The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-02-05

Dx. Ludlow On the Harmony a Busaness with
Intellectual Culture.
Yesterday evening the Rev Dr. Ludlow, formerly Pro-
vost of the University Of Pennsylvania and now Pro-
fessor of Ecclesiastical History in the Theological Semi
nary New Brunswick, delivered lecture at Hope Cha
pei The Harmony Of Business with Intellectual Cul
ture" The Reverend gentleman said:-In opening this
short of lectures my object tonight viii be to
show the perfect harmony between business and intel
ecual culture This will claim your chief attention. but
trust may be pardoned II occasionally indulge in
some dgressons. Who does perceive the deci
sive evidences of this harmony in the very constitution
of mans nature We all know, that in order to under
stand piece of mechanism it is necessary to examine
It's several parts and TO ascertain the relations they bear
to each other Having done this not only made
acquainted with its construction but also enabled to per-
ceive its main design so with watch, so with steam
engine with the first time and with the
other second the efforts of with more than super
human power. Apply this to mans nature, and you will
perceive he being creation and of wonderful
manshp. His body is beautiful in form and symmetry
made up OF various organs when are at the same time
spontaneously and capable Of controlling every outward
movement and such is the connection, with
her that they adapted to subserve each other
pay regard their interests And the body
be unted in its growth and the mind only enlarged in
furious results ensue, but benefits from happy
admixture of vgor of and deveopemen.
of physical strength When SUCH the case the
nefts become apparent is evident that made
for mental well bodily labor To despise or under
value labor is to despse the constitution of
ture-to reflect presumptuously if not impously the
designs OF All wise creator Labor, humble
when directed to useful end is honorable and
the aboring man, covered with sweat and dust, stands
upon eminence from which he can look down with CON
tempt upon those affected gentry who either lazy
or too proud to work But if the institution Of mans
nature teaches that he intended for labor,
equally taught, by the law of humanity that
this labor should be combined with mental Improvement
Besides the manifold physical differences between
and brute alone capable of progressive improve
ment There differences too between the different
members of the brute creation, for endowed
with higher instincts and sagacity than others. In the
acueness of their and instinct Of them
far beyond but all alike incapable of progressive
Improvement The bird builds her and the lion eizes
his prey with skill than any of their predecessors
Brutes have always acted in the Were the
laws OF humanity the would be like the brutes
and would be like the preceding Instead of this
however perpetuates with his being the knowledge
OF the past Treasures spread out before him. and
all that instructive in science history literature phi
losophy and the fine arts and all that is pleas in
poetry, sculpture and painting is the common pro-
perty OF all men who seek to obtain it, But by
what means it be obtained except by intellectual
laborS vigorous untring application of the
mind. Such labor, however, is only properly the
business Of the scholar 1t is not expected of the
of mankind for they have neither the time the
cessty for it, Yet if men would desire to live above the
brutes and rise TO the condition for which they de-
signed, they must exert their minds. They must know
something OF the past and the present to fit them for
the common duties of life Their social condition,
intimately connected Herewith mperatvely demands
it, Even mental Offices cannot be performed without
union of physical and intellectual labor conclusive
indication that He who made them intended that both
should be employed is that both employed in per-
feet harmony. After making few observations the
necessity of providing healthy physical labor well
mental culture, the lecturer proceeded to say-it
IDENTIFY to be hoped that whatever encouragement be given
to manuf in this country it will never be carried
to such extent bring the rising to misery
and degeneracy BUTT is not alone to physical nature
We are taught to pay regard The intimate connection
between mans mind and body shows that the improve.
ment of mans intellectual powers is Of the best
tabshed and most unalienable rights. He is recreant
to his very nature he do not improve them and he
should be placed in those circumstances which pre-
vent him from so using them. 1t follows too that if
society be an ordinance Of the Deity that i Is equally
duties he himself This is the broad foundation
which may rest the obligations Of government to
secure to all classes the benefits of education With
gard to the extent of that education there may be
ties of opinion but With regard to the duty ITSELF ap
prehend there cannot be doubt matter Of
graduation that several States of this republic
are acting on this principle But to return TO my main
object This harmony of business with intellectual
culture is connected nseparaby by state With the
increase of population the wants of the people being
multiplied and necessities created for occupa-
tions which require intimate acquaintance with science
Such things the concomants of extended civiiza
ton. When man enters into civilization he becomes
changed being and the arts of life changing produce
occupations, and commerce rising stimulates in
dustry and advances comfort The lecturer here entered
into discourse relative to the necessities that existed
for preventing the growth of luxurious and etravagan
habits, which but too generally the Accomplishments
OF civilization He then proceeded But judgment must
be exercised in decrying all things that may only
be exravagant for how many persons depend for their
livelihood the of things that really useful
though such things may be considered extravagant by
the judging The truth is that if these uxuries are
not carried vainy and fooshy and an extravag1nt
extent they indspensaby necessary to the pros
perty and happiness Of large portion of the community
who are employed in their production. How many poor
widows with helpless families by the manufacture
of artificial flowers enabled to live Independent of
cold and heartless charity Unjust here remark-thouyh
in so doing may counter to the prevailing feelings
of the communty-that the labor of that small class of
humble but worthy, operatives, find their means of
subsistence seriously affected if not DESTROYED by the
putting in practice of luxury rules the part the
rich. But these questions which every independent
Tanker will determine for himself Passing another
cQpsGeration and in order to show in still stronger light
Geportance ofnellcctual culture to business let
how indebted for profitable and productive employ
ment to the advances OF scientific knowledge was
n period when the world a vast waste-when the
rolling in awful and terrific grandeur deferred
the mariner from launching its restless bosom. But
that the whole world has been thrown open
10 the gaze Of civilized man. The has become IA
milar path, and, literally it may be said of man
His march is on the mountain wave,
His home is on the deep
Alchemy folly, but it led TO incalculable benefit
for il extended the science of chemistry and wdened the
sphere Of commerce. Without chemistry and other
sciences, commerce would be suspended and ships would
lie rottng, and the grass would grow ranking in our
streets The lecturer then took hurried survey of the
progress Of intellectual culture and concluded BY ex-
pressing hope Of having succeeded in convincing his
audience Of the necessity that existed for cuvatng the
! NH nd wall Tho hody