New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-21

our consolation that their sorrows and persecution
ard death, encountered in the common cause and
not in vain.
The world lie just beginning to take to heart this
Of the unity Of the race and TO discover how
fully and how beDehcenty it Is frsught with in.erns
tionsl political and social revolutions. Without
tempting 10 unfold what the greater wisdom OF con-
ing generations can alone adequately conceive and
practically apply, we may observe, that t.e human
mind tends not OILY toward unity but universally.
Infinite truth il received without some admix
ture Of error, and In the struggle which necessarily
ensues between the two. the constantly under
goes the process OF elimination Investigations are
continued without pause. the explanatory hypo'
thesis perIetusy renewed, receives perpetual cor
rectiops Fresh observations detect the fallaces in
the former hypothesis; again, mind acting prlori
revises ts theory, Of which Il repeats and munphes
the tests Thus it proceeds from observation to hypo-
thesis and from hypothesis TO observation constantly
gaining perfect mastery over It's stores OF ac-
cumulated knowledge by congratulations which ap-
proximae nearer and nearer 70 absolute train.
With each successive year larger number Of minds
in each separate Nationality inquiries INTO man end
and nature; and sruh and the laws OF God are un-
cbspeesbe the larper the number Of minds that en-
gage in their study, the greater VIII % inc harvest.
Nor lie this all the nations drawn to each otner as
members q ODE family, and their mulua acqu-IuVhs
rapidly become common properly
Here. then, is double advantage. Truth, as dis
cerned by the mind Of man, is constantly recovering
ifs prrna uster is constantly making It's way TO
universal acceptance while every successive emanci-
patton from error brings the race closer TO likeness
with God
Not that greater men will appear. Who can ever
embody the high creative Imagination of the poet
more perfectly than Homer, or Dante, or Shaks-
pearef VITO can discern the ideas" Of existences
more clearly than Plato, be furnished with all the
intruments of thought and scientific attainment more
completely than ArstOtlel In universally OF mind,
who will surpass Bacon, or Leibntz, or Kant The
mass of men will never Individually. be their
peers. Inoeed, the world may never again see their
like There are not wanting those whD believe that
The more intelligence is oiffused the less will the in
telee1t be dlsting from another that the
colossal greatness of individuals implies general in
ferory; just as the tree which rises on the plains
in solitary grandeur, alone reaches the fullest de-
yeopmept or ~ the rock that stands by itself in the
wilderness to cast the widest and most grateful
shade; in word that the day Of medocrity attends
the day of general culture But If wiser men do not
arise, there will certainly be more wisdom. The
spirit of the world is always becoming more intel
gent; the collective man of the future will see
farther and clearly than the collective man
Of 10 day and be will share that superior power OF
vision with every of bic time. Each individual
man bears within him, rot only his own personality,
but the consciousness of the existence of that ideal
man. who is the Improvisation OF his race, and IN
~ hose attachments and intelligence he participates.
Thus il comes TO pass that the child at school, in our
time could instruct Columbus respecting the figure
Of the earth, Newton respecting light, or Frank
lin on electricity; that the husbandman, or the
mechanic Of christian congregation, solves
qut stions respecting God, and man, and mans
destiny which would have perplexed the most gifted
philosophers of ancient Greece.
Finally a. a consequence Of the tendency of the
race toward unity and universaty the organization
of society must more and more represent the principle
of freedom This will be the last triumph OF humanity;
parly because the science Of governm emf enters into
The sphere Of personal interests that the spplca
ton Of tkoee laws is ressted by private selfshness
ard partly because society, before 1t can be consi
tNo aal fb1
the laws Of its existence, and arrive at the con-
sciousDes OF its capacities and relations.
The system OF political economy may solve the
question Of the commercial intercourse Of nations by
denopstIatDg that they all naturally felow-la-
borers and friends but its abandonment of labor TO
the uDmitigaed effects of personal competition can
never be accepted the rule for the dealings of man
with man
The love for others and for the race is as much a
part of human nature the love of self; it is COM
men instinct that man ia responsible for man. The
heart has s oracles not less than the reason AMI this
il one of them. No practicable system OF social
equality has been brought forward, or it should and
il would have been adopted. Ii does not follow
that none be devised. There is necessary OPP
position between labor and intelligence. To elevate
The masses they Themselves must have culture 70
know their rights courage 10 assert tue H. and SELL
respect TO take nothing lees. The good time is com
ing when the spirit Of humanity viii recognize all
members Gifts family, as more equally entitled TO lts
care when the hearess jargon of over production IN
The MIDST Of want will end in better science OF dis-
tributon; when man viii dwell with man as with his
brother; when political institutions will rest on the
basis of equality and freedom But this result must
from the development of internal life by unlver-
sa culture; it cannot be created by the force OF ex-
terror philanthropy, and still less by the reckless
violence of men, whose desperate audacity would
employ terror means to ride on the
whulwind of civil war. Successful revolution pro-
ceeds like all other formative processes from inward
germs of life. A people is always logical IN its ac-
ton; its institutions are the reflections OF s heart
and its intelligence and in proportion as they are
purified and enlightened, mast It's public life manifest
the dominion of universal reason. In TINS manner
changes surely and often impercephbly made
Where an abiding reform appears 10 have been in
simultaneously effected it will be found that the happy
result but the sudden plucking of fruit which had
slowly rpeDed. The subtle and irresistible move
ment of mind silently but thoroughly purifying opn
ion ard changing society," brings liberty both 20 the
soul and to the world. AL the despotisms earth
not stay lie coming Every error that man dscardsis an
emancipation; every superstition that Is thrown by,
is redeemDg from captivity. The tendency toward
universally implies necessarily tendency toward
freedom, alike Of belief and in action. The faith of
the earliest ages WAS Of all others, the grossest.
Every century of the Christian Church is less cor
rupt and less in bondage than its predecessor. In
the present age the sum total Of spiritual knowledge,
as well as of liberty, is greater and less mixed with
than before. The future shall surpsss il.
The senseless strife between rationelism and super
naturalism will come to end an age Of skepticsm
will Dot egan be called age of reason and reason
and religion will be found in accord
In the sphere Of politics, the republican govern
ment has long been the aspiration of the wisest and
best. The human race, said Dante, summing up
the experience of the middle age sis in the best
"dition when it has the greatest degree of liberty"
and Kant in ike manner giving utterance TO the last
word of Professionalism, declared the republican gov
eminent to be 1.-THE only true civil constitution. Its
permanent establishment pre-supposes Appropriate
experience and culture but the circumstances under
which republics are possible prevail more aud MORE
Our country is bound allure the world TO liberty by
the beauty Of its example.