The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1857-01-29
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wauen for the southern Enterprise
4 II E MIND.

have chosen an exalted subject for my
tleme---one far too lofty, fear, for my fee
BILE powers to explore-for who is indeed
sufficient to fathon the depths of the hu-
man iateliect, or to understand the mysteri-
ous workings Of the mindl Who can trace
it to its source, or dle4era,ine the utmost limit
to which its powers May be expandedl The
mightiestjntelleets Of cur world, upon whom
the gifts Of genius have been most lavishly
bestowed, who have traversed the broad
fields Of science, and traced out many a
mystery of nature, have in the mind-thc
wonderful agent by which oil these things
have been effected-found subject entirely
beyond their comprehension, whose mystic
realms were too deeply veiled even for their
acute vision to explore. Indeed, none but
Deity can comprehend the mind of man
none but the God who made it can know its
destiay. -.. .r.-......... .... .
We, however. ia the few thoughts we
may Offer upon this subject, do not propose
to etiter into metaphysical disquisition, but
merely to notice some of the obvious ele
ments of The mind divine. And first we
notice, it is this which forms the grand dis
tinc,ion between man and all other animals !;
which has raised him from the low, degrsd-
ed state of the brute, to sweet intercourse
with celestial intelligences and silent COM
munion with his God.. How wonderful,
then, must be its powers, to produce such
an infinite distinction! How worthy the
Divine Architect who created it
The mind. as it first emanates from the
hand of the Creator, is pure aud unsullied,
devoid Of intelligence or reason, possessing.
however, in embryo, all the elements of fu-
ture greatness, the germ from which shall
spring the majestic tree whose branches shall
reach the heavens. 1t rapidly grows and
expands, learning lesson from every pass
ing object. The ravishing beauties Of The
visible world, everywhere so richly displayed,
first awaken in the mind the idea of the
lovely and the beautiful, and then for awhile,
as in the sunny days Of childhood, we reyel
amid the pleasures Of the ideal, the memory
Of which, in after years, comes over us like
fairy Visions from the land Of dreams. Each
thought, each feeling, is tinctured with a
aeoloring drawn from T.. Purest source Of
beauty; the works Of creation, and the i'm
pressions first delineated there, are the pro-
auctions OF Natures own pencil, designed
aud perfected BY her inimitable touch.
But gradually the wonder first elected by
me external world partially ceases---though
ths admiration never---and the thoughts arc
directed to something beyond the visible ere.
alton The intellect, expanded and strength
ensd by the first glimmerings of reason, be-
gina TO aaek for the causes of the yariou.
phenorneaa which in childhood arrested il
attention only from the external perfection
portrayed 10 their arrangement and orgaui
rzasiop And here q yast AID infinite field
IS drown open for lie Investigation. wha,
snystsrious power wakes 70 life the tiny seed
deposited in the earth, aud osuses II Il
spsing fcrsh q lie, 10 be ZONE the msjes,is
stf6s ot slss dsItcA6s 6owsri Who collect.
and dtstAlss u The Slonds the drops of Sain
and n tic appointed season pours them Out