New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-03
NEW WORK DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY, APRIL g. 1855

Dlhcthb every interest," bcNfFf' ''''
stately, which puts itseli in comparison win him
that there is DO throne IN Europe based upon poPo-
bar seyllity, and DO pulpit IN Europe tased UPol
popular ignorance, which did not feel the snocH %
that Old mans fan, and topp.e IN inch "F t"o neare'
10 IT'S final and predestlnei overthrow.
There would be- something very conhcii VI ~
GUEr,s Of these European statesmeD II the hscte-'
with whch they trihe did not make their iriVo1'F
very cad. j am persuaded that very lew oi 'h,'L'
III state oi things Where nature hAd Tree P''!'
would cycr rse above The grade of village sch"i'-
master or urban dlncr-out There are $1,000 pl0A'
prostitutes in the City of LOndO1 alone, rdyin@ ol'
disease ard death 10 the rcrotest corners % ''r
land; there IL famine stalking abroad through a
the manufacturing districts, and striang chll
OF fear TO every thoIgotfU heart IN the COM
mImty: there is an cyer-erO~iDg criminal popu''-
ton in the country which battles all the re'ourc''
of the police 10 maste- Il; the prl-ons are ian even
10 OyortiOwiBg, that every one - at tis WIS emu
to know What ia coming: there u ar amount ~
popular ignorance and popular irrelicloh unma chd
by anything in the limits of Chrlstendon. Ah t.l''
and much more is true; Yet We see men hke MI
GladtOnc and Sir George COrDeWa Lewit, VINO are
devoted to craftsmanship, who have been meiuor'S
Of Administration and are aspiring TO 6e so again;
diligently doing what Why. studying Homer ahd
publishing their tedious twaddle about hun ID cor
pulent volumes Was ever such nsuhrrabie p''ddi- :
y
excite the astcnshmrnt of the small Try "i
literature who live by the cockney press. Nero
fddled, they say. while Rome burning bi'
very possibly Nero had real passion Tor The '!"ln
III which case his act was not 50 wholly uhaIhiip''
as il il represented. Now, no can suppose, "ho
ever read any Greek, and knows the endless pans
it ahcs to become proficient IN H. thdt DIT. uis-
stone or Mr. LcWs has the slightest genuine passion
for II0mcr-hss any such love for hi- pursuit, Tor
hac
contrary, if it wer' common for butchers ana
" bakers and candlcsiick-m1hers' 10 read Greek,
doubt whether YOU would ever catch either gchtH
man thumbng page Oi tbat Henerioc dhi
garruous old poet. No: Mr. Fox cultivated Greek
IL the intervals of gambling and the learned loaier
al the Universities have kept up such clatter
shout it ever since, that every fledGlng Engl'h
statesman aspiIes 10 carry out thetradon, and se's
himself to scanning Homer, with all the pedantres
thpreunto belonging as labOrousy as if he were
scsnnng some yeritably human problem, III which
the heart OF man and God was alike Interested What
an incffaby small set Of people, by the way, your
literary people are do not speak OF our Amcr-
can ltterateurs particularly, for 1t stands to reason
that, in our slReWy land, people Of that IDLE and
GOssiping pattern must always seem 0ut OF place.
speak ofEuropcan littfratcurs, those whom ! know
personally or by their writings. and say it is very
hard 10 find more tiresOme company. My old friend
LGhthall the engiuecT of the steamer Troy, on the
Hudson River, was sweet and succurnt compared
with the best academic company ] know; and Mr.
RhOdeg. a leading deck hand on the same boat, was
always fresh and savory beside these wizened and
dried old scholars. They have no power to enter
tain much less 10 start an original topic, and when
YOU DO succeed by heroic efforts in prying them ont
of the old ruts 0I scholastic routine, you find upon
your hands such yawning and bewidcred and m
animate heap of old clothes, as makes you glad
enough TO be- off, and cut the whole concern forever
They have no ear but for personal questions, for
what constitutes the yeriest garbage oi history.
Talk Ia them Of the interests OF general justice;
speak to them OF divine things as if the Divine
were not some chief policeman merely intent upon
personal ends; entertain them with glimpse Of
that lustr0us life Of innocence with which God has
promised finally to reward the perscyerlnS hope OF
man; and they will 'or the most part gaze upon
YOU with such helpless gaze OF fright and be-
Wlderment as cOnyinces you that the European
scholar is no less dead to al human hope and as
pration than the European priest aud politician,
and that the coming kingdom of God upon the earth
need not iatter itself that it will be warmly well
coined by anything much above the Jail and hos
pitaI the thief and the harlot being in fact about
the only public perSonagcs who have an interest IN
praying for il. IL. }.