Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-11-17
From The boston Chronotyps.
PROGRESS.

"You call yourselves the party Of progress. But
YOU advance not You are only busy in pulling
down7 You are aiwys complaining OF that which
is? Why do YOU not go to work aud show some
thing better?" We hear this like from people who
eat, drink and sleep and make no disturbance.
Very well, we do complain We find fault
What other step OF progress can hrst be taken
Those who do not complain take no onward step.
What is well enough IN their view they of course
let alone Many, to be sure let alone what they
do not think is well enough. hey have really
taken Que step OF progress but refuse to take
other We have nothing 10 say IN their behalf
The old cugInes OF civilization, which have been
relied on to bring forward the masses are found TO
be faulty, The more they are worked, the worse
for the world New ones are come or coming into
existence. Shall they be manned They will
rot be, so long as the old ones retain their popu-
larity.
How does it happen in society that knowledge
and virtue, the true l,nl. dignity and glory OF man
are less priced iaau WeAlthi DO You say wealth
Is priced because it gives the possesSor the abity
10 acquire knowledge aud exercise the highest viz
tue Then why does he not acquire the one and
exercise the other He only commands the mr.
tc,jaI results c knowledge and virtue that is, they
are thrown at his eet Tor So much moncy. lie
enjoys OF them. perhaps only what an animal can.
IN AstoT knows no more OF the beautiful aud EIo-
I.Jus demonstrations of Newton aud Llplace than
his boot black MI he gets Tor his nth is what
the butcher and tailor DO tor him. and the book
maker 1t may lie. lie cats his ylctuals wears ms
clothes, and lays up his books Tor the worms So,
pretty much 1t is with the whole money getting
head of society. 1t knows precious little more
than the wrechei tail Then rs Tor the knowing
men, the college bred men, they are crushed 10
death between the head and tail. Glorious times
they have OF il iii their lour years sojourn on the
M of J. he
Bat that done comes misery incompatible. Their
knowledge Is their stock IN tradc-aud poor stock
tits One mans knowledge answers Tor thous-
ands Nothing is 50 bad 10 keep The compe,l-
ton for the gas OF praise is a lottery with thous-
and blanks 10 prize, and that for padding Is lar
worse.
Thus the real enjoyment Of knowledge, the lite
OF the soul Is well nigh blo,ted out for the mass,
r.ch and poor get none 10 enjoy, and those who do
get it, lose rs worth by mA>ng it the means OF
their bread and butter, and failing of tue end -
Could work and blc al be secured TO all. ard the
great object o. life be made knowledge and virtue
the lie Of the intellect and the aficctonS--then
we might see tile millions, ave, the working mill
ions, going regularly through all the fields of sci
ence now only rodden by the MENTIONS. the La
places the Lelcrricrs NJ al, events, the massc,
might BY md life be much further advanced than
the graduates of our colIescs-as in fact many o.
them now arc--in the grand elements OF science.
All tins We might prove, apron, from the ma
ture of man. as well b. individual experiment
Shall we not then seek Tor the true conditions
bread and butter coudltions-of human deyclore-
ment Surely we have them not, or We should not
see such deplcrable results. The more YOU work
the present-shall We not call il humbug i-svstem
of education, the more YOU get ignorance and stu.
pidity in the head and tail aud learned misery be.
tween them. Don't quote your blessed Swans
your Leverrers, your Cuviers and Davys and Agas
sizes. They are beacon lights When college
turns out one such shining light turns out hun
bred little lesser lights 10 flicker and freeze We
want a condition Of things in which every man car
ard wlnursC ami enjoy the light that is IN HIM, Il
his very grave. We want a condition of human
day, light IN the world, in which, to be a man, viii
he to be awisc and happy animal a matter o
course.