The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1851-05-16
CHARACTER,
pY RRy. II. .w. nEEcnER.

III
| Character exists in ourseyes---it is 9
mans inward likeness; while reputation
is The opinion OF others concerning us---il
lis the shadow we cast Character is the
good, sound, interest-paying stock-repe.
talion is the (ancy-stock, the inf ted foot.
ball of the market, Sometimes fepu,a-
tion bas little real connection with charac.
ier. lfaspeaker is fluent he is immed.
lately repued Demosthenes. Ifa minis
ter breaches, pleasant sermons he is
lrepuled Whiefeld. II a merchant i:
worth $500,000 he is, ,ropuled to be
lworh million. The assessor, however
lbrings him 10 his confessions, and a. sub.
EscripIion paper about as well. Influence
is the allegiance which men confess ia
goodnessand strength! Would man be
influential, lei him seek il within hsmself
Many men arc taught 10 be vocal or silent,
onlysupon exact calculation in order ia
''save their influence counsel as sen.
sible as 10 tell man TO save his shadow
Be heroic and you will have influence ,be
not martyr to yourself 10 that nisnamed
prudence which is continually. lodging
between lies and veri,ies and weighs
moral conduct as i weighs pork aud
-four. All men will be found in. une OF
three classes of character. Either first,
where one faculty is SO fully developed
| that in gives direction to the who.es or,
secoud, where some group of faculties
|swey the man; or, third, where the cha
racter is mulliplex or manifold. ,,',t
The firstinclude all who have some
one simple ruling faculty. All other facul-
ties revolse about this as satellites. 1t
will be The gage Ly which all things are
measured. Ii will sometimes be yenera-
lion, and then the man is Of necessity a
worshpper, and his worship is not duty
but passion evolved Sometimes it Is
love Of approbation, Appropriateness is
lhe helm that steers this man. Among
worshippers he is aevolee; with RADICALS
be is reformcr; with conservatives slab:
lily is his hobby; among the, foolish he is
a jester; his religion is variable, and
changes with tho latitude like the nlviga-
tors press, apparently as variacle as the
wind, YET sure as the laws Of nature to
The one grand passion iii be pride then
there is nothing so Influential as himself
The miser is moi fabulous being, but a
real living creature. Ifevon there was "a
monomaniac lie is one, aud should be
[,reated as one. There are men-ihe
t'siuff of which nisers are mlde-whose
life hangs upon gain. Such men are re.
ligious as ills economical. They have
been cut out in marble one third. the
minimum ofthe starving sculptot. Such
men will chatter with death, and threai
ten not 10 go in at heavens gate unless al
half price. The faculties that are used
most are, those. that govern; SeHsibility
shopld not, be tie Judge Of chatactsr -
If we are too firm against another the
mattel may ,ptesent ilselfio our mind as
|if it were obstinacy i'll llni. There are
many faculties which continually act.
which, however, are not Tile master pass
ions. So also there is no necessity that
all besides the master passion should be
silent. A good bond gives sound like
one tune The second class include al
who are swayed by any particular groul
Eof faculties. -' 33o' 2 80