Spirit of the times. [volume] (Ironton, Ohio) 1853-1858, 1855-09-04

That the moral affections are planted
every where needs only TO be asserted To
be received. The savage mother love
her offspring with all the fondness which
mother can know. Beneath the odor.
Gus shade OF the boundless forests OF
Chill, the native youth repeats the story
Of love ns sincerely as ever it was chan
ted in the valley of Vauclusc. The ar.
fectons OF family are not the growth OF
civilization. The charities Of life are
scattered every where cnamclling the
wales Of human being, as flowers paint
the meadows. They are not the fruit of
study, nor the privilege of refinement,
but natural instinct.
Our age has seen revolution in works
Of the Imagination. The poet has sought
his theme in private life. Never is the
genius of Scott more pathetic than when
--as in the Antiquary--hc delineales the
sorrows ofIa poor fisherman, or, q, in the
Heart Of Mid Lothian, he takes his he.
roine from cottage. And even Words.
worth, the purest and most original poet
of the day, in spite of the inveleratc
character Of his political prediectons,
has thrown the light Of genius on the
walks of the commonest life he finds
a lesson in every grave Of the village
churchyard he discloscs the boundless
treasures Of feeling in the peasant, the
laborer, and the artisan the stroIling
pedlar beco ncs, through his genius, o
teacher Of the sublimcst morality and
the solitary wagner, the lonely shep.
herd, even the feeble mother of an idiot
boy, furnishes lessons in the reverence
for Humanity.
If from things relating TO truth, jus.
ticc, and affection, we turn to those re.
lating TO the beautiful, we may here still
further assert, that the sentiment for the
beautiful resides in every breast. The
lovely forms Of the external world de.
light US from their adaptation 10 our
powers.
The Indian mother, on the borders OF
Hudson's Bay, decorates her manufac.
lures with lovely colors and ingenious
devices, prompted by the same instinct
which guided the pencil and mixed the
colors OF Raphael. The inhabitant of
Nootka Sound tattoos his body with the
method OF tho harmonious Arabesques.
Every form to which the hand Of The ar.
tist ever gave birth, sprang first into ex.
istence as a conception Of his mind,
from a natural faculty which belongs
not exclusively to the artist, but to man.
Beauty, like truth and justice, lives with.
in US. Like virtue and like moral law,
it is the companion Of the soul. The
power which leads TO the production Of
beautiful forms, OF 10 the perception Of
them in the works which God has made,
is an attribute of Humanity.
But | am asked if despise learning?
Shall one who has spent so much Of his
life in schools and universities, plead
the equality of uneducated nature ? Is
there no difference between the man Of
refinement and the savage
81 am man." said lack Hawk no.
bly, to the chief Of the first republic in
the world, 81 am man." said barber.
Gus chie(tain, "and thou art another"
l speak for the universal diffusion Of
human powers. not Of human attain.
ments ; for the capacity for progress, not
for the perfection Of undisciplined in.
stincts. The fellowship which we should
cherish with the race, receives the Go.
manche warrior and the Caflre within the
pale of equality. Their functions may
not have been exercised, but they exist.
Immure a person in dungeon as he
comes to the light Of day, his vision
seems incapable Of performing its office.
Does that destroy your conviction of the
relation between the eye and light p? The
rioter, over his cups, resolves to eat and
drink and be merry; he forse,s his splr.
i.ual nature in his obedience to his
senses, but does that destroy the rela.
tions between conscience and eternity
"What ransom shall we give :" exclaim
ed the senators Of Rome TO the savage
Attila. "Givs," said the barbarian,
call your gold and jewels, your costly
furniture and treasures, and set free ev.
cry slave" "Ah," replied the dagener'
ate Romans, "what then will be left to
US 2" 81 leave you your SOULS" replied
the unlettered invader from the steppes
Of Asia, who had learnt in the wilderness
to value the immortal mind, and to de-
spise the servile herd, that esteemed only
their fortunes, and had no true respec
for themselves. You cannot discover
tribe Of men, but you find also the cha.
rites of life, and the proofs Of spiritual
existence. Behold the ignorant Algon
quin deposit bow and quiver by tn
side Of the departed warrior, and recos
Mise his faith in Immortality. See tn
Comanche chieltain in the heart Of ou
continent, inAict on himself severest pc
nance and reverence his confession o
f the needed atonement for sin. The bal
baian, who roams our western prairie'
D has like passions and like endowment
with ourselves. He bears within hil
the instinct Of Deity the consciousness
Of a spiritual nature the love Of beau
!. ty; the rule Of morality. 3,
/. And shall we reverence the dark
n skinned Caffre Shall we respect tn
. brutal Hottentot You may read tn
h right answer written on every heart.
5. bids me not despise the sable hunter th
"a gathers a livelihood in the forests