Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1849-02-15

ION. ills sIDjcct Was - sell Possession. -
Z After speaking briefly Of the meaning of th
5 word, IN the ordinary accep,atlon of the term
: he went on to say that he should speak of il il
p It's g er sense, as the pH oi man. the con
= irnIng power m his mind whlch regulates hi.
r actions, and guides IN IN the dana of life
lie spoke OF The >elfpossesslon Of genius and
the seIl-posea ION oflal'nt as !wo vastly DIFF
ierent things. \ man might be brave. elo-
qnen-, lcaruod m all lore, and gifted with the
poets liner sensc,-yct without Selfposses-
sion, he was not perfect man The Self.
possession ofgcuius Is innate, that OF talent
Is derived from books aud experience the one
IS deafness, It create aud makes living and
trealhng lorms, While the other on'y puts TO
some Use the Information y hIch It has obtain
ed nom sourc, within is reach. The man
OF genius never exhibited hilns II in wu!ks;
IN the characters of ShIkspe re, we saw not
the man, but the character which he had Great
ed. lie made FaIlstail, a perfect bundle
OF bubbles, yet we saw not the author in II :;
he made the hgh, aud graceful Ariel, yet the
creator was no where sble in the creation.
Dante produce his great epic pocn S. yet the
III was n0 where 10 be seen or ict in them
Byron threw himself and his sou. into every
line While reading h s works we fe't IIy-
ron IN every llue, 70 his poems were hut tn.
embodiment oi the clings, the passions an
the expire nee o. the man While pcrusng .hc
great ca hcdral-IIhe poem of Milton We walk
ed til ough heaven, hell, and pgrad St, bat We
saw not or iclt the presence of the blind oli
bard we walked around the garden OF heay-
en-, the gates Il which We're guar ed by the
flaming swords of the cherublm, and saw the
living streams that surrounded the throne OF
tod, but MI ton VAS 10 where seen or felt
Raphael create wings Of divine beauty, he
pfoduc d works that enrapturod US, yet we
saw not HIM Thus, these men all creaied
by their genius, and hence their self posses
sion without this divine gift Of originating,
they would never have stood out before the
world, through successive ages, a5 models of
divine S rcngih.
Napoleon possessed genius and consequent
ly srIrDsscssion in an eminent degree he did
no, ryitc JJohS as other men did, but Maren-
@ and Au>tI!lz were giant and heroic po-
ems which he wrote with the point OF the bay
cnct, and the world had felt the power and
grandeur Of the performance. Shelley pos
: sscj genius, AMI he poured out It's lava .
stream pom the world from 4 warm heart aud
a pure sJul. 4
Talent lilrs from Genus in sponianiety
mud natural force II is the slow result of dis
c pine an the school u 'hc world Old DR..
Parr Was 4 man Of tleG--ais head was full
of the dust Of ages he wrote Greek talked
G. eek and thought Grcck-he knew the in
mechanism of Greek but yet
be icl, not the soul ard the spirit of the gen.
us of the Greeks. ID Israeli acquired by slow
AID careful research he had dcyoure almost
as many ol book and pamphlets, in musty
,ar cts, as Time, and f ON ;hese he had made
oooks,-yct he ia not 9 Mus and It's holy
litDbu,cs. Macauley, with his e..act iulucss, ,
hi conf lctcncss and polished style, had Civ :
en- t. the world his flashed es,ays,-hut in ,
his he had measured hls caPacuy,-hc did
not possess genius. i
Many men were learned in books, but it did /,
not avail them anything, unioss they I Ut 1t 10 g
some good use they could carry 1t IN ther I
aud II was more convenient than To 6
II IN the bulk Of boohs.--but unless +,
{ was tausnutcd ioto tie mind an us d hy :,
he pysscssor 10 some purpose, 1t was Of no n
wall n
The PAST had done much, very mnch CIR us, a
or al which we were gralefu but We should Il
ot stop here there WAS greater knowledge
han an acquaintance with lac language of an
lqulty A ilmhirlty with our own times, b
'ur own Gust ms AMI our own nat unal char {
ctcr. ku.wled-e Is power only wien 1t be- 4
ONES Incorporated into the mind, and Is Il
urncd to wise purposes, for the will of the Il
AMI coslro and governs lis possessions. I
Mouomania is bu, The result of the loss Of Il
clfp secession the GENITAL alaucc OF the j.
.lnd IS gone, aud man can My think on Il
ne subject whatever Il may be, for he has r
ut one / tea, and tie sup oses that every one a
, rs uuch and deeply ahsmbsd IN I as hm- Il
alf And madness Is where the entire bal /.
nee ol tie mind IS lost , the excited and ur- Il
,n,roll brain reels aud " hlrs in its own
pcoplinI worlds from the phanta-
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