New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-17

u...,.;rod however that like language
iof which they were indeed VARIETY, tSsy weio "
The highest usefulness ana importance M 'nsn
&C.; a. The ordinary business OF lite; To the mecha hca
Wv wi -. nfscturng and even to some extent tue noe
, and 10 their higher departments, to the solution
~ tho orea, dynamical problems OF the universe =,
VI, wss however doing great injustice TO the mathe-
oacs 10 regard them merely IN unitarian light In
be GREAT truths which they teach our minds make the
nearest approach TO the absolute and the minute.
These truths existed from all eternity in the divine
Reason and prevailed in the construction OF the ma
teriel universe. II WAS neither falsely nor irrev.
ereutly said by an ancient philosopher, that God
was geometef;" and the law which keeps the roof
above from falling on our heads, is the same which
suspends the fluid ring Of Saturn las our Bond and
Psce had shown il to be- bOttomless and shoreless
sea in crcumhuept equilibrium around the enclrcled
planet The mathematical principles which were true
IN the village schOolroom Were equally true IN the neo-
ua Of Hercules. go
In the last place. Mr. Everett spoke of the philoso
phy Of the mind, and remarked that if the proper
- study of mankind is man, no part OF that study
could he worthy of attention than those intellect
ual powers in which we principally differ from the
lower orders of animated nature. Having briefly IN
dcated the powers of the mind whose laws and opera
tons it the business of mental philosophy 70 ~
vestgaie, he mali tanned the Importance OF TINS
investigation, as compared with the study of material
nature which however, was not disparaged) assert
rg that the nature Of the faculties, by when we pur-
sutd our researches into the various branches OF phys
zeal science must surely be themselves worthy sub
.cCt pl inquiry
1t was tlue our inquiries in the department of intel.
ectual philosophy terminated in the apcrdttons OF
mind without penetrating to its essence. But this Is
equally tie case with study Of material nature.
We can gain some knowedge Of the physical proper
ties of bodies but we wholly ignorant OF the SUBJ
stratum in which they inhere. Mind, in this respect
is 10 more inscrutable than matter while II Is en-
lowed with those faculties through which alone not
OF " its owr conscious powers but the properties OF
material bodies are explored and comprehen led 1t
is solely through the percepve faculties OF rational
man that the wonders and beauties of the natural
world are revealed and its phenomena comprehended
aud applied to the service Of lfe This position was
Illustrated in the of magnetism, the expansive
power Of steam electricity and gravitation.
Notwithstanding the magnifcence of the external
void We Lave that within that passeth show
All tie wonders of all the Kingdoms Of the earth as
displayed by the tempter TO the Savior OF MANKIND
are not to be compared with those which are wrapped
I'D in he rational mind of man, which 1t 10 the opect
Of intellectual philosophy to study and explain. Inc
name of Metapbysica, Meta Ia Phusikd, was, there.
fore. well bestowed by Aristotle on this branch OF
study: the peaceful regions to which the philosophy
OF the mind conducts us beyond natural sciences
broader than the earth and skies; above the burning
stars: behind these wells of fantiDg aching, dying
flesh after nature after time after life, after DEATH
Mr. Everett closed with come remarks on the genial
nature and kindly influence OF academical studies,
concluding with the familiar words of Cicero: Haze
suda ad0lescentiam AUNT senectutem obectant, Sc
curdas res oInant, adveTsis perfuglum Ell Solatuin
prabent deecant domi, non mpediunt fori5, pernoc'
tant nobiscum peregrinantur, rusticantNr.