The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1844-08-22
lzpsss=aR 4 Eziiy 81 InEEisa Ksnlll
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A couniry with an excessive fioziisr e.
posed % invasion from powerful sacmies.
II is governors BE wize. ererts fnrikcs-
tsns. forms strong alliances. and disci-
pllnes im inhabitants il the use Of arms.
Every child . n fhe siEaa1i0n of such !
country bus are - governors wisei-
Where are rs fon16cations Of mental oc-
eupzfion-iis alliance with beuer world
Ills diriplihe Of self-coniruli The ~
p0rf Of commissioners lately made public,
have given . fearful answer 10 The ques-
lion - regards The poor. Are the rich
hesier cared fort What advantage does
the child receive from rs educated pa
rentsl lis clothing Is finer. iis food more
delicaie; but during those sin precious
years the brain i acquiring the bent which
may form the character through life, il Is
consigned 10 the nursery; 10 the compan-
ionshIp Of uneducaied and misiudging.
perhaps Vicious. II any rate uninleresied
persons; shut out, even more than the
children Of the poor. from the experience
Of life. with no conversation 10 stimulate
the Young brain 20 further development,
TO principles insnlled. no curiosity graft
fed. A dGn routine Of lessons i perhaps
carried on, taxing he tender organ beyond
is powers-ihns inducing instead Of pre-
venting disease; while the inquisitiveness
which seems the very instinct OF child
hood. and the attempt 10 reason on what
j. prupounded. are slernly reprcssed; ODE
diencc, not sef-management, is enforced;
and the child grows up, Notwithstanding
the shor OF learning or accomplishment,
with an unregulated mind, ignorant Of
mans best knowledge motiveless, and
dependent on circumstances. The boy is
then TO be sent forth into world full Of
difficulties, 20 sink or swim; 10 make a
character for himself If he CAMS well
might troops begin TO make their muskeis
when the enemy are In sight.
Buliflhis be the case As regards the male
sex, how much more feafnlIy then is il Of
the femalel Here the drawing-room but
perpeiuaies the inertness Of the nursery
and woman, 50 largely endowed by ma
ture. Is degraded By social prejudice, and
the frivolous eduration consequent upon
il, till she is left at the mercy Of events,
the creature Of impulse and instinct. Yet
psychologists have demonstrated that the
organs Of thought arc proportiOnably lar-
ger in woman than in man; and many .
bright example has shown how well they
caa be employed. One plain statistical
fact shows that no terms | can use in the
reprobation Of this cruel system can be too
strong. The registers of lunatic asylums
show the number of female patients TO ex-
coed that Of males by nearly one third.
The result, then, Of the whole inquiry
appears 10 he, that man being compound
Of two natures, mental arrangement is Of
two kinds. In the one kind, structural
disease deadens or distorts the percep-
lions, and if this extends itself TO the or
gans Of al the faculties, the intellectual
fore having no longer the means Of ex-
ierual action, the individual remains to all
appearance a helpless machine. But, as
such extensive structural disease IL hard |
~ compatible with life, so it is Of very
rare occurrence, and. if any part Of The or
gan remains perfect, then there is good
reason TO hope that mind thoroughly
well trained in early years, viii still con-
tive to make the litte that is left available
- conduct, if not to the higher Intellectual
functions; rs we see the loss Of the right
hand replaced in some degree by the in
creased activity Of the left. But in the
other case, no structural disease exists in
the first instance, and the inetficieney or
misdirection Of the intellectual force is the
sole cause Of the arrangement; sometimes
by the violence of the excitement produc-
ing diselse, sometimes continuing to the
last without affecting the bodily organs.
The cases of insanity, we are told, have
nearly triplcd within the last twenty years!
"a fearful increase even after allowing To
the utmost for larger population! OF
these cases it is calculated that less than
three hundred in one thousand are the re-
suit of disease. or Of unavoidable circum-
stances, thus leaving about seven hundred
resulting from bodily excess or mental
disagreement. On the head, then, of
legislators, of teachers and Of parents, lies
the heavy charge of having, in all these
instances, left those godlike faculties I'M
cultivated, which, If duly used, might
make earth the ante-room of heaven, and
man the fit vicegerent Of the Deity in this
fair world. What man is generally, and
what the world is in consequence, | need
no, detail; we all know and feel it. Would
10 heaven we all knew what man can be,
md had Gel, whatthe world might be were
h. such! Rec. Dr.. Barior.
Our Counirys Bitte.--Tbrse Of the
speakers al the late Bible ann,,er.ary al.
lu.led IN terms OF d. ep-t"ned VINE. alton
and GRATITUDE TO those nohie pauiots v no |