The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-12-30
NO. 626.

the 50 respective scenes, in the influences they
EXCISE upon man. The one fosters the mere
'vet.,tative part of us, the thews and sinews,
anfthe flush of hot passion in the blood; the
otl5sr stirs, rouses, stimulates into more active
berbg, the mind and soul There, | could only
dream. and, listless, inane, gaze languidly out
freq ny curtained soul upon the palms waving
in ne spicy breeze, and the fash of the wave
upm 4 the ribbed sea sand" Here, my mind
is the stretch / wake, see, | live, and great
str Hing thoughts, suggesting and prompting TO
Tirsnie deeds, come upon my mind, like revela-
tic IS to- prophet. Yonder, the sensational is
thu. only life +; here, how the intellect throbs in
theinfniee round of boundless activity There
M hit arise Anacreon, or Hafz, to sing of
be ded beakers, and the graceful gifts of love,
an planning bulbul in the perfumed grove
he might a Milton be inspired TO count out
iasl bics in the roaring of the surf, or Dante
di up SMILES from yon cavern's depths. Oh, the
N6rth the North how rushes life on in the stern
oil North
The reader is of course aware that Jasper is
81 ply referring to tho contrasted influences OF
tn two localities upon the same individual and
tn I, too merely transient risiter. Extremes
of I'll kinds equally deleterious in the final
Analysis. Your Esquimaux and Samoid is even
m9re vile and besotted than your Fegee and
TASmanian.
|, too" continues Jasper, ~, too, have
q at thoughts here, and feel the swelling I'M
pIlse of grand ambition thrill through all my
vc.ls. Oh, for a chosen band of comrades fit,
wlS might drink in my spirit from my kindling
eyes, and follow me on TO deathless fame For
tt her, where point stretches away the North
vs. t. passage, where all true seamen yearn to
rri: a tilt, and for which they have pushed I'M
faiering prows ever since the days of stout old
rim ltSha II IL 1 1
hc9est John Davis and over there, to the
NJ rth, far, far away, under tho very Pole, is it
no. there that the dark waves of the open sea
that sea which never prov touched to the mys
ti'-pnrmur OF whose ripping surge never hui
NJ n voice listened-roll silently on waiting in
5. ainX-like quiet for the Conqueror oftheir mys-
tee Is not there, in the heart of his do
ne lns, citadel that eternay defeth the Frost
ts1fs and setteth the laws of Nature at naught
supp srting by itself in secret an Legitimate ex-
ist5nce that miraculously taunts all philosophy !?
Thstherward, of all places, would first struggle
against all obstacles, as thou, oh mystic sea-
doit strive against the powers that would bind
thee down thitherward would | wend, and
cOaquer thy problem. See straining eve may
peechance catch glimpse of that wide blue ex-
hi<roglyphcs in which that problem is locked
VI Oh for a crew, for a crew, to attempt the
OHen Sea"
These extracts, taken together as a progress
SIZE succession, present our Jasper under very
hopeful auspices, ! fancy. We remark in them
a 5ery decided transition from youths feverish
Sftrm and DrGHg," not 10, but certainly 10.
40 1'as, manhood's healthy glow. He begins to
lex off his introvertive habit of thought to Law
aties the subject, and to busy himself with the
OF ct. He no longer feeds his gloomy fancies
fr9i-, his own rusting mind, but has awakened
tozt'e fact, that around him and about him is
| Il .kwhich is intrinsicaly worth observing, and
| realistically co;apetent 20 repay study This
weA great step onward for him, II might not
| CT him, but it will create disposition towards
| a Aralthy state, II was Just the phySc needed
| 70 hring about a healing intention in the wound
lie might still be PROSTATE, but the pedcine
was Operative, and all its influences were sure
Il &c exercised in favor of rapid Gonzales
c'nce. The ulcer might still give pain and
r'1ulre dressing. but inc sloughing had ceased
Al tho constitution was freed from the moThific
| ment that had sweltered in it, The wound
might still cape, but the fever was dispeled, tho
gangrpH? eHt away, and every symptom
promised q rapid cieatrization, | Tell you
it ia great thing when a young man turns from
himself aud begins 10 study the outward, even
1t RI ponder on it in the pitiful style of "Roll
on, thou deep blue Ocean, roll" &c. For it is
inevitable, the grand lesson that we a,iuk in
from contemplating UHiyelsal fan, And it is
inevitable, ~ matter how Rousseau.ishly we
sniYel ITO use Carlyle-isnl about :" tons les
metheutS ote mg qie. and nagnanimously pardon
those who made us live, at frst-that finally all
egotism and everlasting ridiculous Mes shall
SILK into nothingness and mere oblivion, by
contrast with the grandeur of Na,ure Go to
her, thou peeyish nate, with thy fretfuI wall at
petty pa.A,s and cares-go to her, and solve me
the hierogyphic lines that wrinkle her placid
Spmnxfac Look to the stars, those ever
lasting blossoms ~ Heaven, las Basil calls them
~ hrs 1qmIlIes,l and let them teach thy impa-
lient soul their lesson;
VIE dds Gest,ra
Ohne Hast
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