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self through the valleys of Syria of Nuuidis, 81.
oeria itself bears some dim and almost ohI;,sr.sJ
monuments and testimonies of ha,ina o.s t. a.oe
The home of what call "civiiizedn ns,;oo Ueen
from careful study of the language arta tr.5;.;
aud monuments Of he red men OF North and s'.S
America NJ Martins forced to the concIu .;o,,
tna1 nere was race which bad degenerated from a
condhlon OF high culture into generation Of wild
hunters Thus If this Cyclical law be the true law
mere is continual compensation to maintain eouiIIi
nriurn, one nation always sinking In exact pronor.
non as another climbs. II cur age credit itself viii,
the lie and action of Europe let Ii debit itself ,i,b
the death and burial OF Asia. :" ALL
Esen OF the natural sciences and of the usefpl ana
ornamental arts, which we accustomed to regard
a. almost exclusively modern IL il hard to ascsyysin
how much 10 really new Copernicns discaSass n
soiar system which Pyths goras had known tbon,h
20. pretend to discover it, two thousand yesrs
oo.oie. An important account of the same Pvtha,o
ias geological doctrines is attempted to be co1vs1a
oy ovid, mere love-poet of the enlightened snd
progressed so far to have lost sight of anc;ent
enceD But even from the limsy and faucifnl des.,n
n OF the Augustan love poet ignorant of the I1es
nlns OF the metamorphoss he sung, we can peres;vs
tne geology of Pythagoras substaptiaIly and
srmost precisely the geology of Sir CHARLES I,an
here are lost arts and ecipsed philosophies as st
as sdimned virtues and corrupted insttutions sM
says chinese sage. lis child born at rn;dn;ah,
day.. e'ei was yester-
In one point, it may well be admitted VIA .-s f.x
beyond all former ages-in talk of the bamv .sns; ~
talked about before there is 20 @u1ep.a
lence forever on the modern tongue and ever tr;r
mere ano aners 70 reduce sef to action, but always
wards Criminals for example, and all manner of nsst.
OF society instead OF severe, sangunary sharp and
decisive punishments, which would reDrsss ct;n Gnu
modern philanthropy so pampers and tenderIv an
treats the criminal as to put premium on vilis;nv
H. there be not justice there mercy If there be
wellventilated cell Then the benevoleuce that n,rr.
itself OUT on al objects of sympathy. provided they
but that the recipients of much Compassion rsu
ally do not happen to want it. 1t has been well saJ
when the generous affections have become well
nigh paralytic we have the reign of sentimentalitv
The greatness the protableness at any rats the ey
trsmey ornamental nature of high feeling, and th.
luxury of doing good charity love. self.forgetful
nanimity, everywhere insisted on and press
ngy incucsted in prose and verse" But for all real
succedaneum and substitute.
When we read of ancient times, in those ages by
impudenty called dark" does it not continually
strike the proper difference ofthose times com.
pared with the present that men and women then
acted more upon genuine feeling-that instead of
of puny sentimentalism, they had vehement passion
wherein words meant things and the fiery thought
forever srove to grow into q strenuous act.
Consider the remarkable contrast of two young Ia
London in the nineteenth century after Christ the
other is Carthsgenan girl in the third century be-
fore that ers-the one is smiably working little
handkerchiefs and wastcoats for African picaninnies
the banks of the Jeliba and listening to bepevo-
lent discourse about all men being brethren and about
peace on earth ard good will to men and she really
she lives in so kind age. The other, what ia her
mornings work. The Romans are beleaguering her
native city, her naughty city, Carthage of the ships
and the defenders in want bow-strings and She
with proud alacrity and eyes flashing FIRE, and fingers
trembling with heroic passion is shearing off her
long raven hair and twisting and knotting il into
bow-strngs; aye and exulting in her beautiful be-
nghted, Pagan SOUL TO think that silken tress will
send the winged death Kissing to some Roman heart
q htipan hvo
rules of balmy modern sentimentalism. One is
bound, of these two madens, greatly to commend
her too; but give me the Carthagenian war goddess
Peace indeed, ia sometimes beautiful, but is often
ignoble corrupt, % ignominious Not peace, but war,
generous qualities of manhood and of womanbood
What made America and breathed into her nostrils
fiery life? War. And oh! Heavens. what unmade Ire.
