The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-06-29

COMPARED with their note active contenpora.
| res, bookworms arc at an undeniable discount.
Even the intellectual feats they accomplish are Ioss
successful In the worlds eyes. Yet,t without at
tempting to defend the inequality Of the juBtice
80 ~ n'"teii ont to thopn, ono can geo some
sound resson why, oyen from an intellectual pol.
| OF view, the bookworm's life La often desoryedIy
unsuocessful. It Is not easy to giyo an exact do
flition Of what is usually meant by genius; but Il
is not the less true that genius, as Tho world un
dcrstanda the term, is not so often found among
the narrow tide OF booworms an 10 is in the world
outstde Genius iB nothing unless it can produce
And it is mistake to suppose that books alone
will teach student to do this. Nor will solitude
and isolation from the society Of others, howoyor
necessary as the means Of consolidating and
beating into shape thoughts which aro sooner or
iaor to DO given to the world, supply tho place OF
materials on which to work. Tho materiels
must bo acquired by tho mind from outside, and
not from inside and tho spirit that does moth
ing but food on itsolf, and spin oobyobs ont
OF its own bowels, remains impoverished and
thin, and seldom contributes much 10 Tho mr.
manent woalth Of mind. Tho. highest kind OF
genius Ia that which is alive to, and continually
impresnatins itself with, the feongu and THOUGHTS
OF othors. It gathers tho flying seeds OF It's time.
and sdds to them tho seeds which 1t derives from
bool9. 1t ts kconly susceptible TO oyory human
influence, and it's power lios, not In creating its
own fuol, but In tanning its collected fuel into
aamo. The greatest and mont;mporishab an
thors arc not pure inventors. sHArap.AKR and
HotfER arc debtors, to an incalcuablo extont. 10
tho verses, the thoughts, and tho histories OF .bo
obscure army Of unknown poots who preceded
them. Thoy did not, as 1t has been r,id, "vako
up somo fine morning" and find themselves prog
nant with Rroat drama or 8 grcat episode. An
Infinite amount OF human labor had gone bofore
which thoy converted into their own capital, Tboy
borrowed probably from innumerablo sources. All
thAt thoy had read, ns vol az all that they had
over soon, went into tho MILL and what eenus did
was only TO turn tho whoel aud mako tho grain
into four. Sympathy and receptivity arc. then.
necessary parts OF genius, and those arc qualities
winch bookworms oftonost want for they aro
qualities which require to bo lourisbod and fad nv
mixing IN tho common Mo Of tho aae 10 ,zbich =
man is born. ""''11
sHnIABER tMrs. PARTNoros,, who Ia mat tn,noa
hity.tnreo, Ia described as heavy solid. Y.rmor-
lko looking gentleman, aud influential man IN !,
local way, mombor Of tho school commitioo =, IT,
district md altogether . substantial woll.to-do
oltzon. Ho Is Now Hampshire man by birth, hnt
has long boon, and etin is, q resdent OF cbe1st.
Mass, wliero no has pleasant homo and .s.m,ly
oirclo. lilo has children who aro mostly grown nm
and married. He has littlo or no voice for publis
speaking. Ho tells story to the efiaot that on ono
occasion he spoke in Hazard Hall, =, D.o,s.-..-