The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-08-10

and poetry Of the genius OF the great man there inferred
is world wde-s the tomb of yoltae. That is not the
man You turn 10 the right. and there is plain monu-
ment-no Inscription 10 tell you the greatness OF It's III
habtan-no ambematic decorations; and yet you know
he must be one OF the first OF the of France He
who lies there is the said you should mira
Gle do not be alarmed-yonr conductor is the Pytho
ness OF Endor; and, besides there is great gulf between
you and him Christians have consigned him 10 the safe
keeping of Pluto, while the philosophers have exalted
him TO the highest heaven and wherever he he cannot
return. Now you approach the tomb to examine more
mnutely, and you each end door slightly opened
and human hand coming out holding fambedu This
is the mirsclehat the luminous intelligence of man.
though bodily he exist more, should vllighen and
generate the world No inscription was needed The
lighted torch expresses than volumes could You
have deciphered the nameJean jacques Rousseau. No
one man in the history OF the world has exercised
such infuence--has produced. and is producing,
such effects. say this reyerently Tor the Saviour
the Founder of Christianity, than man.
Lovers OF literature, you have known the author
of Helose; but do you know that this same poor
Genevese apprentice boy is the author Of the " Con-
trat Socal2" All the revolutions and progress OF lib
ery, since towards the end of the eighteenth
tury have originated, not superficial observers sup
pose, in accidental circumstances or IN incompatible
political relations, but in the social Dcongrues and ne-
qualities OF society Rousseau showed, in the language
OF simple eoquence, these monstrous defects which
tsm, and at which reason, and justice, and humanity
voed By the business of his conceptions and reasoning
and by the charm of his language, he captvated the
itself and like the bird that is charmed by the in
sidous fascination of the raesnake, it knew not its per-
ious situation till the terrible power Of his advanced
disciples stranged il in it's blood Equality longer
mere opinion-a sentiment that would bring back TO
France the glory OF ancient Greece and Rome Madame
Roland, Brssot, and the other Girondists conceived it
was fixed idea-a worldwide necessy-an irradicable
creed 1t had fastened itself in The mind of the infexible
Robespiere had ruled the Mountain and the Mountain
shook the world. Against this idea the allied powers
engaged, and maintained at the cost of blood and
beyond all computation or precedent How vain
to fight against the indeslrucble and INCAPABLE ele-
ments Can gunpowder glilterng steel destroy an
idea The thunder and the lightning cannot It was
at once the cause and the ruler of the first revolution 1t
made the circuit OF the world and left its leaven every
part and those changes and that progress which we see
the consequences. Socialism, which frighens soci-
ETY. by its alarming and impraclicabe exravagaaces and
destructive tendences-whch is, with impeshable
truths agtang the entire OF society," and which is
at the bottom of the last revolutionary movements-de-
rives its birth from the pareLt.
The mind becomes bewdered in this chaos of IDEAS,
in this revolutionary fermentation in which principles
and all the various antagonstc interests of society,"
at war, and OF which France chiefly The theatre and
we excaim, "W hi,her are tending !" "What will
be The end 7"
Do not despair. Men die and systems change but
Providence rules the world and the fiat has gone forth
il is irrevocaby fixed in The mind OF the peopethat So
ciey shall advance to equal just, and happy
dition" All you say, what has Providence do with
this offspring of skepticism, baptized in blood Do you
not know that the wisdom of God makes the evil of men
his glorious purposes And have not the French
philosophers, though they dsdaned it. taken their
doctrines of equality from the religion OF Christ The dy
ing words of Chaeaubriand were, Socialism which agi-
taes the nations, only be solved and shall be solved
by the New Testament" w. B. p