The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1855-02-27

l-Nia9nS, anu NJ. otE uSdl Will uIS ptouiASC.4i
a a'annood Of hoaest, vigorous efforts in the
paths of honorable euserPrise. .l-.Mea9an Joar.
cal Rf Eaueatio,:arE 60 l.
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- .sr, ,Detusionaabout Genitiy. sss 49,
~ va coonmosh mistake, especially with
!, Young S4tsn Of ability to suppose that what they
call genius; is sufficient for saccess 10 life. THY
sneer at The studteas as q stupid. book orms, D
Ederide the indusrrious,as "mere pledders'sand
bosst that it is only Beeessary for few minutes
in order TO conquer the m9st.diAeak tasks ~
We have seen ia our time, many such. we
have observed them, moreover Ill every walk
Of life. We, have known them A. quick kwerk
ing mechanics, as brilliant deelaimers in de-.
hating societies, as witty Sr>eioquent students
iu;coiiege. But we have lived long enough to
notice that most of them have made shipwseek
of themselves forever. The smart mechanic
kaisdailing to woek, slLaIee,week: when four or
6ys days labor would produce as mech as eth.
:ers earned ttou Monday, u,oraius VII Saturday
night, has generally acquired habas Of dissipa-
tion and idiehess, and ended sometimes IN the
penitentisry, but more frequently iI the drunk
ards grave. e'siowy orator has 6ec0fhe a
Flatp lawyer o. good :,iothTng editor or pot:
hease politician. ; ''Fhe idleNhUughabls student
has sunk ;hte fast young man.. and died
before reaching f6Fy,,sthsMctina of hisawu *
cesses. As welook back onsihose We knew
IF these :elasses, scarcely twenty years ago we
xs sles! that almost gsgeFa ruin y s1 has ssyersa
has there i astSrsty dtfsispes i; bes4seu /;
men, in point Of ability, We do no not pretend
TO deuy. This diRerenceis less great hoxey7
eFfsa Than is gsasfs1ly supposed and po geaias;
moreover, is safhciept of itself without dis
ciptine and study. fke difsreuca we say. is
not SO great is is- -qs4slly hs''eytd.: t is true
that one person may excel nuothsr il what. ia
! popularity called elequenset but generally ke is
deficient ~ something else, ss for example, in
the purely logical faculty. 4. witty lawyer:
liable to keeps rly h. a roar, may not. BE-, as
competent to argue @ i case ia :bane rs less
ffehcitous rival.. An excellent book keeper To-
whom long columns OF figures are nothing;
may yet have no mechanical faculty at all;
and good mechanic may be a poor accoint-
I ant: Nature wisely distributes her favors,
generally bestoSing different specfalites,' so TO-
| speak on different persons Jefers6i ~ss q
great civiian, out had mo; talent for fsar what:
fever Wayne was "a; splendid general, but
onnite at, Indifferent legislator: Putnam could
| head a charge sailahtly, OF defend a post he
,r"icaly, -buehfdi 20 head for planning a coa,'
preated campaign" In more humble lie we
I see similar, proofs -of:thls difference: There
are women; Tor instsnce, who ean cut and tit,
as If ;byinstinct,T, who seem, indeed, natural
born ma:.tua.nakers or >tallors. There are
others who always bungle if they attempt such
things, =. -. :.,......, y',::.-. ~ ...'i
! :, Everybody, IN fact who is,not an idiot, has
a favorite faculty. or to use the, proverbial
:, phrase, "a kuack Of doing something."' Now
genius, its true acceptation, rs a mack OF; doing
nsany things; or, in its narrow sense, is knsck
Of eHcelling in literature, politics.: or. Wal
But as, in, the humblest life, proficiency, even
III that for which the person has a peculiar
faculty, is only to be obsaued by practice, So
in the higher walks. of mind, diseiplineais ab.
soiutely necessary. The boy, who is put 70
learn tho stone cutters trade, because he is al
ways tnouldipg figures iu clay never becomes
sculptor unless be- studies hard. - The youth
ful dabler in water, eolors ueyer rises to- be
great painter, without long years devoted to
his art. The lad who makes capital college
speech, ends in becoming g., nerel wcEdy. de-.
l;claimer, unless he learns to think. was not
-lonly his talent for painting. which; won, for
Raj phael the title Of divine" but the: days
and nights be ,desoted TO mastering drawing
and composition The great Milton worked
hard at poetry for thirty years, endeaverinng. to
perfect himself before he began Paradise, Lost
same canhio, be said. 70 rely merely on What
is called geeias, is 70 insure failure, nay to
cast away opportunities bestowed by Nsture !;
it is, iii fact TO Squander, ike spendthrift, the
fbrtuDe, as it were, Which WAS given u'sdvauce
at birth:AlpAiadelphia Ledgtr: q! =" ''S| ',s
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