Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1845-11-14

nfode oil acting on the mind; but this is or.
rOneoas} for all the modes OF acting on the
body also must be considered 10 come under
the denomination of Education. There
was a certain fish, il was said by Cecil, that
could only be caught at night, and GER
tain other kind Of fish that could only he
caught in the day time, and the difficulty
was TO know how to catch each of thesei
and when 10 catch them
Others have spoken Of what they call a
dumb Educalons=of the effects Of va ieus
insnimate objects Upon the mnd-of the
scenery Of mountains~lhe ocean-forms
Of beauty -painlings--statuarg. And Ia
carry ont their theory it would be neceesa-
ry to have all men born aike--all born nm
der the same circumstances--in the same
rooin--at the same hour Of the day, and at
the same seasons of the year.
But the fact is that Education is always
going on and is never finished in this Iiie;
new lessons are presented and learnt and
acted upon and their influence felt and
owned at all the various stages of lfe--at
the change from the mothers arms TO the
efforts to run aIone--in the schooIoov DAYS
on entering the teens--on verging to
manhood-ot the time Of marriage--at the
birth of the first child, and al every suisse
quent stage of lille uII death closes the
scene! all these influences wait us on, as
the winds watt cloud through the sky.
Mr., M. went on tospeak Of that which
lies at the bottom Of sound Education; and
dwell with much force OIL the fact that every
word in our language was borrowed from
some ancient sgniicalion to which it had
a asimiIitude. He instanced The words "n-
teIllgence," "reIigion, "morajs," &c; MA
ny stone had been sharpened, and cut be-
fore nien called "satre" "cutting." All
civilized nations have a rich storehouse
from which to borrow smilitudes. Fulton
had not long discovered the application ol
steam to boats before demagogues were
said to get their steam up; and men have
frequently been "bown up" since that
time. Mark the Ggurative language tha,
men have used in all past time. What
Protean shapes we make the mind assume.
We make it assume all the forms that ocean
ever presents. Now it is said 10 he "ion-
hearted, " and now "pigeOn-Iivered"--then
again it is "eagle-eyed," and again it is
"bleSred" and "blinded." Ii is a meteor,
a gIow~worm, an 'gnis Gtuus 1t is alleged
TO possess all the nature of water; ones
is said TO be sweet and anoth-
pr's rs sour; one is redolent of all the fra
GRANGE of Araby the BEST, and another
stinks in the nostrls Of Heaven, In in
nOcence, the mind is white: in malace, it
is black; and to black malice has not un-
frequently been attached d literary blue.
Now although these emblems are beaut-
fully descriptive and graphic, yet they are
the elements with which false philosophers
iugglt. Often they become the germs Of
error; and soon they rpen and produce
harvest OF misery and crime. But there is
one emblem which better commends itself
to teachers; it is this they have often H.
Sened the mind to a garden. And there
IS nothing so completely a comparison be-
tween the material nature and the spiritual
nature as this; vigor Of the soil is kened |
10 strength OF intelIect-weeds are Iikened |
% vices, &c.i cultivation may be bestowed
On all parts OF the garden, or the garden
may he utterly neglected. In one garden
you may raise nothing but gaudy flowers,
whilst the life sustaining fruit is utterly ne
elected; in one garden the fruit may be
" ell cultivated, and well cared for, whist
in others the fruit is neglected and suffered
to rot and decay. Insome gardens we see
nothing but the flauntng holyhock, or
or dahlias; whilst in others are
ound the cooling febrifuge, the disease
destroying herbs, and all that is valuable.
So, in some families We see nothing but
abundance of fine snowy dresses, all sorts
of gIitterng gewgaws, and any quantity
If richly Oound nonsense, whilst in others
they have abundance Of rich food for the
body and soul.
There is one feature Of the mind, how
ever, which is most especially to be pointed
,ut and strictly attended to. And this is
he Growth" of mind. Growth ls the at.
ribute OF all the minds attributesj it is the
very negation Of inertness and stand still.
Il adds idea 10 idea, from the localities of
he nursery to the far off mountains-4lrom