, 1864-11-08

4 mere autumn wink along q wooded hill
side nourishcs brain, spirit and body at once,
aud opens to us from all sources together
new Wellsprines Of lifa. Half the best
ouf mueiciars, our teachers, haYe been lit up
by thiB--the simplest, truest s0ntcc OF inapl-
ration. NOT, OF course, that mere tension of
muscle or sudoridcatIon Of the skin has IN it
such vittue. Mere exercise at crauk-work
would hardly avail. The mind must be IN
4 new sphere nust be sought. q new amos
phere must be breathed. And ot all these
grounds the Alps offer us the most new
and a strange, The moat exhlla,atins, J,
ey lie aded soa of Ell ietts2s % law e9 OF
aclence. He requires most his spirit to be
1effeshed-tathed In new ufe-1ot simply
relaxed. He needs to lay aside memory,
forethougbt, contrivance and method-to
ehake his shoulders tree from the yoks Of
habit, 10 step down from the treaa-min Of
convention on to the fresh sod Of his
mother earth. The dull mechanlc round OF
lie CRATES 50 harshly on the t1ee spirit that
to 1--we it must escape sometimes from Its
csge, and eoar up e1nltlng to the gates of
heaven. We live for the most part ID yery
Iron mack Of forms. Onr daily ways are at
that ne must be free and simple sometimes,
or Wt break. Our present world Is world
Of remarkable civilization, and Of very supe-
rior virtue; but 1t Is not very natural and
not very happy. We need yet tsome snatches
Of the life OF Joutb,-to be for season ouIy,
simply happy and simply healthy. We need
to oraw sometimes great drafts Of simplicity
and beauty. We need sometimes tnat poetry
ehould be, not tronsd into our ears, but
flashed into our senses. 4 man, with Ill bis
knowledge and his pride, needs sometimes
to know nothing and feel nothing but thuthe
Ia marvellous atom In marvellous world.
But there are yet various reasons WHICH
make keen physical exertions not merely
necessary for our muscular and animal sys-
tenn, but essential also to our moral nature.
Our high material civilization Is al ways tend
Ing towards the point where it might anut-
1lIate those mundane conditions which
Lake the human poWers what they are.
Our lntel1ects-nay, our very Virtues-would
ceseity for etrort-and al effort Ia Intimately
concentrated In muscular eff0rt-Were all
effort bnnisEed from, the world. The
hamAn race will be d1aTf6g towards
bad end when no one ever runs any
risks or fatigues, no one ever feels too
hot OF too weary, and never zee a fellow
eelf eacriace Nothing cnn be more false
than the eilly old quibole That an increase Of
cultivation takes The manhood and heart out
Of the advancing generations. But there
would soon be truth In this yenerable lie, If
itwere to turn out that increased cultivation
made the eterner qualities Of manhood su.
perauous and obsolete. So long as this plan-
ct remains what It is, there will ii ways come
times In O mans life when Re nesds for him
self and tor others, that reason ab1e disregard
OF psin OF life, that insensinllltY to physical
p1iTaticn, that lightning readiness of hand
md eye. tbat dosged temper Of endurance
which men have called manliness ever since
the days Of the Trojan war. Now these
things cannot bs learned without some prac-
tice, and cannot always be practfced at o
given moment or place, They need much
'habitual use, at times the most unexpected,
and in Wsys the most pcrplaxtng, To sesk
after these occasions, to hazard something for
them within the judgment Of q constderate
mind, Is very desirap1e and Indeed essential
purpoee In these timee, and very worthy OF
the rational man. Hence 1t Is that our time.
honored field. sporta and msnly games, even
It 1isking something occasiona ally to life and
limb within, the limits OF cool sense), are
not axcusable only, but actively meritorioua;
rot pleasant merely, but positively virtuous;
for By them the sap Of man Is gept up fresh
and pure, and the fiber Of our nerves rs
tough IS ever was that Of our forafa.her8.-- --
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