Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-05-10

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sisssstaifiy. ana SySisi Inv, he
IL -nlsle The finite creature more and
saalg nearly to the Infinite Creator. Sir, he who
denies to children the acquisition Of knowledge,
works devilish miracles, If man destroys my
power otsheaElng, it Is precisely the same to me
WY " rqying my faculty of hearing I'M
Il ys ~ had alnlhilated all the melodies and
- oil The universe. II oman obliterates
.3 OF vision, 1t IS precisely the same to
apugh he had blotted out the light of the
% flung pail of darkness over all the
q the earth, and the glories of the fir
Soft usurpcr Of human rights takes
.aRay from child the faculties Of knowledge, or
the means anil opportunities to know, it is pre-
ly the same to that child as though all the beau
ties and the wonders, all the magnlhcence and
the glory OF the universe itself had been destroy
ed 10 one who Is permitted to know nothing
of the charms and subimities of science, all
science Is non existent 10 one who is permit
ted to know nothing Of the historical past, all
Che past generations of men are a non entity
70 one whose mind is not made capacious of the
future, and opened to receive it, all the great in
tcrests of fuluritv have less Of reality than n
dream. I saw. therefore in strict Eterol nb;lo.
sopbical truth, that whoever denies knowle Il 10 IN
children works devilisb mracIas Trot co a. no
1
he onnihilat.s The objects of knowlodno no a.
lterares history he Jestrovs the co9ntos ma.
terials in the natural world that might through
the medium of the useful arts. he converted INTO
human comforts and blessings. he susnonds the
sublime order and progression of Nature. and
blots out those wonderful relations IF canse and
effect that belong to her uncbanreable laws
Nav, there is a sense in which such an impious
DESTROYER of knowledge NAV be said toannihilate
the Creator himself, for he does annihilate the
capacity of forming conception of that Creator
and thus prevents a soul that was created in the
image of God, from ever receiving the image it
was created TO reflect. Such DESTROYER of
knowledge dims the highest moral splendor of
the universe. God is more to me than grand
and solitary Beinp. though re(upent with infin.
lite perfectiou,. Contemplated as enthroned in
the midst of His works, His spiritual offspring in
all the worlds he has formed become multiply.
ing glass, rejecting back the Original in all the
profGsion and countlessness of infnity. But
when the wickedness of man cuts of entire gen
eratiops and. whole races from the capacity Of
rejecting back this radiant image of the Crea-
tor then all that part Of the universe where they
dwell becomes black and revolving, and all that
portion OF the Mirror OF Souls which was de-
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the Eternal, abHorbs and quenches the rays which
1t should nave caught and famed with anew,
ana MULTIPLIED and returned. And still further
sir, aillrm' In words as true and literal as any
that Oelong 10 geometry, that the man who with
holGs Knowiedge from child not only works dl.
SooIicai miracles Tor the destruction OF good, but
Tor the crea ton OF evil also. lie who shuts out
ruth' ny the same act opens the door to all the
error that supplies Its place. Ignorance breeds
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