New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-10-07

ers of this Age OF that Idea which sgtaies the
sleep of Europe, and Of which America II awake
% The aesion q, Heaven and her own duty, would
locon,. the principal exponent But the Father u
..;u e,r beyopd the understanding ofhis child
His ideas Of marriage as ex pressed in the restses
IN Divorce are high and pure. He aims at mar.
rage Of souls II he incline too much to the prerog-
alive Of his own sex it from that maunishness,
almost the same with boorishness that is evident in
men Of the greatest and riches, natures, who have
never known the refining influence Of happy. mu-
taal love as the best women evince narro~ness and
poverty under the same priyson. In every line we
see how much Milton required the benefit Of " The
Thousand decencies that daily flow from such re
la,ion. and how greatly he would have been the
gamer by it, both a. man and as genius. In his
mind lay originally the farest ideal Of woman; to
see ii realized would have finished bs education
HIS commonwealth could only have grown from
the pcriectng Of individual men, The private means
TO such an end he rather hints than states III the
short essay to Education. They are such a. We are
gradually learning to prize. Healthiul diet, varied
bodily exercises TO which we no longer need give
the martial ais he proposed, fit the mind for stu
dies which are by him arranged in large, plastic
aud natural method
Among the prophetic features Of his system we
NAV mention the place given to'Agriculture and
Music:
"The next step would be to the authors on az
riculfure-Caio. NaTo and Columella-ior the mat
ter j. most easy and il the language be difficult so
much the better it is not a difficulty above their
wears And here will be occasion OF melting ana
enabling them hereafter to improve the tilage OF
their country to recover their bad soil and to rem
edy the waste that is made OF good for this was one
Of Hercules praises.
How wise too his directions as to interspersing
the study with travel and personal observation OF
important objects. We must have methods OF our
own but the hints we might borrow from this short
essay of Millions are endless
Then of music
THE interim may, both with profit and delight
be taken up in rccreating and composing their ira
vailed spirits with the solemn and divine harmonles
of music heard learned either whilst the skiiliu
organist plies his grave and fanccd descant IN lOy
fugues, or the whole symphony with artiul ana nm
imaginable touches adorn and grace the well studied
chords of some choice composer; sometimes the
lutc or soft organ stop waiting ON elegant voices
either 10 religious martial or civil dltiiesi which II
wise men and prophets be not extremely out nave
a great power over disposition and manners to
snooihc and make them gentle from rustic harshness
and dstempcrcd passions
He does not mention here the higher offices OF mu
sic but that they had been fulfilled 10 him is evident
in the whole texture Of his mind and his page The
organ was his instrument, and there Is not strain
of its peculiar music that may not somewhere be
traced in his verse or prose. Here too. he was pro
phetcal of our age of which Music is the great and
growing art making deeper revelations than any
other mode of expression now adopted by the soul
After these scanty remarks upon the glories OF
this sun.like mind, let look for moment on the
clouds which hung about its earthly course. Letus
take some hints from his letters -
1T is often subject OF sorrowiul reflection to me-
that those with whom have been either foruitous.
~ or legally associated by contiguity OF place or
some tic of little moment are continually NJ hand TO
inlesi my home, to stun me with their noise and
waste me with vexation while those who are en-
deared TO me by the closest sympathy OF manners
of tastes and pursuits are almost all wlihhed from
nv embrace either by death or an insuperbe dis
lance of place and have for the most part been so
rapidly hurried from my sight. that my prospects
seem continually solitary, and my heart perpetuay
desoate."
The last letter in the volume ends thus;
What YOU term policy, and which wish that
YOU had rather called patriotic picy, has, II may
so saw almost LEFT me, who was charmed with so
sweet a sound without a country. Will
conclude after first begging you, II there be any er
ror in the dc,ion the punctuation, to impuie TO
the boy who wrote this, who is quite ignorant OF
Latin and TO " HON was, with no little vexation,
oJligea 10 dictate not the words, int, one by one,
eiejtGrs IF irhich they were comPoSe6
The account of the gradual increase Of his blind
ness is interesting physologcally as well as other
wise
tits now think, about ten years l65i since |
perceived my vision to grow weak and dun and
nj the same time was troubled with pam IN my
kidneys and bowels accompanied with fatuloncy.
In the morning. if began 10 read rs " as my Gus.
tom, my eyes instantly ached intensely. but were
refreshed after little corporal exercise The can.
die which looked at seemed as II II Were encrced
bv a rainbow No, long after the sight IN the LEFT part
of the left eve (which lost some years before the OH
err became quite obscured and prevented me from
discerning any object on that side. The sight III my
other eve has now been gradually and sensiby van
shing away for about three years; some months be
fore il had entirely persisted though stood motion
less every thing which looked nj seemed In mo.
ton to and fro. A still cloudy vapor seemed to
have settled on my forehead and temples, which
usually occasions sort OF somnolen' pressure upon
my eyes and particularly from dinner Ill the even
ing so that | often recollect what is SAID OF the
poet Phineas in the Areonautics;
"a siupor deep his cloudy temples bound,
And when he walked he seemed as whirling round,
Or in feeble trance he speeches. lay.
Il ought not TO omit that, while had any sight
left ms soon as lay down my bed and turned on
either side flood of light used TO cush from my
closed eyclids Then, as my sight became daily
more impaired. the coors became more faint. and
were emitted with a certain cracking sound but
M present every species OF illumination being, as II
were extingushed, there is ditiused around me
nothing but darkness, darkness mingled and
s,rcaked with an ashy brown. Yet the darkness IN
which | am perpeiuay immersed seems always
both by night and day 10 approach nearer 10
white than black and when the eye Is rolling in rs
socket. il admits little particle OF light through
a chink And though your physician may kindle a
small ray OF hope yet MAKEUP my mind 10 thema
adv as quite ncurable and often reflect that asihe
wise man admonishes days of darkness are dest
ned TO each of US The darkness which cNperl-
ence less oppressive than that of the tomb IS OWING
10 the singular goodness of the Deny, passed amid
the pursuits of literature and the cheering salula
lions OF friendship. But if; is written man shall
not live by bread alone. but by every word that pro
ceedelh from the mouth of God. why may not any
one acquesc in the privaiion Of his sight when TOD
-, o,,ri, ftrui slal his mind and his conscience