The Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1852-1853, 1853-03-09
4 HAVE NO TIME TO READ" I"

None? No half hours, no spare moments,
even? No! But you have time to eat drink,
and provide for the supply Of all your phys
lcal wants. You have time to build houses,
shops and stores, and to labor for money
which you accumulate until you are rich, or
spend in sensual pleasure and remain poor.
You have time to shelter from heat and cold,
a body that will walk but for little season
upon the earth, and then be buried in its bo-
som. lou may have time to adorn it with
purple and fine linen, or it may be covered
with coarse attire, and although it posses
ses the beauty of Apollo, or the strength of
Hercules, it will soou be dust under the feet
of the living. Do you sometimes forget
that this outer man dies, the soul lives for
ever. and in too great anxiety fol the COM
Portable support OF the ore forget the import
ance of the other?
Do you say, Men Of strong muscles and
sinewy arns--men who plow the ground. d
fashion wood, iron and brass into articles of
of convC nicnce and luxury, that you have
nc time TO read, and therefore no time 10
think? Are there not hearts within your
breasts that sometimes beat with noble i'm
pulses, and have you not minds that return
an abundant harvest ioV the seeds of knowl-
edge sown within them? The farmer who
| tlls the soilwill do SO the more successfully,
If lie can anaIyze its properties, and thus
ascertain the kind of grains to which it is
best adopted The mechanic who best un-
derstands those scientific principles that are
connected with his trade, will WELD his tools
with an ability that leaves his ignorant COM
pctltor far in the rear. The one guides eY-
ry stroke of the hammer within an eye
beaming with intelligence; the other brings
to his labor only that strength Hhch he
shares in common with the lower animals Of
creation. The one is well informed upon
the current topics of the day, has an intel
Iigent opinion in relation to politics, and
casts his vote according to his own Judgment;
the other is carried away by popular excite
ment and falls an easy prey TO the wiles OF
the partisan and the damagogue. The one
exercises powerful conservative influence
! in lavor of law and Of order, the other swells
! the mob, and manifests hsunftness to share
| in the government of others by falling
10 govern himself.
| Buff you have not time to read for your
own sake and for society, there may be those
for whom II is your especial duty to live
wisely. There are some families where
children gather around cheerful tircsides at
evening hours, and receive instruction from
Tie lips Of parents and elder bro,hers and
sisters; not perhaps by-formal question and
parrot like reply, but with quick and read y
TACT that obtains stores of valuable iniorma-
lion from chrecful and Intelligent conyersa.
ton.
Let us not complain because others have
greater riches and honors than ourselves
+, for where !here are no laws OF prmoncui
tire, and no hereditary peers, riches anc
honors are the rewards of Industry and per
severance. In this country, Only vice anC
ignorance are disgrace(ul, while RI Dor is res
pccted and honored. The printer-boy wht
sat up all night to read borrowed books tina
were to be returned by morning, conquered
the lightning, and was courted and admired
by the most polished circles of Europe an,
the young blacksmith, whose classical ed
ucation began with Latin grammar at tn,
forge, became welcome visitcr in the iys
literary circles at home and abroad.