The Gonzales inquirer. [volume] (Gonzales, Tex.) 1853-current, 1854-02-25
[For the Inquirer.
College Laxity.

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"Though syllogisnis hang not on my tongue,
am not surely In the wrong;
'ris hard Il nll IL false that advance
fool must now and then be right by chance"
Cowper.
Like one, whom j wish could initiate IN
other respects, have strong propensity to
begin this chapter very nonscnsically, and
will not balk my fancy accordingly set of
thus:
Tho, gentle reader, you may not perceive
what intend to write about, yet assure you,
that have plenty TO say nnd only at loss
how to commence invoke tho assistance of
all those malignant spirits who have ever nj.
fiictcd poor mortals with "cacocthis scribcn.
di." have heard Of the "hydrostatic para
dox," Of "Mr. Lockc's paradox respecting idcn-
tity," and some others; but Of all paradoxes,
~nnccnt or modern, mono arc so anomalous, so
pcrplexing, as those which arc to be found in
the transactions of tho little ieoyM of n col.
lego. Look around you, and nearly every fell
low-student is n paradox. So far from :" SEM
per instans sibi," the fool lies concealed in in
consistcncics, SO that II requires all your phi
losophy and a good heutlway OF some body
cisc's, and that often fails to reconcile him
with himself Indeed were II not for glorious
Metaphysics, which assures you that you
must believe for you cannot disprovc il, you
might be disposed to doubt his IDENTIFY
and perhaps your own too, II you ever turn
your eyes within for you may DO one of these
very paradoxes.
That each from others differs frat confess;
Next, that hc varies from himself no less"
mean nothing more than that you have
some one's knife In your pocket, whilst he is
Tnnning all over college to 6oTo,c one, suppo,
sing his to be lost or that you have taken
some friends note book and are keeping 1t
very quietly, tho you know 1t Is advertised; !;
or that you have wed Any cents, or a
gingcr-cake, and have forgotten torcturn 1t; !;
or that you have .toiyotten the repeated duns
for the last supper you gave. Eu un mot, :"
mean that you are an exceedingly forgctnnl
young man; for certainly In this favored land,
possessing such an enlightened system of ju-
] rispruacncc, such things could not proceed
sffom any other cause than defective memo.
mipdcd you would go and restore tho articles
in your possession and give nh equyalcnt Tor
those which have pcrishcd with. tho using
would not say another word; but th,re may
be some, who IN addition TO forgctfGlness, pos.
soss asaluggish, M iudolcnt and n procrastina.
Ting disposition, which illustrates oil their good
intentions aud resolutions. As advocate for
the Plaintiff i becomes necessary for ua to
: tiHE Svur case strong enough to overcome tho
Wis incrtlac'of these. i know that some ia
,idtnred persons are inclined TO believe that
those little indiseretions proceed nom design,
ana that their authors arc moi too good 10 com.
init them with malice prepsp,se. | canno, agree
10 this because il for no other reason, Il on,
poses my hyorito theory on this subject. Did
isnpposc that tho moral heuty OF any one
was 50 cbt,isc, so controlled hy habit and In.
du'goncc, would raise all the tliuudcrs cf
she Vatican, es ahles. Ii HE saiae thing. nil
Nio tctrors of Ethics about his head, until
Startled ccnsciepec would convert every man
into a Nathan, who saoud csclalln, "thee ar,
tho mani But ilrm the nature Of things
this Is irnposaiblc Can any ono nusse,l uron
q christian mothers iap, 30 fAr ArdisrsSasi tho pi.
Gus instructions which she inssillsd into his
;-esshA,l ..ssssas s..
bscnse an obi heia school, and has, little lat.
IN knocked into his esanIum with ruler and
With she haisl kauctslcA of . sour.locklns son
Of The birch. % Gar offend egsnss The best lex.
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s,.Islsy. the sacss rigid phasisee muss aamis
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