New-York daily tribune., 1844-01-19


NE Dspers have mystic Or transcendentaI as
nsct but true soul glows through all. Uni
-erssl Regencratlon,' Doctrine of Life Swc-
denborp,' sZoar,' Social Reform Convention at
po.on. THANKSGIVING and New Year Wishes,
s,e the subjects of some of them. Zoar' we
.rorst publish when we can bat the following
t,ntbful and gladdeiing essay FAUST have place
fins morning 1t is beautifully characteristic ol
,be writer, the work, and the times
Progress and Hope.
BY l.. ". CHILD.
Like circles wideaing round
Orb alter orb the Toadrous sound
Is echoed on forever
GLORY 70 God on high on earth be peace,
And love toward men of oilove-salvaton aud release.
A large class Of thinkers deny that the world
makes any progress. They say we move in cir
Gle: that evils are never conquered, bat only
change their forms In proof Of this doctrine,
tbev remind US that the many are now as efiectu-
aly kept in subsection to the few, by commercial
fraud and diplomatic cunning, as they once were
bv sword and battlc-axc. This class of reasoners
are uncomfortable to the hopeful soul; the more
60 because they can easily bring forward an ar
raw Of facts, from which, the very nature of the
case it is impossible to evolve the good and evil
separately, to weigh them accurately, and Justly
determine the results of each on the whole destiny
Of man. These unbelievers point to the past,
whose records are deeply craven, and seen Of all
men, though they relate only to the cxternals of
human history; while those who believe in per-
petual progress found their faith mainly on the
inward growth and unwritten history of the soul.
They see with all events spritua essence, SUBTLE
expansive, and noiseess as light; and from the
roseate CLEAN resting on the horizons edge, they
predict that the sun will rise to its zenith, and
veil the whole earth in transfgured glory.
1t is the mission Of the prophet to announce,
rather than to prove; yet facts are not wanting
to prouc that mankind have made progress. Ex-
perience is not always at discord with hope per
haps it is never SO, if we could read history as
the Omniscicnt reads it. Doubtless the world
does move in circles, and good and evil, repro
duced in new forms, bear continual check-and-
balance to each other But the circles in which
We move rise in a pcrpetually ascending series,
and evil will finally be overcome with good. The
very ferceness of the conflict shows that this con-
summation is approaching. There never was
time when good and evil, truth and falsehoo3,
were at work with such miraculous activity. TO
those who look on the surface, it may seem as if
the evil and the false were gaining the victory,
because the evil and the false are always more
violent and tumultuous than the good and the
true. The tornado busters, and the atmosphere
is still; but the atmosphere produces and sustalns
athousand-fold more than the tornado destroys.
The good and the true work for eternity in a
golden silence.
bn nc owl of no
full of promise; for all evil must be made mani
fest that it may be cured. TO this end Divine
Providence is continually excrted, both in the ma
terlal and the spiritual world If the right pro-
portions of the atmosphere are disturbed, the dis
cord manifests itself in thunder and lightning,
and thus is harmony restored. To the superstl-
tious it sounds like the voice of wrath, but 1t is
only Universal Love restoring order to the ele-
ments.
Behind the cause lies the end and that is evil
in the soul Of man. He it is who dlsturbs the
balance Of the clements, and his sins are uttered
in thunder and storm. But the manifestation Is
ever healthy and the precursor OF restored har-
mOnv Welcome then to such books as Oliver
Twist and the MYSTERIES of Paris; welcome to all
the painful unfodings of Anti-Slaycry and Tenn
perance to all that, in a spirit friendly 10 man,
lays open the crimes and the vices OF society. |
hail this universal tendency to manifestation as !.
joyful omen
Dost thou ask, OH unbelievng reader, orprooi
that the world has made progress Consider
we'll the great fact Of British emancipation IN the
West indies Show me another instance IN the
worlds history, where the heart OF a whole nation
was kndled as it were, by divine flame, to
hight the wrongs Of a distant and helpless people.
people too poor to repay their benctactors nay,
1or whose sake the bcncfactorS taxed themselves
heavily a people too low and vulgar, IN their
utter degradatlon to cast the falntest eam OF ro-
4 nance over the sympathy which came to their
| rescue Could this deed have been done under
'ae influence of any other religion than the inns
uan Was any thing done IN the precedlngageS,
10 De compared to II for moral grandeur GREAT
/ ana glorious actions were doubtless performed by
those old Greeks and Romans, and knights oil the
allddle Ages; but show me one 50 transcendently
nnseltlsh-one in which a nation acted from 50
pure sentiment of Justice, untamished by the
acquisition of wealth, or fame, or power. " we
Seek history in vain for the results of honesty,
,0Snce, and kindness, as exemplitied III the deal
nss OF nation toward nation; or In the conduct
1.-The mighty and powerful toward the defence
esS and the weak. 1t was reserved for England
10 furnish this missing chapter IN the history OF
| 'ne world-this unlimned picture IN the Gallery
! olFme"*
1t has been asserted that the British Govern
nent did this as q skiful move IN the game OF
Aanons. wish l could believe such speech had
no Nc worse origin than ignorance of facts. The
brnsh Government finds an increase Of power
IN the grand moral position it has taken on the
ptpfs1 !
od be the rssn, III iIonestv au 0 is ii tbe s best DO
NY, out policy without honesty never finds that
, uu' Therefore, the application OF great moral
SoSernments Such perceptions come IN the
ssN'hess ~ TO Individual souls, and thence ghde
Trough ~. the social fabric. At last nation hail:
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