New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-25

does believe III Tree DOM mat II IL ilRht IN law anu
before il Slavery must and shall give way. Events
march. a. we said three months ago. and they are
marching with fearful rapiGltv. We aro all carried
along with them. To many of US what elk nonihs
ago seemed the extreme Of rashness now apI ears
tinid tame aud oowardly. The Government, ll IL
would guide events must march with them Inc
President, we perceive, marches, slowly indeed;
but, nevertheless, he marches, and BIS message
proves that he at least steps IN advance ol
where be was at the close of the extra session OF
Congress. He will probably march at more rapid
pace by and by, and perhaps catch W with public
opinion.
TIE CHRISTIAN EXAMINER. January. wslfef, Wise,
Go.
The fret article ia this number entitled "Ihe
Sword in Ethics" discusses the question Of nom
resistance especially in its application to the exiting
abhorred rebellion. II Is maintained by the writer,
that the apparently yielding and timd disposition of
Northern freemen has led to the heayendaring au-
dacities of the Southern ,lave-drvers.
Those malienants of the South who had long been
diligently sowing treason and tyranny, and have
now It spring up under Their fostering care IN
wide.srread niurdcr-what has brought them to The
present pies Only their full! belief that Northern
ine, were too cowardly and TOO avaricous TO with
stand them Had they known twenty or thirty
wears apo that Justice and freedom would never lie
har,ered by us Tor gold, and that, when persuasion
fOThGATINt were bulNNlI, VIC thVhit l'''''
ourselves masters OF steTner arts, then not only
vould n il iusurreciion Hever have broken ont, bu.
thousands Of men, Of whom 1t has made butchers ana
pirates would have been lovers of good order, ana
Night even have been lovers OF liberty. u thM
score Of Nears AGO they could have teeo the edge oil
The Sword that CLEANS aganst them now that they
eopll have looked into these peaceful Northern DO
so,,a and discovered the stern principle ana scely
COURAGE that lay hidden there Tbey thought us
towards and the thought made them villains. lheN
Har.sr fr..r hen f.A tfN
,hercnpon devils earnest matnred in theirs And the
evil of ths il seen alone in the hlazing calamity
o., war but still in the mad wishes which were
thus alowed TO spring ny III the bosoms Of southern
,,.n. in the accursed ambitions to which these
ripened and in the epidemic perversion Of private
sentiment and public tendency which finally resulted
Tendencies are the lords Of history and masters oil
effects Before the tTaorous tides that now run III
southern hearts We have seen such men as John
RelI and sam Houston go dOwn-swept In, and
home belplessly away. And before traitorons and
yronpons tendency OF which these are hut the later
efgects men have been 70 falling there for many
wears Meantime nothing can be more sure IMAM
that awe for the want OF some wholesome terrois,
- faI.e tendency would never have been estab-
E.tcd. and worheF aspirations wonld have occu-
lied hose whom II has now led arirsy.
1.-The Minds Maximum" is d very lively paper,
fuu Of brilliant suggestions and racy illustrations Of
the pvsical conditions Of successful intellectual ac
,;vity. The resemblance Of the brain TO voltaic
battery ia considered in a terse paragraph;
i, ia not ,imply new substance, however, which
the brain requires. While we know very little
about its methods, we know that 1t has methods
which il insists upon. we VIII not anticipate the
hviooQists 20 far TO ray it is voltaic battery
iui this IA guess well sustained now, that we
might do that with reason and we may SAY that, in
tbe particular matter with which we are dealing. 1t
works with exactly the laws OF IA voliaic battery.
Those laws are now matters understood In daily
,,scfice Rear them in mind. II you were De
Sauty working the Atlantic telegraph seeking the
btohest mower fron your battery and the mot pre-
cl.e action, would you use the very same huids TO
stimulate she ri ties month after month regardless OF
the wear Of the plates, and the dnntegrsioh OF Inc
Iiouid Not al al. You have not only 70 renew
he lates ut certain periods but you have, at shorter
reriod, 10 renew the liquids. OF course, you would
never attempt TO work without liquids III tie bat
tcrv Ar well work without plates. "a conrse, you
w1old L OF be satisfied even though you Lad the bes
double-conbination improved battery which science
ever invented TO work by spIashing little liquid,
whatever might come along on TIE plates Tor a mo-
1ueut Though rome result would undoubtedly i0i-
low il would not be the bigh-peSsnie, eStIemo-len-
sion result which you are IN seaICh o.. lOn would
rouy in with the utmost care, the liquids which bad
teen prepared with the most accurate chemistry
And even then you would have 10 wait for some mo
rnelts more or lesr before the battery would luiy
work on them, they on The battery, ana tle hlBh
action begin. Now whether the BRAN u or j. n0i a
battery, let the IHNhlOO'tlt h't'i,' ~ WIN. ~
cj.ely by there laws which we have etated. In
teep for instance il Id inactive, II The fluids elaoor
ted from food are not ruthlessIy poured upon IT, III
which care it acs in dream or nightmare. Before
breakfast il is in 10 condition for active WORK.
Wben breakfast comes, sill it must wait all the
elaboration OF ils precire liquid is completed. When
that i, al length poured Oh, grant The lew moments
n ore or less Of the eoctIician, and then you may
draw yonr sparks, lift your heavy weights, telegraph
TO the other side OF the world or the other end OF
tine, at your pleasure.
How many hours in the day can the mind work to
advantage Some ohrewd remarkf are made on tiis
question.
ii is perfectly idle to say how long The day. \
mental work will continue before this limit is
attaned. IL will vary with different minds, OF
colrse and it will vary in the same mind, win tne
Glars Of work done, and the degree Of concentration
required The toTys de f0Tce OF when tue hu-
man mind IL Calable are 70 eXtravagGnt, that
thcy can hardly be overe,ated. a ham.worhed
plvsician in an epidemic viii keep on biz beat
Twelve hours working down two or three h0rtcs ~
that time in hIs duties in large city. Bui he ~ com
hitting suic e all the time, and in This case scarcely
Dy inches. The gentlemen OF The bar SIT III tbeif
Offices or in court, nearly as long, for continued pc
mods. But much ~ each day is not work in that
duty Our own observation Of as broad range oi
lives IA have left us tl.ir memoranda would decide
that three hours il ~ high maximum IN an aver
bye mind can seek for the average oil ie concentrated
daily effort Of six days work ~ week, and my
two weeks in o. year. This l. Sir Edward IyttOn =
statement; Scotte was even lower han tins. Tho