Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-07
AtmOspheres.

To atmosphere, material or spiritual, no
nature, however rude, can be insensible
though the finer the organization, the more
decided its influence, the more absorbing
its effect.
Atmosphere creates not sentiment and
sensation only, but aids to make the des-
tiny and form the character of all.
The difference in people, and in races, is
in the air they breathe. Ideas, aspirations,
passions, purposes are in the ether of the
sphere, and he who most inhales the oxygen
of life is nearest unto Nature; sees her SYM
bols in the world, her secrets in her work
ings.
Who woos alike the sunshine and the
storm who braves the tempest and invites
the zephyrs kiss; who moves beneath the
blazing noon, and glides across the alike
silver of the lamar sheen; who holds COM
munion with the blushing morn, and with
the mystic pfiestess of the night, believes
and comprehends the subtle influence of the
hour, and penetrates such truths as else are
rarely known.
His knowledge comes of varied atmos-
pheres that through his senses have revealed
their precious and peculiar law.
He has conversed with Nature in her diff
ferent moods, and learned, beneath Der
smiles and frowRs, her kisses and her tears,
to catch the Delphic glimpses of her SOUL
AS Nature has no outward rule that is not
answered from within, and no external form
that represents not spirit in some phase of
its Development, we find, in persons, at
mospheres that correspond to hours, to
seasons, and to climes.
Who has not felt this with the keenest
force; who has not known the vernal sun
shine of the heart and sbivered in the wintry
blast OF some uDgenial soul2
Who has not drank the fragrant zephyr
from the lips of love, and been supported aud
made strong in the pure atmosphere that
sympathy in its sweet fullness ever yelds2
In him and her are Winter and the Sum-
mer air: he freezes and she melts: he ehills;
she warns and satisfies. =
In these blue eyes is held the feeling
breath of Spring; in those dark orbs are the
fruit laden breezes of the Autumn-time.
This beauty reaches us as does the splen-
| dor of the morning, and this voice is as
Aurora's hue; that quiet loveliness comes
to US as the evening hour-pensive and pure,
but grateful as the blossoms to the bee, and
sweet as Hybla when the breezes blow.
The polar, temperate and tropic zones are
in humanity no less than in the planet; ST.
IBERIA, India, Iceland, Persia, Ethiopia and
Italia are in the being Of our kind, distinct
as on the globe.
The atmosphere of those divided lands is
in the natures representative of their pecul-
lar climes; and though Siberia Oft in viola
tion of geography, is bounded, in the world,
py India on the north or Persia on the. east,
the law of Nature is transgressed in such re-
lations. ..H..
The frigid North blasts all the flowers
along the 1iber's shore, and the roses of the
Amos wales wither in the scorching beams
of the HndoOstanic sun.
No traveller ever icebergs saw in the Adri-
atic's waves, nor palm trees amid Green
lands waste the Andalusian woodbine on
Swedish slopes, nor orange blossoms falling
upon snow.
And this because Nature is not checked
nor thwarted; because she is mother to all
her children, save to those that need pa
rent most.
The race that passes through human por-
tails to the sphere, wanders so far it can not
see her, and does not feel the yearnings of
her heart.
The pristine precepts and the primal lays,
the sacred intuitions and the liberties of
love, tne unfettered impulses and the prompt
ings Of the soul are unheedsd or forgotten.
External Nature thus becomes opposed to
human Nature; they rarely touch where
they should completely join: they are dverg-
ing lines where they should he parallels
triangles where they might be circles.
The recognition of and full obedience 70,
the lawof fatmospheres-bie the geuial
with the pure, the fragrant with the fine,
Tue sou WIN tno WaIm--lhOSe OF the same
cline and zone-kindred with kindred
would lead back all IecIeant sons and
daughters to, and reproduce the era when
Nature and the human soul were one; when
the utteIances Of the spirit were predictions
of the future, and intuitions the oracles Of
life. -
Freedom and sympathy would be the OBJ
verse and reverse of existence; through them
the dual sides Of every truth would be made
clear, and the Babel tongues of prejudice and
selfshness be translated into an universal
language, flowing like stream of melody
through the valleys of ages far, far out,
besming and music nnurmuring, into the
mystic ocean of ForeYeTmore. JUNIUS.
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