Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-05-11

DEFps THAT ARR DEATHJEss - Hoe time TeUerses
human jas5qmeAt Time tests the value of all bu.
man sciIOn nd deeds q at were thought glorious at
The period Of their enactment diff rent
hue when looked back upon, apart from the false
surroundings OF immediate victory Il is but few
YEAR, comparatively, since We were assured thst
the B tile of Waterloo had tiled the condition of
Europe Upn permanent. and impPlishable basis;
the ''er4 OF revolutions" Lord Cast resgh declsr-
ed 10 have gone by for and yet the Europe Of
to-day i practically ignorant of any results from the
greet st Of Wrlngton's achievements, aud even
the Bn;i.h Queen finds it prudent 10 forget, in the
Nrp'eW's alliance, the impl cable hostility with
viii b her equity Grandfather pursued the Uncle
These deeds OF Warriors and statesmen, so much
noised out in their day, OF Iittle significance
when he true history of the world comes TO be
written lion and Watt, and Morse, and HOllo-
wsy-JennIngs, the inventor OF Vaccination, and
Arkwright p4tentee cf SpInniDg-Jenfies,- lit is TO
the lives Of these, TIE future historian must turn
when he endeavors to account for the vast physi-
Cal and mental progress which characterized the
first half OF the Nineteenth Century He must
consult the life of Holloway 10 particular; for no
where ,l.e can lac find 80 perfect type Of that
combination of activity and erudition which forms
the distinctive velOpment OF our modern intellect.
The wise and learned of former ages were Omuipo
tent in the academy, but helpless as new born babes
III Tue iOuSt CObuCb Win Tue NOIluS buSl CViiuucu
the treasures of their MUS to some half core or
two of credulous disciples; but 10 the great
of the peOple-thr premium v,dgus as they call
tlem-they cherished profound contempt aud
haired
W at pleasing contrast to this exclusive folly
DOS the course of Professor HOllo az afford! How
much wiser, as the event has proved, was HE to
treat mankind with confidence, and rather Seek to
elevate them 10 his INTEL ctual and scientific
pl.tlorm, than to look down upon them from
enyied ana uBapproachabe heIghi lie has now
made friends of tue wOrld-oi all rae g. creeds and
tongues OF man, he is looked up TO by millions from
all corners OF the earth as the ply -ical redeemer
who has dlsenthralled the IN, by his universal REM
edies, from the bon age of disease. The world has
not language in whicn the broad principl Of his
Pathology have not been enuncia ed; nor has the
earth u OF human beings so utterly barbarian
no To be ungrattful Tor the benefits his philanthropy
has brought hone TO them Indeed, iugrattude is
Dy no means a barbarian vice. We iBd more OF it
among the polished ciTcl Of society than amid the
natural rud MS Of savage camp. We cOuli, at
this v, ~ moment, your hands upon hun reds Who
ow their very liues 70 the use OF Holloways Pills
and Ointment; and yet, becaue they think it more
the thing" to have family physician, you could
rot offer them a insult than all inuInatiOn of
who it is that really has cured them!
In the r, mption OF humanity from the pan OF
physical angus by Holioway-n tn Geographic
humiliation OF distance, 10y Morse-in the labor
saving machinery of Ark-Wrght and the indepen-
dence We ,Djpy over wind and tide, through the
dauuth tons of FuIton,-the future historian
Of our race will 6nd the deathess deeds which
TO claim the tribute of his pen, and will excldim,
as be records the mighty miracles which they per-
iormed-"Ah, there W re giants in those day-l We
nr'er shall look upon their like again."-N. z Err
GniMeF.