Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-01-13
UNIVERSAL EDUCATION.
ny HORACE GRIZZLY.

UNIVERSAL EDuCATION.
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Universal Education! Grand, inspiring
idea! Anc shall there come a time when the
deliver in the mine and the rice swamp, and
the orphans Of the prodigal and the felon.
the very offspring Of shame, shall be truly
Systematically: educlted! Glorious consuma.
ton! twilight Of the Millennium! who will not
labor, and court sacrifices, and suffer re-
,proach, il he may hasten by even so much as
a day, its blessed coming? Who will rot
take courage from the contemplation Of what
the last century has seen accomplished; IL
not in absolute results, yetin preparing the
approaches, in removing implements, in
correcting and expanding the public compre-
hension Of the work to be done, and Of the
feasibility of doing it? Whatever of evil
and of suffering the future may have in store
for us, though the earth be destined yet to
be ploughed by a sword, and fertilized by
human gore, until rank growths of the dead
licst weeds shall overshadow it, sitting into
premature decay every plant most conducive
to health or to fragrance-tlc tim, shall
surely come, when true and universal educ l.
ton shall dispel the dense night Of ignorance
and perversaness that now enshronds the
vast majority Of the human race; shall ban
earth, BY removing or upmasking the multi
form temptations to wrong toings; sh Ill put
an end to robbery, hatred, oppression, and
war by diffusing widely and thorough a
li,.m. consciousness Of the brotherhood Of
nj ,nsi,d and the sure bles cdness as we'll rs
ris III 5ousness of doing ever as we would
have others do to US. ssTrain up child in
the way he should 90, and when he is old he
will not depart from it. Such is the prom
| Use which enables us to gee to the end Of the
dizzy wh;rl Of wrong and misery in which
our ace has long sinned and suffered. On
wise and systematic training, based on the
wild st knowledge, the truest morality, and
tending ever to universal good, as the only
assurance Of special or personal well-being
rests the great hope Of the terrestrial reno
walton and elevation of man.
| Not the warrior, then, or the statesman,
nor yet the master worker as such, but the
teacher in our day leads the vanguard of hui
manity. Whether in the seminary, or by the
wayside, by uttered word or printed page,
one true kim, is not he who best directs the
seige, or sets his squadron in the field or
| he .ds the charge-but he who can and will
instruct and enlighten his fellows, so that at
least some few of the generation of whom lie
is, shall be wiser, purer, nobler, for his liv-
ing among them, and prepared to carry for
ward the work of which he was An humble
instrument, to its far grander and lofteir
consumation. Oh, far above the conquerer
of kingdoms, the destroyer Of boss by
I the sword and the bayonet, is he whose
fearless victories red len no river, and
whiten no plain; but he who leads the UNDER
standing willing captive, and builds his
empires not of the wretched and bleeding
fragments of sublugated nations, but on the
realms of intellect which he has discovered
an planted, beneficial activity and enduring
| Joy! The matthew atician who in his humble
study, undisturbed as yet by the footsteps cf
monarchs and their ministers, demonstrates
the existence of planet, before unsupported
by astronomy and unobserved by the tcles.
cope; the author who from his humble gar
ret, sends forth the scroll which shall con-
strain thousands to laugh or weep at his will,
who topples down venerable fraud by an
/ allegory Or brushes down a dynasty by an
epigram, he shall live or reign over still
increasing dominion, when the Dashboard
kings, whose steps are counted in court cir
culars, and timed by stupid huzzas shall long
since have mouldered and been forgotten.
10 build out into chaos and dread vacuity;
to render some corner of the primal darkness
radiant with the presence of an idea; to suE-
plant ignorance by knowledge, and sin By
| virtue; such is the mission OF our age, Hor-
| thy to enkinde the ambition Of the Hottest,
yetproffering opportunity and reward to the
most lowly. 10 the work of universal en-
| lightenment be our lives henceforth contract
ed, until the black clouds of impending evil
are irradiated and Dispersed by the full ef-
fulgence Of the divinely predicted day when
call shall know the Lord, from the least I'M
to the greatest" and when wrong and woe
shall vanish forever from the presence of uni
versal knowledge, purity and bliss