The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-01-04
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khe;r vork. human nuture in it, shirt Slew
who makes bargains with deacons,
stead Of talking over texts with Them
man who has found out that there are PR
ing rogues and swearing saints in the wor
-abeye eli, who has found out, by livil
into the pith and core Of life, that oil OF &
Deity which can 0e folded up between q
sheets Of any human book 10 70 the Deity
The armament, Of the strata, OF the hot aor'
food Of throbbing human life, OF this mini,
instantaneous CONSEQUENCES IN which y
souls being consists, m incandescent POI
in the filament connecting the negative pc
Of past eternity with the positive pole
an eternity that 10 to come that all OF Il
Deity which any human book can hold 70
this larger Deity Of the working battery
the universe only rs the films IN a book
gold leaf are to the broad seams and curdie
Jumps ofore that lie in unsunned mines an
virgin placers,- was savin
that man who lives out-of-doors, anon
live people, gets some things into his head b
might mos find in the index Of his Body Z
Divinity
l tell you what-the idea Of the profess
| ions digging moat round their close cor
| porations, like the Japanese ono at Jedde
| which you could put Park Street Church o.
the bottom of and look over the vane from
its side, and try to stretch another sucl
spire across it without spanning the chasm
the idea, say, ispretty nearly worn out
Now when civilization or civilized Gus
tom falls into senile dementia, there is com
monty judgment ripe for it, and it comes
as plaques come, from breath.-as hrei
come, from spark.
Here, look ut medicine. Big wigs, gold
headed canes, Latin prescriptions, shops full
Of denominations, receipts yard long, eur
lug" patients by drugging . sailors bring
o wind by whistling, selling lies at guinea
apiece routine, in short, Of giving unfor-
tunate sick people mess Of things either
too odious to swallow or too acrid to hold, or,
if that were possible, both at once.
-You don know what mean, in
dignant and not unintelligent country prac-
titioner? Then you don't know the history
Of medicine,-and that is not my fault. But
don't expose yourself in any outbreak Of elo
quence for, by the mortar in which Anaxa-
goras was pounded! | did not bring home
Schenckius and Forestus and Hildanus, and
all the old folios in calf and vellum ] will
show you, to be bullied by the proprietor Of
a Wood and Bache, and shelf Of pep
persd shcepskin reprints by Philadelphia
Editors. Besides, many of the profession
and know little something of each other,
and you don't think am such simpleton
as to lose their good opinion by saying what
the better heads among them would condemn
Is unfair and untrue? Now mark how the
great plague some on the generation Of drug
a "a. g., - c,f1
A scheming drug yender, Inventive gen
US, an utterly Enthusiastically ard incom-
oetant observer, profound searcher of Ma
ure, shallow dabbler in erudition, (saga-
;ious scholar, started the monstrous fiction
founded the immortal system) of Hom9pa-
by. | am very fair, you see,--y,u can
lelp YOURSELF to either of these sets of phrases.
All the reason in the world would not
rave had so rapid and general an effect on
he public mindto disbuse it of the idea that
J drug is good thing in itself, instead Of
,eing as it is, a bad thing, as was produced
~ the trick (system) of this German char
atan (theorist). Not that the wiser part
# the profession needed him to teach them
,ut the routinists and their employers, the
general practitioners, who lived by selling
ills and mixtures, and their drug-consum-
ne customers, had to recognize that people
ould get well imprisoned. These dumb
attle would not learn Of it themselves, and
% the murrain of Homeopathy fell on them.
You don't know what plague has
allen on the practitioners of theology? |
will tell you, then. 1t is Spirituaiism.-I
While some are crying oui against it as a
lelusicn of the Devil, and some are laughing
! Vnil "a n
ing angry with it as mere trick of interest
d or mischieyous persons, Spiritualism is
uietly undermining the traditional ideas OF
lie future state which have been and are
till accepted, mot merely in those who be-
ieve in it, but in the general sentiment Of
he community, to larger extent than most
God people seem to be aware Of 1t needn't
70 true, to do this, any more than llom9O-
,athy need, to do its work. The Spiritual
SITS have some pretty strong instincts to pry
'ver, which no doubt have been roughly
handled by theologians ut different times.
And the Nemesis Of the pulpit comes, in a
hape it little thought OF, beginning with the
map of a toe joint, and ending with such a
rack of old beliefs that the roar of it is heard
n all the ministers studies ofChristendom
Sir, you cannot have people of cultivation,
Il pure character, sensible enough in com
non things, large-hearted women, grave
Judges, shrewd businessmen, men of sci
,nce, protesting to be in communication
With the spiritual world and keeping up
constant intercourse with it, without its
reacting on the whole conception
# that other life. 1t is the folly Of the world,
which confounds its wisdom
Not only out Of the mouths Of babes and
ucklinss, but out of the mouths of fools and
,heats, we may often get our trusst lessons
For the FOOLS judgement is 60 .-vanc that
urnes with a breath, and the ,h.at watches
he clouds and sets his weatherc ,ck by them
so that one shall often see by their point
ing which way the winds ofheayen are blow
NJ, when the wheeling arrows and
Gathers Of what we call the Temples Of
Wisdom are turning to all carts of the com
,ass
Amen said the young fellow cal
ed John.-Ten minutes by the watch. Those
hat are unanimous will please to signify by
adding up their left foot
| looked this young man steadily in the
ACE for about thirty seconds. His counten-
ance was as calm as that of a reposing infant
think it was simplicity, rather than mis-
chief, with perhaps youthful playfulness,
hat led him to this outbreak. have often
noticed that even quiet horses, on a sharp
November morning, when their coats are
Just beginning to set the winter roughness,
will give little sportiye demi-kicks, with
slight sudden elevation of the subsequent
region Of the..body, and a sharp short whin-
ny,--by no means intending to put their
feet through the dasher, or to address the
driver rudely, but feeling to use familiar
word risky. This, think is the physi-
illogical condition Of the young person, John.
| noticed, however, what | should call .
pelpebral spasm, affecting the eyelid and
muscles Of one side, which, if it were inten-
ded FOR the facial gesture called wink,
might lead me to suspect u disposition to be
on his part
-Resuming the conversation, Ire
am, ercHfcio, as Professor, a
For | don't know any fruit
that clings to its tree so faithfully, not even
a "froze-'n -thaw" winter-apple, as a Pro-
lessor to the bough of which his chair is
made. You cant shake him off, and it is
as much as you can do to pull him off,
Hence, by cnain OF induction need no,
unwind, be tends to conversation generally