Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-10-10

essary in the details of the farmers work
as in that of the politician, the fnancier
or the scholar. If eight or ten hours work
per day, is more profitable pecuniarily-
more profitable physically and more prof
table socially and intellectually both to
, the employer and the employed. than
fourteep-then adopt it: this blind con.
servatism that would order the world to
J halt, is quite as much to be dreaded as
that fiery radicalism that would hurl it
to destruction; it is this that has written
over the worlds history in letters of red.
Among the ancient Greeks thoughtful
man explained the natural causes of thuu-
, der and of storms, and was condemned for
impiety in the Sth century priest de-
, clared the world to be round, and was
) perSecuted;--and Calico after announcing
the annual and diurnal motions of the
earth. was sent to the dungeons of the
inquisition. Such is too much the fate Of
, the discovercrs of truth in any of the
, walks of life; we love too we'll to dwell at
, Jerusalem and to persecute the prophets
and stone those that are sent unto US.
, Now it is the business of the thought
ful worker as it is ofthe prophetic phil
; osopher to prove all things" and then
hold fast that VIII 0 is e 3D." We are to d
that the river Adve in Switzerland, when
swollen by foods, sometimes drives back
! the waters of the Rome into the Lake cf
: Geneva, with such force as to cause the
!, mill-wheels to revolve In contrary direc-
, ton. SO it is with your modern conser-
f vative he forgets the danger of 5ack.,oa.
f ter and the mill-wheels of lite are quite
0 as likely to roll backward as forward.
S We are to venerate antiquity only for
0 its virtues, and as we look back upon the
, stream of time we shall find that while
$ it floats down to us many rich argosies -
: it also bears in its current much food
wood and rain--and it is the duty CT our
= age to haul ashore the rubbish aud to en-
d force the strictest clearing house regula
S tons upon all cargoes we ship down tc
r the great future.
!, The best thinkers since the middle
y ages have uniformly acknowledged this
= aw Of progress in science, in literature, ir
Il the arts. in morals and in short as gen
!, eral law Of humanity, to guide men in al
IS their labors and set up before them th'
9, ,'Delectable Mountains Of aspiration
le and Of hope. Thus Des ;artes, the chic
d of French philosophy, who hved in the be
n ginineIf, the 9th century.in his Discours
't on Method, says my experience teache
5, me that it is possible to arrive at a knowl
!. edge of many things which will be ver'
n useful to life and that we may yet dis
Is cover methods, by which man comprehen
!. ding the force and the action of fire. o
:, water, of the air. Of the stars, Of the skie
$, and of all the other bodies which now ell
|, viron US as distinctly as We comprehend
D.. the different. trades of our artisans, shal
IS be able to emplQy them in the same fash
If ions for all the usages to which they ar
" appropriate and thus shall render him
d self master and possessor of nature.
IS What prophecy Of scence-which sine
g the days of Des,arte has been fulfilled
20 in the steam engine, the telegraph ant
Il the cable-over the earth through tn
e air aud under the sea. @
e SO Pascal, contemporary of Descartes
says "all men together make contin
W aal progress as the universe grows old
N and they whom VIC call ancients, were 10
d decd new in all things, and properly form
is ed the infancy Of mankind; and since, t
i. their knowledge we have joined the expe
1t rence of the ages which followed them
e, 1t is in ourseloeS. that is to be found tina
p antiquity which we revere in the others.
n Lord Bacon, also declares that antiquit,
o. was only the youth of the world, ant
e, Locke. and Colcridge have declared tn
existence of the same law.
er We are to learn from this law, that tn
n constant desire for improvement, with tn
4. unceasing effort consequent thereon, nat
ut urally causes an indefinite advance. an
that each generation adds by an irresist
bic necessity to the accumulations of tn
W past, and thus prepares for higher fl
he ture. :.
is We are not to look upon society as Gu
o. owski, an intelligent and philosophic;
or Russian writer, truthfully tells us thi
'ir Russian Society is to be viewed as Py
ep amid with the laboring classes at the bo
tn tom. and with successive orders of nobil
ey ty growing less iu number. and more po'
al erfu and arbitrary, resting upon aud sa
he ping out the life and strength of the pe'
a lower, and the whole ending in compile
lat absolutism and concentrated power IN II
%. Gar, at the summit. Nor are we to vie
OF it as Kohlrausch, a faithful aud analy
ical German historian, describes Briti
he society, as q series of concentric circles
nd orders of people, revolving about the col
,at mou centre of Monarchy-some near'
nd and others more remote--but all nndffe
life aoly tfred in their own orbit. and new
'rk reaching, never approachlng and never
ner right, aspiring to the common cent
ar Rather as Americans, let us view
cd pathway Of life as a spiral thread
cti- whose ever.risiug circles, and graceful
afG ~ m N