New-York daily tribune., 1842-07-19

These terrors have lost their force. and our tor
meut j. Unbc.ief, the Uncertainty - to what W.
ought 10 do the disiru-t of the value ol what we
lo and the distru.' 4 at the Necessity (Which we
all at last believe in) j. fair and bcnciccHt. Our
Religion assumes the negliiye form of rejection.
Out OF love of the true. We repudiac the false !:
and the Religion Is an ahoi-ling criticism. great
pcrp'cAity hangs Ike a cloud OF the brow # al
cultivated persons. certain Imbccility m the best
spirits which dstngui hes the period. We do not
find the same trait in the Arsbia1. IN tho Hebrew.
In Greek Roman, Norman English periods H,.
but In other ron natural ffmncss. Inc men did
| not 5ee beyond the need Of he hour. Iney plar'-
cd their foot strong, and doubted nothing. We
nistrast every step We take. W. md il RE worst
hing about time, that we know not what 70 do
with il. We are 50 sharp-sicnted that we can
neither work nor think, ncithc. read Plato nor not
read him.
Then there is what i, called too intellectual
| tendency. Caa there be toe mlch intellect We
have never met with any such excess. But ine
criticism, which is leycod a; 'hc laws and man
ncrs. ends N thought, without causing new me-
rhod Of iie. The gcniss Of the day does not III
cline 10 a deed, but 20 bchodiug. 1t l. not fha'
men do not wish act they pine to be employed
but are paravzed by the uncertainty what they
| should do. The inadequacy Of thework to 'he Ia
cuties, !, the painful perception which Keeps them
still. This happens to the best. Then, talents
bring their usual temptations. and the current h'-
craturc and poetry with peyersc ingenuity dra"
US away from life to solitude aud medItatica Ihi'
could well be borne If il were great and involun-
| tary if the men were ravsned by their though.
and hurried into ascetc extrayagauccs. Society
could then manage 10 release their shoulder from
MS wheel and grant them for time his privilege
oi Sabbath. But they are not 90. lmnsing
which was rage, i become an AIT. The thinker
give. me results. and never invites me 90 be pres
cnt with him at his invocation of Truth. and TO on-
ioy with him its proceeding into his mind.
So little action amidst such audncious and Yet
sincere profession that We begin 10 doubt II that
great revolution in the ant of war, which has made
# game Of posts and not n game 81 battles, has
not operated on Reform; whether this be not also
a war Of posts paper blockade in which each
party is to display the utmost resources of his spir-
It and belief, and no conflic; occur; but the world
shall take that cour.e which the demonstration OF
the truth shall indicate.
But We must pay for being too intellectual, as
they call it. People are not as ght-heartcd for it.
think men never loved life less. question #
care and doubt ever wrote their names lesbly
on the faces Of any population. This Ennvi, for
which we Saxons had no name this word Of France
has eoi terrific significance Ii shorteHs liic'
and bcrcayes the day Of it, light Old age begins
in the nursery. and before the yosns American
has got into jacket md trowsors he says, want
something which | never saw before; and ! wish
was not H. have seen the same gloom on the
brow even of those advennfers from the intellect
ual class. who had dved deepest and with most
success into active life have seen the authentic
SIGN Of anzcty and pcrploxty the greatest fore
mead of the State. The canker-worms have
cr;,wIed TO the iopmo.t bough Of the wild elm, and
swing down from thai. Is there less oxygen
IN tie atmo.pherel What has checked in this
age the animal spirits winch gave to om ioreia-
hers their boundine pulse CONCLUDED tomorrow.