The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-21

posed posstohity Of his acquiring new faculties,
still lcsa does truth change They speak falsely Who say
that truth d the daughter Of time il is the child Of
ote,ny ana a. G,a A. the Divine mind The perception
nothing Of the succession Of ages Neither does mo-
raty need 10 perfect itself It is what II always has
the sea or the dry land than the earth the sun Tho
relation OF good to evil is from the beginning and a un
aiterabe The progress Of man consists in this that he
himself arrives az the perception u truth. The D. vine
mind which IS It's source left to be discovered deve
oped and appropriated by finite creatures The life Of
individual is but breath ii comes forth like dow
er, and aees like shadow. Were no other progress
therefore, possible than that of the Individual one age
would have little advantags over another But every
man pArtakes OF the same faculties and is
sl with all 1t follows that the race also has an exist
ence OF its own and this existence richer
sense implies by It's very name that each individual
il to contribute share towards the gene
raj intelligence. The many are wiser than the few
the multitude than the philosopher the than the n
divdua and each successive age than its predecessor
The social condition Of century faith and its inst
tutions, are always analogous to its acquisitions
Neither philosophy nor government nor political nsti
tutons, nor religious knowledge, c1n remain much be-
hind much in Alliance Of the totally Of contem
workman the materials with which he builds The out
break Of revolution is but the pulsation Of the age
tss Of ssSorn 70 t rs with
philosophical system is the Photograph Of the passing
condition Of public thought The state which we are
Is mans natural state at this moment but Il neither
should be nor can be his permanent state for social
istence il flowing on in eternal motion with nothing
fixed but the certainty of change. Now BY the neces-
sity Of the case the movement of the human mind
taken collectively ia towards something better
There exists in each individual alongsde Of his own per-
sonalty, tue ideal man who represents the race lie
bears about within himself the consciousness that his
life is struggle and at every moment he feels the an
asonism between his own limited nature and the better
lite of which he conceyes He cannot state proposi.
ton respecting finite object but it includes also re-
ference 10 the infinite. Hecannot form judgment Blu.
4 combines ideal truth and partial error and as con-
sequence. s6es action the AnagOuism between the
true and the perfect the side and the
false and the imperfect on the other. And in this
contest the true and the perfect must prevail,
for they have the advantage of being perennial.
In public life BY the side Of the actual state Of the world
which il its natural state there exists the ideal state
towards which it should tend This antagonsm lies AT
the foundation Of all political parties that have
been, or ever can be formed The elements which
they rest whether in monarchic arstocracies In re-
pubcs are but three not of which be wanting,
society falls TO ruin The Of human destiny
rope Of three strands party may found itself
things they are strive for their unatered per-
petuity this is conservatism always found wherever
established interests exist and never capable of unmin
gcd success, because finite things always In motion
Or party may be founded theoretic right and strug
gle unrclenngly to conform society to the absolute law
of truth and Justice and this which is the party OF
thusass, can likewise never perfectly succeed because
the materials OF which society is composed parake of
imperfect;on and TO extrpatc all that ismpecct would
lead TO the destruction OF society itself And there
may be third party which seeks to reconcile the two
but which yet thrive by itself since IL depends
for its opportunity of activity the previous antagon
could not spin their thread As the motions the solar
world require the CENTRIFUGAL force which, by clfnlone
would draw all things into central confusion the centr
fusa force which, uncontrolled would hurl the planets
tangent into infinite space; and lastly that
harmonyso society has within itself the elements
Of conservatism, Of absolute right, and Of reform.
