The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1857-06-17


cero may be desirable: but have wc ,nt
sranslations of these in the English ,.nguc
S'nd might it not profit us somewhat NOR.
TO have carefully rchcarscd and studied tb.
noble teachings of Bacon Shakespere, Nil.
ION, Locke and Webster! If man has
but one idea, though he may have half a
dozen different topgucs TO express it in, h.
has but one idea after all ..iihu Burrett.
Tor example, "thc learned blacksmith" of
New Orleans, June 5.
worcester, can converse and write in over
half hundred different languages and dia.
lec's; but he has never been suspected of
any Inordinate supply of bruins-and up
TO the present msmen,--wc are unacou.En-
ted with any river that has been SET on fire
by his genius.
anthology pursued spr ats own sake is y
rank humbug and nothing else ; but when
mastery OF tongues is used, rs Professor
Holloway has used it, for the dissemination
of new ideas and truly valuable discoveries
among all tribes and natonal,ics ofmcn we
recognize in it enc Of the nOblcst instru.
ments of civilization and are grealful for the
assistance i; impats.
Whether the long and l,borious scientific
researches and experiments wlirh Ilollo.
way had TO undergo before he succeeded in
perfecting his universal remedies. left him
lime for the personal acquisition of al! the
lang wages now spoken upon earth. we do
not know, and were wc speaking of an or
dinary man, should ihiuk, they could not
possibly; but in our estimate of such :,
character rs his, the common standard of
intellectual measurement is at fault; and
it seems not improbable that the mind
which obtaincd dominion over all forms of
human malady, could easily obtain the key
10 every tongue.
Whether this be so, or not. certain |: i.
that Holloway has established printed jour
nails in all the known languages Of the
world-journals specially devoted TO the
tnrthcrcncc Of ncdcai truth and Il procla-
mati0n Of the saving principles embodied in
the use of his Universal Remedies The
phi!ulogist could desire no richcr treat than
Il prrusal of the many thousand files of pa.
pcrs, all of them in different tongues, which
can be seen in his establishment; and the
British Museum endowed rs it has been
ho,lr by the munilicencc ofindniduals and
bodies corporate, is indebted to no sa glc
iadivdual iuOre than it is to Professor IIol.
Ioway.
II we needed 4 grand Interpreter of hu-
manity, an Interpreter whose former deeds
and general character would everywhere Sc.
cure II favorable audience for Whatever new
ideas he might choose to lay before tho as.
semb,d congregation Of mankind il IL TO
Holloway that we should of necessity apply.
ilc' indeed, has turned pathology to good
account; and his reward is this,--Ihat it en-
nbles him 10 understand the manifold and
reaseless songs of benediciion and gratitude
which arise 10 him from the full hearts of
the millions his Universal Remedies have
rescued from the very jaws Of The grave
This indeed is the most pregnant triumph
of philology, and by far the most useful pur.
pose that tie possession of many tongues
has hitherto been applied to- An honor to
Professor Holloway, and may he long con,
iiIue to dispense his Universal Remedies
To The multiform and many.colUrcd mul j.
tue who have been taught by experience
I" look up TO him as their medical rcdvcmcr
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