The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-10-14
Nature Consistent.

Tho laws of nature are tho unerring
guide posts along the pathway Of existence,
pointing the traveller to tho direction ho
must tuko, II bo would arrive at his journeys
ond in safety. In ovory department of ma
turo, throughout all her varied manifest.
ations, thoro can be discovered no clashing.
no Earring OF interests, but everywhere she
VIII be found in harmony with herself, and
all seeming Inconsistencies will, with ad-
yanced knowledge, resolve themselves into
beautiful harnonics. Like tho dssolving
views OF tho artist, you gazo upon some
hidcous picture, and whilo you gazo it molts
away into sono lovely vision, something of
beauty, which you feel will DO JOY forever.
And so is il in the realm of mind To
tho casual ob'erver,to tho superficial thinker,
this realm is ono OF monstrous incongruitics,
of startling Inconsistencies yet it wo look
in upon This world through tho light of pos
tive science, wo shall find that oven hero
"All discord's harmony, not understood,
Ali partial evil, universal good;"
and that oach soul from its own stand point,
through law Inherent in its own being, is
working out its own salvation and all this
uphcaying of wrong, all these tempestuOus
bilows of yico and crime, arc SO many es.
cape.valVes, in ord0r that tho soul may
tread more securely tho path of its upward
progress.
We know that 20 somo minds this may
seem startling doctrine and viewed in
isolated casos, it may be; but whon you look
upon it in its length aud breadth, its hoghth
aud depth, you will find that humanity, in
divdually ard collectively, is striving to
develop Its higher nature, and however gro
tesque the shapes it may assume, however
strange tho weapons it may employ in the
conflict, tho end to DO accomplished is ono
and tho same. Ii is only Ot comparatively
recent dato that science has begun to an
alNzo matter, to dive down into its deepest
rocossos and bring forth to tho gaze Of tho
world tho beauty OF its proportions. and tho
pcricctness OF its forms. And wheu the
Arcana OF Mind shall have been analyzcd to
The same extent, whom its hidden depths
have been explored. there will be found tho
Same law Of harmony, tho same nico adap.
tions of means to onds, and whcro you now soc
only II crimnal,you vii, thon SEQ a brother or
sister, striving through tho fog and mist
that surrouud thcm, striving it may bo,
through perverted feelings and sensual 10
dulgences, but sti!l striving to come out to
the light, aud instead Of cOndcmnng thum
to tho prison, or the gallows, you will say to
them, "by virtue of better surroundings,
my brother, or my sister. stand step
cbovo you on the plano of being not frou'
any inherent good 10 myself; had been
where you arc, should havo been as you
! arc, horo, taho my hand, md lot mo aosist
you to got where am, and then you can
reach down and help somo one else, and SO
will you fulfill your mission each to tho
other"
What though in tho physical world the
mountain sends forth its bc!ching torrent of
fire and smoke--is it not true to tho law of
its being Is not its volcanic action ncces-
sary to its own preservation SO, too,
when from this great human crater We sec
issuing tho flame of passion, lust and
ava,ce, we foel that when tho smoke and
dust shall havo cleared away, there shall
spring from its ashes trnor development
of manhood, and from the rent and shat.
tered fragments of broken humanity shall
come forth d;viner structure, u temple fit
for tho living God.