Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-09-15

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character, influence, power among men,
One is iniellect-mind. Let given per.
son be the subject, aud he will rise in pub.
lie estimation, as well as succeed in all he
undertakes, more aud more, the better he
Is informed about matters and things in
general, and his specific business in parlic.
ular, and the more perfect his adaptation
oil ways aud means to ends. To possess
MS auxiliary 10 success, il must be trained
and this requires time aud excrlion. Our
last article advised you 10 improve all III.
odds and ends of time, otherwise wasted,
IN eultlvatlng your intellec,s. But arc
these scraps enough! Shall the immortal
mind be put of with the mere crumbs that
fall from the table Of your other pursuits
Shall the highest department Of your ma
lnre receive only the iag.ends of tine, while
the great bulk Of your working existence
is expended in procuring food, clothes,
property, honor, and INDUCING your other
animal propensiiies Is il the order Of ma.
,ure that nine tenths Of human life and en-.
ergy should be expended in things that ap.
pertain expressly TO the body and its various
wants and fashions, while scarcely a 1.-THE
is devoted TO intellectual pursuits This
is the radical error Of civic life. The idea
is thoroughly incorporated into society as
a whole, that the highest good and the
greatest beauty OF mankind is to provide
food, clothing, habitaiions, equipagc, lux.
uries, live Ia fashionable style, etc. and
that these animal qualifications should &C.
cupy most Of human time and consume
most OF our vital resources. Is this in &C.
cordance with the primitive constitution Of
mind Does not that constitution require
reversal OF these tables Docs not
Phfenology show that intellect, in con.
junction with the moral sentiments, stands
at the head of the nature Of mani Then
should not DiLe tenihs OF our time and en-
ergies be devoted to these highest elements
Of our being, even though the lower suffer
neglect in consequence As happiness is
the object Of our being, and as these high
er faculties confer higher order Of happi.
ness, should you not confer on them the
main part OF your existence, aud put of
your worldly desires with the mere scraps
Of time Which will render you happiest
during life, and a, its close 10 have devo.
ted several hours Of each day, perhaps half
Of your entire time, TO the cultivation OF
your intellect and morals, and the balance
TO worldly pursuits. or TO have devoted all
10 the latter 7 Now is the time TO make
your choice between riches on the one
hand, including fashionable display, or, on
the other, comfort without style, aud a vast
ranga Of ....-ii--.---I -1-i-;.i--- suai,
you spend all your time in toiling for prop
ertyl Will you not rather make it Fix
ed fact" Of your life TO spend four, five, or
six hours every day, however pressing your
other engagements, in study-not in doz.
ing over books. but in real, hard, vigorous
mental application
Consider some Of the advantages of this
course. How vast the range, how great
the amount Of knowledge you might thus
acquire Mathematics, mechanics, natural
philosophy, chemistry. electricity, histo-
ny, anatomy. phrenology. and physiology
might each be as familiar 10 you as your al.
phabet. Above all, what world Of mate
rial would they furnish for thought during
the balance Of your time
Bear in mind that your intellectual pro.
gress would not then be as slow, or mind
as dull, or memory as iraitorous as now,
because, as action strengthens, so those en-
ergies which now go TO your stomach or
muscles, would be in part diverted 10 your
head; so that your brain would perform
much more in given time then than now.
That weakness Of memory and obtuse-
ness Of mind OF which you now complain,
would give place to cearness, retenliveness,
and power. The habitual cultivation Of
your mind will enable you TO make more
progress in day than you now do in a
month. Use your stomach and muscles as
little as you now do your mind, and how
soon would such incidence render them as
inefficient as your brain now is. You can
form no conception Of the increase Of in.
iellectual capacity which would result from
four hours Of hard study daily. Make the
trial, if il be only a month, and then judge
from little discipline what good deal
will effect.
Do not excuse yourself by urging thai
you cannot discipline your mind while en-
gagged in manual labor or any of the othel
common nvocaiions Of life. On the con
trary, you can study bitter by comminglinl
study with labor, or business. No mistake
can be greater than the common supposi
ton that the improvement Of the mind re
quiTes the DhOle time 10 be devoted 4
study. No one can learn as much b.
studying all the time os by sludy ing som'
five or six hours per day, and giving th'
balance Of the time to business, or labor
Hence the latter become actual helps Il
the former So, too, study facilitates labo
and business. A young man can actual
perform more manuel labor, or lransac
more business, in lifetime, provided h
will study FIVE hours daily, than il he devo
ted all his time TO labor or business. d
/ the other hand, he will perform more mer
Q tai labor by studying five hours per day
and giving the balance Of his time TO labo
or business. than il he did not thus labo
s or do business. ! will not stop here I
). show how and why this! is so, for my o,he
a writings fully establish this point .br
a simply make the appeal to young me
!. whether they will not kill both birds--ih
i worldly and the intelectual-since the
= can kill both together Just as easily I
o either separately. Though TO do this the
" must work while they work, and stud
while they study; ye, this is the way to d
l. both.
Ia order to aid this intellectual cultur