The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1858-03-31
IFor the Lancaster Ledxer.1

cies on this most important subject. woLd
add greatly, TO the value and intercst of
Eonr nsef@l paper, mere ear question. Bu,
unfrcquently has the wri.er of this ar,;cI,.
himself felt, rs reader Of your valuable
paper, the want of sSeful hints on this sub
)eet. The eminertIy practical suggestions
'ot Long Crabs" who used to write for
sour columns, frequent articles on Acricnl.
ture, were always read by me, with both
interest and profit.
The necessity for such communications.
must readily appear, 10 the most careless Of
your readers, when we consider the vas. re-
sources OF nature on the oae haad, to sup
ply AL the natural wants of man, and his
,nul;lpicd and contir uall, increasing wants
on the other, rs he advances from a state of
rudeness towards the Highest condition of
civilized life. For though civilization great.
~ mulupilcs our wants. she can never ex.
coed nature, in her means to supply them
II we but carefully study her, as we ought.
In all her various multiplied resources. In
1act, civilization can never advance be, oDd
the nieans of nature to meet her wants, be
they many or few; and it is because ma.
tlre Is abundiat in her means because sh.
Is fully able under the mos, pre-, sing cir.
Gums 'ances, I" meet the most .ytr :.
e nj denal DIS of civilized it,. that r,.r i,
. all iatuIa ..payi. of civilization,
and civilization uScii progressive il its na-
ture.
But ior this wise Arrangement of things.
"hIrh udapts him to The rircumstln, e. in
which he is placed, notwithstanding his il.
Iimitable desires. and his greatly enlarged
Capacities for enjoyment over all things else
around him, man must have been simguiarly
and greatly circumScribed in the sphere Of
his pleasures. Take from him, either, his
aspirations and endless capacities 70. enjoy
nent, or deny him this wise adaptation in
things, which makes nature ut once COM
mensurate to all his natural desires and
instead Of taxing as he now does hi,
ingenuity, and entire powers of invention
for the full and complete discovery of na>
ture 90 all her ia"s, and making her sub.
servan'to all his wishes, purposes and plans,
BY making her, n colubourer with him, in
working out his grand and exalted destiny
instead of subduing the earth into him
self and thus fulfilling the fiat of God, who
originally gave him dominion over the
beasts of the field, the fowls of the air and
the fishes of the sea and the innumarab]e
creeping things, and insect tribes upon the
face of the whole earth. Instead of com.
passing these high aims and purposes, he
must have forever remained ignorant of
natures laws, and continued but little nd.
vnnced IN he sphere of his pleasures, be-
yond the cattle and beasts of the field.
What terrible mischief would be done to |
mans happiness and progress here, by sub
Terting This wise arrangement in things by |
making man unmindful of nature, and na-
ture unmindful of him, or by his foolishly
undertaking to net as he ,pleases without
regard to The laws of his being, and that
wise adaptation in nature which makes for
his peace. and well being here, as well as
hereafter, is strikingly brought to view in |
the case of that wicked and idoletrous |
King, Northumberland, who when his heart |
was lifted Up, and his mind hardened in |
pride, was depc sed from his skingly throne,
stripped of his glory, and madeto eat grass
like nm OK. !"And he was driven from tn. |
sons of men; and his heart was made like |
lhe beasts, and bis dwelling WAS With the |
wild asses; they fed him with grass like
oxen, and his body was wet with the dew
of heaven; till he knew that the most high
God ruled in the kingdom Of men, and that
re appointeth over it whomsoever he will"
Endowed by nature with renson, that high
attribute Of man, which stamps him
with the impress and image of his ma
ker. and elevates him naturally jmG,easura>
bly, above the brutes, to whata pitch Of ei-
ovation and grandeur may he not attain,
when he implicitly SUBMITS himself to her
guidance, and ignores the foolish schemes,
and theories of those who seek the worted
indepeadaDce and elevation Of man, by dis.
NstN'',E ~ 'Stoob Gt4h SoihihouS Huu
thus making him no better than beast
Such grumbIers act with little prudence and
wisdom, rs the blind pan Who would
foolishly persists in knocking out bis brains
by opposing objects in his way, simply be-
cause he cannot see them, knowing them
to be present.
Let us not, then, as the blind man, turp
fool, because he has lost one sense, and ig- |
more all the rest /; but let us rather thank
God that he has literally hedged US ip by
no less than five senses, and continues to
speak to us in the Significant language, "he
that hath ears to hear lot him .hea-. For
sight, though it is rs DIR. Addison classes
il. first among the senses, as being The most
pleasing and delightful. certainly fur
nishes to no man, m excuse for turning
fool, as If its destruction necessarily involv- |
fed the ruin Of the other four and reason
too. He who makes seeing the only con-
diion Of belief must doubt not onIy tho