The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-05-13
PENCILLED PASSAGES.
FROM BLlTHEDALE ROMANCE.

L l. lAp-lDAAN
FROM BLITHEDALE ROMANCE.
This is always true of men who have
surrendered themselves to an overruing pur-
pose. 1t dJes not 50 much impel them from
without, nor even operate as a motive power
within. but grows incorporate with all that
they think end feel, and finally converts them
into little else save that one principle. When
such begins to be the predicamant, it is not
cowardice, but wisdom, to avoid these victims.
They have no heart, no sympathy, no reason,
no conscience. They will keep no friend,
unless he make himsel: the mirror Of Their
purpose; they will smite and slay you, ard
trample your dead corpse under foot, all the
more readily, il you take the first step with
them, and cannot take the second, and third,
and every other step Of their terribly straight
path.
Young or old, in play or in earnest,
man is prone to be brute.
Little as we know Of our life to come,
we may be very sure, for one thing, that the
good we aim at will not be attained People
never do get just the good they seek. Ii it
come at all, it is something else, which they
never dreamed Of, and did not particularly
want. Then, 8gajn, we mIy rest certain that
our friends Of to-day will not be our friends
Of few years hence; but, il we keep one o.
them, it will be al the expense Of the Others;
and, most probably, we shall keep none. To
be sure, there are more to be had; but who
cares about making Il new set 0: irienls, even
should they be better than those around u,!'
"A man-poet, prophet, or whatever he
may bc-reaLily persuides himself Of his
! right to all the worship that is voluntarily
rendered.
| -Desp.se woman! NJ! She is the
most admirable handiwork os God, in he.
true plac, AM Character. Her place is "a
( mans side. Her Office, that OF the sym
pathizer; the unreserved, unquestjoniag be.
| liever; the recognition, withheld in every 9TH
CT manner, bat given, in pity, y,th:ough woiaau' !
heart, lest man should utterly lose faith in
himself; the echo OF Gods owu vote, pro
nouncng, 1T is well done!' All the seplrl!e
action OF woman is, and even h Is been, ans
always shall be, false, foolish, vain, dest -uctiyt
Of her own best and h h).iest qualities void 0
every goJd etisc:, and productive OF intoer
able mische!s. NJ IN is i wretch without
woman; but woman is Il monstcr-and, thlnf
| Heaven, an almost imgo 'sibe ald hitherto
; i'm git ay mOnstcr-without m IN as her ac
knowlcdged principal As true as ad one,
u mother whom | loved, were there any pos
sible prospect Of woman's taking the socil
ctnnI which IN pT tbno,-,,,,,r mi nro IA a
abortive creatures, who only dream Of sue
r things because they have missed woman
peculiar happiness, Or because nature mad
them really neither man nor woman!-ii ther
1 were chance of their attaining the en-
5 which these petticoated mon5trosites hav
r in view, | would call upon my own sex t
use its physical force, that uamist4k i5le cvi
/ dence OF sovereignty, to scourga them bac
r within their proper bounls! Bat it will NJ
| be needrnI. The heart of true womanhoo
knows where its own sphere is, and neyC
= seeks to stray beyond it!
-SPIRIrs RATINGS Alas, my country
men. methinl;s we have fallen on IN evil az,
. Ii these phenomena have not hunbug at I'll
t bottom, so much the worse for us. What ca
4 they indicate, in "A spiritual way, except tn
the soul Of man is descending to lower poiI
t than it has ever before reached while ii
n carnate! We are pursuing downward cours
! in the eternal march a. thus bringing ourselvC
5 into the same range with beings whom dealt
in requlul of the ir gross and evil lives, h
: degraded below humanity! To hold inte
course with spirits OF this order, we ma
q stoop and grovel in some element more vi
+ than earthly dust. Thcs g1b ins, if they e.
NJ st at all are but the shadows OF past mortat
n outcusts, mere retuse-stuff, adjndged unwor
o of the eternal world, and on the most f4vo
able supp0stion, dwindIing gradually in
- nothngncss. The less wehave to say to the
:, the better, lest we share their fate!
II 1t is nonsense, and miserable wron
e the result, like So many others, of masculil
II egotism,-,hat the success or failure of "
d mans existence should be made to depel
al wholly on the affections, and on one speci
Of affection, viii man. has such a multitu
Of other chances, that this seems but an j
cident. For its own suke, if it will d.
= more, the world should throw open all
,, avenues to the passpor; of woman's blee
" ing heart.
10 Admitting what is called philanthropy
A. when adapted as profession. to be often u:
o. full by its energetic impulse to society at lara
it is perlous to the Individual whose rul
n passion, in ore exclusive channel, it thus
d; comes, 1t ruins, or is iearuily apt to ru
le the heart, the rich juices of which God nev
,e meant should be pressed violently out, a
is distilled into alcoholic liquor, by an unnatu
ly process, but should render lie sweet, blur
to and gently benefcent, and insensibly
i'd duence other hearts and other lives to t
be same blessed end