Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-03-13

fisms, and ologies, one after another, be
come the victims and dupes Of every timer
ant lecturer, or fall into the various maniu
oi designing knaves, and speculate first il
merino sheep, then in morns mullieaulis ar,
Shanghaes, until, after various adventures
IN which they have alternately cheated
ruined in pocket and in character, they try
"the political dodge" becume agents ant
tools of some designing knaves or parties
| and, bodies and fraud, gather and send of
other dupes, more foolish than themselves
for any mad adventure in the Crimea ol
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There are perhaps, the largest portion o.
risks and failures as we ascend TO the high.
est styles of education; but, in all ella sses
from the highest to the lowest there are
enough,to show the waste Of suffic len,
breudth and compass in tise present current
ideas Of education; a development that 81. all
strengthen the heart against vice, aud the
seduction Of fia'tery--what may be termed
a conservative education, protecting the
mine OF youth from being the dupe of one
sham after another; that 10 what is now
needed in all the walk Of life, more than
any mere intellectual development. In a
word, more mental culture, without propor-
tionable moral development, is not true edu-
cation.
Merely to keep youth innocent, and
out of all exposure to temptation is not
what is here intended; that only weakens
the resisting principle, and thus it is, that
in mutitudes of cases, all this goodness and
early promise willis and withera and dies
before the first seduction that offers, snow
before the sun, The want OF proper and
guarded exposure to evil is one great cause
OF the success of error.
On the contrary moral education is as posi-
tive thing as intellectual culture. 1t is
the training of the perceptions and of the
will, SO that they shtil correctly perceive
and resoutely follow the law OF right and
justice; of goodness and propriety in al the
relations of life they sustain. For instance,
let it only be impressed upon the mind OF
every youth in England, from the prince TO
the peasant, ttat no one, rich or poor, has
A right to consume without producing in
some way-et that one simple truth be
li'uotiotSu iNi VI mt, cNCH
in our country, where it is more nearly acted
up to, and it would do no little to show
every youth what it is to be man, and to
undermine all false notions of men and
gentlemen, that poison the minds ci multi
.udes.
That one principle wouii do more than
anything else to take assumption and dis
'ipation oat of u prince, aud to eradicate
he airs and fopperies from the Sophomore,
who squaJders q fortune in his College
course. 1t would save vast multitudes from
he folly and wickedness Of trying, bv any
md every means, to make fortune by one
,old stroke, instead of the hard labors of
ears of honest industry. What VIC would
esiresto illustrate is that moral education
must be something positive and not mega
i've, consisting not so conspicuously in the
lbsence OF any vice, as in lhe formation OF
principles OF earnest living virtue, m cner
,etc, active, chosen system Of industry,
emperauce and goodness, forcing its way
through all obstacles by a gcrmnapt vita
ity within the soul, just as the seed in
'prng pushes its way upwards through the
'uperincumbent earth.