Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1867-09-06


Men by labor, men by feeling,
Men by thought and men by fame
Claiming equal rights to sunshine
In mans ennoblng name
There are foam-embroidered oceans,
There ere little weed clad rills;
There are feeble. inch high sapliDgs,
There are cedars ON the hills.
God, who counts by souls, not stations,
Loves and prospers you and me,I
For to him all vain distinctions
Are as pebbles in the geo.
Toiliug hands alone are builders
Of nations wealth or fame;
Titled laziness is pensioned,
Fed and fattened on tho same;
By the sweat of others foreheads,
Living only to rejoice,
While the poor mans outraged freedom
Vainly lifted up his voice.
Truth and justice are eternal--
Born with lovelins.s and light;
Secret wrongs will never prosper,
While there is a sunny right;
God, whose world. heard voice 10 singing
BouDdless love to you and ms
Sinks oppression with its titles.
Al the pebbles In the sea.
THE IMPORTANCE OF A GOOD EDuoAT1oH.
1consider q human soul, without
education, like marble in the quarry:
which show none ofits inherent beauti-
es until the skill Of the polisher fetches
out the colours, makes the surface shine
and discovers every ornamental cloud
spot, and vein, that runs through the
body of it. Education after the Same
manner, when it works upon noble
mind draws out TO view every latent
virtue and perfection, which,
without such helps, are nearly able TO
make their appearance.
If'my reader will give me leave to
change the allusion 80 soon upon him,
I shall make use of the same instance
to illustrate the force of education,
which Aristotle has brought to explain
his doctrine of substantial forms, when
he tell US that statue lies hid in q
block of marble; and that the art Of the
statuary only clears away tho super
fuous matter, and removes the rub
] bish. The figure is in the stone, and
b the sculptor only finds it. What
q sculpture is to- a block of marble,
D education is to human soul. The
t philosopher, the saint, or the hero
r the wise tho good, or the great man,
K livery often lies hid and concealed in q
Is plebeian, which o proper education
= might have disinterred, and have
ID brought,to light. I am therefore much
= delighted with reading the accounts
le Of savage nations; and with contem.
te plating those virtues whloharo wild
is AID uucultivated to see courage ex-
a. erting itself in Aereeness, resolution
III in obstinacy, wisdom in cunning, pa
tienoe in sullenness and despair.
to 1t is an unspeakahle blessing, to be
g. born in those parts Of the world where
se wisdom and knowledge flourish
ire Those who have bad the advantages
Is Of a more liberal education, rise above
ks one another by several different de-
~ yEgrees of perfection. For, to return
to to- our statue in the block Of marble
de We see it sometimes only begun to b
on' ohipped, sometimes rough hewn, an
al but just sketched into a human figure
If som stitnes We see the man appearing
ose distinctly IN all his limbs and feature'
ave sometimes we find the figure wrough
Iou mp to- great elegancy; but ,seldo'
10 meet with anyeto which the hand Of
our Phidias or a Praxiteles could not ;gi1
u'n severa nice touches and finishings.-
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