The state Of the world is accepted by the
and benevolent rs its necessary and natural state But
at the same time, the practical statesman whose heart
has been purified by the love OF humanity. and whose
purpose soemnized by faith in the immutabity Of jus.
n viii In fDrmp
ages in his own the human mind may have mastered
and to make every advancement that the culture of his
time will sustain. In word he will never omit OPP
porunity to lift the world oat of the inferior sphere OF
its actual and natural condition into the higher and
merits OF statesmen to be tested by this criterion
speak Of the judgment Of humanity not of the opinion
OF classes. The latter exalt and defy the advo
Gates Of their seshness and often measure out their
praise by the degree Of daring with which and truth
have been made to succcumb to their Interest," They
lavish laurcls all the profusey to hide the badness
OF their heroes. But reputation impaired is ike
everything else that rests only the finite. Vain il
the applause Of factions, the surages those
away like the Interest," OF classes, but the names Of
those who have studied the well being of their fellow
men, and in their generation have sought to raise the
world from the actual to the ideal Is repeated in all the
temples Of humanity and lives not only in its intelli
gcnc., but in its heart These they whose glory
calumny cannot tarnish, nor pride beat down. Con
Meeting themselves with their exam
pie loses its ustre and the echo OF their footsteps
Is heard throughout all time with sympathy and love
The necessity of the progress of the follows there
re from the fact that the great Author of all truth
has left it in its immutaby to be Observed and has
endowed with the power of observation and gene
ralzation Precisely the conclusions will appear
ii contemplate society from the point Of view OF the
unity OF the universe The unchangng character OF law
is the only basis which continuous action rest
Without II man would be but the traveller end
less the builder quicksands; the mariner
without compass ruddcr driven successfully WHITTIER
soever changing winds may blow The universe ia the
reflex and image of its Creator The true work Of art
says Michael Angelo, 'is but shadow Of the Divine
tnnG Va may q y a m AMI
that beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Inf
mite that all creation is the eiuence OF the Almighty;
not the result of caprice but flowing out from his
perfecon and the universe thus produced is always
in the of change the regulating mind is living
Providence, perpetually manfestng itself If his
designs could be hwarted should lose the great evil
dence Of his unity, well as the anchor OF
hope Harmony is the characteristic Of the world Of in
tellgencc and immutabe laws Of moral existence must
peryade all time and all space all ages and all worlds.
The comparative anatomis has studied analyzed and
classified every species OF vertebrate existence to be
found NOW the earth in the air, In the rivers, in
the deep, among the fossil remains Of lost forms
Of being; and he discovers that they all, without
ss s%a % nreheype essea ppe
to the creation OF the first Of the kind Shall we,
then, hesitate to believe that the system of law likewise
pervades the moral worlds We cannot shut eyes to
the established fact that ideal archetype pre-
scrbed the form of animal lfe and shall not believe
that the type Of all intellectual life likewise exists in the
Divine mind? know that there is pride which calls this
atasm and which rebels at the thought that the will Of
the Father OF life should what he has made There
selves the constant OF that power which the
great English poet represents the bad angels to have lost
hcavea for once attempting to usurp they are not con
tent with being gifted with the faculty of discerning the
counscls Of God, and becoming happy by conforming to
his decrecs but claim the privilege of acting rrcspec
tive OF these DEGREES. Not satisfied with having been
created in his image they assume the liberty to coun
tersct his will They do not perceive that cosmcal order
depends the universally and absolute certainty of
law that for that end events in their not
merely fixed AraTa; and the Andes but follow laws
that are much older than Andes Ararat-that
old as those which upheaved the mountains The glory
Of God is not contingent mans good WILL but all
tence subserves his purposes The order OF the universe
Is celestial poem whose beauty IL from all eternity
and must not be marred by human interpretations
Things proceed as they ordered in their nice and
well adjusted and perfect harmonyso that the hand
Of the skilfu artist gathers music from the harp
strings history gathers it from the well tuned chords
Of time. Not that this harmony can be heard while
events passing Philosophy after events, and
gives the Of them and describes the nature of
their results The great mind of collective may
day arrive at acknowledgements to interpret the
present. and forete the future but yet the of
present actions though ourselves take part In Them
seems shaIecss and unintelligble. But all Is 'one
whole men, systems. nations. the race, all march l.,