Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1858-07-31

n mans head is not unit, as owl.phiioso
piers have taught hitherto 1t is a city, ,
conlederacy, commonwealth of faculties
First are what we cali the appetites which
take hold of the sensual life. Then there ar,
the passions which make the driving power
and without which man is good only al
cimellas nre good, that have no odor. Ther
there are the moral powers which pertain t.
the spiritual life 4; and then what we call the
| intellect, which is the messenger and watch
man for all the other faculties, which looks
out, and perceives, and analyses, and reports
In the body the eyes and ears and nerves are
in pairs so in the soul the faculties act in
pairs, but it is by opposites. When avarice
is reused, benevolence rises to restrain it
When fear is excited, hope comes to assuage
anxiety. So the soul is not balanced and
quiescent, but continually rises and falls in
fluctuations, like waves of the sea. Every
faculty sends up its solicitations, but all must
be denied for the time but one. An analogue
TO this can be found in the human body. All
the senses can be exercised in low forms at
the same time but in their highest use, only
one. l stand listless in q summer afternoon,
under tree covered with fragrant blossoms,
eating bunch of grapes, which l both feel
and taste. i see the peaceful andscnpe-the
browsing herds-the distant mountains. !
hear the chrping of insects-the notes of
birds-the fall of waters, in the unpaid Phil.
harmonic OF nature. The flowers send up
their odor about ME as if Gods creation
loved to do homage to his creature. But
suddenly companion exclaims:
"lark Do you hear that distant thun-
der 2"
Or some A udubon at my side, who knows
| cannot distinguish peculiar bird-note,
calls out
"There, listen That is it."
And instantly landscape and flowers and
grapes are forgotten / could not tell what
fruit was eating, but all my attention is
concentrated upon the sense of hearing
Every man knows the truth of this princ.
pie when applied to the pursuits of life. He
who would be scholar, cannot be traveller
would gain his living from books. cannot de-
vote himself also to pictures. No one can
possess the highest skill both at the anvil
and the easel. Many people think that self
denial begins when men join the church, but
SO f-deniai is not peculiar TO Christianity
1t was part Of Gods original idea in the
creation of man. 1t belongs to every choice
among complex motives Christianity only
gives US the law of yielding.
Most men make the basilar part Of their
head despotic, and harmonize everything
downward, like tabled Neptune. who ruled in
the ooze aud mud at the bottom of the SEQ.
y few there are who make the top OF the
head govern, and harmonize everything up
ward. Their deity sits throned on high Oiym-
pus, not Jupiter but Jehovah. Many men
vibrate between the two, and now are ruled
by their superior and now by their inferior
nature They will have everything pure and |
Virtuous and noble in the family they give |
play there to their higher powers but when |
hey 60 to their stores they say, Business is
business, and the family is the family" And |
conscience peeps and says
"What is right?"
And the man answers
Back with you What is customary,
Customary One might as we'll look in the
middle OF Broadway for water crosses, and
daisies, aud springing grass. as to look in the
hard, dusty, foot-beaten ways of custom 10
lnd ont what truth is Money always thinks
what the devil tells it, and in the clink and |
ring and round Of gold. all magnanimites, all |
p0blli,les Of rectitude, all questions Of right