Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-12-06

e. than your heads" they wouldn't be one VIII
tae taller Of themselves, for AL their being bnost
ed up On the shoulders of them big BFubeling
nag mountains They would be nothing moi
than The same little sunny dwalfish pigmies, witt
all their conceited cxntation. They womb
hardly be knee, hlgb to atoad. if they were t.
stand down insi6e hollow by The side of him. I.
Just soft is, my hearers, with The pride and self
Icouceit humankind AMI the author of ouf'taxt,
although he speaks here Ct literal pignios percd
on Alps meant no more mar less than to illus
4 tale thereby the utter Significance Of mans
pride and vanity which, though il lifts him 49, in
his fancy clear above the hrnds of his fellow
nortals. does ut makr him one tenth of an iich
taller infIis reatstandird ef merit than they.
| There are a great many in our world who are,
an their own estimation, ike the pigmy Oh the
summit Of the Alps. They fancy themselves
exalted above their more humble nrighbors. =
Just b'cause they happens to hive acquired
wealth, are born Of noble blood, or have rat
helped into some fat Office. This builds them up
n nlenlaiai5 Af a. f5s-
imagine us the Alps, lifting then ab,S5 altfy
:ow feeling and sy apltly f.. their poor, though
...?rc l!k" III n nov byeand by9 cones 4 "a
Of the rude blast Of adversely, aud blows then 5lf
Ia;o the deep gully of poverty, where they AMT
half head taller than grasshopper | tell You
what, my hearers. man may as well make up
his mind to stand down on the Level gr, und Of
humanity even il he can'treaclI up to Ills near
est neighbours Wristbands - as 10 club up aud
stlnd on the Aips"f prleund self-consJquence,
because Of his wealth aud rank, and just as he is
abragglng within himself now high he is above
US, catch tall and break his neck. a.
Tain ofany usetor a man to set uplto BE- a.
ny bigger or taller than he is. lie may Gins
the longest addefhs sesRsfqd, d scale the tip
top rock of Andes 6e@6u'(. be,q hair further
part from the bottoms di'lds bqshtaps to the top
Of his hal crown, than he was bef5fe @ started.
IT man wants To be as cjndentdd' theaigogld as
he wishes, let HIN feed well on Inc god 9shomi.
ny and milk of virtue, blnesty and Cherry. with
4 good hunk Of the bread Of education; and my
word for ii, he will soon be as big and hearty al
be needs to be "Pyflmids in Wales" as Dr.
Young says, "are pyrandsstilI." You have all
heard and read about thp pyramids of Egypr-
those monstrous great stone heaps which Ph.ra
oh, or some other Egyptian king, set hls boys to
making on the great fiat there. Wei. lhos.
great stone piles arequite as big and high where
they stand, as they would be if they were lifted
up and set on the top Of Campls' IIump."o or
some other high mountain-that is, there would
be Just as many stones Of them, and 10 more
Just SO 1t Is with a good honest, sound, sensible
'ilan' ffs1may be as poor as old Job was; he
would be the same honest mainland his homes.
~ and good sense are worth inst as nucb +,
whoever deals with him. as though he had all the
money III Vermont at his command. You will
'dnlt that that llbety pole out thee. shows to
more advantages where it atands, than ii it were
stuck up on the west mountain. So it is with
mans good qualities. Then, my hearer-, let us
all sttnd down on fair ground, anamake the best
or our lot whprp we me- Amen.