land, and brought her into the pit of debasement
where she lies now2 Peace, patience and perseve-
rance. under nsoient tppresaion and the very jaws
of national death. Yet one of the warmest aspira-
tons of our benevolent Perfeotibty hunters is the
cessation of war, Luckily it is impossible but, if
needfu to agate and purify the moral atmosphere
thunder storms to stir and Gle apse the material air
we breathe. Let this :hunders and the ghtpngs be
reformed away, and soon neither beast could
live-save agators or some unclean monsters. Let
wars be miracuousy abolished, and "the canker OF
long peace" will kill the soul of nations and of men
10 the foul air of that corruption will grow monsters
enough and the progress of the species will be back
ward indeed.
months, the ear of mankind was compelled to listen
to much about the vast strides towards uniyersa,
peace aud brotherhood that were to have been made
by means Of what we may call Crystal Palacedom;
BY means of grand and majestic temples, wherein
with solemn fasts and festivals and with gorgeous
ritual to be worshipped the fiend Mammon or
Mercury, or Commerce. (which you please) for the
deeper significance of that great original Crystal Pa
lace, and mother of Crystal Palaces in London, was
believed to lie in this-that it essentially a
"peace movement" Men said go to- Set build
temple for all nations where all can flock to
ship gold the only y power they viii ever unanimous
makes the whole world kin. Over the counters Of
this workshop, all will shake hands and be friends
forever; and then who shall stay our progress? By
omnipotent capital and cooperation, shall not
then move mountains, aud march upward and
ward till we scale the very heavens and become as
and resist their inexorable destiny, have not
sped well hitherto Anachs rsis Coot orator of the
human race, had his grand PaaVer of all nations
fOratory, not Commerce being then and there
counted the omnipotent) all mankind swore ever-
lasting brotherhood en- the altar of Liberty and al
most Immediately after began the mort extensive
mutual cutting of mankind's throats that ever yet
been seen on earth. Nay the very first Crystal Pa
lace was the Tower of Babel. The Tower Shinar
was essentially ''peace movement" an attempt to
establish a centre of unity anon gst the tribes of
earth-a tower of all . iops-''that they might be
cne and their one. lest they should be
ed abroad upon the face CT the whole earth" 1t did
not answer, it turned out otherwiss than had been
repulsion, men rsdiated over the world, mere for.
eigners and foes and the last of that business
worse than the hrst.
So it has Jared with the great modern glass tower
of Shinar too Hardly had it been duly censecrsted
and the brotht rhood of the ions fairly
England with her offering OF cotton, ingipg herself
into the arms of Russia with her votlve Maachite -:
Fr,nce forgetting the Rhine frontiers. and coming
with efusion to offer her jewelry and ribbons on the
altar with the drapeTies OF Prussia and the fur
n;tnres Of Austria;-whsn behold the sworn breth
rem almost from the very temple of their fraternal
rite rush asunder turn On one another with scowns
eves and eagerly prepare to hurl all Europe into
sueh bloody chaos as Europe os the earth never
witnes ed yet
nova in circles md that the centrifugal force must
never never conquer the centrpetal, lest we start
off in a right line and sstonish infinite space Our
own natuie, our own passions, both good and evil
are the chrystalne sphere that prisons US IN rns OF
sdamsnt and keeps wheeling in our inevitable or
bic. 1t is natural nay, forever necessary, that we
srssn srsnder possibility. Yet the fate of the earth
Born heavsn-scaling Titsns will still be ours; ,hs
1oa Iynus will still tight against u.s. and VIII &c no tne
bodest OF us reeling frcm the threshold el Lhs sly
the laughter-lovng Arrodite VIII iaash ;sss.;.s
Bile chain of roses -, cr,.r.
a. Aio "A ,gorse instead of betterl More wretched
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