The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-23

lyle ON Ambition ana healLn---
Health the Prize OF MI Earthly
Prlzes---SOme quaint words from
one OF the Worlds Great Work.
Thomas Carlyle was lately installed
as Rector of the University of Edin-
burg. The event was celebrated on his
part by an inaugural peculiarly char
acteristic of his life and career. We
quote as follows from his address ::
Ipeed not hide from you young gen.
tlemen-and that is one of the lust
things / am going to tell you-that you
hive got into n very troublous epoch OF
the world; and don't think you will
find it improve the footing you have,
then you have many advantages which
we had not. You have careers open to
YOU, by public examinations and SO on,
which is n thing much to be approved
Land which we hope to see perfected
more and more. All that was entirely
unknown in my time. and you have
many things to recognize as ndvan:
tages. BuC7you will find the ways of
the world more anarchical than ever, l
think. AS far as have notIced, reVo-
luton has come upon us. We have got
into the ,lrgIof revolutions. All kinds
of things are coming to be subjected 20
fire, as it were; hotter and hotter the
wind rises around every thing. Curl
Gus to say, now, in Oxford ana other
places that used to seem to lie mt an
chOr in the stream of time, regardless
of all changes, they are getting INTO
the highest humOrof mutation, ana all
sorts of new ideas are getting ahoat. II
is evident that whatever is not mude OF
asbetos will have to be burned in
this world IL will not stand the
heat it is getting exposed to. And
in saving that, it is but saying in other
words that we are in an epoch Oh anar-
.chy-anarchy plus the constable.
There is nobody that picks
one,s pocket without some policeman
being ready to take him up. Renewed
.lauyhter.l But in every other thing he
is the son, not of Cosmos, but ofChaos;;
He is a disObedient, and reckless, and
altogether waste kind of o6ject-a
.comTnonplace man in these epochs; ana
the wiser Kind of fsmen-the select, OF
whom I hope YOU will be part-has
more and more to see to it, to look for
ward, and will require to move with
double wisdom, aud will find. in short,
that the crooked things that he has TO
mil straight in his own life or round
about, wherever he may be-, are mani
fold and will task nil his strength,
wherever he may go. But why snouiu
I complain of that either? For that is
the thing a man is born to in all epochs.
He is born to expehd every particle OF
strength that God Almighty has given
him IN doing the work he hnds ne IS Mt
tor-tO stand up to it to the last breath
of life, and do his best. We are called
upon to do thnt; and the reward we all
get-which we are periectly sure OIL IL
We have merited it's that we have got
the work done, orat least, that we have,
tried to do the work. For that is
rreat blessing in itself; and should
saw there is not very much more reward
than that going in this world: II the
man gets meat and clothes, wllnt mat,
ters it whether he have ten lhousAnu
pounds ten million ponhus' Gouiol .nn, Lla,
be, or seventy poundsa year! lie can get
meat and clothes for that, and he wlll
find very little difference, intrinsically,
If he is Il wise man. Laughter.J /: u
I warmly second the advice Of the
wisest of men-"Don't be am hitionsi
don't be at all too desironS OF success;
he Iovnl and modest" Cut down the
nrond towering thoughts that you get
into YOU, or see that. they be pure as
wellsas high. There is IL nobler nmbi-
ton than the gaining of all California
would be. or the getting OF all the SUI
fraCes that are on. the planet just now.
fLoud and prolonged cheers.J FINALLY,
gentlemen, have one advice 10 give
You which is practically of very great
imnortunce, thouehya very humble one
10 is. In the middle of your zeal and
ardor-for such, l believe, will be SUI
ficient in spite of all the -counselss to
moderate it that can give you; have
no doubt you will have among you
people ardently bent to consider iiie
cheap, for the purpose of sgettlng ior-
ward in what they are aiming NJ oil
bigb-but YOU are TO consider through
oIit- much more thanIs- s-donent present,
and what il would hive been very
great thing for me ii / had been able 10
cousider-that health isa thing TO '5be.
attended to continually-that' you are
to regard that as the very highest OF all
temporal things for you. [Applnuse.I
There is no kind of achievement you
cnuId make in the world that is equal
to nerfect health. What to it are mug
gets and millions? The French ytinan-
cier said-"AIasl why is there no s'eeP
To be sold?" Sleep was not in the mar
ket mt any quotation, daughter and
Il is n curious thing, that remarked
long ago, and have often turned in my
head. hut the word for "holy" in the
German anguage-heiLi9-also means
s'healthy." And SO Hetbr0Dn means
or "healtliy we'll" we
have it in the Scotch hale; and sup
pose our English word whole-with q
fwn-aI of one piece, without any yhole
in it's the same word. Ifind that you
could not get any, better definition OF
what "holy" really is than "henlthy"
healthy''-MenS SGItd. IN
corpore Sano. CApplause,l a man
with his intellect n clear, plain geome-
trio mirror brilliantly sensitive OF all
objects and impressions around It, ana
imaging all things in their correct pro-
portfons-not twisting up into convex
or concaVe, and distorting everything
40 that he can not see the truth OF the
matter without endless grOpings and
manipulation-healt clear and tree,
and seeing all about him. We never
can attain that at all. In fact, the op-'
tive of it. You can not, if you are go
ing TO do. any decisive intellectual OPP,
eration-if you are going 10 write a
hook tat least, never could without
getting decidedly made ill by it, and
really you must IL 1t is your business,
and you must follow out what you are
at-do it sometimes, but ut the expense
Of health. Only remember at all lines
to get back as fast as possible out of 1t
-itno health, and regard the real equi-
librium as the center of things. You
should always look ut the hetLt1, which
means holy, and holy means healthy.
Well, that old etymology a les
son it is against certain gloomy aus
tere, aesthetic people; people that have
gone about as if this world were ALA
dismal prison. house. It has indeed got
all the ugly things in it thatI have been
alluding to, but there is an eternal sky
over it, and the blessed sunshine,
and verdue of spring, rich autumn
and all that, in it. too. Piety does
not mean that a man should
make a sour face about things, and re-
fnse TO enjoy in moderation what his
Maker has given. Neither do you find
it 10 have been SO With old Knox. If
yonsiooE into min you will find beau