The Nevada journal., 1857-03-13
THE TRUE PHILOSOPHY.

humanity is pfoSicosi'e. Anu tnls
progression consists, not only in mans
constantly increasing power to make the
physical world around him subservient
to his wants and comforts; but also in
the new and improved rules of action,
by which lie governs the world of his
own being. Old systems of thought
and action, which were supposed to con-
tain the wisdom of ages, have been in
continently knocked to pieces tunnel
ed out, and caved in by the impudent
radicalism of the present age. Nothing
is considered good now, because it was
considered good once; and the sanction
of centuries is no proof of worthiness to
this present irreverent generation
While others, therefore, are pursuing
their hobbies by pitching into certain
old fogy ideas which they especially
hate, why may we not have tilt at All
old error of the past, which is our espe-
cial aversion!
Our enemy stands forth in the follow
ing sentence: "Put off nothing until to-
morrow, which you can do to-day
For very many long years, this has
been recognised as proverb of wisdom.
Fathers have taught it to their infant
sons almanacs have published it in big
letters; and very many good men and
women have fretted and sweated them
selves to death, in trying to live up to
it. And yet very little impartial ex-
animation shows, that this doctrine is
fallacious and ruinous to mans happi-
ness, and that it leads one into greater
excess of travail and "yexation of spir-
it," than was contemplated in the ori-
ginal curse.
Work is the great evil of life Lazi-
ness is the normal condition of man
as he came fresh from the hands of his
Maker. Had not Mother Eve caioled
Adam-the great old goose with
her bewitching blue eyes and tempting
lips, into doing the one forbidden act,
we should all be able to spend our lives
in whiting pine sticks, and taking pol
itics. But the old fellow "caved in,"
and so work came into the world as a
punishment to him and his children.
Now, if work be the great evil of life,
what course should sensible men natur-
ally pursue with respect to this evil :!
Evidently to aroid it as much as posi-
bic. But by putting off nothing until
tomorrow which you can do to-day, in
stead of avoiding the evil, you hunt af-
ter it, and throw yourself in its way, and
cherish it, as though it were a good.
"Taking time by the forelock," is
like taking horse by the forelock. and
tugging at him through the deepest mud
on Pine stree, instead of getting into
the buggy to which he is attached, and
making him draw you. 1t is much bet
ter and easier to float quietly along with
the tide, than to attempt, by kicking
and splashing, to get ahead of the curt
rent. BY doing nothing nntil you are
compelled to do it, you will shun many
of the tolls and troubles of this life
The true philosophy is to put everything
off until tomorrow which you are not
forced to do to-day. By adopting this
course, you will find, when you come to
your last to-day, that host of your
most grievous labors have been huddled
and showed off into that tomorrow,
whose light will find you quietly sleep
ing "a thing of yesterday. How as
tonished they will feel when they find
there is no one to do them.
Let us hear the conclusion of the
whole matter: Do nothing to-day which
you can put off until tomorrow for THIS
is the true philosophy of life.
REPUBLICAN MEETING.-The repub-
licanc of Sacramanfo hold n rooot;nor oh,