Washington telegraph., 1855-08-08

cation clear up his mental and moral Wis
ion. and he becomes the inhabitant OF
different World-a world of thought, taste.
intellect, sentiment, and Imagination. He
now looks out upon the visible universe
with rapture-kindling eye. qualified to ap-
preciate and enjoy every beauty, and to
sympathize with the deep universe about
him. He turns his eye upon the intel
lectual. introverts mind upon itself, and
investigates Its laws, subjects Its emotions
to the crucible of analysis, admires its
wonderful powers of thought. and then
feelingly exults in all that is beautiful and
majestic in the mind of man. He no
longer lifts his insect gaze, TO the vault
above hung with lights-"a mighty maze.
and all without a plan;' but he sees them
all in their aceordant elements, peopled
worlds moving in harmony, by one simple
law propelled through their everlasting
wheel Now, ask him for what price he
would consent to be thrown back upon his
ignorance, his vul gar appetites, his unedu-
Gated faculties. Offer him the fee simple
to kingdom. He would reply-''I have
that which enables me to appropriate not
kingdom only. but the empire of thought
of imagination the works of art. taste.
poetry and fiction are mine-mine to un-
dar,f,pJ 10 aniov -
GWhen the young eagle, with exulting eye,
Has learned to dare-the splendors of the sky,
And leave the Alps beneath him in his course,
To bathe his crest in morris empyreal source,
Will his free wing from that ajestic height,
Descend to follow some wild meteor'S light
Which far below. with evauescent fire,
ShI es to deude. and dazzles to expire;
No. still through clouds he wins his upward
way,
And proudly claims his heritage of day"
Thus individually and We may see
from the lights of history its ascendent and
modifying power nationally.
The history of nations which have sue
cessiveIy appeared upon the stage Of ac-
sioa and departed, points unerringly to
the fact, that the only palladium Of Ia
tion's prosperity, stability, and happiness,
is solid, substantial education-education
Of the mind-education of the heart to
all that is dignifying in human nature.
Without such culture the brilliant achieve
ments of genius are meteors which cor
ruscate for moment, and then expire,
bequeathing to succeeding time nothing
but a corrupting influence.
That liberty is Incompatible with igno-
rance and vice, is a maxim Of political
philosophy. If we examine the records
of the past with microscopic view, we will
fail to discover, that any corrupt, licen-
tious people ever retained their freedom,
or recovered it permanently when lost.
Phlosophic education, blending the pure
doctrines of Christianity and the teachings
of the most distinguished philosophers oi
the age. may be emphatically styled na-
tons bulwark Virtue and prosperity
dwelt at Rome. so long as she was under
the healthful influence of the stern doc
trines of ZENo; but when they were sup
planted by the unhinging and baleful phi
losr ply of EPIcURps,-and extensive con-
quest had accumulated wealth-corruptio
dark and fetid, like desolating whirl-
wind, hurled her from the pedestal of ma
tions, and she sunk beneath the arm Of the
Goth, the Vandal, and the Hun, to rise
no more.
We here see clearly the effects of q
moral cause. Physical laws have not chang
ed, and human nature is still the same,
but has the once proud mistress of the
world risen from her long sleep. encir-
cled by new gIories The same. bright
and beautiful sky still bends over Italy
her mountain scenery-her flowing riv-
ers-her olive and vine clad hills are still
the same as in the days of CINcINNATUs !;
but there was then a moral power alive,
and this moral power was derived from
the nature of their education When this
influence ceased, Italy entombed her lib-
critics in the grave of virtue. The hour
of her regeneration is not yet. nor can
it be while her system of education is
what it is. Still fingers too the hour for
the resurrection of Greece-illustrious, en-.
thusiastic. philosophic Greece
The once bright cline OF battle and of song,
Where at each step imagination burns"
A voice comes up from the depths of
history-from Greece and Rome-stand-
ing monuments of moral and intellectual
death. Announcing the inevitable fate of
this great Republic, if the sound cult
walton of mind and heart should ever be
neglected
1t is understood in Europe that what led
to General CANRoBERT's resignation of the