Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-10-24
Fur Ae Democrat s Sentinel
The Students Goal.

deck brow proud with having Won the race. I
We are nov, by rigid preparation, by making |
ourselves strong and ninble by the application Of
Greek oil, Latin extracts and mathematical sou-
tions, by becoming freed from the sickly excfecen
ces of corrupted nature. in fine. by employing
every method to it us for the sublime tragedy Of
existence, about to enter with barks of infinite
variety of structure upon the stormy sea ofSlie,
which pours its foods of bitter, and sweet, wick
ed and good into the ghastiy abyss of eternity.
Mark we'll the structure of thy craft, that she
is well corked and pitched; for tho singing oil
lows may capsize her and set thee floating without
r,idder or sail on, on to the great lysterious
! Tbs Students, Of all mems liyes,-ho who
pores over every lineament of nature--he who
scans minutely the beauties of every feature OF
Art, Of Science, of Literature-he, who not only
generalizes the labors of other men, but is also an
actual producer himself say, the Student's
life, the Students hopes, the Students prospects
are, in this age, the most glorious conceisable
All his exertions are but to lay new stone on
that great temple which has been IN process OF
construction ever since man began to draw con-
clusions from premises to pass single drop into
the great ocean of human thought -
He knows that his exertions, bis midnightlu
crubratons will tell for countless ages yet to come
| that they will be felt by millions
ssYet sleeping in the womb Of chaos. !" fss.s
He unfolds the great book Of nature He is:
transported by her instructions and her beauties
and with estate rapture views the harmonious
combinations, the deep signifcancy and wonder
full adaptation of all her parts to the wants Of the
spiritual universe. lie tracks in the great broke
of utter Absence the monsrous tall of gold sport
| ing like fish in the painless realms OF night,
names each great nail in the floor of Heaven,
marks out the boundaries of their .vild cAreering
fight with dreadful valor, leaps the back of. a
surveys the monsters tail floating millions of miles
back in the horrid void, at one time lasning the
stars and nebuse, or, at another bathing in that
| river of milk that flows from Creation's Begin
ming to Creation's End. The fiery steeds of Apol-
los do not outrun his wildly leaping fancy in its
| fight mid unseen worlds and the happy " music
of the spheres"
He admires the physical phenomena of his own
earth, seeks in Natures laboratory for the causes
of the strange variations and changes perpetuapy
going on in the material universe. deeompnses all
things into their primitive elements decompounds
the very means of existence into their specific in
gredients studies those ingredients, and tells his
wondrous tale to his brother of the plow, the
loom, the anvil.
Sated with the myriad beauties of the sky with
giant heart he seeks the burning bowels or his
mother earth, cages on the granite and superin-
cumbent strata with prophetic eye, tells q
mighty revolutions in the climate, in the SOIL and
in the outhires. Hesoon sees how powerful have
Lem the agencies of water, fire and air in chang
ing all material nature--beholds with what won
derful wisdom the great periods of the world.
existence divided into periods, in fine enters
new world oe wisdom that to most of the worit
is eternal arcamme.
History, with her Divine voice, Antiquity
spreading out the lovely fruits of the first gea
period of human civilization. gaze on him Will
their fascinating eyes. He walks among Cir
temples, the statues, the glded ceilings of palaces
FURNISHED with gold, sparkling with marble from
the hand of Hane,-through the Stardium, th
Amphitheatre, gazes on noble bust fresh from
the chisel of Praxitcles, admires the gorgeous lf
like images on the canvass-with wild passionat
Ieavings, hears the tragic muse cf Sophocles ans
Emipides, takes Socrates and Phato Cor his spirit
ual advisers and partakes of the convulsions Q
of the Greek Rhapsodists as they recite thawou
derful legend of fallen lime to staring rahbIs
The poor blind bard watts him along through th
:. Thousand Ised Sea- to the city doomed to de
struction by the Gods, pants to his eager, painting
Imagination the pallid corpse of Hector, besmear
ed with dirt and clotted gore, dragged by Achile
f thrice round the native walls of Aeneas, or in
halo Of beatiic glory hurries him to the might.
ones Of Heaven sit in council. - - =
There sits Jupiter on his ivory throne, with
tllunderbolt steaming from the artificial hells {
tie Cyclops, shaking earth aud heaven with hi
nod whilst the fre-eycd eagle is crouching at hi
: feet. At his right stands the tall youth apollo
r whose Tyre still rings with celestial melody o
his left the little fat, ruddy, red nosed Bacchus
0 and lame old Vulcan stands. with hammer an
thunderbolt in either hand. Gods, Fauns, Satyrs
: Nymphs, breads, Limnads from every part {
he'll aud heaven have formed a circle round fh
mighty conqufer of the giants. But where ar
Mars and Neptune2 Hark Hear them comii,
on the wings Of the morning. There! Hot frof
the hideous batsle-fiell comes grim old Mars
lighting flashing from his dealhiy black eyes be
spatered with blood and crimson gore plying tn
knotted lash to bis foaining chargers as they com
rushing and neigaing from Persas bloody plain.
The ranks Of the cclestials now hear the pantin
and snorting Of Ncptune's -stecds dripping Wit
the waters Of the brimy deep, while with ever
blow of his Trident, be calls into birth an islam
surrounded by Trytons Sea, monsters and Nyrppl
History loves hinls folds him TO her heart. Seate