Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-03-13
Abstract Of Mr. R. W. EmeHOn's Lecture on
Economy.

MIR. Emerson commenced Ivy saying TINT
he had read elsewhere in the city two of
the lecturers of this course, which con-
sisted Of six in all Fate, Power, Wealth,
Economy, Culture, Worship. lie should
now, in order take up the fourth. Economy.
The interest which trade has for the student
of life is in the relation it has with the course
of life. The sublime laws play indiflerently
through atoms and through galaxies. The
boys game of ball is MS much study Of laws
as the nnalyzation of Newton and Herschell.
Nature in chemics and botany, is the first of
economists She never wastes hair or nail
Her superiority TO our clumsy art is in the
equality Of her spending to her income. In
the fish-bone aud the arch of the rainbow
lie the secrets of architecture. Our nature
and genius force us to respect ends while
we use means. They are too strong for them
For the gods deal straightly with us--tbey
make out quarterly bills-they hold us each
personally liable for the last cent and MILL
The YOUTH charmed with his intellectual
dream, demands why lie should be annoyed
with his cranberry lield-why not organize
affairs and have somebody of skill enough
to manage cranberries. Tuke away the
feeling that each man must depend upon
ry man comes into the world to do some
thing. ! say il often, but nature oftener. II
the youth thinks the City of New York
hunlhug, hut q sonnet or song the flower
of the world, let him scorn the Erie Rail
road, and breath his life ont in jinglng
sonnet. Economy is TO do the thing that
belongs to you. Economy is not in saving
Goals or candles, but in turning the time in
txl ali ..,.., :.
in spending time, but in spending it of the
line of your career. The virtues are econo-
miSts, but so are the vices. Pride is next TO
humility. In largs cities il is worth 81 800
n year. Pride can go without domestics, can
talk with poor men. But vanity costs mon
cy-il is n long way leading nowhere.
Mr. Emerson spoke of the Arcadian ianat-
icism, which seizes certain scholarly persons,
carries them into the country and makes
them farmers. But anon the scholar wakes
up from his idiot dream of chickweed and
bread-iruii, remembers his morning thought
and finds that he has been duped by dan
delion. In fact, genius and gardening are
nntugonstic. Adhesiveness is n large ele-
nent of success. Genius has glue on III
feet, aud will take root on marble slab
Out of pine log Yankee will white
,.Judgeship, n seat in Congress, mission 4
! England. The first point of economy is 4
40 your peculiar work: the second is to d,
il by system a farm is good when il doe
not need n shop TO exc it out. MIR. Cock
nigne is smitten with the country. He retirei
upon his farm and buys a COW. IN thre,
months the COW goes dry-what to do with
II dry COW? But he invests in oxen. They
grow lean, slow, are going ihst-whnt TO dc
with decreoed oXen2 The farmer G,ts hi,
aud sells them for beef Mr.. CockaignC
knows nothing Of fattng for beef Alas, foI
the perexilies of Mr.. Cockaigne The
third point is not 20 insist upon carrying ouI
all your plans. Nature has her best mode o
doing everything, and has some where told
il. Use has made the farmer wise, and tllC
foolish citizen learns 10 take his counsel
Fourth, you must expect seed of the same
kind you sow.
In conclusion, the lecturer said that he
regretted to have stnid in distractions.
think, he said, domestic life the true object
of study and secret of reform. The one
royal rule Of Economy is that it should as.
ccnd-all your being should have n higher
aim. The merchants economy is course
but faithful symbol of the souls economy-to
take up particulars into generals-to acquire
and absorb. The way TO ruin is short and
pleasant. But mans body and every organ
is jar in which the liquor of life is stored
The bread he eats is first strength and mora
spirits, then courage and endurance. Tho
true economy is to spend on the higher plane
and to know yourself by the actual expert
encc of higher good, 10 he on the way 10 ia,
highcst.-.N y. Tribune.