The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-12-12

tuS aSehtidSI Va JuuS uSluSht, SihCe NJ antlc-i
ipates reflection. 1t has often been
acknowledged that precipitation Of
thought, as well as of speech, entails
very fatal consequences; and that the
man who, through life, can wisely steer
clear of this double Inconvenience, de.
serves the apPel'ation Of happy. lie
thinks, and thinks again, before he lets
his tongue mingle in the flow of conser-
sation, and consults his inmost self ere
he ventures to decide. Ho has also
learned by experience, that Nature has
its mask, Science its obscurities, the
World its articles. and Merit its enc.
mics; and, he conscqucntlynever deter
mines, without having first deeply
searched into the matter. He lifts the
veil that unfolds each object, and dis.
covers that itwou!d be madness to
judge too harshly and at first sight.
What would the result be, if we
trusted to our eyes only? Why, the
sun would be pronounced to turn
around the earth, instead of the latter
encrcling the orb of day.
The prejudices of single mind can
easily be destroyed; but when they
have been reduced into regular systems,
and found their way into social circles
formed to accredit them, there is no
remedy.
CoNsolATIoN For GENIUS no
man, who is in anything above his fcl-
lows, claim, as Of right, to be valued or
understood: the vulgar great are com.
pretended or adored, because they are
in reality in the same moral plane with
those who admire; but he who deserves
the higher reverence, must himself con.
vert the wofshipper.-The pure and
llofty life; the generous and tender use
lof the rare creative faculty; the brave
Eendurance Of neglect and ridicu!c; the
fstrange and cruel end of so much gcni-
Gus and SO much viriue-these are the
lessons by which tie sympathies ofman-.
kind must bc interested, and their facui-
ties educated, UP to the love of such q
character and the comprehension ofsuch
an intelligence. Still the lovers and
scholars will be few: still the rewards of
fame will be scanty and ill-protioned:
no accumulation acknowledge or series
of experiences can teach the meaning
of genius to those who look FIR il in
additions and results, any moro than
the numbers studied round q planets
orbit could approach nearer infnity
than single unit. The world of
thought must remain apart from The
world of action, for, if they once coin
cided, the problem of Life would be
solved, and the hope, which we call
heaven, would be realized on carth.--
And therefore men
/ f" Are Graded Into poetry iy wrong:
They learn in suffering wha, they teach in
song"
! CHINESE METHOD OF CoLoR1NG
HARM. Stanislaus Julien, the
learned orientalist, has communicated
to the French Institute the Chinese
method of colorins hair. 1t is said that
'.tbe Chinese have succeeded in reaching
and Transforming, BY 1ssssaa!sss 1sssassaa!sss of medi-
cinc and a peculiar dict, the li.pid
which colors the bilious system, and
giving to white or red hair n black tint,
which maintains itself during the con,
tinucd growth. The coloring is pro
duced by means of certain substances
mixed with the food and drink. These
substances are not hurlful to the body,
having for basis and clements ferrugi
Gus principles which arc recommended |
by physicians, and always successfully
employed. NJ. Dcbay, who has writ
ten treatise on this subject and pre-.
pared formula of the means to be en-
ployed. says:
1t is astonishing that the physiolo-
gis,s who have experimental and sue
cccded in coloring the bones Of living
animals, red, by making them cat and
digest maddcr, have not thought Of |
seeking in the same way to color red |
aud white hair black. The hair and |
the beard belong to vegetable life, and
are disposed to the same phenomena.
In fact, after sufficient quantity of
ferruginors salts has been introduced |
into the body, the circulation takes them
up; the blood loaded with these substan-
ces depostes them III the follicles Of the
hair, which in tnrn, pours them into
the oil, saturated with iron, becomes
black, and the whole hair with it.
NJ. Imber atpresent bishop in Chi
ma, offers, according to the testimony
of tho Abba Voisin, one ofthe directors
of foreign missions, a living proof of this
inerual colorins of the hair and beard.
1t is by this method that the Chinese,
correcting the yagarics of nature. have
been able to claim the title from the
highest antiquity Of the btqck.haiyed
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