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ABDEvLLE CAROLINA FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 30 1852
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that We know of is the false conception Of
true and proper manliness Of character
which is apt to spring up. The boy Of
fourteen sticks plug of Tobacco in his,
mouth or cigar out it, runs after a fire en-.
gine, and gets up once or twice into the
rooms Of bose company, because he
thinks all this the essence and proof Of
manhood. BY and ho carries revolver
and dirk, and before long, alas uses them
and expiates his crime on the gallows, all
from having before him a false standard Of
manliness. Or else he seizes the sword, fol-
lows some filibustcr like Walker disgraces
Ills country, and comes home mass of dis
eases, wreck and ruin physically and
morally, TO die before lie is thirty, all from
the same mistake.
In other walks Of life "the minds the
standard Of the man." To be valedic-
torian in college, and the first writer of the
daySin profession or out of it, the am
bilious student burma the midnight oil,
destroys all his perceptive faculties In cul-
tivating the reflective, and becomes phys
ical pigmy in hopes Of being an intellect.
ual giant. He destroyed his nervous sys-
TEN in. the pursuit of superiority over some
rival more favored of fortune, and drops
down dead just as he reached tile goal. All
this springs, we say, from 6. false conception
of true hianliness The blanched cheek and
sunken jaw and trembling system Of the
student, no less than the drinking, fight
ing, swearing and carousing of the soldier
and the fireman, are indications Of deeply
sunken, false conception. Sometimes it is
not the physical frame alone that is injured
by the erroneous standard Of the intellect
ual man. The moral nature often is the
greatest sufferer. Success becomes the
only lest of what is wise and good. A
shallow smartness saps all principles of
honor, AMI a man is considered by all
others an unprincipled scoundrel, when he
really supposed he was becoming an in
genious, and perhaps wise and a success
sful man. Many lawyer has, thus gained
his cause by losing all conscience, and
many physician risen in wealth at the
price Of his own self.respect, and many a
minister defended and pushed the interests
Of his sect TO the neglect and injury Of the
general cause of Christianity.
In nearly all these cases, false and per.
vented standard of manliness lies at the
bottom and forms the root Of the evil
The cure for it lies in correcting the notions
of men on this subject. In the Scotcl,
Universities, they have professors who lee
ture on "Humanities" a subject in regard to
which many Of our bestinstitutions of learn.
ing are exceedingly deficient, True, We
have our professors of Moral Science, aud
such works as those of DR.. Wavland lead
men to think on some Of the points thai
should be involved in the course of. study
we have in view. But the misfortune is
that so many of the writers on the moral
and even on the intellectual nature of man
have been little acquainted with his phys
ical nature,-have little studied physiology
Phreuology and DR.. Combe's works hav'
done something to counteract this evil ii
the public mind. But most Of the writer
and lectures on these subjects have been s.
exceedingly superficial, that they have don
mischief in their way, and By infusing
shallow and selfconfdent skepticism as t
everything beyo.d the exceedingly mar
row range Of their own vision. have bee
chiefly useful in creating the desire in man
persons to form proper and true concep
tien of what real manliness is.
All can Judge pre,ty-well Of goo
physical system, and this forms the indies
, tion Of what is within, SO uniformly tbs
, no wise man who has once mastered th
, outlines Of physiology will ever treat rbodiI
q culture as a light thing. 1t seems rathe
the basis of all the rest. Still. there is ne
thought passes through the brain but goe
10 form both mind and body too. And a
strong propose, all goods resolutions, a
observances of social morality, and th
amenities Of daily life, 60 to form the ma
for all the future Of bis existence as surel
as the actions of his present course are til
y result Of the whole Of his previous being.
:. There is no walk Of life in which tt
). dictates and interests of truehnmanit
= may ever be laid aside or suspended for ar
amount ofsuccsss. But the formation Of
correct conception Of manliness,is in est
), one the work Of his whole life, and it is
each life the result Of al formes.lises.
The, correct fosmsiian Of t,is eoaseptis
1should be one great daily aim sof the pu
= lie school system of education in .l,is eeu
: try. Ws'havsin such ct1asacte.s ~ ks
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