Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1857-08-22
Written J0r Mc C0l,unJia Dcmocrat
The Importance Of Moral Cul.
ture.

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Much has been said and written upon
the Importance IF physical and intellectual
education, while moral culture deserving
more attention than either, has been too
much neglected. Some appear to regard
the former as the ouly qualification nccos-
sary to secure the greatest amount Of hap
piness, and to fulfill the great end of their
existence. Since, according to their theory,
the latter must necessarily. follow. But it
is evident from our own experience and
personal observation that their views of
tho subject are not consistent with reason.
The student docs not cultivate lis moral
faculties by study ing mathematics or classics
alone. He may be proficient in both, able
to demonstrate the most complicated pre-
blem in the science of mathematics, vcrscd
in all the classical literature of antiquity,
and yet be the unhappy victim Of vice.
lie may, through diligence and pcrsovcr.
ancc, bec0m' proficient scholar in all the
scientific Anowlcdgo and literature of the
day, and yet remain the pitiful subject of
evil IONS, and by his Examples and
influences, make .doletori Impressions
upon sccie,.
But as soon as the, .ost respect .o
r"1"tlca- virtue ana pocame Ilngcnsl.a >
truth and justice, they began to declno
and all their scientific knowledge and
classical literature. failed to preserve their
prosperity, tnoir brightness Il and
disappeared, -u they with rious
fall, sank into ruin.
Again, it was evidently thro.. the nc
glcct Of moral culture, during the dark
ages, that ignorance and superstition cast
the thick pail of night over the civilized
world :."sthat Rdcthroned conscience, and
subvcrtod the great and glori Object Of
christianity to crafty the sensual desires
OF .HeE.
| For anotholsaxenplo, contrast the iutel-
lootual and moral condition Of Great Bri-
tain, during the last century, with that Of
France, black with i4Glclity and crime,
tic constant scene Of pollution and human
carnage, the receptacle Of every skcptiral
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