The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-11-24
Superiority Of the Heart to the n. "a

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Superiority Of the Heart to the H. 7'"'
Henry Ward Beecher, in late lectrn .
on "Hoads and Hearts" spoke thus: .
The truths of the world might be di-
vided in their relations unto men into two
classes; the truths for the head and the
truths for the heart and the evidence for
each must be presented respectively to the
head and to the heart Yet men differed
so much from each other that no one moae
of argument could produce q like convlc-
ton in all. Thousands of men assented
without believing. The most active forces
70 human life were latent, latent as
heat was, as magnetism was, as the forma-
tive processes Of the assimilating powers
of the body were. The body was like
Solomons Temple; it grew up without
sound Of hammer or instrument Just
so with mans soul. Its tendencies were
not gross enough for vocalization or even
for ANALYSIS. In view of this he asserted
the dignity of the feelings Of the heart.
lie stood up for the heart against the
bigotry of the head. TWAS the fashion Of
modern metaphysical civilization to aug
ment the dignity of modern metaphys-
ical philosophy, to crown intellect at the
expense of the emotions. 1t was needful
for truth and even for good morals that
we should understand, in regard to the
largest elements of truth, that God had
decreed that the heart should be the
legislator, and that the head should re-
cord its decisions. The feeling of lofty
things lay back of the thought No man
could think courage who did not feel it
first. No man thought honor. He felt
honor, and then he thought.
That he felt, and then thought, was the
origin of all moral and social truths.
The topic of moral truths was always in
the heart Our best judgment of those
truths were those which the mind made
when most perfectly suffused with that
truth The head was only lantern; the
heart was the light that was in it. lntui-
tions, properly :sregarded, were the best
Judges men had in the world Those
truths of feeling to which he referred were
those ofwhich we spoke every day. They
were thetru of human life in its anterior
processes. He would not deny the reason
ngs on the results of feeling; but, as the
botanistnevercreated flowers, but followed
God, gathered and described them, so the
intellect never followed truths and never
found them out except as it followed the
heart soil for them, and found how they
grew there The truest teaching was that
by which the feelings were expanded.
This was the reverse of the doctrine of the
schools, which said that man were to be
indoctrinated first and to feel afterward
But it was the heart which must teach the
understanding No man ever thought vel
while under the inspiration of the anima
passions and appetites, while under the
control selGshness or malign feelings
Right living and right thinking were cause
and effect, and right feeling was righ
thinking The heart was the gold mine; il
furnished the metal; the intellect forged
it into chain; the heart was the architect
logic was only the stone mason or Joiner
who put the stone or wood together
They who felt that they might think, and
think that they might feel again were the
truest moral philosophers, and if there
were any of them whose eyes must b'
shut, let them shut up those of the head
and obey those of the heart. ..
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The ZouAvRs IN PROCESSION. -Compac
ASA rampant stalks the naughty Guard
proud of the rusty shake and the white
scanned coat. Behind, we catch, bobbins
in the distance, TIE turbans of the Zou
ayes. The excitement of the roofs anC
carrots is appalling. Ladies lean fran
tically over the balconies; gentlemen cas-
clouds Of cigars into the open space, a
the great Zouave drum major throws hi
stick high into the air; catches it, twirl
it round and round upon his finger, twist
it behind his back, and jerks it forwar'
over his head, all to the time of tn
drums, and walking at brisk pace! H
makes a great sensation, to which he ar
pears to be supremely indifferent-;just a
indifferent as the majestic dog at his sid
is. To be the dog Of the Iouayes Of tn
Guard, is to be the king Of dogs. AN
thc dog, marching before all Paris, with
decoration upon his proud canine chest
and his general military costume, is equa
to his brilliant destiny. You can see it il
the solemn step with which he heads hi
battalion, and in the lofty calmness wit
which he meets the cheers Of the popr
lace. The dust of Italy is upon his paw
possibly the Aeas of Italy are in his Goa
lie may well be proud to head the bata
lion that struts boldly behind him. II
can even afford to look down upon th
goat Of the Chasseurs. Made for fgh
ing handling muskets as lightly as tootl
picks, selfsuHicient everywhere, lissol
as osiors, patient under burnp'ng sui
and with keen sense of the enjoyment
fighting, and the pleasure Of p.5wing h,
man flesh with those long, broad.swor
bayonets, these Iouaves look terrible.
Avrpv PREcoCIoUs CHILp.-We he,