nation. And see the tendency OF man by the
exerc Of and OF truth to that state OF eic
ty in his individual relations where reason secures
the highest gift Of freedom in its purest FERN and
ards international law, where reason estab shes
herself as the only just srbter between nations.
But there is one melancholy Consideration con
necsd with this view OF the subject; one sad remi-
mis- that clouds the vista back through the vale
Of years departed; il is that the early nations have
all been sufferers the generations OF the all but for
gotten dead were the sacrifices on the altar OF anti
guilty. And as We sail down the stream OF time, ON
the right band and on the lett, behold the banks
thckly studded with the tombs of nations
Yet as view theIu attentively, our thoughts arc
Frightened with the knowledge that they stand there
monuments Of civilizaicp; and that as we read the
records ndelibly craven theresa, find that each
succeeding collection Of monuments each successive
age step succeeding step n the lofty ladder
by which the human race mouats upwards to its
God
rNs comprises the smallest half OF Mr. Daneroft's
lectsre We shall give the RESI- Tomorrow
Mn. Isaac HoSrs LEcrUsE on rus LrrERA-