Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-07-21


vanced, perhaps one child in hundred
thousand, and, in more favored nations,
one child in ten thousand, has been ad.
mitted to the opportunities Of knowledge.
Forthwith, the men capable Of construct
ing the institutions or the engines Of hui
man Improvement and adornment, ap-
peared and in numbers, too, far beyond
the proportion or share Of the constituen-
cies from which they sprang But if, in
stead Of striking the fetters Of prohibition
from one In hundred thousand, or from
one in ten thousand, those fetters are strick-
en- from all, and indictments to exertion
and aids to self development are supplied to
all, then, Immediately, quick as water
gushes from unsealed fountains, Sher-
mans rise up from the shoemaker's bench,
Beeche-s come from the blacksmith's an
vii, and Bowditches and Franklins from
the ship chandler's and the tallow-ehand-
ler's shop, and new GALAXY shines forth
over all the armament Of genius. These
are truths which the uneducated nations
do not understand-truths too, which the
caste. men, whether of birth or of wealth,
do not wish to understands
1t is in this way that the Common
School awakens talent, and sets it in mo-
tion. And when once the inward impetus
of native talent is aroused, ecu may as
we'll attempt to stop the whirling Of a pla-
net, as to arrest the possessor Of that gift
Then comes the function of College, to
guide, replenish and speed it en- its i'm
mortal course.
And here open upon US the great utili-
tartan views 81 education, as preliminary
to its higher and lobler spiritual functions
As we survey the present. condition of the
world and look forward to the we'll being
of pos,crity,we find problems to be solved,
which virtue alone can never solve, which
piety alone can never solve; but for which
only knowledge, talent, genius, that is,
intellect can furnish the solution. The
coming generations are to be fed, clothed
and sheltered-not miserably as the abo-
rigines were by the precarious chase, or
the earth's spontaneous growths; not in
skins and caves; but with abundance and
certainty, with comfort and elegance
The heather humanity heaped up in all
our great cities, six stories high, Gn Edin-
burgh, have seen it eleven stories high }
the wretched inmates of the Irish mud
house, of the Hottentot kraal, and Of the
Tartar tent, are to be provided with de-
cent home for every family. Mankind at
large are to be educated, not only few
beloved Benjamins, but all the sons-and
all the daughters, too-and all inconceiv-
ably above our present standards. The
libraries of which our cities are now proud,
must exist in all our towns. Apparatus
for explaining the wonders of nature, mu-
seums, cabinets, gardens, such as now en-
rich our Colleges, must be in the posses
sion Of our Schools. The means of men
tai and moral growth must come and stand
around our children and youth, unasked
and unrurrhased, as air and light now
come to their cradles All heather lands
are to be civilized and ChristianiEcd and
what we now call civilization and Chris
tianity are to be purified and elevated into
forms indefinitely higher than at present
prevail.
*To the more advanced half Of Chris
tendon, the prizes voted at the London
Fair, [the Crystal Palace Exhibition of
1851 by the Juriors and by the Council
of Presidents were one hundred and Jour.
To the less advanced half of Christeudom,
the prizes voted by the same tribunal were
tro. To the totality of non-Chris'ian ma
tion., composing two-thirds Of the thoie
human race, nothing. [Report of the
French Commissioners to the Industrial
Exhibition