New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-05-18

friend; and vet believe TIE heart of thee Is tul
O. SORROW, Of unspoken sadness, serlousness-
profound melancholy as some have said the
basis Of thy being. unconsciocsly. Tor thoa
speakcst of nothing, this great Universe IS grea;
10 thee Not by lsylty OF floating, out by STUD
born force OF swimming, shalt thou make my
wav The Eates ssng OF thee that thou shaiI
many times be thought an ass and dull OIL Gnu
shalt with a godke indifference beiere IT. ~
fricnd-and it is all untrue nothing ever fsissf II
point OF fact Thou aIt Of those great ones
whose greatness the small passer-oy wouio not
discern. Thy very stupidity IS wiser taan thcif
wisdom 4 grand ITS lnertio is In lnee' no"
many grand qualities unknown to small Insn
Vat1re alone knows thee, acknowledges the bulk
and strength Of thee thy Epic, unsung IN words,
IL written in huge characters on the face c1 this
PIanct-gea.rnolcs, cottor-trades, railways, fleets
and cities, Indian Empires, Americas, New-Hol-
lands egib,e throughout the Solar System.
But the dumb Russians too. as SAID, they,
driiIinr al! wild Asia and wild Europe into mil.
:.ary rank md file terrible yet hitherto pros
pering enterprise, are still dunloer. The old Ro-
mans also could not speok. loT rnany ccat1aes-
not TIL the world theirs; and SO many speak
been absorbed and abolished The Iogic-aYro7vx
how tbey glanced futile from obdurate, thick
skinned Facts; Facts to be vircstied down ONLY
BY the real vigor Of Roman thews As for me, ]
honor in these loud, babblng days, all TIC Silent
rather. a grand Silence that OF the Romans nav
the grandest OF all, is II not that OF the gods !.
Even Trivialty, Irnbecility that can sit silent,
how respectable is i. IN comparison That tall
ent of silence is our fundamental one. Great
honor to hiln whose Epic is lnclod;ous hexalne-
ter Iiad-ilot a jingllng Shan-lllad, nothing true
in it bat the hcyameters and forms merely. But
s, greater honor, if bis Epic DC mighty En-
pre- slowly built together, mighty Series OF lie
roic Dceds-a mighty Conquest over Chaos
,rIlch Epic the Eternal Melodies have, and
must have, informed and dwclt IN, as II sung IT.
self. There is no mstaking that latter Epic,
DEEDS are greater than Words. Deeds have such
!. life, mute but undeniable, and grow as living
trees and fruit-trees do; they people the vacuity
Of Time, and make II green and worthy. Why
should the oak prove logically that it ought to
grow, and viii grow Plantit, try ii what gifts
OF dgcnt, judicious assimilation and secretion il
has, OF progress and resistance, Of farce TO grow,
will then declare themselves. Ny much-honored,
ustrous, extremely lnarticulate Nlr. Bull -
Ask Bull his spoken opinion of any mater
oftentncs the force Of dizziness can no farther 60.
You stand silent, lncredulous as over a olati;ude
that borders on the Infinite. The mans Church
isms, Dissentcrsns, Puseyislns, Benthamisms,
College PHILOSOPHERS, Fashionable Literatures are
rnexampled in this world. Fate's prophecy is
fulfilled; you call the man OK and an ass. But
set HIM once to wcTk-respectable man. It's
spoken sense is next to nothing ninc-tcn.hs OF it
palpable noH-scnse; but his unspoken sense, his
inner. silent feeling Of what is true, what does
agree with fle.,, what is doabc and what IS not
doable-this seeks It's fellow in the world A ter
ribc worker; irresistible against marshes, noun
tains, impedments, disorder, inclvllisaton every
where yanqrishing disorder, leaving 1t behind him
rs method and order lie 'retres to his bed
three DAYS and considers
Nay wi,hal, stupid as he Is, our dear John
ever, after infinite tumbl!ngs, and spoken plati.
,udcs innumerable from barrel.heads and parlla
mcnt benches, he docs settle down somewhere
about the Just conclusion YOU are certain that
his Jumblings and tumblings Will end after years
or centuries, in the stable equilibrium. Stable
equilibrium, say centre-of- gravity lowest; not
the unstable, with centre.of. gravity highest, as
have known it done by quicker people For in
deed, do but tumble and tumble sufficiently, YOU
tre-of- gravity highest; your ccntre-ot- gravity is
certain to come lowest and 10 stay there. If
slowncss, what we lii our Impotence call stu
pidity,' be the price of stable equilibrium over un
stable shall we grudge little sowncss Not the
least admirable quality Of Bull is, after all, that &c
remaining insensibie TO logic holding out fir
considerable periods, ten Years or more, as in this
Of tie Corn Laws, after all arguments and shadow
Of arguments have faded away from HIM, I'LL tbs
very urchins the street litter at the arguments
he brings. Logic-AoYtsp, the Art OF Speech :
does indeed speak so and so clear enough !,
nevertheless Bull still shakes hiS head; viii see
whether nothing else illogical, not yet spoken,
not vet able to be spoken, do no; lie in the bu.
sincss, as there 50 often docs My firm belief is,
that, finding himself now enchanted hand shac-
klcd, too,-shackled, In Poor Law Bastes and
elsewhere, he will retire three DAYS to his bed and
drrire at q conclusion or two. His three-vca-s
total stagnation of trade, alas is not that pam.
ful enough lying IN bed 10 consider himself ;
Poor Bull
Bull IS born conservative; for this too mex
pressibly honor him. All great Peoples are con.
sentative slow to believe IN novelties patient of
much error in actuaties deeply and for ever
certain OF the greatness that Is IN Law in Custom
once soemnly established anu now long recog.
nlsed US Just and final True, oh Radical Re
former, there IS no Custom that can, properly
speaking, be final none. And yet thou secs,
Customs which, III all civilized countries, are ac
counted final nay, under the Old Roman name
of UorcS, are accounted Morality Virtue, Laws
Of God Himself, Such assure thee, not few
OF them are such almost all OF them once were.
And greatly do | respect the solid charactcT-a
bockhcad, thou wilt say; yes, but a well.condi-
toned blockhead, and the bestcondition-who
eSteems all Customs once Solemnly acknow-
edged to be ultimate, divine, and the rule for
NAH to walk BY, nothing doubling, no, inquiring
farther What time OF II had we. were all men 5
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