New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-16
HEARTS AND HEADS.
1rcTrRE BY HENRY WARD BEEcHER.


The Rev. HENRY WARD BEEcHER gave lecture on
Hearts aud Heads last evening, in the Cooper In
stitute. The great Hall was well filled. lie made
head and heart TO be synonymous with those forces
of the mind which are patent and which are latent.
Those of which the man is conscious, and those OF
which he ia not conscous the last he called me finest
work of the SOUL He glorfed the intuitive, the IN
spirational, the emotional, and stood up i9r
In nature, be said, there was no con-
fct between head and heart, but in the reason
ing of men there was great conflict between them.
God had ordained the heart 70 eslate IN regsrd 70
the most important truths and the head to be the re
cording clerk In the realm Of duty this was especially
the case. Duty entirely from the feeling OF tue
man; Just az the feeling for music lay behind the
thought OF music. No man could think courage or
honor; he must first feel them, and then think
them. The man who had no feeling could
not reason on moral truths; for the logic Of
moral truths from the heart. Our most perfect
Judgment Of these truths was when our minds were
most suffused with the feeling Of them. Intuitions
under proper conditions were the deepest reasonlngs
which vouchsafed to mortals. The truths which
belonged to feeling were the truths OF our inmost ie
As men who Travelled on stormy nights saw she
earth and heavens Illuminated by lightning
fash, revealing every shred and atom Of the
landscape more wildly than sunlight, 80 fashlng
munitions showed men more plainly than read
ing the reality Of things. The truest teaching was
that which excited the feelings. A deeply emotye,
moral state was the prerequisite right perception Of
moral truths. The limit Of right thinking on moral
truths was the limit OF night fecnng NO Man ever
could think well while under the spell of animal ap-
petites or of pride. Right feeling right feeling.
That was not the highest which proved or system
atzed. The heart was the gold mine n which logic
worked. Yet one would imagine from the talk CT tie
philosophers that they had created the word.
They put the laurel upon the man Of
thought without feeling, the man who was
most nearly related 10 those dried up indisid-
uals whom we called mummies. Why, mere reason
would make man stumble ten times where feeling
would once 0ftener than any other guide the heart
led men 70 the truth and s very mistakes were NOBLE
The errors Of some men were more loveabe than the
truths of others. Who were they who awakened our
sympathy and admiration, those who never made nsis
takes or those whose great souls were continually
driving them into Mistakes II there was thing
which the North honOred than any other il was
suecess. II there thing TO which the South was
more exqusely sensitive than any other, y was Slay-
cry. And yet great heart had east itseh upon
the very nerve Of tie South and utterly failed Of
what he meant 10 DO, and to-day there was not in
all the South who had inspired such respect,
nor in all the North one who was 20 nearly
in danger Of becoming he.o as John Brown Zap
plause, upon the sab-idenee Of winch hisses " ere
heard. They were drowned by renewed applause.
Hisses and applause sternzfed several tines. lie
going TO say that this spontaneous testimony
of of noble nature. Laughter. Men that
lived down in the bottom Of their hearts always kissed
Ike serrents out Of their holes. daughter and ap-
plsuse.l Was there any logic equal 10 that Of the
mother With her tender words she accomplished
what al the specialized doctors In the world could