Eaton Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1843-1856, 1855-03-22
QUOTATIONS.
A Lecture, BY I. s. Morris. Esq,
Principal of Eaton Union Schools.


he may not do without an education; not
because he may not go through the world,
after a manner, without il; not because he
may not thriVeAeven grow fat, from an
abundance Of the good things of this life;
not because he may not acquire property.
and grow into responsibility, through the
medium Of dollars and cents,-for how
many thousands do we meet in all the
walks of life, who are rich in purse, but
poor in mindl How many who ride in
line coaches, live inpalaces, dressin-gew--
gaws, and live ,on the c~ostliest Siands,
who know not what the air is made of
How many, with all the c~onveniences re-
quisite to make life happy, exhibit a pitt
able ignorance Of those things with which
all should be familiar! Then the c%ultiva-
ton of the whole human intellect is not
absolutely necessary to the maintenance
of the body, for God has furnished us
with an instinct, that viii see to it that the
body does not suffer. Not more reliable
is that intuitiye knowledge, that sends the
~season'birds Ito the milder South each
returning autumn, than is that same
knowledge in man. Observe the Indian,
how carefully he provides in the spring,
his patch of corn for summer, and how
each autumn finds him laying by his stock
of skins and furs for clothing, and a plen-
tiful supply of venison and bear meat for
the winter. His wants are few, but as his +,
wants are, so, in a simple ratio, are his
preparations. And SO it is with all races
of men. Their actual or supposed neces-
sites are provided for naturally. The
Indian, as has been observed, wants but
little; therefore are his provisions for the
future very limited. He needs no pro-
perty, therefore he acquires none. He
expects his offspring to pursue the same
mode of life, and consequently they need
nothing at his hands.
Go where civilization has raised man
from the savage state; where he has
eSchewed Natures spontaneous produce
tons, or rather considers them insufficient
to supply his wants; where he has swept
away the forests, and spread there his
ample fields, built towns and cities, and
sent away his ships to bring him Injuries
of other lands,-his wants are much in
creased; he wants more himself, and when
death removes him, he desires to leave his
sons and daughters a patrimony. Thus
are his desires and labors naturally in
creased. And this is as true of the UNI
cultivated, as Of the cultivated mind
Yes, far truer is it, for the uncultivated
mind--and what | mean by the unculti.
waited mind, is one that has not been har-
.moniously cultivated, or one which has
received all its culture in one direction
has but the one desire, the n mastering
love, the one moving passion: to grow
rich, and to give to all his heirs a hand
some estate when he needs it no longer.
Hence, in many instances the uneducated
man far outstrips his better informed
neiglbor. Then it lis not because man has
needs, physical wants which must be sup,
piled, that he should be educated but
because he is a man.
Nan! what is he? An immortal crea.
ture, an animal divine. TO all the ami
mails was given instinct, a kind of physi-
cal intellect; but to Man, the browning,
work, the wonder of the universe, God
gave an immortal soul, an undying mind,
an essence of himself, a spirit that should
live as long as Time should last; and from
this wondrous soul He withheld hone Of
His W attributes. 1t was the breath, of
God, the inbreathing of His spirit, that
caused man to be aliving soul. He was an
animal endowed with Gods own powers,
and only modified by the temple, the clay
tenement in which they dwelt. And in
answer to this power from his Maker, in
to the wisdom and the omnipo-
tence of his nature, he was to have domin-
ion over the Earth and all that in it dwelt
He has had dominion, and mark the effect
of his ruling. The wilderness Earth has
been planted with flowers. The pathless
ocean, that lashed unknown shores, has
been rendered the great highway Of the
world, with all its rocks and reefs, its bars
and currents, mapped with Daguerrean
precision. The rivers that for long CEN
turtles tumbled from their homes in the
mountains, through their wood-g chan
nels to the sea, with nought to mark their
passage but the wild animal from his
brushwood lair, nought to stay their cur
rents throughout all their wild career, are
now spanned by bridges and covered with
the product of human toll. Mountains
and hills have been levelled or tunneled,
as suited mans fancy best; the Earth has
been hoped with railroads, until every
mans door lisa market, land soon, with
lightning for his news car, his house
will always be in speakingdistance, though
the whole diameter of the Earth should
intervene. Wherever a man may be, he
can say in his power, "Letme know how
the loved ones at home get on" and ina
moment he shall know. Then the Earth
was a great maze, a wilderness of woods
and waters, upon which the sun and moon
looked down in vain. Throughout the
day the sun sent down his beams, but to
be reflected from the leafy coat, without
ever touching the body Of the Earth; and
at night, the moon looked down but to-
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