St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-01-03

IS CO., MlNNES0T
to have set no bounds to his roaming pro.
pensity. But the philosopher and poet,
the orator and statesman, ike the animal
and plant have their Geography. The diff.
ferenoes in the races is not one of bodily
organs or mental structure, but of strength
and modification depending upon external
Influences. The voice that once shook the
adjacent hills with the shrill shrek of the
war-whoop, if cultivated nigh have WELD.
ed the power of Randolph, or shaken the
Senate with Tulleys force. The genius
displayed in the construction of birch
canoe, if developed would have produced
the majestic steamer. Remove the Guilt.
waited to the frontiers of civilization, lei
the restraint Of society be thrown off and
they become reckless. Place man among
savages and he will grow into savage;
surround him by the pure and holy fellow
ships Of earth and he cannot but be i'm.
proved even the contour and relief Of the
country where We dwell has much to dc
in giving character to mind. The Ionlan
sky and gentle breeze are seen, and felt in
the songs Of Homer. The lofty oaks and
vast heaths spake to Ossian of by gone days
while the dim moonli ght as it slept among
the trees, filled his mind with fantastic
forms.
"Tte banks and braes and streams, and
the Castle Of Montgomery inspired Sco-
tias' bard to sing of his Highland Mary
Bryant's sweetest notes were born in the
mountain, his songs are fresh from the
groves and green hill Of Berkshire. By
ron's poetry is colored with the dark, wild
blood Of his ancestors, stimulated with gin.
His banishment from society to strange
land set his putrescent heart on fire and
misery became the spring of his inspira-
ton. The hills of Cromarty and the stone
hammer were all that Hugh Miller needed
to read the byeroglyhics of pre- -Adamite
rocks-his surroundings made him &C.
ologist. The power of extraneous infu-
ences upon mind finds beautiful illustra-
ton in the cosmos. 1t is the burning
wastes of Orinoco, the rich solitudes of the
Amazon, the icy ridges of the Andes and
the sultry valleys of New Granada repro
ducing themselves in a great mind aroused
to action. There we have the Botany Of
Wildenow, the Geology of Werner, the
Anatomy of Loder, the great teachers Of
the illustrious Humboldt, combined and
reflected from an original mind. a single
incident frequently arouses the mind to &C.
tion and changes the whole course of life.
At the sight of picture Correggio ex.
claims II, too, am painter!' p Thucy.
d;des heard lecture Of Horodotus, his
eyes filed with tears and his latent talent
leaped into being. La Fongtaine was
twenty-five when he first heard Malherb's
poems, but they aroused him to action. A
circus will convert whole village of boys
into clowns in single evening. The
great prize fight has given birth to thou
sands Of young Heenans in every part o1
the land. Mind IS so constructed that il
can but be acted upon BY external inAuen
ces.
Most OF the race are educated in this
manner. The masses do not go to The
sources of information to form their opin
ions, but are governed by extraneous inau
ences. In this way they form their opin
ion, choose their religion and their party
a demagogue therefore may change the
current of opinion in whole community
by single harangue. Such is the con
nection between the inner and the outel
world that man must ever depend to :
great extent upon the external for intel
lectual development, life is such that w
cannot separate the ideal from the actual
1t is the incidents and surroundings from
which we form the ideal; even cherr,
tree and hatchet must enter into our ide
al Of Washington. What were JOSEPH
without the prisons of Egypt, or Pau
without stripes and imprisonments? Bun
yam might have lived and died tinker
had there been no Jail in Bedford. Wer
the relations Of mind to its surrounding
better understood, what an importan
change would be effected. Architecture
and music, painting and sculpture woul'
be made to contribute their part in givin,
shape to mind. Our school-houses woul'
be the finest buildings in the land; ant
chief places of attractian.
Among the most potent influence
which tend to the development Of the in
tellect, we class those which arise from tn
relations Of sexes. That they are related
every page Of history corroborates sine
their first introduction in the Garden Q
Eden. Man without wife is an improp
er-fraction, though less than half: W.
manhood becomes more beautiful, an
manhood more elevated when they ar
brought side by side. They stimulat
each other to biz cher attainments, and liv
in a :purer atmosphere. Every kind 6
monasticism has beeu productive of col
ruption and intellectual prostitution. A
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