New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-24

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,;res Of The beet of their orderl Others as nigh IN
lac and influence have spoken lees, but nave hot
therefore thought less. PerhaIe, II they nave pe',n
silent, Trey have found 1t hiH more 1iniouis W
rcuk. This volume draws sid picture oil zoe pre-
yalcnce Of intellectual doubt within those cios.ers'
That picture il far short OF the reality. Smoder-
ING tkepiicism indeed When they are money
combsd With disbelief, running through evefy P',1o
from mystical Interpretation TO utter atheism Proies-
so,s trors fellows and pupils are CONSCIOUS VI 'is
idc.,pread doubt. In silence they waich ana febpec'
each olere thoughts and silently Work ont iher own
Above them sit unconscious oign"'1S "Hu Po"o'o
xaouelv condemning panthcism and neology, or
,;fcipg the articles together with rcraps Of aceonmo-
datirg texts Such hose seIinales OF the P1est-
hood and the Church, and he who has passed through
them has seen tho circles OF an intellectual pnrBi-
tory. How long shall this last The vague INTEL
eciual craving the waste OF moral purpose the sense
Of blank Indifference, felt even more strongly there
than in tie world around us. Few indeed now
heitae 10 rec the ultimate source OF nearly all SOCIAL
rorfrsion in this severance of reason and reqonthls
gulf wi ich divides the highest thinking from the
liehert feeling. IL Is made far more deadly by the
hypocriry Of conceamen the torPOr OF indifference.
Ii must be "a profound evil that all thinking men
should reject national religion. IL If almost worse
that they should falsely pretend to accept ". In
what network Of contrary Influences Is our daiy HE
pissed. All the tenderer and hoer OF our ties load
one way all tie stronger and more rational another
Tie hon e. the school and the church touch chords in
our hearts. Life, thought, and society nuiiify and
disgel their teaohing. The newspaper tie review the
tale by every Tcside il written almost exclusively
bv men who have long ceased TO believe SO also
Tie school-bcok, the Textbook, tie manuals for study
Of youth and manhood, the whole mental food Of the
day; science history, morals and politics, poetry,
fiction, and essay the very lesson of the school the
very sermon from the pulpit And all this done be-
meath solemn cynical hypocrisy. How long shall
tits lat How long must there be bitterness Of heart
in every household and hardened despair IN every
vigorous brain How long shall the mothers words
fan codly on the ears Of tie sonthe prayers OF the
wife be inmesning to tie husband-the gray hairs OF
tie preacher scarcely save him from contempt And
Gar woie the masses be IN brutal heathenism, while
uIeat minds run 10 seed IN selfish because lreslous
Efforts Until men have the courage u bury their
dead convictions ont Of sight and tho greater courage
20 form new All honor these writers for the bold
nees with which they have, at great rirk urged their
opinions. But what Is wanted II strength not merely
to face the Ncd but 10 face ohe own CONCLUSIONS III
T. well 10 say what ore really believes IL il better t.
believe what one really thinks Even more necessary
row tlan courage in act is honesty IN thought. We
need THAT rectiGe and tcnaCty OF mind which abhors
10 deceive itself; and works oft the Issue Of it,
ire viii Oh; fiEChug and without iGiuting. We know
tie CCFt Tie sense Of despair, the sbudder OF the
mind ttC fGgtiug mp OF dear associations, The agony OF
II family baNe CaIkcued the picture Of every relg
uu7 con, tiion. Il must be endured. Let every one
with lesrtr and brains concur IN the inevitable Ask.
let each who has thought and fe for himself ask him
Il l-t whG; hc docs nat b. e'e, ana them II Wise or
uocdful, avow it. Next let Lin AK himself what he
40cx believe aud pursue il To is true and full con-
,n,ious Let violent attack b. avoided but the mask
Of conformity east off. May no honest mind be dis
tuIbed but hollow peace rejected. II we have spoken
strongly few OF readers likely to be quite al
rert willie many are being drawn toward premature
c,nIrouise. let such reflect that no half measures
viii succeed. Neither loose accommodation nor
s0u0rous principles will long give them rest. Il Is OF
ar little surrender the more glazing cCHtradic
ticns Of science ar it il to evaporae dscreded doe
time into few vague precepts Religion, TO
regain tie world, must not only be n. con-
traIy to science but il must be in entire and
science only, but with all. MOI only must II have u
lace berde philosophy morils, and politics bu. 1t
must guide ard elevate all these Religion, 20 have
,tergth, must have doctrine; and doctrine, 70 en-
que now, must emb0Gy the Outgrowth Of human
thought If it be not distinctly proved thererom, it
must at least flow from and sum mp the whole. It's iu
telecua bari, uust he broad and u'impeachable. The
highest efforts Of tbe brain must guide tie best prompt
IL o. Of the heart. That end viii not be attained by
our authors by sUCiiuIg reip zion INTO an emotion and
making armisti'e with science IL viii not be OBJ
taiI ~ by any unreal adaptation nor by this, VIII ch i
Of ali recent adaptations at once the most able, the
mott earnest, and-the most suicidal.
A very interesting biographical sketch is given Of
the late Robert Owen in which full justice ID done to
bis character and purposes, although the writer de-
cares his complete dissent from the results Of his spec
ulatons. The other papers the North American
Indians The Organization Of Italy, The Antiquity Of
TIC Human Race, Russia Our National Defenses and
Thackeray as "A Novelist and Photographer. In the
usual survey of Contemporary Literature country
nan, Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emerson, is rather severely
ayped over the knuckles for his enthusiastic ndorse-
ment # Walt Whitman's % Leaves of Grass"
II MIR. Walt Whmaus " Leaves of Grass " had
teen printed paper dirty az his tayorite topics
il tie book itselt had presented the general aspect Of
dat literature which usually falls under other
critic, than that Of the police Office, We should have
pared il 10y without notice, addressing only such
public have no concern with; but when q
Obj. I'D
is perhaps elsewhere to be found within the same
Ifs pe,cns iisef in all the glOres of hOt-pressed
IaIer costly binding, and stereotype printing, and
believe fourth edition, l. manifest that il not
only addIetses, but has found public Of much wider
cast and II becomes question how such a book can
lave acquired vogue and popularity that could in
duce An ericin publisher to spend much upon ts
outward setting-forth.
Perhaps looso thinking and tall talk are nowhere
CiiicaCiOuS III attracting notice IA ~ the United
St;.es and Mr.. " iIlnin, by preteniiJusy assuming
10 lie tie exponent OF ilegelan morality, by Offering
himself az the hgpriest of that religion, whose soe
dogma II comprised IN tie proposition Home sibi deus,
atracts and lerI leAes readers, whore natural good
,ese would OIL vie cast ssde lis fghtful fus
ian. That he has any direct acquaintance with those
iOIns OF German speculation which he fails back
lor The justification VI tie language he makes Of
think may lie confidently deBied not only from the
in which he cOnceives Its problems, but from
H. al senCe of any German catch words with which he
would ou.erU lie lave infaibly adorned his motley,
ior even an ignorance u Its grammar does not daunt
tim wien tie frCch language Offers term to his taste
hr. Emerson has much 70 for, and will in rep
uation dearly pay for the fervid encoIBum with which
he introduced tie author 10 the American public. That
to lie public defense of polygamy and Slavery should
lie added that 81 the emancipation OF the Hesh is
indication If moral Reorganization in the States,
iic is of every evil promise That drunken HeloI
should display himfef without shame in the market
place speaks sad reproach to the public that does not
sCourgo bin back 10 his cellar.
I'm form these poeus # pcems they can he called