The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-05-07
IL Cd y and Mind.
BY CARLYLE,

| Two men honor, and no third First, the
toll worn craftsman, that, with earth made
implements, laboriously conquers the earth,
and makes her mans. Venerable TO me is
the hard hand, crooked, coarse; wherein,
Notwithstanding, lies cunning virtue, indie
feasibly royal, as of the sceptre Of this plan
ct Venerable, too, is tho rugged face, all
weather tanned, besoiled, with its rude in
tellgence, for it IS the face of q man living
nanlike. Oh, but the more venerable for
! thy rudeness even, because we must pity as
well as love thee Hardly entreated broth
| er! For us was thy back SO bent, for us
were thy straight limbs and fingers SO d.
| formed thou vert our conscript, on whom
the lot fell, and lighting battle art SO
marred. For in thee, too, lays God crea-
| ted form, but it was not to be uufolded in
crusted must it stand with the thick adhe-
sions and defacemeuts of labor; and thy
body, like thy soul, was not to know freedom.
Yet toll ON, tod on, THOU, thou art in thy
duty, be out Of it who may, thou toilest for
the altogether indispensable, for thy daily
bread
second man honor, and still more high
ly; him who is seen toiling for the spiritual
ly indispensable-no daily bread, but the
bread Of life. Is not he, too, in his duty,
endeavoring towards inward harmony-re-
vealing this by act and by word, through all
his outward endeavors, be they high or low /?
Highest Of all when his outward and inward
endeavors are one when we can name him
artist-not earthly craftman only, but in
splred thinker, that with heaven made i'm
plements conquers heaven for US. Ii the
poor and humble toll that we may have food,
must not the high and glorious toll in re-
fpr hat bav ltnh. e.
dom, Immortality These two, in all their
degrees, honor all else is chat and dust,
which let the wind blow whittier it listeth.
Unspeakably touching is it, however, when
| find both dignities united and he that must
toll outwardly for the lowest of mans wants
is also soiling inwardly for the highest. Sub
blimer, in this World, know nothing than a
peasant saint, could such now anywhere be
met with. Such a one will take thee back
to Nazareth itself thou wilt see the splendor
of Heaven spring from the humblest depth
of the earth, IKE light shining in great
darkness.
And again it is not because of his toll
that lament for the poor; we must all toll
or steal, (however we name our stealing) J,
which is worse no faithful workman finds
his task pastime. The POOR man is hungry
and athrst, but for him there is food and
drink he is heavy laden and weary, but for
him also the heavens send sleep, and the deep
est in his smoky crib clear dewy heaven OF
rest envelopes him and ftful gllmmerings of
cloud skirted dreams. But what do mourn
over is, that the lamp of his soul should GO
out /; that no ray of heavenly, or even earthly
knowledge should visit him but only in the
haggard darkness, like two spectres, fear and
Indignation. Alas was this, too, a breath
of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth
never to be unfoided That there should
one man die ignorant, who had capacity for
knowledge, this call tragedy, were it to
happen more than twenty times in q minute,
as by some computation it does.