Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-12-26
Written for the JouTnG.
I N X 7, I N G s
BY BRANwELL HAwoRrH.

the ReU Timothy Tltcomb
thinks our A nerIcan system oil
Education too prone 70 stimulate
the already luxuriant ambition o
our youth, by keeping constantll
before the pupils eye such fast
sentences "a,
"Nothing is impossible TO him who wills
He denounces the beautiful
lines Of Longfellow,
Lives Of great men all remind US
We may make our lives sublime"
a musical cheat-a seeming
truth, but a self-eYident lie. In
his opinion, lives CT great men
teach a no more important lesson
than ihis-that distinguished
men have made their own live>
sublime, and have embalmed
their own names and memory in
history will not mar the force
anu beauty OF the words in WHICH
he expresses his thought by any
attempted paraphra>e: "If you
DO not believe II, 90 to the GENE
try yonder. There they lie
ten thousand uTturned faces
ten thoH and hreathless bosoms.
There was a time when fire
flashed in those vacant otbitS. and
warm ambitions pulsed in those
bOsoms. Deans OF fame and
power once haunted those hol.
low skulls. Those little piles of
bones that once were leet ran
swiftly and deterniHedly through
forty, fifty, sixty, seventy years
of life: but where are the prints
they let? "He llved-he died
he was burried," is al the head
store tells us y
True it Is thar Of oil the mill
ions who lie quietly In the val
lev of shadows, but Jew have
left lIfe-record behind them.
Countless multioudes have thread
ed the humber paths OF lie, and
dying, have passed from the
worlds memory 4 meager few
in a generation only have lived
up 20 their capacity. Nature has
bestowed upon many measure
of manhood and Womanhood,
which they, through their indo-
lence, have never realized. "God
is good worker bat he loves tn
be hel ped. Does the fact that
most men are humble and igno-
rant, teach that greatness, in
degree, is not attalnable by ev-
cry rationable being? Is 1t true
that many have accomplish d so
little because their Maker has
not given them the p0wer to do
more? Nature has not treated
he9 children with an uBgenerOus
partiality-she has not begorged
some with her blessings and >tIn-
ted otbers-she has not lavished
her gifts upon a favored few, and
dealt them on: to her created and
dependent millions with the stin-
2, ness OF a miser. Equality is
the primal-the 0mnlpotent law
in nature. Life. Air, Light,
Liberty-alI bleSSing>-are dis
tributed with an equal hand bv
the Almighty. If there be ex.
ceptionS II this great law, man,
not God. has made them. iiu-
man intellect exists in variety,
but the Great Archtect has fstab-
lished 10 natural intellectual ar
istocracy. One mental charac-
istic is more stFikingly develop
ed in some, another in others,
but there Is not inferior'ty in the
one, and superiority in the others,
but simply dlsSiwitar equality.
Brains have been much more
evenly distributed than we seem
willing to believe. "Geaius is
only great patience" The ap-
pareM!v imneasnable difference
between men, -between great
and little men,-is almost Who'll
" seIf-cre Talent must rot
only "ligh: its own fire." but it
must supply its own tuei If a
man wOuld be free. he must la
bor. aud if he would be noble, he
must think. GIan's and pig
are alike mon~troSitieS. They
are alike the result Of a violated
law. Don't sIander the Al
hy charging YOUR ignor-
ance unon nature, when you
must know 1t to be the result Of
Of vour own Incidence. That
man who lives without purpose
in iite-vho shuts his intellect