The New York herald., 1850-04-06


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.ossr was none Of your ordinary vlsn- but married
man professor Of religion ar exhorter, and phys
clan Lotaspiie Jop'"sL March 27
Lecture Of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
ON INSTINCT AND INsPIRATIoN. =
| Hope Chapel was nearly filled The lecturer
ssid-In listening to Owens powerful descriptions
Of natural science, and the descriptions of other
men, could not help admring how nature Is
always sure In her facts; then, thought, why
could not the same description OF animal laws be
apple to the powers of intellect Why could not
the same power Of facts, as in natural history, be
also brought to bear upon the science of intellect
The difficulty Is in the subject-no mere gauze,
volatile salts, can defend the operator from
the virus. But what most dehgnted me was the
general statement, and thought, II we could only
bring home the history OF results in a summary, I,
| from all departments of nature, In the same man
| ner, from the confusion Of elements, as the che
mIss and Daturalists. and in the higher cass Of the
parts OF geometry and astronomy The intellectual
laws OF social life not yet codltied II high
| time that il should be done. Is II not strange
| that the elemental laws of the decalogue Of
intellect are yet to be written IL Is only the
other day that list Of the stars was made out by
| Herschcn, at the Cape OF Good Hope All the
sciences are only new mountains in the map Of
| experience. When man observes the genius OF
nature, the flowing tides, the winds, he reads the
laws, he adds power, tglves hlm wings, which
natural history, the discovery OF the parallax. Is its
Translation Of the universal science, the rules of
| ir,ellect. These are the things which interest,
which belong to kingdom where thousand years
h.y MS dos m fhsoa aIapft IA IN.
give sketch of the laws Ut intellect, 10 identify
its pstsre, and give It's bylaws. Now we come
| 10 the fountains OF thought and inspiration. In
reckoning the sources of mental power, II is an
| unknown country IN which all the rivers have
fountains, where there ~ the line -of
dom, the brain Of brain, not yet having put
forth ITS organs That fountain is instinct, as
II IL commonly called II is the taper-the light
Of ell illumips kindred torrents OF light
the landscape OF the universe All our knowledge
all objects are fakes and grains Of that mountain.
It's balance Is never lost, even In the insane The
| immortality Of the soul is only link IN the long
chain OF pipes. The properly OF this power is absolute
science. IL bastens 10 solve every riddle-if il
brings problems, 1t brings the answers TO them.
All tfue wisdom results from Difference TO this in-
splraion. We are never without pllot-we must
oriit with the current TILL we know the way-but
when the stars end the appear, we may put
out the oar and uIm the sails. which Is the pfact-
cal use of this true wisdom THIS is an example
oi our rltual Inspiration place Of unde rstandlng
When We go to gallery OF pictures, the eye is daz
ale d and harrsssed by the many exquisite paintings;
but when We Withdraw, the most noble remain
Impressed on the mind, like sweet strain Of music,
which is heard further of than the noise of carts
and drays. Enthusiastic applause Language is
only wisdom IN words the words are liked; the
student cannot alter them. Instinct IL radiative
more then impulsive, gong over all the ground
IL ir. IN It's lowest grade, the common sense of
mankind; II fixes the laws of the heavenly minded
man. The man 10 whom books are nothing, and
railroads are nothing, and men and women are
Ia Ia a her haf Sve ral
fate IL on the peoples side. IL begins at the sur
face Of the earth, and proceeds to Intellectual and
moral laws such II instinct. What n insplra-
toni IL is instinct put IN action; the power Is
sclence; the good will IL Instlnct--it Is dumb but II
IL would lmpart Iself, n 10 resIstless-t II, In all
points, god. II we could prick the sides Of this
slumbering po~er-this angel from God; II we
could extract speech from tins drowsy power
and genius. we might know the way. The rudsst
mind has lts Dep phi and Dodona. Where 10 the
yeast 10 leaven this mountain (lmmense APP
rlause.) There In a solstice Of genius n climbs
the heavens, never reaches the zenith; II cumi-
mates, and goes down. The history Of man Is the
history Of a solstice. Inspiration vital and con-
tinugis ~ ls a universal hight. The conflict be-
t~Stn wisdom and habit IL necessary n repeats
iiself; y 1ytIer u goes INTO the mould Peter, and
ICONS IN Peter loud applause The healthy
fnad rScfpIts itself with the symbols Of novelty.
IL may be defned super-voluntary ends produced
by superyoluntary means. The soul Of all books
IL alike ;Sihey are all one. The mathematics bring
us 10 sbrw how near man is 10 the creative; the
faryGfx of the world IL IN his bones; he dips his
ery. ., The GO pant pot N which The rocks the
eternal skf Is painted. Immense applsuse). This
denotsfthe inquired man. IL 10 evidently shown In
the hne arts and IN action. Intellect is universal;
II IL Ne electrciy; II Is not permanent; n IL like
the glasses. which only emit sounds when rubbed
1bie proposition leads to system of ethics. All
ho~s out from a reverence for the source All
in6lec and virtue consists in a reliance npon ones
o~h ideas (Great Applause People do not trust
enough 20 the power Of their thought Genus
Dds against the world, though all society Is
HiShnst his protct. The secret Of his pewer 10
delight IN his work his genius is everywhere he
works wblle he stands, eats, sleeps-ike the dream
81 the French nation. that every man ought to do
~whsi he hkes, and have two francs day for doing
y. uoud spglsuse)
We hive in marvellous times Ladies an ID gen
tlemen make Il a fancy to 60 In search OF a re-
lision The Turk, who resds his fate written on
iroI tablets, rushes on TO the sabre the Buddhist
II calm The object 10 to substitute realism for
sentlmentallsm. Mshomrt ssys, Z" There are two
things abhor-th learned man IN hls in.idelity,
and The fool IN HE devotiops" Let US have mo-
thine bot what ~ Its own evidence let ms not be
Iesisrtd with assertions. emotions shuttle. All
that ~ necessary exists IN state emeps IN proverbs
IN well seited opinions of prudent merchants
lsvyers. sentences OF scholars-in the verses OF
rosts. scattered tar and wide, waiting for the
genus 10 bring them into a code-making a new
church the beams and raffers, Of which are heaven
and earth tGreai applause
The lecture concluded Now, before A man
rretnds to lecture On intellect and metaphysics.
be ought surely 70 knew something Of those whs
have precsd.d him-of Aristotle, Mallehramhe. i
Jccks, Reed, Stuart, Harley, Hume. Tucker.
ard Others He ought surely 70 know sou,ethins
OF The subject; and Il he he'd intellect himself. and
bad gathered knowledge from the sbors and ex-
perience ~ others. he would At least be able to
state stme one simple proposition, and prove,
clearly end coosecuiively, the psrts of hrs prcpe
sin'n vhtn he had stated a., instead IF heaping |
trrtthsr IN insane mass Of crude sbsYrdities and
folles-locse, s'lly snd .uncounected-yet, deg