New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-11-25

roy tho s.tsu,es N session and publish their proceednzs
In bufope, they would liz unprnod or ooysrniasn wonh
pf,i L.. The invested funds u illo Institution itself
would meet tho expense. Democracy V ths nurso OF
scnee sho rosrs s offspring and sets them out IN mo
world
ut wo must spocify some methods Of diffusion Of know
edge,
/ Bach. was once thu csse that few could afford
the price Of book. Now paupcrs may buy them.
And good books are literally without money and without
price II Is note worthy that religious books longer
subject TO tho reproach Of violating good taste for as
elias they better printed whittier PAPER in farer
tyre and better Illustrations and more comely bindings
than any other class OF works Libraries are attributes OF
every house The cheapness Of books for the most part
renders circulating libraries Of limited They must be
Libraries Of and expensive books, or repoores OF
books to justify their existence FOR all ordinary
books within The reach Of the poorest aoorers And
may be well said here anywhere that in the price OF
Illustrated works cheap engravings and pictures Art Is APP
leGrg 10 Democracy for support la America the masses
are and better patrons than any other
There is much TO be said the grade of popular illus
ratons TO the changes which must be wrought in the
notions Of artists which would lot be appropriate here
There is aristecraiic element in the conception of the
funotors Of Art which stands in the way OF progress
Men must honor and dignity the great American TRUTH
he fSePts IN ART they would live and thrive by art
To tpIesent tsmar themes upon canvas suitable TO the
size Of American houses prices within easy reach Of
moderate incomes, this viii give employment 20 unnum
bered artists, who are our educators On the bsaHtJa
But srt must consecrate humanity liberty and popular
rights. 1t mus, not patronse liberty, but worship II. ANY
single man, any single freeman may be obec, of little
reverence, and acommuniy of men taken singly by
with hearts ard souls with sympathies of JOY suffering
with rights and dues form conception grander than i'm
OF water POOR and trng but what OF the whose
chambers filed whose courts paved, whose plains
and mountains are bu. commipgled drops
We may not omit 70 mention and honor those grand dis
rensers of knowledge, the newspaper We mus. not de-
mend of them that which expect of books Of science
or Of professional ohars-abstract knowledge-f- it Is
heir peculiar function to represent living knowledge to
living 1t is not learning, but knowledge in which
they deal.
They ere net merely journals of aers, of the last hap
rtRRgs. They wonderfully changed from that old
I'VE and destined 10 be yet more potent They are
daily encyclopedias they repositories of literature
Of sound criticisms of art galleries Of descriptions Of
than Libraries and better suited for the p1pglSr want for
the great scholsrhp-the people Such papers as The
Edf Ga-eS, [aafcnG Journal Louisville Journal Boston
C0rHonEeah, ard Traveier, contain more religious mat
ter every week than do religious papers more scientific
matter than journals Of science; literature and art
thar monihs devoted 20 literature and art The tone of
papers is risfag and not falling The most conservative,
are their influence, on the whole, becoming more and
democratic and progressive. As profound as books
in vhole more sccUrae-for one day c0rects the past
but books '0r and cannot correct Themselves.
But Il i not merely the extent variety and accuracy o!
useful knowledge but the atmosphere of knowledge that
they create ard ia which men breathe The daily paper
becomes necessity; learn to be eonrersaat Nc. Il
is said 20 destroy hshi.s Of reflection. does not Destroy
them; in most there none TO destroy and Il
hee were no papers. there would be no more creative
power and far less aequisiiive power Of information
They becoming not merely mirror Of the exterior
life Of the tmes-he accidents the prOcesslons the oul'
ngs distinctions, the war peace, which 60 Ike
storms and calms increasingly round the globe Ihey are
the mirror of the inward life The system OF reporting
instituted by newspapers elf era If prosecuted
to its full and proper Office IL opens the Senate, the Lee
gislstye Hail. the Court and that which there is spoken
in tbe ear is Ieverberated all over the land Inc pulpit
Iresches, not to poor thousand, but TO hundreis
of thousands II gives ubquity the lecturer and uni
verssly to knowledge. The time will come when what
we say to audience will be least work To night be
that speaks 70 five hundred shall to morrow morning al
dess five hundred thousand by the vOcees type that yer
utter perpetual thoughts Who can estimate the mPOr-
tence Of such element, in the great process o. demo
cratic edHoofionf
V. We not omit important fact as the exist
cree, in democratic form, of MENTAL Power.
/ do not mean knowledge, which IS thing 20 be re-
eeiytd; but creative power force of mind that ena
bes 10 appropriate knowledge, to Apply i to Pra;ii
cal purposes ard 10 execute efficiently and independently
what il eoDeeves.
Tits development of our times and it marks the pro-
gress Of the education Of the individual and prophesies
much for the future that there dued among all classes
Of this great people such mental force IL Is one thing TO
be able TO read to understand what you reed 70 ra
minete upon H. IL is very different thing to be able
to go 10Th as IL knowledge had been food digested and
sssimilsed giving executive power
1t already amaiter OF familiar remark thet Americans
are active in trade versatile in resources interchangeable IN
research ingenious in invention This has been regarded
as the peculiarly Of people. But it is only develop
ment in single direction, OF mental power "hcn e1s's
ard il acting in other directions with unsupported force
Let any 20 into religious meetings and see VINO
are capable Of profitable functions let him go into the
Bic Of public speech LET him go forth into the lodges,
divisions and chapters Of various organzao aud see
who is conn etnt 10 bear executive functions let hin
then inquire who are conducting the great emperance
reformation who are talking. speaking. organizing
movement remarkable than any campaign on record
or the march Of any victorious army ihe grest mass OF
the most effective workers have been PLAIN and laoons
men. -,
thevirtue of people assume ten thousand
forms which give opportunity for 81 enIa
force. Our people take in hand the township tney eg
they take the stale; anu llcu
of the United States But, If this were mere tr'te
they have churches hand benevolent societies. commit
tees Of this ard that charity popular movements Tor tn
and that reformation
TLen they are grouped into military companies into
engine companies Twenty men cannot work togener ~
chop without being seized with irresistible desire 70
be organized into something and there always some one
who can I'll the Offices with credit. .
II you look the interior of society you shall lind II
peretusly glcbing itself into circles dissectng and re
forming active entorprising thoughtful executive and
our lain and are not only educated 70 be
thinkers ard actors but 10 be capable OF bearing rule, oil
administering law, OF acting upon mems minds. When
before vast each drop po'entw
intelligence and viii; every growing in power and
finding 10 grow intensely powerful yet perfectly
oboderi to needfl law Into The midst of this great com
muny blazing questions that would set world
o,osho Our people walk in the midst the fire ana
ave not burned They judge and issue adjudication and
the nifty periled by question ana discus
sion than are Courts by pleas and ver'iicts =,
There are otter c mens OF growth, other sources Of cd
ucalion which would complete this view would time permit
tlorintroducton. ,,,,
Providence Hmong strong for the education OF The
unrtss ot "a, liberty aud power ~ the tsdsci0td na
nohug r,ts T. that those things which are SET TO hinder
In the end promote, that causes which come torth =
curtc are dumb Tor curling aud stand open moashed wiz
un,NIcci,d blessings,
~, Tho future have tho hrmes, assurance of hope
Justice Is 10 rtow temper Ia IL thrive rchnement
o l,comc universal h,aut, and noble Injuries aro not
Ju ell With s,lcet few day 10 fastening when over
house 'hal hc emlclshed when they VII, pcw and me