The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1862-02-07
's Minnesota It's Place Among the
states''..-What Theophilus Digit,
A, M, Principal of.the sawyersvilIe
Academy, Thinks Of the Book and
his Criticisms thereon.

claIeQ Dy MI. WHEELOCk; anu cSpeclally 6O, liz
as the writer more than hints, it was his felic.
ity to have "initiated the educational incipi.
ency of its author" during the period while he
"instructed progressive juvenility in Nova
Scotia" 1t is delightful thus to witness teach.
er and pupil meeting, after years of separation,
in the columns of the press; the teacher, as his
pupils critic, and showing by his criticisms
generous appreciation of the radiant genius
whose first outshoots he watered and nurtured,
On foreign soil, with admiring, sympathetic
zeal. 1t is such incidents as these that reveal
to us the sweet humanities of life; and they fall
like sunshine on our cold experiences, filled
as these are, alas too often, with envy, ha-
tired, malice, and all uncharitableness.
1t may be proper to add, in explanation of
the use,by our correspondent. of name some.
what unfamiliar, what he himself says in pri.
vate note: "My ancestral cognomen was
HAND, which l have transmitted, as you OBJ.
serve, into DIGIT, as being more euphonious,
and of sufficient exactitude for every practical
consideration
ACADEMY, SAwYERsvILLE, Jan. 20, 1852
Most Potent, Craze, and Reuerent Editor:
You will please to extenuate my episto
larry occupancy of circumscribed spacious
ness in the columnar multiplicity of your
inestimable journal. The isolated, momen-
tous and magnitudinous interest of this
Immediately approximating vicinity, SO
potentially absorbed in the stupenduosity
and radiant occulticity of " Minnesota, its
Place among the States" is the integral
topic of these projected criticismatic obser,
vations.
The epitomatic succinctuosity OF the
statistical expositions of this tome of con.
densed quintessent science, has become the
"omphalos " of popular capitalization in all
the circumjacent localities of this vicinity.
The facilitous circumfuxion of the authors
style, the oleaginous ovality of his periods,
and the Opaque brilliancy which transfuses
the perspicacity of the ideal and substantive
ingredients Of his work, must be pronounced,
by all cotemporary impartiality, as the sum.
matric acme of literary and scientific per-
fectibility, and are inevitably destined to
precipitate the intestine orDamentation of
the language, as well as to promuIge the
extension of unbounded agricultural re,
sources" of climates" of " peoples" and
of other fora.''
Protuberent among the multitudinous
emotions and sensations evolved upon me
by this book, is the beatitudinous retro,
spection, that l had the benefcent fortune
to initiate the educational Incipiency of its
author. In my hebdomadal avocations,
while instructed progressive juvenility in
Her Majestys Province of Nova Scotia,
l prepended the intuitively acquired intel
lectuality of the author of this most won-
derfu literatural and scientifcal conglomer-
alton of the present age. The proportional
majority, or great part, of his style, is
simultaneously referable to my own pellucid
auidity of lingual potentially, as also, to
the concurring coincidence, that his natal
horoscope was not calculated under the
"infuence of the great basin on the forms
of American civilization" The circum-
stance that his incubation supervened ex-
ternally to the periphery of this "great
basin," amid the " incoherent geographical
fragments" of Nova Scotia, whose shelters
ogeneous peoples" are not moulded over
into one eclectic and representative nation.
atty" by the influence Of "the simple ex>
terna con6guration of one vast integral and
homogeneous plane" may, perhaps, as pro-
mulgated by this book, "conformably to
these geographical facts, which have gov
erned all empires in all ages" have precipi-
tated the characteristics of the 'geograph.
ical primary upheavals of the Atlantic
slopes" upon the mental and pathological
contour of its peoples" so that our au.
thor's style is, in his own language, lifted
to the summit OF geographical significance"
till, like "a bowl reversed, it scatters every.
thing from central apex into radiant dis
traction"
In perusing many of the antiphlogstic
theories OF statistical phenomena with
which this work abounds, the memory intu-
itively recedes back to that learned conjec.
ture Of cosmogony, by EPHRAIM JENKrN-
SON, Esquire, as recorded in the Vicar of
Wakefield:
cay, sir, the world is its dotage, and vet
cosmogony, or creation of the world, has puz.
zled philosophers of all ages. What q medley
of opinions have they not broached upon the
creation of the world Sancroniathon, Name.
tho, Berosus, and 0cellus Lucanus, have all
attempted it in vain. The latter has these
words: anarchonara kai atelutaion to nan
which imply that all things have neither begin
Mug nor end. ManethO, also, who lived about
the time of adon.Asser-Asser be.
ing Syriac word, usually applied to the
kings of that country, as Teglat. .Phael-Asser,
NabOn .Asser, - he, Isay, formed conjec.
ture equally absurd; for, as we usually say,
elk to biblion kubernetes, which implies that
books will never teach the world SO he at.