Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-11-04

Professor Sedgwig looks at Locks, perhaps hc is
right, Tor there is no man in the world who is not
IN one aspect of his character, shallow, base anu
degrading" Take some isolated expression or
principle of his, and carry it out to its ultimatcs,
or Judge it by its practical consequences IN GER
tain circumstances, and you may easily prove that
1t is demOraizing. Locke was II sincere ana plous
Christian, in ono sense but no doubt he was a
hereto in Dir. Wiseman's eyes, and as bad as a her
cite in DIR. Pusey's yet YOU can easily make HIM
seen ateacher Of materalism, and from materialism
you progress to atheism, and from atheism to any
thing you take to be its inevitable consequence.
But that very tendency of the doctrine of Locke is
u principle constituent of his greatness; and wheth-
er he was night or not right in denying the doc
trine OF innate ideas, his original, clear, and logi-
cal r%clutatiuu Tor effort at rctutatiOn) Of the doc
u1nc gave a new and important direction to meta
physical philosophy, and forms n sort Of epoch in
5 the history Of thinking. As held by the great
metaphysician himself, the doctrine was pure and
unDlanablei but as corrupted by others who have
{ followed in his train, it may even CLAIM and main
t tain 4 relationship with materialism, atheism, and
z the vulgar incredulity OF the age.
g Suppose, then, a man viewing the character Of
Locke from one sole point from which he could sec
y only this feature Of Lockism, he might with great
g consciontiousncss, rail against Lock, and depict
e him as Il messenger from the blue regions of brim
Y stone, masked in affected faith and piety the bet
o. ter to deceive. There are thousands who would
not hesitate to draw him in this light, just rs there
: are thousands who, in looking at the character Of
Mohamet, can see nothing but knavery, sensuality,
and hypocrisy. and conscientiOusly revolt even at
the charitable idea Of investing him with any of
the amiable features Of humanity. As they read
humanity, and rs they understood truth, they may
be right in their deductions hut another is equally
right in reversing the portrait, and b~eholding no
thing but faith, devotion, sincerity, and seltsacri-
lice. As agreat man he, must have done mischief
to some principle, some party, or some institute on
and as the father Of a great spiritual family, he
must be heldin reverence by those who belong to
1T. The debtUrrcgUrds the baillff as a ruthless man;
but the baiih's wife, and her children, salute him
as airlend. Even Robespicrrc himself, whom Mad.
IusSaud has introduced into her Chamber of Hor-
: rors, amid murderers and mutilators-the Goods,
Groenacres, Rushes, and Mannings-was gentle,
mild, honest, and incorruptible and, for fifty
d years after his death, Elizabeth Duplay, the
c daughter of the cabinet, maker, in whose poor
house he lodged even in the zenith ofhis greatness
k and his crimes could never understand the abuse
t that was hcaped upon him, but always remember
. ed and spoke Of him as the pure, the virtuous, and
:. the gentle Rubespierrc. lie was Il goblin to others,
but an angel to her. 1t was even SO with Marat's
housokeeper, to whom Charlotte Corday, when she
- stabbed him in the heart, must have appeared Il
y demon, though Charlotte herself is represented by
: others as the very type Of gcntleness, purity, and
. noblcncss. Marat himself was a ficnd to the rich,
q but the model Of sweetness and accessibility to the
Il ragged and the destitute. lie laughed to see a
# rich man dragged to the scaifOld, end he sighed to
= think of a poor man, without Il suficiency Of bread
for lis wife and children. lie was u man fit to be
: great in n revolution, where he found his proper
sphere and Il tit eXecutioncr to terminate his
= reign.
I Great criminals are generally known by their
crimes alone. They are obscure individuals until
I thrust into notoriety by the dark aspect of their
It character. In great and good men the darkness
Il is the smallest hemisphere, perhaps merely the
;, spots upon the suns disc. In great criminals the
reverse is probably the case. But the dark disc is
! never to be found without some brilliant spots.
t, We cannot imagine such a being. Even the great
n representative Of evil is popularity represented as
Y endowed with many gentle, manly qualities-he is
r. numerous, drcll, witty, and simple, and wlthal he
II Is honorable in keeping his engagements If he
t makes a bargain with a soul, he sticks to it. II
f he buys a soul he pays for it. His bond is good
p current Inouoy foI a sra,un. Thieves themselves
n have their honor and it is reported that, in times
: of revolution and civil bloodshed there are none SO
g truly humrne and furgettul Of all selfish consider
atoms in taking care Of the wounded, Us those un-
e fortunate young women who are outcasts from vir-
# tuOus and reputable society. An extreme of any
if kind cannot exist alone II stick cannot have only
o one end ii must have two, and the one, like the
= one pole uf a magnet, is the opposite of the other.
So it is with characteristic warmth of affection is
: the same in substance as the fire Of wrath, and re-
e vcnge itself may claim kindred with pity and the
r love Of justice. 1t is n difference between good
$ ness and badness if not, responsibility itself
V would be unjust, and moral government a crime.
There is II class of great men in whose character
/, the darkness is either very small or very feeble.
= They are un-impassioned men, whose mission does
- not require them to be the meanY of impassioning
IS others. These are scientific men, such men as
t Newton, or Lebnitz, whose work of destruction
i like that OF the backwoodsman) pioneers tie way
for the progress of society without offending the
f. feeling of any. Yet Newton has been accused of
I; heartlessneSs, and Of sacrificing feeling to cold
r reusOn-a type, in this respect, of science itself.
8 Absolute science is hearlless, even as absolute feel
ing is irrational and therefore theage which more
particularly represents science is cold and undevo-
D. tIUuuI. in CUIuuarISOn with that nntprior nra which |
represents the feelings. 1t is an age of formal
truth and accuraoy-of utilitarianism precision and
mechanical ingenuity. 1t reverses the character
Of that which preceded it, and therefore that
Church which arose in the Middle Ages, and still
represents hem-the Church of warm feelings, Of
great kindness, and great cruelty-bas always
looked with an evil eye upon science. 1t persecu-
}, ted Calico and Corpernicus it long rejected
e Newton, If even yet it may be said to have accep-
ted him and even within the last few years it for
; bad the Roman clergy of Italy to attend the great
Scientific Association of Pise, as if in fear that
Y GOODNESS Of reason might usurp the place of the
e warmth OF flnaticism. The greatness Of Papal
e. Rome has lain in the strength Of its feelings. This
is its fair side its dark side is its aversion to scien-
i tiiic pro gress The greatness of science or philos-
r ophy lies in the weakness of its feelings, and its
d private pursuit of truth, Independent altogether
of popular excitement, which it is not capable of
creating, and which is more likely to obstruct than
g to advance its progress.
$ AS it is with individuals, so it is also with ages.
e nations, and institutions; each has a light anu a
q dark side. So it is also with the two sexes, each
/ Of which has its strength and its weakness. II is
.. The law Of our plannet which is ever day on one
side and night on the other. Why then, should
we hesitate to show the dark side of even our IA
T. yorites? The truth Of the portrait would disarm
opposition, and tend to promote the reconciliation
of parties, who have all been fighting for ages like
e the two knights before the statue, which was black
: on one side and white on the other side thew did
r not discover their mutual mistake till they had dis
lbled each other.
Tue COST OF CRIME IN OHIo.-The following
: statistics are from the report of the Attorney
General of Ohio for last year Number convicted
of murder in the second degree; 7 manslaughter.
r 20; rape, 9; bigamy, l arson, 5 burglary, 81
4 assault with intent tn murder, 10; to ravish, 2; to
II rob, 2: grand larceny az from Hamilton % \ AZ.