Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1850-01-10
UNIVERSAL EDUCATION.
BY HORACE GREELY.

ing ideal And shall there come time
when the deliver in the mine and the
rice swamp, and the orphans of the
prodigal and the felon, the very off.
spring Of shame, shall be truly, system.
atically educatedl Glorious consum-
mationl twilight of the mileniumlrI
Who will no, labor, and court sacrifices
and suffer reproach, if he may hasten,
by even SO much as day, its blessed
coming7 Who will not take courage
from the contemplation of what the
last century has seen accomplished, i'll
not in absolute results, yet in preparing
the approaches, in removing impedi.
ments in correcting and expanding the
public comprehension oflhe work 10 be
done, and Of the feasibility Of doing III
Whatever Of evil and Of suffering the
future may have in store for US, tho
the earth be destined yet to be ploughed
by the sword, and fertilized by hnman
gore, until rank growths Of the dead.
liest weed shall overshadow it, sitting
into premature decay every plant most
conducive to health or fragrance-,he
time shall surely come when true and
universal education shall dispel the
dense night of ignorance and perverse-
ness that now enshrouds the vast ma
jority of the human race; shall Danish
evil and wretchedness almost wholly
from earth, by removing, or unmasking
the mulliform temptations 10 wrong.
doings; shall put an end to robbery, ha.
tired, oppression, and war, by diffusing
widely and thoroughly living con.
sciousness Of the brotherhood of man.
kind, and the sure blessedness, as well
as righteousness of doing ever as we
would have others do to US. Train
up child in the way he should 60, and
when he is old he will not depart from
it," Such is the promise which enables
US 10 see to the end of the dizzy world
whirl of wrong and misery in which
our race has long sinned and suffered.
One wise and systematic training, based
on the widest nowledge, the trust NOR.
ality, and tending ever TO universal
good, as the only assurance of special or
personal well-being, the grea, hope of
the terrestrial renovation and elevation
of man.
Not the warrior, then, or the states.
man, nor yet the master worker, as
such, but the teacher, in our day, leads
the vanguard of humanity. Whether
in the seminary or by the way side, by
uttered word or printed page, our true
king is not he who best directs the
siege, or sets his squadron in the fields,
or heads the charge-but he who can
and will instruct and enlighten his fel.
low, so that at least some few of the
generation of whom he is shall be wi.
ser. purer, nobler, for his living among
them, and prepared to carry forward
the work, of which he was an humble
instrument, to its far grander and loftier
contamination. Oh, far above the
eonquerer Of kingdoms, the destroyer
of hosts bv the sword and the bayonet
is he whose fearless victories redden nc
river and whiten no plain; but he who
eads the understanding a willing cap
tive, and builds his empires not of the
wrenched and bleeding fragments ol
subjugated nations, but on the realms o.
intellect which he has discovered, anC
planted, and peopled with benefcent &C
,ivity and enduring Ioyl The mathe
ma,ician who, in his humble study, un
disturbed as yet by the footsteps o
monarchs and their ministers, demon
strates the existence of a planet, before
unsuspected by astronomy and unob
served by the telescope; the author
who, from his humble garret, send
forth the scroll which shall constrai
thousands upon thousands 10 laugh 0
weep al his will; who topples down
dynasty by an epigram, he shall liv
snd reign over a still increasing dc
minion, when the pasleboard king
whose steps are counted in court Gil
culars, and timed by stupid huzza
shall have long since mouldered an
been forgotten. To build out int
chaos and drear vacuity; TO rende
some corner of the primal darkness rs
H.. ,.,;,h tho nresence nf an idea. 4