The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1861-07-09

hruir cannot DO ilge work oi TIE man OF
many brains. The laborcr may read
many books without conqucring onc Of
lhem. The hborcr may read Shakespeare,
but the laborlr without Shakspcare's
brains cannot equal him. Nothing i
impossible to him tllai wills Now tlis
maxim Is announced 10 the young man
and boy thus You can make Of your
self anything you choose 10 make. To
become great preacher, lawyer, plysi-
elan o. statesman, all that Is necessary for
sou 10 do is 10 will" Like the aceommo-
dating Snowman, who was asked which
aight bc ihe tiger and which the lion.
= Nhicheycr you please, genilemen; You
pay your money, yon take your choice.
+ Laughter All that is necessary for
them 10 do IS TO pay the necessary labor
and the key Of destiny is placed in their
hands II i upon Obi. that men enter the
walks Of life for which they have 30 fiji
ness They are counted by the hundreds
Of thousands in this country who
have failed TO reach the post for which
they have labored many years, and are
spoiled for the rank Of lite in which they
naturally belonged.
4 But before | 90 further in this eonnee-
lion, have another maxim 10 discuss: ::
+ Every will-madc man il self-man. 1t
matters not whether lie rises from vulgar
poverty or vulgar riches whether he had
+ the advantages Of books or observation;
whether he acquired his education from
contact with men or from study, the Will
made man is always a sell-nadc man. /
mean by this, there is no instituted pro-
cess by which a true manhood can be man
utactured that there is no machine which
takes IN boys and turns out men.
The popular idea is that only he is a
selt-made man, who, without the aid Of
schools or regular process OF education,
cleyaies himself from an humble position
OF life TO one Of cmincnce and prominence,
or acquires n degree Of knowledge which
is superior 70 that possessed hy his class.
4 laborer, for instance, gains, IN the in
lcrNals Of toll, an acquaintance with many
languages, he is at once dubbed a self
made man, though his acquisition may be
useless TO himself and bis family. A man,
by craft and mcanEess, secures wealth,
and straightway people say he is self
made man. a vulgar demagogue may
reach power, and he will always find tic
popalacc ready 10 apply TO him the term
seli.madc nan y peculiar i,Viiui =
attached 10 those men ms if what they do
is more remarkable than when done by
, others.
OF self-made men ike these the high
places of the country are shameiully full
to-day. The majority of them are not
: self-made At al. We lave self-made gov
, crnors, scll-made members Of Congress
, sell.madc preachers, lawyers, doctors, self
made scoundrels, add sell-made noodles 0
various denominations, but seli-made me'
are by no means SO plenty.
Though the popular idea Of sclf-mad'
5 men includes the classes which have bcel
) alluded TO, it is applied in a better sens
/ to those who have arrived at learning
i without the aids of schools: these ar
; called self-made to distinguish from th
G collcgc-made mcn--tlc uniycrslly-mad
i men.
: il would not be difficult 10 select tw
/, men of the same natural gifts, as repre-
sentatiyes of these two classes, workin
c side by side in life II would not be diff
+ cult to see why the man who educate
: himself always surpasses in personal pow
Il er him simply a collcse-made man. Le
J. me repeat tie proposition that all wi
/. made men are seitmadc men.
If Tic collegc-madc mal il orc who ha
L adapted himself to schools for his dcye
/ opmcnt who has submitted himself, wi:
his fellows, 10 AL the requisite processes
n who has taken, without question, the foo
At prepared, for him and them, and gone il
e. to the world without the slightest know
II edge Of his individuality. Such are q
N men who pray by rotc and preach by rul
50 Such are the men who make mockei
n ofthc law; who hold principles subject
IS, pursuits who forget justice in bin
Y, worship Of forms and phrases. Such al
id the men, who would lay down the lives
their neighbors, and probably their ow
Sc in following out routine. Such men
n call college-made men.
ia The prime Characteristic of seli-ma'
e. men is Individuality quality never cha
sh acterislic Of college-madc men. When
y say this, beg YOU TO keep in mind I
e. distinction between these two classes. II
LII fact is. that sclfmade men come as fr
all quenily from college, probably much mo
Of frequently -adyantasrs iayoring them
b, If, whatever process Of training they a
lat subjected to, they never allow their ma
IA. hood to be crushed out
sc Scholarship, save by accident, Is neY
ed the measure Of mans power it may
ey inferior to his power; il may be great
re- than lis power; and it may not exist
i the man at all.
=" All The progressive thinking OF
on world is done by s,lfmade men. All p
he tive human power abidcs in these 8
en nourished, self constituted, self train
,u- soldiers, that place themselves in da
mt contact with things. The college ma
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