The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1868-05-02

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worthy M lheif study, and deserved
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she gains will permit you, 20 MI and
teinper her mind with alI knowledge |
and thoughts which tend 10 confirm
Ia natural instincts Of Justice, aud
refine IL natural tact of love.
All such knowledge should be- Civ.
IN her ~ may enable her to under.
stand, and even 10 aid, the work Of
meni aud yet II should be given, not
as knowledge, not as II II were or
could be IN object 10 know, but only
to feel and 10 Judge. II isof no mo-
mcnt, as a matter Of perfectness In
herself, whether she knows many
languages or one, but Il Is Of the ut
most Importance that she should be
able to show kindness TO stranger,
and to understand the sweetness Of
strangers tongue. II Is Of no mo-
ment to her worth or dignity that
she should be acquainted with this
science or that, but Il is Of the high
est Importance that she should be
trained In habits of accurate thought,
that she should understand the mean
ing, the inevitableness and the love
illness Of natural laws, and follow nj
least some one path Of scientific at
tainmcnt, as far as TO the threshold
Of that bitter Valley Of Humiliation
into which only the wisest and BRAY.
est Of men can descend, owning them
selves forever children, gathering
pebbles on a boundless shore. II i
of little consequence how many posi-
tons OF cities she knows, or how
many dates Of events, or how man.
{ names Of celebrated persons-it is no
the object OF education to turn q wo
man into a dictionary, but II Is deep
ly necessary that she should betaugh
to enter with her whole pcrsonalit.
into the history she reads; to pictur
the passages Of Il vividly in her owl
bright imagination; to apprebend
! with her fine instincts, the pathetic
circumstances and dramatic relation
which the historian too often eclipse
BY his reasoning, and disconnects b.
|, his arrangement. 1t is for her I
trace the hidden equalities Of divin
reward, and catch sight, through th
darkness, Of the fatal threads Of wov
, en- FIRE that connect error with its RET
ribution. But, chiefly Of all, she
/. to be taught to extend the limits
. her sympathy with respect TO tha
+ history which Is being forever deter
mined as the moments pass in whicl
she draws her peaceful breath, an
5 to the contemporary calamity which
8 we're u but rightly mourDed by hel
would recur no more hereafter. Sh
: Is to exercise herself in imaginin
/ what would be the effects upon hs
8 mind and conduct if she were brougl
into the psesence Of the suiIerin
s which Is not the less real because sh'
8 from her sight. She Is 70 be taugl
: somewhat TO understand the notbiDI
IS ness Of the proportion Of that lit
n world in which she lives and love
: and solemnly she Is 10 be taught
;, strive that her thoughts Of piety mi
= not be feeble in proportian to d
Is numbers they embrace, nor b
II prayer more languid thanit is for q
IN momentary relief from pain Of b
. husband or her child, when y % .
90 tered for the multitudes Of those vi
is have none to love them, and is for
h. who are desolate and oppressed
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