Arizona miner., 1868-01-11

natures laws, III Ait AEEINNilt VI IA0 tltNtNi | a beneficent ore-that, while the active pow ! CTS strengthen with exercise passive iHpTCs sons fade and grow feeble with repetition. | The j1gsic9l blow or prick inflicted on a spot | already sore with previous injuries is doubly felt; the second mofdl stroke falls upon part which has become partially benumbcd and doadened by the first. Then new impressions, often far feebler, often far less worthy of at tention. pass like a wave over the older ones, cover them. cicatriCe them, push them quiet lv into the background. We coUL} not retain our griefs in their first freshness, even if we would. As Mir. Arnold says;
 This is tue curse of life; that not
 nobcr, calmcr train
 Of wiser thoughts and feelings blot
 Our passions from our brain.
 But each day brings its petty dust
 Our soon choked souls to 1ll;
 And we forget because we must,
 And not because we will.
 Tn a word, we do not overcome our sorrow we only overlive it. It is suCceeded-not subdued; covered up, messed over, like the temples of Egypt or the tombs of the Camp agna-not conquered.
 It is the same, too, usually, with our faults, @Time" cures them. we say. It would be more correct to say that it removes the temp tation to them. Sometimes it is only that pleasures cease to please; we grow wise and good through mere satiety-if wisdom and goodness that come 10 us through such an operation of "Time be not a most fallaci- ous and cynical misnomer. The passions that led our youth astray die out with age from the slow changes in our animal frame, from purely physical modification of our constitu- tion the appetites and desires that spring st, h,f nd oh .l C our carly years no longer torment the languid pulse and phlegmatic temperament of after life: the world and the Devil, not the flesh. are then the tempters to be prayed against. The frailties of
 -.-checrful creatures whose most sinful deeds Were but the overlooking of the hcirt,
 come easily and naturally to an end when from the dulied emotions and impaired vital ity of advancing age we feel nothing yiyidly and desire nothing strongly. Time does not so much cure our faults as kiH them. Sometimes often, indeed, we would hope ! lime brings experience in its train. We ] learn that vice "docs not pay.' We discover 1 by degrees that the sin is far less sweet than we fancied. and that it costs much dearcr 1 than we had bargained for We grow bet 1 ter calculators than we were; we reflect more profoundly; we measure and weigh i more accurately. Occasionally, no doubt ! !" Time" operates through nobler class oi : influences The observation of life shows us ! the extensive misery wrought by all wrong doing; we find those around us whom wC love better than ourselves and affection and philanthropy gradually initiate us into virtuc
 and selfdenial. Growing sense aids the ope-
 rations of duled scnsibility; we become les;
 passionate and fierce as our nerves become
 less irritable; we drop our animosities as fail
 ing memory ceases to remind uS of the offence:
 which aroused them, and as a caImer iudg
 ment enables us to measure those offence,
 more justly; We arc less willing to commit
 crimes or neglect duties or incur condcmna
 ton for the sake of worldly advancement, a:
 we discover how little happiness that ad
 yancement brings us, and as we reflect for how
 short period we can hope to enjoy it. Bat through all and to the last the physical in
 fluence of !" Time" upon our bodily frame i the best ally of its moral influence on ou character and our intelligence. Time bring
 mellowness to man much as it brings beaut, ? to ruins--by the operations of decay ", melt and fade into the gentle and the good just as palaces and temples crumble into th, , picturesque.
 , When we come to speak of nations and o national progress, the idea of "Timen em l braces a far wider range of influences, botl as to number and duration, which we can onlr glance at. Time, as it operates on empire ! and on peoples, on their grandeur and thei , decaderce, includes the aggregate of the ef forts, separate OF combined, of every indiyi p dual among them, through a long succession - of decades and of centuries Mr. AIatthep ? Arnold, in the least sound of his many saga cious and suggestive writings-his inconside rate attack upon Colenso-speaks much O } the Zeit-geist, the Spirit of the Age. and urge us to trust to it's slow and irresistible inhu ence, and not to seek to hasten t-that is as far as we could understand him. to abstain from all those acts and efforts of which it r influence is made up. Mr Leckie again. il } his admirable philosophical work, "The His } tory of Rtualsm," especially in the chapter r on magic and witchcrah, writes as if the de } cay of superstition, which he chronicles SC well, were owing to q sort of spontancou.
 growth of the hlman mind, and its added knowledge, and not to any distinct proces. J of reasoning, or 10 the effects of the teaching