Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-04-16

'Vi 'oi'uilng anu PunlShlng human brothers
vanish as the mist vanishes before the rave n
the morning sun.
j have said let men only be convinced q
the harmony and unity of human interests
All! but in that ] conceive lies the whole e.
cret of human redemption and progress. An,
here find myself brought to a considerable,
Of the vas, subject of Education and knowl
edge. approach it reluctantly, and will
misgivings as TO my ability to get nut m,
thoughts. Great as are the appropriations o
The Importance Of education and the DISPOSE
lions made for its advancement, it beseem,
me that the true grandeur of the thing in al
its life-renewing resources, is scarcely We
conceived. And it must needs be so; 70
they only who have climbed partly up car
see 10 the full height of the mountain, Hin
man knowledge is the vast original whole, O
which all other subjects are but parts emanat
ing as the branches of the out-spreadinp OAK
emanate and owe their existence to the life.
giving principle q the mother trunk. 1t is .
I'''N6N''S VI u Aiidh lie Inquire lnVOlt MIA
rlly OF the causes for the effects he beholds
about him. He is a progressive, climbing
creature. The lap-dandled infant, as its face
wakes in beauty and perfection by the up
flashes OF intelligence, eloquently typifes its
title 10 be Of The species which climbs unceas-
ingIy from its groundward sphere in yearn-
lnnq for rOnnr,upio ,r;,h A. ..G...-
The importance of education is not, cannot
be overrated. 1t is the ground work for hu.
man hopes OF salvation-the channel for, and
necessary prelude 10 all lofty aspira,ions.-
The limit TO human knowledge has never vet
been reached, and who shall say that it ever
shall be reachedl They who gfovel on sui
ienly without a desire for knowledge, have
their vision bounded by a narrow boundary,
lar within The reach Of human enterrrize.-
They regard their contracted stage as sufi.
broad, and its boundaries as inpene-
'rable barriers, never dreaming of the vast
lnexplored region and boundless treasures
which lie beyond. This is for those who
ave studied, for they only who are comnar.
lively learned, know of what there is vet n
e learned. The boy who thought to climb
the sky by passing to the horizon tina,
ound his view where earth and sky seemed
, meet, was as near gaining his purpose as
g who thinks TO attain the end of knowledge
y reaching as far as he now sees. Like the
oy, he beholds on arriving, that he is no
carer accomplishing his object than if he
ad made no attempt. The grief of Alexan-
Ier the Great, who, after conquering the world,
Hept that there was no more TO conquer, was
light compared with the misery of man. were
he deprived of the eternal stimuli which i'm
pels him onward and upward to seek after
that which is never attainable-an infnity of
knowledge and perfection. All! indeed,
would he then be miserable, could he once
gain the point beyond which there is nothing
TO strive after. Then would he have tripped
from under him his very aim and staff of life
his hold upon existence; and be more
worthless than the helmless vessel cast adrift
upon the ocean, without aim or purpose, 10
become the sport of the waves. Surely that
man must be wretched who already fills his
his own ideal Of perfection-who sees not be-
yond his present position and desires that
is just beyond his reach. How true
is that the more we learn, the more we see
TO be learned. He has taken a great step in
The path of acknowledge who has learned enough
10 know how Ignorant he is. How narrow
the idea which prescribes a beginning
md an ending of Education-a BEGINNING on
commencing the Common School, and a fin
shing at some College graduation as if we
we're not always learning and could ever gain
he end of knowledge. 1t commences with
he first breath into the world, and closes not
Ill the last. 1t begins with the look, the
smile,or the frcwn of the parent, and is car
Fled on In Its various SUGGESTIONS around the
family freside. The child drinks in knowl-
edge from a thousand sources by the gradual
unfolding and various phases of The innumer.
able objects about him, long ere he dreams !
school. There is no over-rating the ip1u.
ence OF the family circle. Human veal and
the destiny of nations hang upon its influence
Tor good or for evil. Human governments ,
and associations of men are but manifesto =,
lions OF this same infuence-mere weather.
cocks TO point in the direction of the current. I;
as the hands upon the face of a watch pojpt ;
to the passing hour, depending entirely for y,
.helr character upon the workings beneath.
Behold them how much the well-being of the d,
human family devolves upon each individual
member. There is no proper appreciation Of
might OF one determined, strongly COM ,
spirit, ordained of the DIVINITY with.
in himself, and keenly alive to the wrongs
and snii0rlngs of his fellOws-the might of
one such to the pulling down of the Strong