Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1843-08-17

lion and the restraint Of those who uansgtoss the
laws does no, render indispensable, and none more
Than death, confirms all the inhGman and unsoeial
impulses Of men
Poets are the hierophan;s OF an unspptehendcd
inspiration; the mirrors Of the gigantic shadows
which iuioray casts upon the present the wotis
which express what they understand not the
iSumpels which sing 20 battle and feel no, what they
inspire the influence which Is moved not, but
Pees are the unacknowledgcd Legislators OF the
world.
Tho production aud assurance or pleasure IN The
highest ksnsc y true utiilsy.@
Whilst the mechsnis, abridges, and the political
economist combines labor, Jet them beware that
their speculaons for want Of correspondence with
those first principles which belong to the magma
ton, do not tend, as they have in modern England
to exasperate at once the extremes Of luxury and
want. They have eXemplihed the saving, To him
that hath more shall be given; aud from him that
hath not the little that he hath shall be taken away
The rich have become richer, and the poor have be-
come poorer and the vessel of the state is driven
between the Scyila and CharYbds of anarchy and
despolism. Such are the effects which mus, ever
flow from unmi,igated exercise The calculating
faculty.
Poetry, and the principle Self Of which money is
the visible incarnation, are the G. od and Mammon of
the world.
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the
pleasure Of pleasure itself And hence the saving,
1t is better to go 10 the house OF mourning than 10
the house of mirh
The poetry of Dante may be considered the
bridge thrown over the stream Of time, which uni,es
the modern and ancient world.
The abolition Of personal slavery is the basis OF
the highest political hope tina; it enter into the
mind Of man TO conceive.
The end Of social corruption is to destroy all sen
sibiiy TO pleasure; and, therefore 1t is corruption.
1t begins at the imag and the intellect as at
the core, and distributes itself th1ncs as parays-
ing venom, through the affections into the very APP
pe,i,es, until all become a torpid mass in which
hardly sense survives.
majestic form and graceful motions will OK
press themselves through the most barbarous and
tasteless costume
The great secret Of morals is love; a going out
of our own nature, and Identification Of ourselves
with the beautiful which exists in thought action
or person. not our own.
Although the scheme of A,henian society de.
formed by many imperections which the poetry ex
listing in chivairy and Christianity has erased fon
the habits aud institutions Of modern Europe; We
never at other period has 80 much energy, beau
ty, and virtue, been developed never was bhn'
strength and stubborn form so disciplined and rem
dered subject TO the will Of man, that will less re
pugnant to the dictates Of the beautiful and true,
during the century which preceded the death o
Socrates. OF no other epoch in the history OF on
species have we records and fragments stamped S
visbly with the image Of the divinity Of man.
The future is contained within the present tn
plant within the seed.
Every epoch, under names more or less specous
has deifed its peculiar errors; Revenge is the ma
, ked idol of worship of mibarbafous age; an
Selfdece is the yelled image OF unknown evil, be
, fore which luxury and safety lie PROSTATE.
1t is lndsputable that the highest perfection oil hu
: man society has ever corresponded with the hghes
dramatic excellence.
The FIRST law which il becomes Reformer I
propose and support, a, the approach OF period {
great political change, is the abolition OF the punish
ment Of death - Concord Freeman.