New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-23
HORACE MAINS ADDRESS.

We have waited for opportunity to read carefully
and thoroughly HORACE MAINS Inaugural Address
on assuming the Presidency Of Antioch College, yell
low Springs, Ohio. We anticipated much profit and
pleasure from this perusal but our expectations are
transcribed by the reality. We remember no
previous College Address at all comparable to this in
the breadth of its ncucatOns the philanthropy OF its
spirit the frankness OF its statements the nobleness
of its aims. President Mann carries into his new
sphere of duty all the energy and fearlessness, the
aspiration for progress and painness OF speech which
rendered his direction of the Educational eng merry Of
Massachusetts, an era in the history of Common
Schools and his career in Congresshonorabe to him
self and useful to mankind His Address embodies
single suggestion of that sordd and cowardy
atism which regards abuses aud evils nsepsrable
from all human institutions, and thence actly advises
he learner to glide through lie quietly and easily
as possible. On the contrary the truth everywhere
assumed that all wrong may be redressed, all evil
overborne all inquity extermnaed, and that to teach
how to labor hearth! and effectively in this
is the great end OF true Education
But it is wasteul to accord space to comments on
this Address which nigh be devoted to extracts.
Take the following as sample:
so universal and ong-con,nued have been the viola
tons 81 the Phy seal laws and oInnipresen is human
suffering the consequence, that the very trad ion OF
perfect state of health has died ont from among men. We
wonieC the presence OF debility and lin. Religious
teach to accept weakness ani suffering as the sp.
pointed lot Of humanity Hence the conditions OF health and
longevity lot melt dsregarded but Ignored and men
sie pocuIdcs learning on other subjects are here igno-
rant IL elements. University professors know how to take
OF the solar system but do know how to take
care Of their systems. admire the rules of prosody
by which Greek and Latin How into harmonious
numbers; but prefer the tuneful pulse winch
makes an elision 10 any music Of classical scanning
knew Professor OF Rhetoric in American Col
tee, who clicked hlnsdi 10 death at dinner party, with
undivided piece OF mutton He knew 10 semitone
The rhetorical proportions in which breath should be
ont Of the ungs but ignorant OF the physiological
quantities in which food should De taken the stomach
CGgymen forever exhor;ng keep our spirits
clean and pure and then in their outernan they
pity Their teachings by oil the d.hlements OF tobacco.
They BOaEorge for the advancement of their Sect
bat dsdan ooI anonshp with that the Nazartes
VINO drank Statesmen and learned doctors debate
ana discuss the minor questions Of political economy but
forget hat blight on public health pecunarly dis
asous Than widowed crops, and that the most adverse
BALANCES OF trade less mpovershng than The expen-
dtures for sickness the nonproductiveness of bodily in
beciliiy, and the costs of vice and crime.
Equally hearty and downright is Presden. Manns
aisertion of the propriety-nay, the necessity-of
educating Young Men and Young Women in the same
Seminary and under the influences of regulated Social
companionshp. After setting forth the true cond-
tons OF such education and meeting the usual rousd
OF objections thereto Mr. Mann up on this head
De follows:
Besides and beyond all this believe that the daily
and thrice daily meetings of the sexes with occasional in
teryews IN social circles viii be mutually advantageous
TO them Ii viii work both moral restraint and Intellectual
excitement That innate regard which each has for
the other sex and above What has the
good qualities IN its owl-,he difference between friend
EMP ana loveis too precious and powerful agency
IL be thrown away in me education Of either believe il
10 be an agency which God mean, should make of
10 promote the refinement the progress and the elevation
l 1 10 To
many Of present and crude instruments dsci
ine-fe oecs ard bludgeons Of punishment which are
now employee To young from the stupefactoa
OF a!eness, or beat them back from the gaieways
And what state Of society does il invinciby argue
among parents and IL the community al large If young
men and Young cannot be brought together pur
those ennoblng studies and to receive those apt IN
sructlens which prominently tit them for the highest
duties of tLeir life without mutual peril And
where in the divine commands is there either
preiex' for the doctrine that those whom God
miIgles together in the family, 10y birth and whom
through the sacred ordinance Of marriage He designs for
It'll csoser aiIon after life where AK i there
any authority, human divine for sezing and violently
separating these parties for four Fix or ten the
middle YEAR ~ their existence those very wears when
hey can best prepare tLemsciye by the elevation of
Whatever H ~ them Of good and the suppression what
ever D.. 10 itl Il evil or future palolship mil
mate oct d. io n IDENTITY. such separation oDyi,u ,l
tlair.t 'ri . tf r'.-.ag il- ile pr r,anpa D;