Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1845-05-22
Body and Mimd.
BY CARLYLE

Two men honor, and no third Fir.,. the
loilworn craftsman, ,ha, with earth-made i'm
plemenls, laborious conquers The earth, and
makes her mans Venerable TO me Is he hard
hand, crooked, coarse; wherein, noiwi,hsiand-
ing, lies cunning virtue, ndcfea slbly royal, a.
of the sceptre of This planet. Venerible. too
is the rugged face, all weather tanned besoiieh.
with lis rude intelligence; for i, is the face OF
man living man-hke. Oh, but the more ven
erable for thy rudeness, even because we must
pity as well as love thee Hardly enrreated
brother! For US was thy back SD bent. for ux
were thy straight limbs aud fingers, 80 deform-
ed; thou werl our conscript, on whom the os
fell, and fighting our baIle vert so marred--
For in thee, 100, lay God created form, bas
it was not to be unfoded, inlrusled mus. IL
stand with the thick adhesions aud deiace mems
OF labor; and Thy body like Thy soul, was res
10 know freedom Yet toll on, thou art in she,
duty, be out of it tho may thou tolles, for the.
altogether indispensable, for daily bread.
A second. man honor, and still more highly
pensable-no, daily bread, but the brea 4 of life.
Is moi he, too, in his duty, endeayorine ro~ ards
inward harmony-revealiug this by ac, and by
word, through all his outward endeavors. be
they high or low. Highos. of all when his out
ward and inward endeavors are one when Wa
can name him arlist-not earthly crafts men
only, but inspired thinker, that with heaven
made implements conquers heaven for US If
the poor and humble toll that we NAV have
food, must not The high and glorious ol for him
in return, that he may have light, guidance,
freedom, immortality! These two in all their
degrees, l honor, all else is chaff and dust,
which let the wind blow whether it srelh
Unspeakably touching is it, however when
find both digniiies united; and he thai must
toll outwardly fof the lowest of mans wants, i,
also loiling inwardly for The highest. Sublimer,
in this world, know nothing Than a peasant
saint could such anywhere now be net with
Such one will take thee back to Nazareth it,
self; thou wilt see the splendor of heaven
spring from the humbes. depths Of earth, like
light shining in great darkness.
And again; it is not because Of his toll that
lament for the poor; we must all toll, or steal.
(however we name our stealng) which is
worse, no faithful workman find his task pas
time The poor man is hungry and ahirst, but
for him also there is food and drink; is heavy
laden and weary, bit for him also The heavens
sends sleep, and the deepest; in his smoky
crib clear de~y heaven Of rest envelops him.
and fiIful glimmerings of cloud-skrted dreams.
But wb at do mourn over is, that the lamp of
his soul should go out; that no heavenly or
even earthly, knowledge should visit him; but
ONLY in the haggard darkness, like two spec
IT es, fear and indignation. Alas! while the
body stands so broad and brawny must the soul
lie blinded, dwarfed, sIupefed, almos. annihi-
lated! Alas was this, too breath Of God.
bestowed in heaven, but on earth never To- be
unfolded! That there should one man die ig-
norant, who had capacity for knowledge, this
| call tragedy, were it TOO happen more than
twenty times in a minute, as by some competi-
tion it does.