Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-11-22

having and wishing 10 have laws manners interests and
rights separate and peculiar to itself But gradually their
wants. ner mPathes, their tastes eveD forced them into
communication After having approached each other for
slfe IN war they approached each other for mutual
ance and after while, having long erempfed the fact by
Their daily practice they discovered with asoDisbment that
without having intended DO So they dawing from
one and the same their sentiments their opinions
their laws Then they plainly perceived that they but
the different paris OF the WHOLE and at last APP
Peared IN the various multitude Of
This, gentlemen, exactly the history Of the different
faculties Of the human mind Each profession each trade
each science sought at first only isolate seIf and gored
10 its separate existence They neghbo,s but did not
visit each other They touched each oher but derived
mutual support II was no, yet imagined that there
something common 10 all to be formed all the products Of
intelligence AT last however, the conviction attained
that all in vain Their endesvor dispense with each
other; that faculties The ds-imsr could not continue
strangers that each bad need for its progress the
theoretical discoveries Of science that each had need
of the general light which philosophy throws upon oil the
processes of the understanding that art science and
philosophy could not dispense with thai poetic instinct which
nothing permanent aspiration Of toward that
beau ideal which it is destiny to pursue h~at the vs
Bile and the invisible world; which must ever pursue,
which will attain II is thus ihst, mounting up
from faculty to faculty, arrive at the perception itself of
the human mind, which embraces them alt uniting them in
timatey in the bosom Of its immense unity here
painters musicians poe philosophers, orators and men of
science All are different; yet all hesitate to affirm II
have acknowledged hundred times that above the particular
field which each Of them cuvate there II higher
region where they may ach other when they would
noun, up TO the elevated and fruitful Of their
genius Well, gentlemen, this centre, the starting
place Of ALL is human intelligence multiple in its works, in
its faculties, in its processes its sims bat and nd
visible 10 its and principal attributes; that intelligence
which, above the maleralword and be,w God
nature and makes subseient the power Of the laws
of the universe which IL has created but which has
discovered And when is it gentlemen that this grand
sDectace which view here, ard these souvenirs which
calls and these toushss which suys~ts. ha-e their
strongest charm When soce is given up to the nsta
biy Of laws and to the changing and conflicting aims Of
parties in this age when the ncerude of the times is PER-
haps difficult to be borne than their rule amid these
self weak and lule how sweet il H. gentlemen to
withdraw into the higher regions of the world which you
habit where intelligence is active without being troubled,
and fecund without disorder where Of serenity pre-
walls in the midst of and Of effort. and where the
passions purified and Gained by the sight the very object Of
their pursuit. have end in view but the production of the
beautiful and the discovery of truth -