Oroville daily Butte record. [volume] (Oroville, Butte County, Calif.) 1856-1858, 1857-04-18

In our LAST article we talked little OF mans per.
sonality. and endeavored TO show in hasty, If not
In philosophical and logical manner, why man
should be physically educated. and according to
promise will speak of his mental nature.
"know then myself. presume no, God TO scan,
The proper study Of mankind is man.
Is asaying Of very ripe poet and philosopher
many wse men of his day, and also before and after
gave, and have given us, wise dsquisitions up
on the human mind ;but yet there heights in it
that haze never been scaled, and depths that have
never been fathomed. Yes, 1t is deerer Than ever
"piummei sounded" We know the effects Of mind
and electricity and heat and that Is all we do re ally
know about it. But we will = AXE an affirmation con-
corning II, and dou b not but that we will be sus
tanned in the assertion by most of readers nj least
and that IL. that mind, educated mind Is the true
commonwealth of every community. For II Is min1
AMI society and only these two that find any value
in the earth above that which the brutal creation en-
joy. OF what value. for example, are hills and
mountains stored with minerals and metals, OF the
most valuable character. without educated mind 10
search them out and convert them into the various
uses Of society Of what value to the 'wlld, unlu-
tured Indian the forests through which he rOams,
and the noun aims of GRASS and iron on which he
stands, destitute as hei OF the science snd art to
convert them TO his use and cOmtOrH Os what val
ne the richest mines OF Peru nr india Mexico or
California 10 him who has noe skill to work them
and art to fuse to compound, To hammer and To poll
ish them into the cUnveniesoes, and eleyances. and
comforts of civilized life? Do not the granite hills
and marble auarres OF Italy and Vermont--the hid
den treasures Uf the Ocean---the diamond the ruby
the emerald, and all the precious stones of the EARTH
acquire their beauty and lusrc, their interest and
value from the mind that science illumines and the
HIND that educaton guides in the conversion of them
into human waNis and human comlOrtsr May mot
be asserted that the richest vaes and the most lux
urian soils owe their frulnness. more 10 the skill
It,l
richness of their own That the agrlculturist. the
miner the manufacturer. are indebted Ia science and
art for the impl, of their respective Vocations?
That 1t is educated mind that makes the wilderness
and the solitary place glad. and that cause the desert
to blossom the rose? These things being cOnsd-
tons purvew, that demands SO much of cultivation,
development, and adjournment, IA the mind of every
community and Ofevery nation, rs II Is that which
gives grace, establishment. harmony comfort, and
usefulness To everything else. OF what value TO the
world n Newton. Franklin. Fulton. without edu-
ted mind? What brought into being the steam
engine, The plough, the reaper Our ships. steam
boats, railroads and the thousand and inventions
that tend to snbdue our forests, beauty our fields
build our cities, make pleasant and cheerful our
homes, give us the production of every cline, and
the fabrics of every land? To these and thousand
such inquiries, there Is but one answer, and that an
swer ~ e1H" ted miRd.
In view of these things, the political economist.
whether he appear us statesman. philosopher, n
patriot or phllanihropis is, therefore compelled to
admit. that the lrt and superlaye duty of every M
lion Is to devise ways and means of ducating the
mind OF the whole coiamunity, by judicous and ia
NOrnblc system of instruction. The masses of ma
tiona wealth that have accumulated to society by the
inventors of the mariners compass, the steam en-
gine, the cotton gin, aft worth more than California
with all her mountains OF gold.
Next we hope to say something of mans moral ma
lure and expect in the OF time TO arrive ut
subject VIZ: "COmmOn Schools" J.B c.