New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-12-17
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The day of old lsarning-when only the learned felt
competent to teach instruct the unnsructed many
has now apparently ended and every who WELD
with sufficient ability to render his writing ineligible
70 printers rushe at into the great field of letters
| determined to accomplish modern miracle Men who
cannot distinguish between Choctaw and Chinese women
whose whole education outside the nursery little better
than that Of Cnderelas sisters undertake the great task
of human enlightenment and the Herculean job public
instruction The blind wish to lead the blind and in the
vain effort both parties fall into the pit,
fanny will take up catalogue of the books maya
zines periodicals of the present day the truth of our
assertion will be strkingy apparent Those great works
which, years past the polyglots and encyclopedias
of human intelligence have The
ais and academicsns without rivals Instead and
in place OF them, have in every portion of own
land and in every other land yet discovered mushroom
growth envious of fame aud sufficiently ignorant to be-
eEe that they competent frame the alphabet and
prepare the primer from which the present all future
generations shall take their lessons. Their inquiries 90
farther than the snrface their deepest investigations
be fahomed by glance; all is hollow superficial and
JUNE Those who have solid intellectual substratu
on which to rest this immense amount Of rubbish may
perhaps glance at and over it without detriment
Those, however, who not prepared-apd who are
therefore, the most likely to suerare the general read
| ers and the inevitable sufferers.
Any taking up the yeowcovered stuff SO profusely
poured out--in sort Of intellectual diarrheaby the
publishing houses Of the North at the present time will
feel the truth and acknowledge the correctness of our
remarks. The catalogues which cunber the mails and
stand out in type-ical bss-reef from favored news
papers-contrary to Walter Scotts advicendcate their
character in manner sufficiently marked to warrant
instant action on the part Of literary They
of the lowest PASSIONS incentives actions with
the lowest intentions and in the abonable
They give beatifed nggers and dyinities of super
lative charms.
This sort of thing should be done away with Instantly
and forever Ii must write for Heavens sake let
them write sense at least make effort and approx
nation thereto. The of coursbp-sighs suppi-
cations and the want Of succeshave been worn
threadbare under the nbbing of many pens Robberes
are not now reputable they the hacyon days
Of Jack Sheppard and his kindred cutthrosts For rea
sons of profit therefore, well Of sense let this
medieval style Of excitement into its grave and being
peaceaby inferred let it peaceably remain until the
trumpet sounds for the judgment of such vainous stuff
In this day there is need, no use for it.
Men must however, read and their reading cannot be
confined to the musty tones Of old literature The world
is yet young and those living, live in the present
rather than in the past Let them therefore feed on the
grass that is and the heritage that the
living waters flow from crystalline fountains rather than
be pumped with labor and much trouble from wells that
are sckenug csterns long since eped Of all that is
pure Facts wanted-fction can have its past reign
renewed when the Of tie middle ages again
the and wields the scepter We wish 10 do and not
merely to dream for--