The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-01-03
THE WORKING oEASSES.


Heaven helps those who help
themselves" is a we'll known maxim,
cmbodying IN small compass the re.
suits oEysst human experience. The
spirit Of sslf.help is the root Of all
genuine growth in the individual aud
exhibited in the lives Of many, II con.
stitutes tho true source Of natural
vigov and strength. Help from with
out Is often enfcebling In It's effects,
but help from within invariably in
vigoraies
Whatever is done for mon on class
es, to a certain extent takes away tho
stimulus of doing for themselves;
and whore men are subjected 10 over
guidance, ovcr-government, the inc.
yitablo tendency is to render them
comparatively needless. Foreign OBJ.
servers nre noted, as one OF the most
marked characteristics of the Eng
iishman, his strong individuality and
distinctive personal cbergy--refusing
TO merge himselfin institutions, but
retaining throughout his perfect free
dom Of thought and speech, and nc-
tion. II is this energy Of individual
life aud example, acting throughout
society which constitutes tho best
practical education Of Euglishmcn.-
Schools, academies, and colleges gave
but tho morost beginnings Of culture
in comparison with it. Far higher
and more practical is the lifO-cduca.
tion daily given in our homes, in the
streets, behind the counters, in work
shops, at tho loom and at the pIow, IN
counting houses and manufactures,
and in all the busy hauuts Of men,
This is that fnal instruction as NOM
bers Of society which Schiller desig-
mated T" the education Of the human
race, consisting in action, conduct,
and self-cullure, selc-control-all that
tends to discipline man truly, and
fit him for the proper performance Of
the dutiosand business oflife--a kind
Of education not to be learned from
books or acquired by any amount Of
literary training.
II is this individual freedom and
energy, SO cordially recognized by
observant foreigners, that really con-
stitutcs the prolific source Of our nat
ural growth, For il is not to one
rank or class alono that this spirit oil
free action is confined, but it porvadcs
all ranks and classes; perhaps its most
vigorous outgrowths being observable
in the commonost order of people,
Men great in science, literature and
art--apostlos Of great thoughts and
lords Of the great heart, have sprung
indiscriminatoly from the English
farm and Scotch hillside, from the
workshop and the mine, from the
blacksmith's smithy and the coblors
stool. Tho Illustrations which pro-
sent then selves arc indeed so numer-
GUS, that the difficulty consists in ma
king a selection from them, such as
should fall within tho compass Of a
reasonable book.
Take for instance, tho remarkable
fact, that from the barbor's shop rose
Sir Richard Arkwright, the Inventor
Of the spinning Jenny, and tho found
er Of the manufacture of cotton in
Great Britain. Lord Tenderdon, Que
Of the most distinguished Of the Eng.
lish Lord Chief Justices; and Turner,
the greatest among landscape paiut-
ers. No one knows, to certainty,
what Shakespeare wes, but II is un-
questionable that ho sprunt from ,
very humble rank. His fathor was q
sbutcher and "a grazier; aud Shake
speare himself Is supposed to have
been in early life, a wool-comber
whilst others aver that ho was an ush.
er in school aud afterwards scriv--
iner's clork. He truly seems to have
been "not one, but all mankinds ep-
itome."
From the weavorclass sprung Simp.
son, the mathematician; Bacon, the
SCULPTOR the two Millcrs, Adam
Walker, John Foster, Wilson, the
Ornithologist; DIR. Livingstone the
missionary travelcTi and Tannahill,
the poet. Shoemakers have given vi
Sir Cloudosely Shovel, the great ad,
miralty sturgeon, the elcetricsan.-
Samuel drew, the essayist; Clifford,
the editor Of the Quarterly Review;
Bloomfield, the poet, and VIM. Carey,
the missionary whilst Morrison, an.
other laborious missionary, was a ma.
ker Of shoe lasts.
Within the last year, profound
naturalist has been discovered in III,
person of, a shoemaker at Ranf,
named Thomas Edwards. who, while
maintaining himseIfby his trade, has
devoted his leisure to the study Of
natural science in all its branches,
his researches in connection With the
smaller crnstacie having been reward.
ed BY the discovery Of now species
70 which the name of Pranixa Ed.
wardsii" has been given by natural,
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