Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1866-04-07
VOL. XIII, NO. 2O....wHOLE NUMBER, 6Ji,

the men. AMI wisdom shall die with
VA. " OF the Purituus OF 1866, whC
whipped one Oliver Holmes in Bos'
ton, for pcrverscly being Il Baptist
is only reproduced under another
form in the transcondcntalists oi
1866, who worship, another Oliver
Holmes in Boston for prOcIaiming
himself an Qutocut of the breakfast
liable. The BlUdIords and Carvcrs
and IiggiusOns and the rest Of the
men Of lG20, who could not bear to
remain in England where their own
opinions wcro not regarded as the
supreme law of human faith and
practice, are only tho prototypes Of
!he Summers and Wilson's and Phil
Iipscs, who foam at the mouth if
one but suggest the possibility Of
their being mistaken in any one
particular Of insight, foresight or
wisdom. The Purilans Of the sew
cntcenth century, undoub tie d y
would have hanged, without mercy,
the transccndentalists Of the nine
tacnth; but though fur glove is
two di.Icrcnt things according as
YOU turn the fur outside or inside,
it l. always one thing-and that is,
iur glove. Laughter
Mr.. Lowell spcaks Of one emf
ucnt New England light as q being
"' n.,,-,,,,,,,
with icaprrs and jumping i il IL Emsr.on'.,r traces"
But this is true Of the whole sect,
that they are always red in the face
with lcaping and Jumping in some.
body's traces by way Of proving
that they are not as other men who
are content to walk along lifc's road
as naturally and as comfortably as
may be. In the works of the clcy-
crest writer's of this school-and
some of them are men of unqu s.
tionable ability-vou are perpetual.
ly worried with the mental gym
nastics orlheauthor. Theirthouslts.
when thev arc lucky enough to have
thourhts pirouc.te, ono leg in the
mir, or inmp distractinglv at YOU
tbr5uob gauza. or make their bow
~ Won haIancinr on the top Of q
f,riv-l6ot 9ol. TIqughtcr.l That
provincial 'dornr,fism which is only
nmuyiro and rojlickinr in the Noe.
tcs of Edinbure, becomes a mere
DOWNRIGHT bore to tn, Noctcs Of
Boston. The literary prctcnsions
ni fine Scotch "AthGns are not
mnch less sillv to be sure than those
nr tbo American Athens. but they
vast. ot lnosi on q Iarmor basis. and
Lovr , Tvc,irr favor both Of wlis.
l;v nnnrh and Of wit
In tho world Of poIitics the &C.
oooI,rv virrs ol pm,itouisIo Ms It
has h"cn f,Iiritou.lv coIjed shows
i,snlr in onoIooops results The
rborgrtnristir New England. politi.
c;nns Of today hear the same sort
of rc,otion - Nance Capac, and
Cudmus, and Solon. and Lycurgus,
and Moses that Emerson bears to
ylro,,tor md Conturius and Pla-
to md Joroh ,BoImon. and fbe An.
,h,rs nr thn ynd,s. That il to say
Gn rrlIy believes himself to be the
dnwrr Of ALL law.piyers and worthy
~ he hoard and Needed Of mankind
i, L,s dov and generation +. ali
,hosc v,rrn of olL You remember
Tho si"rv of thc German who be-
ino asked to describe a camel, shut
h,msoIfun in his closet and CON
strrcto1 thc b,ast ont of his own
This i what vour Sumner and
Your PhilIips will do for Won any
day. with a constitution or a code.
Ifone Of these men were honestly
to publish his whole Lhought, as the
iaraon OF the Bchool goes, he would
say: The real United States is but
p raricature and q catastrophe of
that perfect and ideal United States
which vearns at the birth Of my
brain,
Perhaps not the worst way Of
testing the worth of such a convic-
ton as this would be to initiate the
midwifery of Vulcan. who relieved
the parturicnt brain of Jupiter by
letting Minerva out Of it with one
rood whacll Of his AK. / doubt,
however if in the modern case we
should see another GOddrcss Of Wis
dom leap to light.
But is there no mildcr cure posi-
bic Of this modern form Of the Puri-
tan disease? Its best diagnosis !
find. after all, in the best ofall books
Of spiritual practice-in the true