Washington telegraph., 1855-08-29

the mind, holds to its future existence,
the same relation which childhood and
youth sustain to manhood. As the defects
of early education are slightly remediable
by the labors of subsequent years, when
the susceptibilities of the minds faculties
are rendered obtuse, and its moulding. Pill
able nature is encased in the firm stabil-
tiles of unchangable habit, so the intel
lectual infrmities which adhere to man
through life. have no promise of any rem
edial provisions in the world to come
If this position be correct, we cannot fail
to fDd in it argument and Incentives to
mental culture, more potent than the worlds
fading interests can inspire.
The development Of mind, viewed in
this light, sinks all schemes for the ac-
QUESTION of wealth and personal aggran-
dizement into insignifcancy-and all other
considerations dwindle before it. Gorgeous
and magnificent structures are erected at
immense sacrifice of time and means, and
when erected are but a combination of
unconscious particles, which al conquering
time will destroy. The acquisitions of the
mind alone are enduring. The earth it
self. with all its pomp and grandeur, shall
be dissolved But
when wrapt in flames, the realms of ether
And Heavens last thunder shakes the world
below
the mind will survive the "wreek of mat
ter and crush of WORLDS and shine with
increasing splendor, in a heaven of pure
ntellection-rising higher in dignity. ex-
panding in beauty, and approximati ting
in perfection to its original. Here the
mind may sport with metaphysical subtle
ties. and walk. the airy round of science
and literature-but there its once boasted
acquisitions will appear in its inGnitively
more vivid conception, deep penetration,
and comprehensive grasp.-like the futter
ings of the microscopic insect, compared to
the sublime flights of the soaring eagle.
The mind is susceptible of an almost
boundless expansibility, and untold capaci-
ties for enjoyment. 1t the most resplendent
gem in the diadem of nature. Its immor-
tality to an endless progression invests it with
a mysterious and awful importance, and rem
ders its education subject of the highest
| Isf b1o tnJa
| But here we must arrest the progress of
| thought The theme is endless. Our con-
clusion from the foregoing is that as God
has endowed man with an instrument of
thought, stamped with dignity and immor-
tality,-and desi gned its development, clear
ly evinced by its restless curiosity to kuo,c
the christian who refuses to extend libe-
raj patronage to literary institutions, frus-
trates the purpose of deity. and is guilty of
a material failure of duty.
We have. VIC trust, sustained the PROPOSE
tion with which We set QUITO wit-:-That
it is the duty Of the patriot. philanthropist,
and christian to extend liberal patronage to
literary institutions.
We propose, at some future time, to show
what is implied in the phrase liberal pat
ronage," and direct special attention to the
institutions located in our midst, and call
upon our citizens so celebrated for their lib.
erality to foster them by their munifcence
until they are furnished with every appii-
ance requisite for the acquisition of sound
refined and finished education.