Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1854-11-05

pave nothing to fear. Let knowledge virtue worth
everywhere esmatedet shams be exposed and hel
upto meed rdeue and all workers for the goo
OF the race will rejoice and gain strength true progres
must 60 on cannot be stopped BY slow degrees and i'm
Pereephle movements like the great changes of Nature
must go And let lover Of liberty and virtu
be discouraged. Vegetation with the hchen
and swells with riches and luxursnce till its summer car
pet the whole earth, and its stores I'LL up al
the channels OF want. The continents earth upol
which millions daily born and daily die but the ag
grgaon of innumerabe and slowly collected parts. AMI
NAL life from the topidy of the OYSTER powe
and energy of So slowly by appointed steps,
the giant social fabric that shall yet unite the human family
and battle the ear in the sunlight of Gods presence
everywhere through rejecting mirrors of
hearts The spring Of human improvement is opened
its streams earthly power stopno helsh power
sop-and no heavenly power would stop! Let rejoice
then, TO believe that the world has had infancy child
hood and is advancing to its manhood.
But it not upon the dignity labor as connected with
the influence of art regulated liberty that desire To
exhaust attention We could we desired make
out catalogue of the arts and of their lodged beue
hts Much less could make catalogue OF their I'd
ture wonders and discoveries Already we are running
race with time and outrunnng sun along our tele
graphic wires under the and earth We Great
ures of day. atoms of boundless universe and
borne about ourselves by secret Influences philosophy
secret, disclosing secrets every
day Upon minds the wonderous visions Of
things to eome while yet have vision that explains
to ourselves Industry worked in the mines
of the material world much the neglect its soul,
and the attention must be directed that way now And
strange facts are being dug up by industry directed
For example, what, would say, thai have had poph
eces OF all the great facts that marked progress
but the mind was not vide awake from its pulling
infancy to hear, it heard Dreams and stoned its
prophets as dreamers mageansl No one of you would
m and Vatn ooIa
statement not without truth. modern journal
10 my hand the following
Semramis set up pillar, which it was written--sI
semiranis by means of iron made over mpassabe
mountains, where no beasts come'"
Friar Bacon than four hundred years ago said
'Brdges, unsupported by arches can be made II span
the foaming current shall descend to the bottom of the
safely breathing, treading with firm step on the
golden sands, brghtsnedb light of day. Call bat
the secret powers of Sol and Luna into and behold
single steersman, sitting at the helm guiding the vessel
"heh divides the waves with greater rapdy than if
had been filed with crew of mariners tong at the oars
And the loaded charo longer eueumbered by the pant
ing steed darts its relentless force and rap
idy Let the and simple do thy labor bind
the eternal elemens and yoke the same plough"
iere Is poetry and pbu @sOphy wound together maknga
wondrous chain of pophesy. Who shall adventure upon
solution of that golden cain the oldest of Us
descended from heaven 10 earth, linking them were
were indissnluble '-Blaekpood, for February 1851.
Surveying these wonders and call 10 mind the trumph. of
AIT and industry and look forward weassured hope
TO the future discoveries of science in the realms
matter may say with profound truth as reverence
that God in human labor, and he is in it that he may
prHmoe human progress Men have wakein labyrnts
Of gnoance and fancy and have the maze
of their own be~ deed magnngs they sought he
philosophers sone the aembc youth or the fam
cied glory of buren ONE and hem useless wealth But
God has guided the light and the widest vagae Of
their thought have led wisdom Done and ther
words have been put down by the power OF ar facts
might be sed from fancies and in allotted hour come
forth 10 bless the world Thus child takes apple and
the law of gaytaton down The bos upon the
dr and the steam engine With all its gigantic machines runs
To and fro in the ealih the bidding # Men under
ground in houses rather caves walled with stones are v
yng knowledge and calling alchemy chemistry is the
cd OF lis parerage whose great mysteries death
TO reveal Deeply Imaginative minds up the stars a.
