New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-03-03

L AFLAr As-NAt sttLtllA-A q INC fA-ASN-
and rs gorgeous appurtenances-are deslsnaI-u
the beggsrly elements Of time and sense - a.
Ina Z" Z prison And then, by natufa Sc
guence, they mourn over their fate and long 70 SC
part :rom this vile abode 70 better one. hs
I II He had made a mistake in sending them hiiner'
or had purpOseiy located them where happ.Des'
coad lot live. Happiness Why, were orr nn .s
senses rot desdened We should perceive on ~. ~,
/ lille sphere materials for perpetual ieies -
which to entertain the highest orders o. semen.
bsings-archangeis cher1bim or ~hate Ct 'neH
names may be. r,.
What II depizers Of other planets should De ~
fretful and as dissatisfied with Their naoitstlons
Should plague the Author Of their being 70 l.aIs
port them 70 fresh ones. Ard turn upon me-
brs,b-en ana accuse them Of irreIglon tor nOt IL
directly finding like faux with their unerrins pen
/ afacto-f OF mundane vsgarIes Whatever eIuai'
ed that which lesds devotees . suppose tney 1e'
sllv pleass God by stigmatlzing tbs Drisnt slu
I busy world OF HIS, and CRY ing up some others 10
they think that lightly esteemlng one gllt = lue
wav 70 get from Him q larger or a richer! Most
certain. IL would seem. that they who perceive
nothing attractive on an orb which infinite Wis
dom and benetcence has selected Tor then-"ho
remain cold and insensible while encompassed
I with works bearing His impress here-WlA ne' Ct
be warmed into rsptures by Their radiance else
where. After arriving AZ another word me!
would soon long to depart for third one or 70
come back 70 this
/ The properties Of the Mechanical Powers, 80
called are Divine axiOms their applications -
the purposes o. lile Divine prccepis-precep's o.
the first and last importance. Neglect theIn' ana
we are punished. for We descend to level win
] the tribes below Us while Ia proportion as tley
are cultivated We rise In the scale OF being aud be
/ come comparatively as gods. In every modlh-
cation aud useful appropriation OF them we are
obeying q command OF Heaven, and enc as en-
| phatcally eujoined If formally Preiaced WIN
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and its miraculous properties are studied the
wiser and better we must become. IL would be
strange were it not So since they emanate mme-
diately from above, and their investigation Is I'M
| posed as duty
Is il not incontrovertbe that where phnosophi-
cal inquiry is most prevalent religion IS most re-
/ fined Say what they please, al sects are en-
| Hgbtened from without Where Science and the
| Arts are stagnant purblind Bigotry guards the
doors of churches and jagndiced Superstition sits
/ enshrined within. There Religion IS a utual and
there with strabismic glance, the poor msled wor-
sinners regard YOU as lost n Heaven-not suspect
ing that 10 associate eternay with slckly and de-
/ formed spirits like theirs would be deemed by you
perdition.
Far indeed are such people from imagining that
he who discovered the means Of producing ana the
uses OF fre-the first potter, turner and smith
authors of the p0w, distah and loom, oil boats ana
sails. water and wind mills, 6c.-were INSPIRED
l a.. and their Nnfhs IbNs IutA tild -N'Ns ~
! IL was they who under God, led our wild ioreath-
ers ont Of the bondage Of Barbarism; and such as
they have brought Us within the precincts Of the
| Canaan of civilization, the Holy Land OF the spe
cies-who taught us 10 add comforts to necessa-
ries and Injuries TO comforts who abolished pm
meval workmanship and uncouthness oi forms
improved public tastes as well as habits, by CON-
bining ornament with utility, making elegance
subservient 70 the simplest Of things, and usherng
in the Arts of Design.
Inventors we're lot only the first Reformers, but
in every age have been the most efficient ones
Has any other class produced aught Tor the adj
vancement OF Society that can be compared with
their labors The real pioneers OF Progress, II IS
only where they are that the world advances
where they are not II retrogrades To them ne
are indebted for those modern achievements in
Science which, in the blessings they have already
conferred and the career Of happiness they have
opened all the imsginngs oil old fall short Ana
10 whom are our successors to oOk Tor Ike dlsc0v-
cries in the future Truest of philanthropists, the
fruits OF their labors are confined to sect, but
extend 10 ell kindred and people and times.
Some minds think that few novelties remain TO
be disclosed and that the principal divisions OF
human ingenuity and industry are already perfect
ed Not so None are or ever can be, were 1t
only for the simple reason that nothing IN the uni
verse is stationary. New conditions OF things are
perpetually arising. so that while Man exists new
/ elements and combinations in the Arts ne"
motions a..l snnrcas Of motions, neu iorns com
mounds qualities and effects, viii crowd upon
/ him. and the more abundantly as he devotes him
self to them Not tail the sands OF the sea have
undergone every form of slgebraical Formulation,
can mechanicians. chemists philosophers or Swans
| be at a loss for new subjects OF research or new
/ regions of exploration. The study OF Nature 5
! mechanisms-Ot Gods own applications OF the
same principles and materials He has given Us TO
work with--is scarcely yet begun. There are
lessons 70 be learned by which applications OF
Science will be wrought out surprising probably,
ia their effects aught that the most towering OF
human spirits have yet caught ghmpses or
Some inventions are simple and apparently
/ so obvious that the general wonder IL, how they
| escaped detection SO long. or them Il Is common
10 hear petty boosters assert that they could bring
scores OF such things 10 light as easily as kiss
their hands an expression Of ancient yaunters
Bat let them try to perform what they are so con
hdent Of being able 20 DO and they'll ind oct one
thing which they DO not seem 10 know-viz, that
IL is much easier 70 ridlculc than realize an Orig-
nal idea. however small trhing-to deride a
simple contrlyance than 20 produce one. The
plsinest devices cost their authors great deal
more than can be imagined by those who glance
I at results and measure value by imposing show
and complexIty. Pins are small affairs, but the
machines that now make them were not conceived
by small sized iuteliects. The inventors and i'm
/ provers Of nails and gimlets, have higher claims
to fame than all the monarchs that ever reigned
And happy for Humanity would it be If those how
reignins. and their supporters too were compelled
70 arm their bread by nail and gimlet making.
When simple thing IS once done anybody can
do it then, everybody IS surprised It was not
done before. and some begin 20 think they must
have done it. Then It is that those in the circle
Of whose vision Slf IS ever enthroned. and be-
yond which they could never shoot forth a gene
rous impuse-susngers 10 candor, and who know
not What nobility OF soul or OF sentiment means
with the view Of turning II to advantage and stfe
complaints, affect TO atany0 claiming things
So apparent say theyl that il would be credit 70
fools 10 father them. In every art or science, re-
marked the translator OF Pancirolus, is found
/ Columbus. He might have added that every Co
lumbus IS Perseeated by Bovsdillas and deirsuded
I by Nespuocis.
Numerous simple inventions cos. more In money
I and labor 10 develop and matuTe-saying nothing
OF prolonged and exhausting mental exertions-
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