Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-07-24

gain anything from che great circumstances
thrown in their paths their hearts lie cold be.
tween their ribs. The worst thing in the world
is great man, with great brains, and no soul
Great with not a little of Gods inspiration, but
With only the DEVILS force to drive him on.
A German thought speech worse than an ac-
ton; but he considered the speech the represen-
tative of the soul, and lies of action blood rela-
ton to lies of speech. There were lies Of whale
bone and cotton, lies of paint, to which sud-
den shower would give different complexion
lies of the coquette, when, like the practitioner
in the art of legerdemain, she kept six plates
dancing at once; politicians lies, while riding
two horses, &c. but the essentsi tnlsehood
lies in our own hearts-our personal weakness
lies. lie disliked that lack of independence
which compelled people to lie. The man who
lives through the world Independently is an orig
inality. A man may have so much benevolence
as to make nuisance of himself for lack of
independence. He despised men who lie in ap-
pearance, who gid over ten cent piece, and
pass it for an eagle-people who frequently live
upon the expense Of what they owe, all for lack
Of independence to face the world and live as
they can afford.
If man does not live by the TRUTH he illus
trates it. man who does not educate himself
to good, gets educated to evil. There is no such
thing as an uneducated man. Every body gets
educated. Aboy enters young upon his educa-
tion-takes lessons in cellar, and graduates in
a pair of handouts. In another manner lop
gets educated-all get education.
A man of goodness and truth exalts the
world, as did Paul and Luther. They were men
of real life. So with the night watchers of our
Revolution, who gave US our constitutional Lib
) erty. We do not want parties nor platforms, but
) men engaged with the truth-men with back
bones of granite and lives ofcrystal truth. This
is Practical Life Without truth, without all
men free aud equal, we are but as the salt which
has lost its SAVIOR.
Secondly Truth is the root, but not the
towering, of practical life Truth is ruined
"a
dry between his ribs is but a degraded thing Ill
hdeous being. No heart is so glued to its sack
s that it does not swim little in the glow of the
1 affections The shafts of an Autumn evening
3 sunlight streaming into the darkening street,
, gives glow to the commonest things, transfg-
ures the face of the beggar, and glorifes the
: dust So with the affections; they are the light
of life, of mellow sympathies How dark the
$ world without the glow of affection None to
7 help; no yagaries of human life around US; no
mothers love for her child /; no opportunity
s to administer to the wants of others! Al.
> fection gives life, hope, happiness, and adds to
our zeal for the truth Of practical life.
Lastly, he referred to the Ideal, as being the
happy region Of something beyond our present
onjoyment-5eyond our present view, something
in anticipation yet unattained. To prompt man
to those higher purposes of life he must have
something in anticipation. Alexander cried be-
cause he had no other world in anticipation upor
: which to bend his power. All the secret spring.
of human actions lie in their anticipalions. Tht
q grandeur of human character is in its Ideaitv
! Ideas are the means of great results He refer
ed to the practice of sneerng at persons as beins
q Zone idea persons" and thought that one ide;
n was as much as man can take care of, and NOR
ir than most people have. If man would succee,
!. hcmust bend all his power TO the accomplishment
,f of that one idea We call man insane but
40 is our own heads which grow giddy LOOKING II,
III to the architects of others. The stars are cain
in and it is the earth which squirms about. Grea
90 achievements have always come from men of ON
ri idea. Columbus with his one idea had the cour
ko age to brave the SCOTS of the mass and hold on
Of it and he discovered the-New World.
ot Those who have thus perseveled in truth. fac
n and idea have given the world much of practica
IN fe-not mere narrow personality There ar
or great men who live in history--men of truth an
to facts. The apostles live in strokes of bold en-
= deavor, others in facts of science, and others
.. circles of silent influence among US doing good