The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-09-30
From the Home Journal.
INTERESTING To LADIES.

PERSONAL BEATUy-iTs RELATION 70 MoRAt
BEAUTY AND TO ART.-By GEkIo G. SCOTT.
Immediately after the Creation, the Father
of all looked on his work and saw that il was
good. Since the Fall his best children have
looked on the same and pronounced it beau.
tiful. Despite the gteat calamity, the mark
of Gods finger is still upon US for man,
though he went forth from the presence OF his
Maker and stunned His eye, was never for
saken by Him.
Now, although Goodness and Beauty were
not synonymous terms, yet in this essay we
shall endeavor TO show how intimately they
are connected. The Pagans represented
Psyche, or the Soul, as delicately beautiful,
with force that almost seemed to speak, so
eloquent was (which, indeed, could bs
read, for it symbolized innocence, Ioveliness,
aud goodness and the books which we now
peruse merely symbolic the thoughts devel
oped in The souls Of writers. No, so Venus !;
fuller and more lusciously beautiful, she cre-
ated merely sensual desire, and inspired The
best of her worshippers with almos, inexin-
gushabls yearniug to become like hor, loose
zoned and careless of all higher aspirations.
Blu, when Psyohe was born, (or, in other
worde, the soul was lighted up,) pleasure
loving as the Creeks were, they were not so
degraded that they could not perceive the
greater worth Of their new acquisition, and
they left tie shrine OF Venus with all her fac
nations, for that Of her ineslimable rival
That they returned the better from their jour
ney who may deny, seeing that the children
of her worshippers became philosophers Of
Greece, the humanizers of Rome, and lne
art teachers Of the Universe.
Rome, too, embraced external beauty ere
she sought internal. She wotshipped Venus
before she became Christian; but she never
forgot her Greek instruction.. She adored her
churcheS, and her sons sought out the talresl
slaves 10 wait at their tables, which love of
the beautiful brought Christianity 10 the An.
glo.British children for sale TO Rome, and
there in the markel-piace Gregory admiring
them, pronounced these remarkable words,
"Non Angi, ssd angsif' (no: Angles, but An
gels.) Tha, they must have been beautiful
who can doubt when they called forth such
an exclamation from the father OF The Church
from one who dwelt in The old metropolis
of the world, into which all the spo:ls OF ev-
cry nation had once been emptied.
That when England became Christianized
she did not decrease in beauty, is sufficiently
evident from the many records which have
come down 10 us. The statutes which re-
main of the ladies Of the thirteenth century
in their graceful drsperies have almos, al
ways beautiful faces; and the Troubadours
of France who perpetually abuse the Eng
lish, cannot help calling the women the most
fair of earlh's angels Flaxmau, too, a mar
who prided himself on being classical, was
constrained 10 praise these monuments OF
English beauty. But just about Elizabeth's
reign, art in England perished for above two
hundred years. A few portrait painters re.
manned, because English beauty could not
be destroyed forever. And in Elizabeth's
reign, too, personal beauty eliminated in
her great men aud women, and with The
wans of art declined loveliness of mind, body
and soul.
Bu, the love of art has again risen in Eng
land, and with il will her sons and her daugh.
tiers return to the beauty of lhsir ancestors, for
mind moulds matter. II is the brain OF the
potter, and not the hand, which fashions the
beautiful vase; the hand is the slave--hmbsi
Helol of the graceful Psyehs-and is often
up,tustwor,hy; not carrying out The artists
conceptions II is The fat oil God that makes
life what j, is, Msn is only the instrument,
and be likewise 10 ofssa unuaindial OF he
trust.
That i, 10 the miud which moaids the Has
ter We may easily eoavincs oafssivss ey :
little ord,uaty reflection, We walk iaso he
city, and there ws zee saxieas hess-thas
makes thsss but husiusssf We meet the