New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1841-04-17

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I,u 80 80 nld,on for them IN the Jotun couny
Thor after MANY adventures, cispplnS Inc Foi on MS
ike hugs hat aad walking on win H-4u.e Ns ~
n. ears Of the Pot reaching down 10 MS hsels A4nu
cant hugeaes-laTge, awkward giaS'iioou
that Morse system; enormous force, as ye: a'ose i -
r,or.d stalking helpless with large, uncertain
sder only their primary mythus OF the Cfeauol' nc
having 90; the Giant Ymer SIAM Giant maze oF -.
winds and much confused work oui oi ne
and Predetermined constructing ~oiid i'I i'll
Hrs blood made the Sea his flesh was he 1t Ihe
MS bones OF his eyebrows they formed A'afc men Uocs
dwelling MS skull the great blue vault OF ii'iHs
and the brains OF II became the ClouuS " la'
T}-obdqnagan business, OBTAINED Thought, great giant
10 s1orr,ors-.o be tanned due time into the compact
y-saine no: riantlke but godhe and stronger man 81!
anthood OF the Shakspcares, the 0oeihes g.
well a. bodily these men are our prosen'oTS-
Ike too that representation iasy nave o. ,+S
d-s-i Al Life i figured by ihem as Tree lgdasI 't
a.hrre- Of Existence has us roots deep down IN me Ah
dom OF Hela or Death lis trunk reaches up ned ~
zn-eads lis boughs the whole Universe Is 'e
IL Existence At the foot e II. IN the DeaIhHinedo >i'
rb yornas Fates-the Past Present Future; wa'e!in=
:, roots from the Sacred Well. lis b9ughs win 'neir
nddinps and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., things suffered things
done through all lands and nles Is
not .ev leaf of it biography, every more there an ecl o.
rd l., bouoFs are Histories OF Nations. The rustic OF
# the noise of Human Existence, onward from oil oie /!
crows there the breath OF Human Passion rushing through
-or sorntos the ormwind bowling through IKE tue
voice of all the gods Il Is gdrH, the Tree OF Existence.
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what - doing what will be done the infinite conusa-
lion of the verb To do" Considering how human things
circulate each nextrcably IN communion win a-no"
the word speak you to-day borrowed hG' from u
fila the Mrsocoth only but from all nlea since the St man
bega, ~ sneak find no snilltade true as THIS oil
Tree Beautiful: altogether beautiful and great The
Machine the Universe alas do but THINK oil mat IN
contrast
I;fersn enouoh from what believe OF Nature Whence
il specially came would not ike 70 be- compelled 20
saw very rnnuelv One thing may say; II cane from
the thoughts of Morse from the thought, above 81"
f the 6 Morse man who had an original power OF think
me- The First Morse man OF genus, as we should c'l
him Innumcrabe men had passed by, across this Un!-
verse with dumb vague wonder such as the very AMI
mails may fcel or with painful irn''ieSiy i!iu'"s
wonder such as men only feel It'll, the great thinker
came the original man. the Seer whose shaped spoken
Thought awakes the slumberlng capabIiity oil all mo
Thought, is the way with the Thinker the spirit
ua Hero. What he says, all men were sot lar iIo" I'd!
nn were LONGING 10 saw The Thoughts OF all start up as
from painful enchanted sleep, round his thought answer
ing 10 it, Yes sol Joyful 10 men as the dawhins Of
d.y from night is not indeed, the awakening Tor the
from no-being into being, from death INTO lie We sun
honor such man call him Poet Genius and so Tor
bu, to these wild men he very magician worker
of miraculous unexpected blessing tor them Prophet
God -Thou.ht awakened does not again slumoer
unfods itself into System OF Thought; grows, IN man
after man. generation after generaton-tl lis u! stature
is reached and such System OF huSht can grow no iat-
Their but must give place 10 anothsr
For the Morse people, the Man now named Odin, and
Chief Morse God we fancy, such man. Teacher,
and Canain of soul and of body; Hero of worth meas
nrabe admiration for whom, trsnscendlnG The known
bousd became alteration Has he not the power OF ar
tcu4te Thinking and many other powers as yet mracu-
lous So with bc;ndless gratitude would ne rnoe morse
heart feel Has he not solved for them the Sphinx enigma
of this Universe given assurance to them OF their own dc
inv there BY HIM they know now what they nave 10 10
here what look for hereafter Existence mas become
srcuate meIodious by him; he first has made LIE alive
We NAV call this Odin the origin OF Morse Mythology
Odin, or whatever the First Morse Thinker bore
while he was man among men His view OF the nj,
verse once promulgated like view starts INTO being IN all
minds grows, keeps ever growing, while IL continues
credible there In all minds lay written but nvislpy as
in sympathetic ink his word II starts into visibility IN
ALL Nav in every epoch of the world, the great event
parent of all Others the arrival OF Thinker IN the
world!
One other thing must sot forget; II will explain,
Gttle the confusion of these Morse Eddas They not
one coherent system of Thought bu. properly the sum
nation OF several systems. All this oil lhe old
Morse Belief which flung out for u.s. IN one level OF d
lance in the Edda like Picture painted on the same can
yass does not at all stand the reality 1t stands rainier
al all manner of distances and depths, of successive gene
ratons since the Belief first began All scandinavian
thinkers since the first of them, contributed 10 the Scan
dnavian system of Thought ever new elaboration ana
addition il is the combined work of them all What his
tory II had how changed from shape 10 shape by one
thinkers contribution after another I'LL II got TO the fu
final shape it under in the Edda, no man WIZ no."
know It's Councils OF Treblsond, COUNCIL OF Trent
Athanalscs Danes, Luthers, sunk without echo III
the dark night Only that il had such history we can all
know Wheresoevcr thinker appeared, there in ths
thing he thought OF contribution accession, change
or revolution made Alas the grandest revolution OF
ALL the made by the man 9dn himself is not this too
sunk for us like the of Odn what history Strange
rather TO reflect that he had history That this Odln IN
his wild Morse ves,ure with his wild beard and eyes ms
rude Morse speech and ways man like US with our
sorrows lows with limbs features ;-intnnscaliy all
one as we and did such work But the work much OF
it, has perished the worker. all to the name Wedns<
day will say tomorrow odn.s day VI Odin
there exists no hstory no document of guess abou,
II worth repeating.
Snorro iadeed in the quetest manner almost IN brief
business STYLE writes down. MS Hniskringa how Odn
was hersic Prince The B1ck-Sea region, with Twelve
Peers, and great people saiiened for room How he
led these 1fsa (Asatics of his out OF ASA settled them
in the North parts Europe, by warke conquest invented
Letters, Poetry and so forh-and byand by TO be
worshped as Chief God BY these Scandinaylans, his
Twelve Peers made Twelve Sons of MS own, Gods like
himself Snorro doubt of this Saxo Grammaticus,
very curious Norhman of that Century l. sl more