The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-07-20
.UME III. NUMBER 118.


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..s ~ .lehseEhy without Il thas accumulation of ss-
in ssd n aes.on and Of knowledge ID specula-
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sun nave oeen the frat IL I'LL anrsals ~. T,fs
cnee Detwsen him and others vgotld ksvs Z -
considerable tisan j now i. The wis5sm , II :
man maze Up q wha& he observes 1rd vrlssf
Others observe FOR him: and of ..e ~. M z ~
what ne can acquire must prineipaIlu d,.u.s.f .,,.
the time in whirh he can acnuire 4 II si.- -. -
aod % our knowledge not an increase, IS ,srt
exact proportion, Of all we possesa. be.s4r.. -
lose some things gain others hat un1n -
wholes while the body and mind resnain hesltkv
an active man increases in intelligence and eonss
qaent'y m power. If we lived seven hundred
years instead Of seventy, We should wrise nssier
epic poems, build better houses and invent usor.
complicated mechanism, than we do r.o3v
should question very much il Mr. Milne could build
bridge 80 well as a gentlernan who bad been en-
gagged in that occupation sssea centuries: ard IL
had only two hundred years experience IN Iec-
turing on moral philosophy. am well euayinced
should do a Little better than do now. Oa The
contrary, how diminutiye and absurd all she eosts
Of man would have been if The duration Of his life
had only been twenty years, and if he had died of
Old age Just al that period when every hEm&n be-
ing begins 10 suapect thar he is the eest and most
extraordinary perzOn that ever did exist 1 think
Il - HsiEetius who says, he ia quite cerlain only
owe our super riLy over the ourang oulangs the
greater length OF life conceded TO Us aud that IL
our life had been az short az theirs, they would
have totally defeated Us in the competition for nuls
i
exrayagant statement but / think, In a life of
twenty years, the eff5rts Of the human mind would
have been so considerably lowered, shat we might
probably have thought Helvetius good philaso-
pies, and admired his skeptical absuFdtes rs some
Of the greatest Efforts Of The human understanding
SIR Richard Baekm0re would have been 0ar
greatest poet; Our wit would have been Datehs
our faith, French; the Hofisntols would have
given Us the model for manners, and the TuFks faf
government; and we might probably have been
such miserable reasoners respecting the sacred
gruths Of religion, that we should have thought
they wanted the support of puny and childish
jealousy Of the poor beasts that perish.
MOTIVE FoR STUDY
| One Of the best methuds Of rendering study
agreeable is, to live with able men, and TO suffer
all those paAgs of inieriofiiy which the want ef
knowledge always infctas Nothing short Of some
/ such powerful motive, can drive a Young persou
in the full possession Of health and bodily aetivfy
/ 70 such an unnatural and such an unobvious scde
Of passing his life, sindy. But this ia the way
that Lntellectua greatness often begins. The
trophies Of Mitiades drive away sleep. A young
man sees the honor In which knowledge is held BY
his fellow creatures; and he suFrenders every pres
4 enf qualification, that he may gain them. The
honor In which living genius Is held, the trophies
oy which It ls adorned after life, it receives and
! Joys from the feelings Of men-n0f from their
| sense of duty; but men never obey this feeling
without dscharging the first Of all duties; without
| securing the rise and growth Of genius and in
ereasing the dignity OF our nature, BY enlarging
4 tht uOHltHtJH Vi I1Du- NO eminent man WAS ever
/ yet rewarded in vain; no breaIh of praise was ever
idly lavished upon him it has never yet been idle
and foolish TO rear up splendid monuments to his
| name: The rumor Of these things impeis young
minds lotlelr nObest exeTtions creates in them an
empire over present passions, inures them to the
severes tells, determines them to live oniV for the
use Of others, and TO leave a great and lasting
| memorial behind them
HEARTY READING.
Curiosity is passion very favorable 10 The love
of study and passion very susceptible Of in
crease by cultivation. Sound travels so many feet
in a second; and light travels so many feet in a
second Nothing more probable but you dc not
! care hOlg light and sound travel VerviikeIv bnt
i MAKE yourself care; get up, shake yourself well
pretend TO care, make believe TO care and very
soon you frtH care, and so much that you viii
SIT for hours thinking about light and sound and
De extremely angry with any one who interrupts
you In your pursuit; and tolerate no other conver-
saton but about light and sound and catch YOUR
sell plagung every body to death who approaches
you, with the discussion of these subjects | am
sure tkat man ought to read he would grasp a
nete-do 1t nightly and you get molested; grasp
1t with all your strength, aud YOU will feel none Of
its asperitles. There is nothing so horrible as Ian
guld study when you sit looking at the clock
wishing the time was over, or ttat somebody
would call on you and put you out Of your misery
ne only way TO read with any efficacy, is to read
| SO heartily that dnner-time comes two hours be-
lore you expected it. To sit with your Lvv before
| you, and hear the geese cackng that saved the
capital; and to with your own eyes the Cartha
glnian suttlers gathering up the rings Of the Ro-
| man knights after the battle Of Came and hean
| ing them into bushels and to be so Intimately
present at the actions you are reading Of that when
i any body knocks at the door, will take you two
| or three seconds to determine whether you are in
| your own study or in the plains Of Lombardy,
looking at Hannbafs weather beaten face and ad-
miring the splendor of his single eve; this is The
| only kind of study which is not tifesome. and
almost the only kind which is not useless this is
| the knowledge which is not useless this is the
knowledge which gets into the system, and which
man carries about and like his limbs, with
out perceiving that it is extraneous weighty or in
convenient
THE ART OF THINKING
One of the best modes Of improving in the art of
thinking, is to think over some subject before you
read uponit and to observe after what il has
occurred to the mind of some great master: Won
will then observe whether you have been too rash
or too timid what you have omitted and in what
you have exceeded and by this process YOU will
insensbly catch great manner Of vie wing oues-
ton. Il is right in study, not only to think when
any extraordinary incident provokes you to think
but from time to time to review what has passed
to dwell upon it and to what trains Of thought
voluntarily present themselves to your mind. Il is
a most superior habit Of some minds to refer ali
the particular truths which strike them, to other
Truths more general that their knowledge is
beautifully methodized; and the general truth at
any time suggests all the particular exenp fcations
ot any particular exemphheatlon at leads TO
the general truth. This kind Of understanding has
an immense and decided superiority over those CON
fused heads in which fact is piled upon another
without the least attempt at classification and ar
rangement. Some men always read with pen
IN their hand and commit to paper any new thought
which strikes them others trust TO chance for its
reappearance. Which of these is the best method
IN the conduct of understanding, must, should
suppose, depend great deal upon the particular
understanding in question: Some men can do
nothing without preparation others little with it ;
some are fountains, some reservoirs
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