Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1859-02-02

A certain philosopher Of the Ifanseendenial
order. has " rilen al elaborate essay upon that .
e ae ssis gsoi of genius. which he pc, unf;ly T
terms iis naivele This j, al once The sweet
est lest. aud the highest attribute of genius
This. that man. battling. .woman-puzkling idio- !
syncracy. which ma, be Gods nay ysterious seal /
upon hi- eh.f d'0~rre. A seal perhsp.. which ?
viii only be broken in the presence Of Him.
who said alter reading the suPerserplion.
=. Render unto Caesar The lhings which are
Ce.ar's'
will not fol'ov the German philosopher
through the intricate labarynth OF transcen-
dental argument. any more Than would FOL
low any other man. in any reach Of thought,
IN any direction Whatever. Ny thoughts,
such "a they are. are my own. Someim's
they clash with orthodoxy. aud sometimes
they disturb the dolce far nieafs. of dille,anti-
ism. but they are bold American thoughts Tor
all that. would no more follow aplodilng
Grrmau's toilings. than the American eagle
would There is no reason why. we. with our
feet upon a great new world should 90 in
search OF ideas among the moeldering reliques
Of the old. But to my subject.
Ever since the birth Of genius. the hippant
tongue Of the world has ridiculed It. Ever
since Almighty Wisdom has sought TO ELEVATE
man. hy visible types Of higher aud -er-ner
nature. suiT..ring. aud persecu ION. have track
cd them. with fatal periiuaeity. from the era
die to the grave. Literature j. built Up of sor
row. The prolonged walls Of these God given
types. fill volumes. and are called--Poesy.--
Beautiful =" exclai,ns he fa>iienable young
lady after reading one of those solemn plants.
which has com. through the crevices of "a bro
ken heart Alas the poet learns in sorrow
what he teaches in song.
Whenever ths firs; man of coming age has
been thrown, hy an Omuipo,enl Power, upon
th. borders Of a receding age. he has been cru
cIfied, either in body or soul He has been
I the target FOR those. whose natures could not
attain unto has altitude. and who therefore,
could not see as he saw the splendors Of com
ing age Aud thess--yes, these are the bright
links. f,rgei amid fires that only Immortality
cap survive. which connect the silent ages OF
he past. with tie never ending cycles OF the
fu.ure How many bold spirits have stood
upon the rrcr,ling shores Of consummaied
age aud grappl~d cir names With hooks OF
,ierl. upon the mex NJ Mluy nsif IhIioso-
pher. Wien the cai.cenirated ignorance ard
cuntnmely Of passing age, was pressing hard
upon hun. has. with gigantic fort heaved his
anchor into Fuiuriiy-a and left the rest 10 God
Bacoa t. qreathcd his tame TO an coming
age The martyrs of ore age, are often the ne
roeS of the next. Sir Isaac Newton stoot
alone mon the .x;r,me verge ef his time wait
ing palirutly fJr coming day. The reade
knows how long the Phoenix Of his though
-lumb,r,d amid the ashes. which The little
log Diamond had made of the MSS of hi
;rea, theory Of light.
Any one uho ha- dw-lt upon the portrait
II Sheliey-of Byron in his youih-of Miltor
~ his serene old age--of Burns-of Mozart
Of Beethoven. Schiller, Goe;he-and all men q
the high-,t order Of mind must have ohscrv
ed The stiiking expression peculiar 70 them all
w. "a kind 81 boylsh nairefe Humboldt r,
tain- to th's day. that peculiar expression
which seems in his case perennial This
the sweetest expression &C genius love I
, trace il IN sh..lle, : boyi-h face. IN the lamber
oval eve II hlll.r. IN the mystical halo
! Mo1art- peculiar sniil,.. in the dove-like pcaC
of Nilt"n's sightle~~ orbs ~ the ungraccf'
linsainents II shat poor child ai nature. Col,
smith. and in the bright uplif,ed brow of II,
ron.
That i mol true genius which u NJ
/, naive. -ays Schill.r. nothing hut ~ naive
makes il genius: and that which it's. ia tas
and intellect. IL cannot contradict ia it. mors
iiy."
Genius could no moro steal or commit mn
of der or in~,igNie vusrcwder plot than chill
= Its simplicity = a. child like a. its intuiti'
= is God ike IL - simple errdulous. trustir
!, impul.,se. careless. "a ,sionsie. reckless. d'
a. inr--aed p>rseerfed. or il is no, Genius
: Without an ,f.rt II can reach the hish'
a thought-and yet can never be made To und'
a stand the dupliriiy If man. But sometir
IL the veil Of the heart i rent. Sometimes p
s uususpirious genius gets glimpse OF u
a soul sickening sbyss. called human uatu
ng and ever after that. il goes wandering over
~ earth .,rging rrquiems al its DAYS. II {
mr never forget the shock. It's whole nature
Or. Jared. and disappointment prompts all
tunefai uiterances. Ryron's Immortality
based upon sorrow. disappointment rrorr
.es ed those siurcndoas chsrts of bis reckl
"A and desolaicd saul And how long shsll
ed dim aisles II creation reverbcrate with
5, echoes of bis splendid dirges. as spirit. a
o. .p.rit sArieks cut the asonising aeq1ie~ee
N. "a the,rtrulhi sTAI
lie ---->se.s--
iy ~ We und,f fssnd "Rillyd rcee'