they adon the canopy Of night and calculate the fortunes
rince an states; wonders of bound
held together by eternal law ard arranged by The hsnds OF
pure and potent genius the astronomy Reason
es in mental philosophy themselves Of reason and
ioisake the wholesome air OF TRUTH speak in dresms Of
drea ms and talk OF magic; and mental philosophy,
rImltvs truths appears the consciousness OF philosopher
and mind, and helps to reconcing joyous faith and
hope Thus the dreams of the dreamer visions o
the seer and noble thoughts and enRobng discoveries are
woven INTO the thread of this otherwise dull ploddirg
me- and truth comes forth from its swaddg clothes bless
aud elevate tie race Truth, like the wrought ron gives
forth its sparks when beaten formed into shape
Now is n the rude quarry red and the white
bat again plunged with Kissing the cold tub or
doubt and forth hard ugly enough 10 fri hn every
one hut the sku smith, and under his hfnery it Will vet
shine with polish thai AL will admire. Perpetual motion has
not been dcOyered but the progresses of machinery for
mills and factories, and roads, railways have gone on
and mind be perpetual enough thought to grasp
the result
happy hit that brings discover bis
g n 10 ne race; and this thought alone viii ma s ~
blessing received and appropriated kfuness
age fu of inventions, which can be nIv
traced. We follow the chain; bestow honor here and
there satisfied that not found ali ts
links They up into the Divine Sps that peTyades
and guides and governs the whole Ihe inyentfve rfnS
multiplied, whose activity and whose advancement in
knowledge and science We may all share, under the ia
cies for the transmission # knowledge, though no one
of picture the wonderful futarty Could the spirit
migtet thinker Of the world stand up before
he would realize that he dream equal
present reality. Could he cables twisted into
though they shreds of tape ponderous masses
suspended without cord, by power called magnet-
Ism; the thousand marvellous worlds by the e-
scop and innumerable worlds revealed Thoughts The
rads OF living creatures making universe every leaf
tree Of drop of water, disclosed bY Inc mi
croscppe could he the machinery modern me-
chantc at work. aud have Inc worlds life and ali business
up before him. did in the Crystal Palace he might
weu Bard Of Avon, lind that poetry alone can
speak truth; and l. but fahtly when il exca'ms
What piece of man! how noble reason! how
Infinite in faculties, In fOm ana moving
admirable! d action how like angel! in appreben-
like god! The beauty of the wOrd the paragon
of anmalsi And this stock OF inventions must be en-
larged power Of mind has limit. Its work ssp in
human brain the great in rumentaty subject
world. Nho them will underyaue the dIDj
" OF Vino blind nothing all this but
disgraceE - Who du see pothfnq in
the nineteenth century tall chimney and black smoke
imaginative, the smoke itself becomes an en-
bodied whose feet the earth opens and
they to the sp conducted through
the chambers treasures
nature and by transition TO palpabe reaty NAV
find themselves garden covered with CRYSTAL to behold
all beauteuus things and precious for fruit such as
Aladdin and fountains throwing liquid gems and
the ends of the eaTh brought
by enchan tment-and this Is the Iomance Geaty!,
wished to by single thought That thought mas
been indirectly stated, but refer clear
then, the most important and
cries are acCdenty made by are searching for
something else and the unexpected realizes much
or ID ore than the worker could have realized
and thus humbles while it elevaes him. Need refer to IN
stancesr Why the very gas that lights streets was
it by tubes guite and was thus
made to illuminate every important civilized
world Nature makes nothing for ieif for Divine
cence presdes Every fact in but 10 md in
iadd nyenUn by which angels ascend up
on the habtatiOns of We whittier that lad
der reaches it touches the earth, deyesup
its secre = Lhey 1Oa Heaven over the
ing with not suspected by the dscoverer,
baueats VIII" never hear OF their benefactor.
But who shall speak OF the rumphs of the workers in
electricity, by whose magic time and distance al
most annihiig ed Electricity is beginning
upon the Grain that holds togethtr a created