The Arkansas banner., 1850-04-16
lFEE THOUGHTS FOR i YOUNG NAN.
BYH HoRA MANH.

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 A book hasbsen published containing the substance of Mir Maon's admirable lecture, delivered at many places with grea, acceptance. 1t is an earnest searching appeal 10 the better nature of young men on their entrance 10 responsible life and cannot be read without suggesting the importance of noble ! purposes and high resolves.
 The following views oi human destiny are sug- gestive, and carried 10 their logical results may lead further than was anticipated by the writer:
 1 Man IS not savage or pauper by the inexorable fatality ot has nature. He surrounded with every 1 form of the tFuest and noblest wealth-wealth or weli-beng for the body, wealth for the mind, wealth
 for the heart. He is not of pehean origin, but his
 lineage IS from God; and when he asserts and exsn- Pihes the dignity ci hIs Dature roya and pa,rean
 titles shrink into notngness, aud sink 10 oblivion
 Men were not created 10 perform twenty four months of bodily labor in twelve months of time
 while the intellectual and moral improvement. which single year mgh master, is spread over l lIie. The laws of nature and of God doom no m an to live on potato day, but the productive powers oi the earth are as much beyond all the demands of healthiuI sustenance, as the volume of the atmos- Phere which enclfcles the globe is beyond the capae,ty of human lungs. Men were not created to hve m wIgwafns nor in syes but 10 rise up and 10 lie down m dwellings of comfort and elegance- Men were not created for mendacity societies, and aims houses, and the gallows, but lor competence and freedom. and virtue; no, Tor houghtiess pueri
 ties ba, for dignity and honor, for joy unspeskahie and full of glory
 The misery of society, according to Mr. Mann. is not traeeAoe to an inevitable divine ordinance but grows out of the neglect cf natural laws.
 See how the means of sustenance and comfort are distributed and diversified throughout the sarth- There IS not a mood oi body, Iron the wantonness ot health 10 the langour ot the death bed for which the wonderful alchemy of nature does not pFoHer sore luxury 10 stimulate pleasures or her phar
 macy some eaiholleon 10 sssasge our pains What which th. silk weave.. to E-hEe fais which the winds Of Z 'tnbia cannot penetrate! As maieri- ais from winch to construct our dWelIings what Quincys and New Hampsbiies of granite, what Ale gaaRies of oak and what forests oi pine belt ing the continent. What coal -heIds 10 supply the lost warmth of the recedlng sun! Nakedn ss and famine and pesienee are not inexoIAble ordinan- 1 ces of nature. Nudity and rags aie only human idieness or ignorance 0af on sxhbiaoR. The cholera lis but the wrath of God against uncleaIiiness and incompetence. Famine is only proof ot individual misconduct, or of national misgovernment In the woes of Ireland, God IS pfocalming the wiekedness ot England, in tones clear and arculate those in which he spoke from Sinai; and Il needs He hraist to translate the hundet. And fl famine needs not be- then other forms ot Restitution and misery need not 10 be. But amid the exuberance of tbIs country, our dangers spring from abundance rather than from scarcity. Young men, especially young men in our cities, walk In the midst of aureinents for the appetite. Hence, health IS mperilied; and 90 indispensable element IS health m all forms of humaa welfare. that whoever invigorates his health has already obtained one of the great guarantees of mental superiority, of usefulness and of virtue Health, strength and longevity. depend upon i'm l,muiable laws. There IS chance about them. Thefe IS no arbitrary interference of higher powers win them. Primarily our parents, aud seCondariiy ourselves, are responsible for them. The providence ot God IS more sponslble because the viruence oi diseases rises aooye the power of all thereaPeu- ties, or because one quarter part oi the human die before completing The age of one year-die be- fore completing one seventh part of the term ot ex istence allotted to them by the Psamist, say the providence of God IS more responsible for those things, than 1t is for picking pockets or stealing horses.
 The following statements are not absolutely new, 1 but they well-put:
 In regard 10 the indulgence of appetite. and the management of be vital organs, society is still m state Cf bafbarsm; and the young man who is true to his highest interests must create civilization for himself. The bruiish part ol our nature governs the spiritual. Appetite is Nicholas the First, and the noble faculties of mind and heart are Hungarian cAptives. Were we to see a rich banker exchang- ing eagles for coppers by tale, or rich merchant baFterihg silk tor serge by the pound, we should deem them worthy Of any epi.het in the vocabulary of folly. Yet the same men buy pains whose prime cost IS greater than inc amplest fund of natural en- loyments Their purveyor and market man brings them home headaches. and indigestion and nenIai gia by hamper fuiis. TheG butler bottles up stone, and goat. aud the liver eomplaint, falsely labelling them sherry, or madelfa, or port ana the stutheo ] masters have not wit enough 10 see through tar cheat. The of society look with envy upon the epicure who day by day. for four hours ot lux urous eating suffers iweniy hours ot sharp aching, who pays full ptlee for hot supper, and Is so pleased with the bargain that he throws m sleep less and tempestuous night. as grauity. Enghsh factory chiiFen have Teceved the eommisserauon i ot the world. because tAey were seouIged 10 work eighteen hours ont of the tweay four, but there s mahy a .heorotie republican who IS harshef rna-
 aoh to his stomach than this who allows no more resting time than he does his watch. who gises no sunday. no holiday, no vacatioa in any sense Dur plous ancestors enacted law that suicides shoad ! be buried where four roads meet, and that eafi- load Of stones should be thrown upon the body fet when gentlemen or ladies commit suicide, not ey cord seel, but turtle soup lobster salad, 'hey may be buried in eonseefated ground, and undei the auspices of the church, and the paoiIe are ho
 ashamed 10 read an epitAph upon their tombs'onei false enough to make he marble blush. Were ths
 bafbsrous old law row in force that punished tb' bods of the suicide for the offence which his sou had committed, we should find many Mount Au
 burn at the crossroads. Is it rot hamilating ao'
 amazing that men, invited by the exalted Pieasure
 of the intellect and he sacred affections of the heart
 to come to banquet worthy ef the gods. should sto
 by the wsysde 10 feed on garbage ot to dfnk oi m
 Circean cup that transforms them to swine.