The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-12-19

less phases, that it begets in us depend
ent love for the Instruments of our pleas
ure.
The laws of bodies polite declare us
fit possessors of many natural objects,
but we have firmer hold on more, be-
cause, in free booting, natural way,
we have appro priatad them to our espe-
cial use and benefit. Ones hat pendant
from ones own peg, is au object of pecu-
liar interest. Though not q vital men,
Der of the corpus. yet apprehend, that
in a subordinate degree, it promotes fe-
lictous digestion if the hat occupies its
wonted relative position. So it becomes
easily apparent that we possess long
array of common things with all of which
we are more or less intimate.
Much of our immaterial naturs--of
that vauute ] spiritual essence, is only an
effect which has its corresponding cause
in thousand every day surroundings.
We say man has been somewhat in
fluenced by circumstances, when we mean
that he, to q certain extent, lives over
his previous experiences. Some of the
latter-day, entire swine, chronological
| psychologists asseverate that loss of female
virtue should frequently he attributed to
stewed oysters and clam bakes, and that
OF mercantile honor to eleven o'clock
! Post Meridian mince pics, and that the
source of some fendish murder, is
boiled cabbage. The fact is, these con-
slant habits of the body, and the more
remote tendencies that exist in lost of
familiar objects, go great way in the
| construction of SOUL
Among the Fejee Islanders. the mem
bers Of the Boston Admiration Society
would be poorer than Western voyageurs
; because "a touch of nature makes the
, wholo world kin" The machinery of
The Deacon's Wonderful one boss Shay
would excite no comment, but is he fatT
would he the absorbing enquiry.
2 Every village contains its literary and
, is wagg.ah noloricty. Inhabitants OF
the same country, and using common
.anguag'. vet dwelling tar asuulcr, or
i. engaged in different pursuits. incorporate
: such idions into their dialect that the
, bond Of II mother tongue is almost bro
ken. On ali hands there is an abundance
,foyi.:rnce ;hat in cur l!ycs We only ex-
:. pre- our saFrouud.Dgs-m;rror q thou
sand familiar objects 4 wit nn,i hu
u.e ret for the world, is ONLY produced al
intervals ofaecs. A laa.t.r Of tho liter
AIRY AIT is on,y contemporary with the
tread Of tho iron heel e Time Oh the dust
Of long-.ived nations. They are exccp,
: t;oms--seuls TINT aprc;r to have spranI
= 'ull-arn.td from the hand of the Creator
c Bnt the fact that wo thus live our cir
= rumstances, is . poor argument that We
can exist III no other relations. The
same capabilities for acquiring individu
{ aiitY may remain and he exercised with
= altogether different attendants Now
take Life in the broad acceptation Of the
tenn. Consider existen 20 on earth as
. pro- alive, progressive, or shoulder any
theologic theory you c| DOSE, yet grant
that it is an eternal principle, with inf
D mite powers Of accumulation, and the
y question; What constitutes value in these
N !dIilIi!aF Oi.jtCtS. Stiil TSlDEHS.
,, We, whose bonds are not worth flo
cart-load on Wall ST., are all aware Of
the commercial difference between fixed
capital, and national currency. Anal
llogous to these are local and general ac-
;, cumulations in spiritual sense, yet
;, not altogether so, for our everyday en-
Payments, though well enough in men
ial capacity, cannot be converted into
Il general, genuine soul-currency at any
b rate OF discount. They amt good on
b Change"
{ Let man count his wealth at millions
!, and if his life is simply the reflex of a tin
pedde-c Gait, he is actually poorer than a
u church mouse; while, if he has accumu-
t lated knowledge which will serve him in
B az eternal IA e, he is richer than Cree
sus, though he may not have q clear title
to single hickory shirt.
II fear that if the actual, factual
! element of society had the power, they
would shut all the poor day-dreamers
? out of the ideal world, and compel them
d to seek diurnal pabulum in common
!, sense, old fashioned way. Fortunately
:, fer the castle builders, the temple of Art
was reared long ago; the facade was
, planned with reference to scientific usage,
and every column is adorned with the
master pieces Of a nation.
4 Now, as wig-ei professors, text books
1 and learned dissertations, are exponents
the scientific element of mentality; so
Art, with its gorgeous embellishments,
truthful deliniations and ennobling iniu.
| ences. is an exponent of its ideal phase.
Although in ;he economy of Nature,
Ideality does not appear to have its just
influence in the formation of character,
yet it still has a controlling power. Every
man is moro or less built Up by his f;t-
miliars in dream Land.
! Take from man his employment and
language, and stow his body in the
ground Jet his soul eternally be a flea
in dogs ear. or louise on a monkey
seal it in an old porter bottle and drop
that in Smm's hole for an age or two;-
launch it for period half way between
earth and the sun, in the tenuous medi-
um of light Jet it be for season sole
inhabitant of shooting star-notwith-