Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-02-22

and career of either of those statesmen. the def
nite purpose for which he reads, and the animated
OBJECT it is to be applied, viii in all proba-
putty fx what he reads induliblY in his mind; and
20 the dry materials of knowledge will be added
tue v'rIdd vts of Argument and reasoning. You see
now, then, how wiselyithe first founders OF learn.
ing esta blished Institutions for YOU on the collie
gale principle; fixing the vague desire for knowl-
edge into distinct bounds, by lectures on chosen
subjects, and placing before the ambition of the
student the practical object OF honorable dstinc-
tion,-a distinction, indeed, that connects Itself
with our gentlest affections, and our most-as,ing
interests; for honors gained in youth pay back 10
our PARENTS while they are yet living, part 81
what we owe totheiranxietya and care. And what
ever renown university can confer abridges the
road to subsequent success, interests our cutem-
porarles nour career, anc raises up crowd eager
to cheer on our first mature efforts to make name.
The friendships we form at college die away as
lie divides us, but the honors gain there remain
and constitute portion Of ourselves. Who, :or
instance, can separate the fame OF q Brougham or
ma ntosh from the reputation they established
at the University of Edinburgh2 Loud cheers.)
The variety of knowledge embraced in the four
DIVISIONS, which are here called faculties, allows
10 every one an ample choice, according to the
olas Oh each several mind or the profession for
which the student is destined. But there is one
1wotold branch Of humane letters in w hich the
universities OF Scotland are so renowned that l.
must reier to II specially, though the reference
must ee orlei-l mean moral and metaphysical
nhyloSophY, which in Edinbureh especially has been
allied to the graces blythe silver style of Dupald
stewart, and taken the loneliness which Plato
aScrlbes to virtue from the beautiful intellect OF
b1o%n, Now, it'would be idle 10 ask the general
studentto make himself profou nd Ia Musician
YOU might as.well ask HIM TO ma Ike himself great
poet both the one and the Other are born for
their calling; not made by our advice, but their
own irresistible impulse. But liberal view of
the principle theories as 10 the formation of the
ha Inf lent "
conduct is of essential service to all about to enter
upon busy practical lie. Such stud es quicken ouf
perceptions of error and virtue, enlarge OF general.
hhowedge OF mankind, and enable our later expert
suce 70 apply with order and method the facts il
accumulateS. need not remind those WHO lnost
Tue great name OF Chalmers cheers)-or who henrt
me Lectures OF your'Principa two years ago, that
NJ Mo1ai Philosophy is the handmade OF Divinity
que ~ also Inc sister OF jurisprudence, and the
presiding genius of that art in which you are SO
famous; anu which, in order 10 heal the body
must often prescribe aternnt ives 10 the mind
more especially in those days when half our dis
eases come from the neglect of the body IN the
oVerwork OF the blain.' In this railway age The
wear and tear of labor and intellect go ON wi, hout
pause or self.pity. We live longer than our fore
fathers, but we suffer more from thousand ar,ifi.
eiai uhA'eties and cares. They fatigue only the
muscles, we exhaust the finer strength OF I'm.
nerves; and when we send lmpatiently 10 the doc
LOT, II ~ len to one but what he finds the acut,
complaint, which is all that we perceive connec-
tea with some chronic mental irritation, or some
unwholsome inyeteracy of haiti. Here, then, the
physician, accustomed TO consider how mind acts
upon body, will exercise with discretion the skill
!hat moral philosophy has taught him, Every one
Knows The difference between Two medical atten-
dants, perhaps equally learned in pharmacy md
Inc routine OF the schools; the one writes IN haste
t"e prescription we may we'll '.tlrow to the
uoss;' the other, by his soothing admonitions Ills
asteeaole converse, cheers up the gloomy spirits,
regulates the defective habits, and often uncon.
sclously to ourselves, "ministers 10 The mimi dis
eassa, anu piucks from that memory a rooted sor-
row. And the difference between them u.s. the
one mas studied our moral anatomy, and the other
has only look ed on as mere machines Of matter
to be inspected by peep at the tongue aud rem.
ialed by a touch of The pulse. And in Older ID
prove my sense of the connection between moral
and metaphysical philosophy and practical puthol-
ogy aud to pay joint compliment tu the two sci.
ences for which your College is SO pre eminent
here. as personal favor 10 myself, ,raye permi,.
SION oil the heads and authorities of the University
70 oher The prlze OF gold medal, for the current
year, LOT The best essay by any student ON some
special subjectimplying the connection sneak IF
whlch may oe selected in concert with The various
troiessors oil your medical schools and the p rof.s.
sors OF Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy. tLoult
appiause) Gentlemen-Allow me to prefnce Tn,
topic TO which now turn by communicating Won
on lhe acquisition your scholarship has recently,
made in the accomplished translator of H.chyIns
etotessor -(applausel-wh appears 10
have thrown so much light on the ancient lar
guage of the Greeks by showing lis snbstantisl
Identity with the modern. (Applause.) l now pro.
coed to impress on you the Importance of classical
stuules. shall endeavor 10 avoid the set phrases
OF deciamatory panegyrc which the subject loo
commonly proyokes. But il those studies appear
10 you cold anu tedious, the fault in the laeour
win winch they are approached. Do you think
hai me statue oil ancient art is but ifeiess mar
olef Animate II with your own young breath, and
instantly 1t lives and glows Greek literature lift
served you with nothing else, should excite your
curiosity us the picture of wonderouS state of
clViiizaon which, in 1t peculiar phases, the world
caa never see again, and yet from which every
succeeding state of civilization has borrowed its
Veliest touches If you take it first as mere re-
coru Il eVents-if you examine only the contest
between the Spartans and the Athenians-tlIeo one
as the representative offdura.ion and order, the
otherot change and progress both pushed 10 the
e&reme-there instantly rises before YOU. in the
noolest tones-through the grand=st illustrations
OIL history-thTough the cohesion of characters at
once human and her,ic-there Instantly saw rise
before you lessons which may instruct every aye
and which may especially guide the present. FIR
SO closely does Grecian history bear on the more
prominent disputes in our own day, that II is not
only full of wise saws, but still more OF modern
instances. pass by this view OF the political
value OF Grecian litesatur-, on which could not
well enlarge without perhaps, provoking party diff
ierences, 10 oer some remarks purely critical, and
to which bespeak your indulgence, i'll draw too
largely on yonr time. =
Concluded to-,no,ro.D.l
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