Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1849-05-24
ON THE PASSIONS.

is irritability of temper; it is the Sourc
of nearly all our own discomfort, an
that of those around US, and yet how
easily ii is, with a rational mind, 10 con
quer and subdue it. If it led to any
good result it might prove a healthfu
ebuIIltlon, but as il merely excites the
brain, and TO no good purpose, and sell
dom gains the end which reasoning
might not accomplish, it is a waste oil
bitterness and even time, at a cost OF
oftentimes serious personal disturbance.
Women have been throwed into hys-
terlcs, that have led to epilepsy and
death, by indulgcncy in angry dispu,a-
tons, and men have sacrificed friend.
ships, broken the peace of homes, and
scattered dessolation among their de.
pendents and followers:
"For one irrevocable word.
Perhaps that meant no harm you lose friend
Or in the war OF words, your hasty hand,
Performs deed 10 haunt you 10 the grave. I"
And such is Life. 1t has been thought
mex, to-nay, it has been believed to
bean absolute impossibilily to govern
the temper; that as every thing in these
days depends upon organization, if we
are organized 10 be murderers, the
crime must follow, and he only is virlu.
Gus who is happily abundantly possess.
ed of the moral faculties. The young
LIMB" the scoid, the te,magant, the vio-
lent and hasty man e1claims, II can't
help IT," and on viewing the destruction
that may have been effected, cries out,
Il don't care" This is a most fallacious
notion. Psychologists, at the same
time tina, they admit that organization
influences our conduct, know full well
and insist upon il, that our conduct, or
rather education, influences our o .
ganiza,ion, and that organization may
be cultivated; that bumps" as they
are styled, can be encouraged and de,
pressed, and their contents called into
action or subdued and therefore, it
chronology means anything, il means
that vlcIousness and virtue depend en-.
tirely upon cultivation, and that such
folly ought to be he ped and ought TO
be cared for. Bring up child in the
way he should 90, and when lie is old
he will not depart from it," But it is
even possible 10 alter habits of later
growth; and as, in the regulation OF
health, man must "chalk out his own
conduct TO secure it, so in the control
of his hayward feelings, he must DC.
stow little attention in the study how
to do it. So much for the morbid ex-
element of passionate phrenzy.
Even in selfish point of view, iras
cibiIity of temper ought at all times to
be checked. The flushed forehead, the
blanched lips, the swelling throat, the
ferceness Of eye, and the towering voice
displayed in an ordinary fit of anger
are pretty sufficient indications of the
tumult within and the spirit without
There are few of us so irritable thai
we cannot repress those ebullitions o.
temper fire like at least 10 very con
siderable extent and, as il is confessed
difficult 10 stay the torrent when in fuI
flow, it behooves US to determine, If
those seasons when reason is sufficient
ly cool to counsel correctly, to place
that salutary restraint upon our pro
pensities TO passion and assemblies o
temper, ,chich nerer do any good 1
others, and are sure to prove injurious Il
ourselves. A calm serene, and cheer
full mind may be secured By cultivation
even persons Of a natural fretful, peey
ish, irascible temperament will be a:
tonished to find how comparativel
easy il is TO control and regulate thei
humors, if they will but resoluteiy d.
termine to bring them under domino
tion.-Dr. CuluerueU