New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-01-19
oIVILIzE MAN AND YOU CIVILIzB
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| reveals no Sabbath. creation is an eternal
procession of phenomena, and knowledge
is an eternal recognition and study of it.
God, through matter, has built up spirit;
man, through spirit, relines, re-creates, and
idealzes matter. knowledge civilizes man;
man civilizes nature. knowledge reveals
the order of nature, and natures laws once
known by man are turned back upon her.
self and re-create her in forms Of more per
feet beauty God meanwhile revealing the
type as man discerns the first principles,
Human life, in its ascending steps, has
left way marks all along, and traces at every
step. Man, in history, speaks through
nature; nature, in history, speaks through
man. Mind can not grasp the countless
centuries through which nature will strug-
gle to produce the image Of God in human
form; mind can not grasp the countless
ages through which the human form, and
all enshrined within it, will struggle to pro-
duce the image of God in nature. When
man stands up above all creation as the
perfected image Of God, like mirror all
creation will reflect the perfected image Of
man. As the dwelling speaks of the dwell
er, as the garden speaks of him who Guilt
I Yates it, as architecture speaks of the
architect, as art speaks Of the artist, as
poetry speaks Of the poet, as eloquence
speaks of the hot and glowing soul that
utters it, as pure life speaks Of the re-
ligion, so this earth in all her
material productions will speak Of civilized
man as whole. And as mind rises in the
scale of creation and stands out purified
aud clear from all the dross of sense, so
will matter glow with the inner life Of
spirit and God shine out in all his moral
attributes as clearly in the mountain and in
the valley, on the ocean and on the plain,
on the earth and 10 the heavens as he now
reveals himself in the glorifed face Of the
saint when Time waves her last farewell
and Eternity opens wide her arms.
The reflex action of mind upon matter,
not only in lis grosser forms but in its
more delicate chemical combinations, has
become as well known in all its laws as the
movements of the heavenly bodies in their
orbits. By law deep and everlasting the
cultivation of man results in the cultivation
Of nature, and in return cultivated nature
aids in the cultivation of man. Man can not
improve himself without improving all
around him. There is no selllshness in
law; law is the essence of benevolence.
Man can not shut himself up within him
self and say all my stores Of knowledge,
all my treasures of thought, all my riches
Of imagination, all the grandeur of my
ideas / will hoard up and keep eternally
within my own mind. The same genius
that led to their acquisition and their in
spiration throbs and agonizes until they
have been given forth to the world in all
their warmth and freshness. And once out
upon the ocean of life they sail away on
their civilizing and enlightening mission
not only changeiHg the nature of man but
the nature Of nature herself Forests dis
appear, and fields of grain and orchards
of fruit burst forth. The hut falls to the
ground and the palace rears its lofty walls.
The mule traversing his mountain path
burdened down to the earth gives
way to the engine of Watt screaming
over hills and through gOrges with the
business Of continent in Its train. The
postboy foundering through the mud with
his little package Of letters passes away,
and a thousand times more intelligence in |
q moment speeds on the wings OF Lightning
to the ends Of the earth. Even the wild
flowers of the prairie, the wild cat Of the
woods, the wild horse of the plains, the
wild dog that howls on his sandheap, the
wild bull that bellows and shakes bis head,
at the head Of bis herd, in defiance, all be-
come domesticated, improved, civilized, and
and made to contribute to the
service or pleasure Of man as man becomes
improved, civilized, and enlightened, and I
made to contribute to the service of ma
inre. Man sometimes in his foolish CON
,eit thinks all the world Of nature is for |
him. Nature might with equal truth say |
Ill the world Of man is for her. Man can
not advance step without her; she can not
advance a step without him. Il is only as
he becomes the bride of man and man be-
ZONES the husband Of her, and the holy
lniOn Is preserved in all It's purity and in
egrity, that mutual civilization, mutual
publication, mutual sanctiaeallon can
axe place. Man and nature were not Gre
aled enemies; matter and mind are not as
'agonialie; evil resides in neither, good in
both.
In the Light Of these truths ii IL not difficult
g see q glorious future through all the
slonds and darkness that now seen. to hang
,vor the material and political Interests II
be South. The frat great law has bees
IioIated. Man has not Been educated
md therefore nature has not heen
cultivated. Man has been kept il irnoF
nee, ana naiurs Ia revenge has withheld
Ies choicest treasures.
The mlnd 81 New England cultivated
nd the baEren rocks Of New England bud
orsh and blossom like the rose. The mina
i New Englahd cultivated, and the eaflh
FIELDS UP her treasures, ana mines Of irsn
md copper and coal ppur out iheIr wenIth
" millions. Tbs mind Of New Euslaua
and maaufAeluEes rise o. oVsry
bank, and pulaale with busy and irrsniega