New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-18

wise bonds which seem the strongest and the
most delicious known to our iture, will perpet.
uaily turn to ashes in our hands,"
mus, my friend was mistaken in his criticism.
would not have his enjoy ment less in his children.
but infinitely more. would have it elevated ont
Oh an imperfect into perfect condition. "Flesh
ana blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God"
however cunningly you may alternate them and
our rappers" only stutify themselves in at
tempting to demonstrate the contrary. am re-
lated to my child by a far profounder tie than tn 1t
OF his natural generation. This latter tie does not
express my true selfnood but only my natural or
quasi one consequently, it insures no spiritual or
permanent union between us. There is veritable
infntude ofbeauty lodged within the soul ofthe lad
and cannot afford to assert my property in him so
absolutely as to hinder in the least degree the eyo
luton Of that. would have him docile to me in.
deed, but only in so far as | represent to his in
FAINT conception that large goodness which no one
actually constitutes, which rather constitutes all
persons. These ties Of ours, these ties of parent
and husband, friend and lover, are so many beau.
tiful media for the distilation to the youthful or
sensuous Imagination Of infinite or divine IDEAS
The parent does not say to the child, ado thus
because will it," but "because 1t is right, be-
cause the not.doing it will be vicious or criminal
will be injurious to yourself or others" Thus he
reveals to the child a standard higher than himself
the standard of perfect humanity, and makes
himself simply minister OF that perfection. And
seeing the parent thus TRANSPORTED with an inward
brightness, the child daily loses his servility
oil regard, and comes into relations with
him so human and free that no outward
disaster can ever reach them. So. too.
the husband does not ask his wife TO low, him Oh.
soutely, or without regard to his lovableness.-
lie wishes to be loved, not because he is different
from this, that, and the other person. but only for
certain indwelling magnanimity or humanity
which declares all men one, and turns these diff
ierences into tinsel. He would be loved not ss
John Smith or Samuel Johnson, but as man. So
also the friend or lover denies his absouteness and
owns himself the mere revelation of an infinite
ideal. lie is shabby lover and usurper of the
name who takes to his private little self the hon.
age OF his mistresss alteration. He will probably
repay her generous misconcepton, by making her
IN the end unhappy. For the true lover above all
persons feels himself the subject of an infinite self
mood, and accepts the burning and broken protes.
tations which distil into his ear not as tri
butes to his personal vanity, but as sacredest
hymns and peans to his intimate divinity. The
grand mystic rapture of love, is not that FANNY
Gray surrenders the sum of her visible charms 70
Edward Morton, but that suddenly Edward Nor
ton has found his latent in6nitude authenticated
has found his afiuent ard inmost divinity recop.
niZed by another, and for the first time reflected
to his own recognition. Tell the lover that his
mistress eyes are inferior to her sisters. that
her shape is not SO perfect that her voice is any.
thing but musical; you may bewilder, but you
cannot disenchant him. Love is not an nductiye
process 1t does not proceed upon an inventory
OF stock in hand. 1t is not calcua led. Ii anti.
cipates deberatiOn. In fact, it is dead and buried
by the time elaboration has got on his boots.
The lover, therefore, cannot justifyhis passion.
He can give you no reason for it. 1t was simply
the flashing forth Of an inward and omnipotent
life under suitable outward conditions.
What pity, then. that we do not cultivate
these benign and beautiful ties up to their norma
splendor What pity that we should so basely
literalize them, as to cheat them of all divine
radiance! How poorly does one now play the
part Of father, pestered and oppressed he is by
the entire physical and social responsibility of his
child As far as it can, society makes them mutual
membranes. How poorly also does one now
play the part of lover, seeing that his recognition
Of his mistress's spotless nfnitude is made an
sion by society for saddDg him with the whole
burden Of her finiteness for reducing him to the
lifelong seryitude of her material interests
Politicians, of course, breathe such an elevated
air that they cannot be expected to look at these
modes. questions, but they will eventually force
themselves upon attention by the entire dsup-
ton of society, unless society legislatc for them
in time. The "rappers only aggravate the mis-
chief now existing and afford lazy politicians a
continued excuse for their lazness-for the whole
strain of their prattle goes to the affirmation Of
mans essential fniteness or imperfection and so
Of course to the encouragement of the idea Of a
perfect life on the earth, or indeed, anywhere else.
The heaven which results from the mere ultra
mundane reproduction Of our futeness is in truth
vastly INFERIOR considered hope or inspiration
TO the soul, to that state which science is now
pointing out as the sure ful6lment Of our earthly
history. "When it comes" said a celebrated
French Queen, "when it comes to damning peo-
ple of our quality, you may rest assured that God
will think twice of it, We smile at this as a
sally of narrow self-conceit; but wherein do we
show ourselves wiser, when we deem the august
pow ers of the universe strictly proportioned to
the making us comfortable in our private relations
and preserving the love Of our grandmot hers to-
wand us eternalIy unimpaired Yours, H..
Mysterious Knockings Exposed,
DELAvAN, (wisc , Thursdsy, Aug. 5, 1852.
IT, he Editor Of Tie " Y. Tribune.
A. there has been much speculation On
the Mysterious Knocking' and now see In TAe Tn