Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-06-17
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fexpense of his credit and reasonable hopes
of future competency. Alas what shad-
oWs we are, and what shadows we pursne.'
EQUALITY.
Nash co., June, 1851.
sympathy.
BY R. q. horror.
This is curious world, with its strange
vicissitudr s, its stern experiences, its out
ward joys, its inward sorroNs. It's devoted
friendships, It's bitter enmisies, and, above
all, With its triumph If rassatits over hon
eSty cluthing The person mhe follows the
f''Fslsr with purple aud fms hnen. While he
who pur<ues the latter IS fseqdeutlg too
peer to make a.fair appesrsEsse i, what q
,sall d :. the uptfss, l.rs.s Bellevue
lshat eharacs.sr Is II all else
Is ahat leather art sss
FIsrs 4 -s -
who wastes time at the toilet Wittch should
be spenr in the bat le eflife, and who con-
ceitedly bestows upon his prr~on the at
tentlon. demanded by his mind Youth,
however, is a period of unconsciousness.-
The heart is susceptible of the slightest in
huences, and is generally passive reci pient
OF every impression that meets it, Mind
is Informed By contact with MUD, more
than by any outward causes of country or
CLINE. The youth who never met with
heart struggles, would live on happy, un-
conscious of existence for it is when a
person feels that be lives that he awakes
to the responsibilities of life If men we're
capable Of receiving impressions forever,
without their producing marked differ
ence in the conduct life would be but
youthful play-spell--for the joys arising
from unconsclousness would never be dis
turbed by the results of experience.
Ii IS the" when we feel that we live,
and that We are allied to our fellows by a
mysterious power called influence, which
forms our character and determines our
conduct, that is developed that deep aud
intense feeling of the heart called sympa-
thy, which, like the magnetic current that
sends with the lightning fash the news
from city to city, tells US of the wants and
sorrows of a common humanity Like
warm current through the polar seas, that
mslts and separates the huge mountains Of
Ice, 50 does sympathy steal through the
cold and selfish feelings of the mind, dri-
wing out hatred, and warming it up with
sincere desires to benefit others.
When the young experience the first
shocks Of the severe discipline of life, they
feel like retiring from combat which
promises SO little as a return for gallant
conflict. No wreath marks the head of
the victor who res6luteiy defends the
right, nor do honors or wealth cluster
around his pathway. The road is strewn.
with those who have already fallen, unable
to cope with the severe struggle. The
clnseahserEer meets them every day-men,
countenances the light of hope no longer
shines women, whose gentle but plain
tive words tell story of more woe than
one wishes to hear, and from whose sad
features you turn away with sensible re-
lief.
No wonder that the young with such
scenes before them, should, when they
meet with the first repulse, naturally be-
come misanthropic and cynical. The force
J of circumstances in a measure compels 1t.
! But the power that bends the bow also
4 wings the shaft to it's intended d.stlnatl'n.
, In this instance, as the mind bends under
the weight which Expresses it, beautiful
arrow quivering with the siutillatlons OF
: charity, darts upward. Il is sympathy
1t Immediately allies the soul tn earth, with
a gentle yer pDwrful influence, and Up ms
UP IT, its gaze tue tw,, fOid life or the actu
al and the ideal The future appears t.
the expanding yis,on as it ne er dld be-
!, fore, and existence Immediately y becomes
Z MT So much psriod of time for ease anc
e enjoyment, as for action and suffering.
e To dare to do for the benefit of mankint
IS what reason and conscience dictate, and tt
n temper the asperites of the present witt
u the agreeable prospects Of the future, siem
:, to be the full measure Of enjoyment per
II mitted to one who is really conscious o
Is existence. Such a person may be alowe'
Il to halt, to repair his armor or increase hi
Re stock of ammup zion but ease and leth
/ argy are not found in the system of militia
ly ry tactics und which he fights. He live
"a to learn He encounters obstacles to tr
a his courage, meets with perpiex'ties t
L chasten bis temper, oyercomes dlthcultle
y to increase his power, grapples with enc
" mics to advance the cause of truth, throt
y lies vice to lift up down troddenand abuse
re virtue, and relieves misery to cherish hi
In sympathies, which, like the bow that span
$, the fury of the storm, reflects the tints {
to beauty evolved from She Raging of the e
u aments.
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