Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-06-07

course, for something better. Verify, The
signs Of the times are glorious. Il is be.
ginning TO beseen that Intellectual and NOR
al powerare superior,in goodness and great.
ness, to physical violence, for the control
and improvement Of mankind. II is highly
suspicious TO see the work Of examination
on this subject applied 10 the management,
Of common schools. Let il extend into
families Il will. And 10 proportion as
parents are enlightened on this subject will
peace and love prevail, 10 the overthrow of
the iron despotisms which church.and slate
have hitherto swayed over the people, to
the destruction Of mind and morals. / ex-
hort those who have allowed themselves IL
engage in this good work DETERMINATION, TO
go on with it. No matter for all their abuse
OF Non Resistlnts. Doubtless they have
done il ignorantly. II better spirit or more
knowledge now possesses them, all who
seek the regeneration of the race will re-
joice. The Editor Of the Boston Courier
says,--"our private opinion is, that where
teacher is man Of mild temper, patient,
Of gentlemauly manners, temperate, aud
nell inJcrmed, there is no need OF corporal
punishment" That is TO say, goodness on
the one side will Tend to goodness on the
other. This is the true doctrine. Carried
out, il will annihiate armies, navies, glib
bets, prisons, every instrument Of violence,
all punishment Man was not made 10 be
punished or TO be smiiten down with fear
and torment-but to be loved and lifted
up.
" Nobody ever supposed that this true
State would be attained at once. But the
fact that SO much was, and yet is to he
done TO arrive at il, has been, yet is, aad
will continue to be The strongest & most
urgent reason why the work should be
commenced and persevered in by every
mind that discovers the situation Of things
os they are. The present system will
be held to. Of course, until a better is dis
and brought in reach. None
need Be alarmed at the encroachmenls of
The love-principle. l; is as harmless and
innocent as il is effective. And it is as
as it is harmless and innocent
Those who have not yet appreciated its
power and lis excellence will continue to
scott at its professions, and ridicule the
idea thai the world can be renovated by
il. But on some Of these very minds il is
doing a work that is mol known 10 them
selves. Already they are carried out 10
This snd that direction 10 the occupancy
Of ultra grounds Of reform in common
with those they have heretofore stigma
liz d as dementated fanatics. From these
points they must soon discover their in
consislencies; and thus by degrees they
will be forced to give up the entire syS-
TEN of.violence and corruption. He Who
sees that there is better way than 10
bruise flesh in schools, will soon see that
there is better way than to bruise. flesh
in families. And when this is seen, il
viii take but one more turn of the eye to
discover that there is better way than to
fttter limbs with chains, or break netks
II " AZ
with halters. About the sane time it
will be discerned that rational beings were
not made 10 be frightened and tortured
with fear of fire and birthstone, but TO
obey the laws Of their being, and thus
doing fear no evil. That it is not for
man to be put in fear ofanything separate
from his own acts, That all his mental
sufering is an effect of cause. or OF
causes, within human control Not that
we are to leap at stride from the bottom
ofthe pit Into which we have been 2lune-
ing through the doings Of generations
But that we are to- GO to work and climb
out as fast as possible. TO do this most
effectively, every one must be faithful to
his own convictions of truth. What is
seen to be wrong must be abandoned.
Whats seen to be right must be embrac.
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