The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-03-24
E. WHOLE Y. Ne, z 429.
Make Haste slowly 10

sssef. Make Haste Slowly
This golden precspt, which was frst
ieuuncietsd centuries ago, is as sound to-
day Aswheu it Was frst uttered and its
aPPteaHon ia IS hsedfuI and important TO
ourselves ss to thsPeopls to whom il was
addressed FRANTIC haste is the bessttipp
evil q AmsFicans and of the present gen.
Grafton. We make haste to be rich. 20.
make haste to arrive at q Journeys end: we
MAKE haste TO acquire knowledge; in all the
aXsHqks oftr&de, commerce, manufactures.
tTa'sl'- stGdy,ia eFeEytAiag we do, we hur-
~ along at hsaolong rate. Yet the gard
ensF knows that those trees which grow
most TspidiY. are. the soonest. 10 decay: that
tas liant flower which blooms q few
weeks nom asssd-t;nas perisnss at tue ffst
breath of autumn; while the sturdy oak
allow 10 growth aud development. defes The
storm of centuries. Even sporting man
havs a maxim. ait is not the distance tbat
kills. IT'S the pace" Would this truth
were recognised in the management of the
human race as we'll as-in the triauing of an
imais. Admirable as are our provisions for
education, It aust be admitted that the for
eng system Is far too generally adopted.
We undertake to teach the young too much
we oVsrwork their brains Physicians
conscientousiy tellsus this, but their elo
quent warnings uttered from time TO time
fall on h+sdlsss ears. The public at LARGE
admires the brillisnt precocities of schools
and universities. without counting what
they cost or come too. How MANY of the
Distinguished graduates of our colleges.
the. recipients of academic laurels,slivs to
fulfil the expectations inspired by their
early career? 1t is almost proverbiaI that
they are either short lived, or, in. mature
hfs, are outstrippsd by men, Who made no
figure at all in their college career. It is
toe old story of the hare and the tortoise.
But do not let our readers understand bv
thesS remarks that We underValue educa-
tion or scholarship. By no means Only.
ws would no. crowd into few years the
studies which should be expanded over ma
ny. We understand by education the grad
ual development of the mind, never end
ing coure of intellectual farming and
that, too, parallel with thorough physical
training. - I
The most prolific authors are those who
make but moderate calls upon their minds.
Sir Walter Scott thought that five or six
hours day was the limit to which literary
labor could be extended without injury to
the brain. In the after part of his life, un-
der the pressure of pecuniary necessity, he
far exceeded this limit, and tbs consequences
was that his fine mind and his health sud
denly gave way, Hugh Miller also overs
worked himself. Sir Edward BnlWsr Lyt-
ton, who ia the author of sixty Valumes.
tells US that he never worked more than
three hours day, and these included his
study as well as his writing.
Steady continuous labor, pursued day
after day, and year after year produces ex-
traordiaFy results. Let Us allow thirty
years OF literary. produetiVsness to an au-
thor, and three hundred working DAYS in q
year. A man can easily write, without over
working himself, five printed pages day.
For term OF thirty years this would yield
q product of 45 900 pages. or more than
one hundred volumes of 400 pages each.
We have spoken Of authorship-onl one
form of intellectual labor, but the same
truths apply to other pursuits. We work
with a ferociOuseuergy in hope of enjoy
ing rest at some future time. But even if
total repose were desirable or attainable In
this world of unrest, where employment
seems to be the condition of content, the
capacity of enjoyment is gone when the
over worked toiler reaches the limits he has
set to labor the..remaindsr of his existence
must be devoted to patching up his invalid
frame. and prolonging an existence from
which the sunlight has departed. On the
otter hand. the man who has but moderate
" taxed his,brain, finds a pleasure 10 the
well. balanced exercise of his intellectual
and physical faculties to the last day of
prolonged existence. Let US then be as
in our laboFs as in our pleasures,
sure that to 'maks haste slowly is the
safest way of accomplishing long and
profitable journey.