Arizona miner., 1868-01-11

of any particular men, ont oi when HOh' 't truth such growth could come. but lit'e' in reality, when uscl in spoahihg o' h",ou'' means nothing but the sum oi all 'uc ,p"" cnces which. in the conrre ol tune, ih"'''uu'' laborcrs in the field of discovery invention reasoning. and administration, have brought
 to hear mon the world. In the work oi re-
 Hgious truth and freedom. "Ilme means tue
 binod of many martyrs. the toll ol many
 brains. slow steps made good throu-h 'hui'''
 rcscarch small nights and spots oI Nahi"sc
 ground won from the retiring forces "l iS"'-
 rance and prejudice by generations oi stern
 struggle and still stcmcr patience, gcam- oi
 light and moments of u-puauon lnterSptIseA
 amid years of darkness and despuhd'ht!'
 thousands of combatanls ialhng on tuc F. 6od thousards of lab0rers dying at the i
 plough, with here and there Moses Huht-
 ing the nights of Pi,gah 10 survey, through |
 the mist of tears, and with the eye of faith, the promised land which his followers may .
 reach at last. In material progress, in those acts of life which in their aggregate make up |
 the framework and oil the wheels of our com !
 plicated civilization, "Timc' signifies the | hard won discoveries of science, augmented
 by the acccssions of cach succeeding age from ! Tbales and Archimedes Co Newton and Dayy; l the practical sagacty and appicatiye inEenu-
 ity of hundreds of inventors like ArkWright and Watt, Stevenson and Nhea'stUhc (to
 whom we owe the cotton manufacture and f the steam engine, the railway and the tcle- 1 graph. as well as the humber and unremem-
 bcred labors of the thousands whose minor , contriyances paved the way for their great
 complctors the nnumcmble contributions,
 age after age, of the professional or spccuia- f tive men who at last have made medicine and ', surgery what they now are finally, the daily, {. unacknowlcdged, half unconscious, because | routine cNcrtions of the rulers and admins ' trators who Lave rendered these great yicto- ' rcs of peace possible because they have ena-
 bled those who achieved them t0 labor in ' security and hope. As fur as "Time' has ?, made the world or any nation in il, wiser n and better 1t is because wise and good men have devoted that brief fragment of Time
 which was allotted to them here below to the
 task of enightening and encouraging their
 fellow men, to rendering virtue easier and
 wisdom more attractive, tO removing obsta-
 cles i'll the path of moral progress, to drag
 giur up the masses towards the position
 which the elite had previously attained.
 Where nations once in thralldom, have won
 liberty ard independence it is not the cold - abstrat ton of Time that has cHtraGchjsca )t them, but tymntS that have so misusod Time ie as to make sufferers desperate, prophets who D. have struck out the enthusiasm that makes
 sufferers daring because hopeful, and patriot, &, who have been found willing 10 die for ar )e idea and an aim. And, to look on the rever-C p- of the picture. when in its ceasclcss reyolu at tious ' Time which once brought progres, ld and development, shall have brought decay ld and dissolution, the agencies in operation an, m their agdbs 0Der0Rii present no difficult anal 'l- ysis. Sometimes the same rough energy whicl at made nations conquerors at first makes then m despots and oppressors in the end, and rouse m that hatred and thirst for vengeance whicl IL never waits in vain for opportunities, if onl, ng 1t waits long enough; and the day of pen oi surprises them with a host of enemies ant Id not single friend Usually the wealth whcl CT enterprise and civilization have accumulate, h brings luxury and excavation in its train st. languor and corruption creep over the people
 powers cxertion grows distastcful, and dan Is ger repels where it formerly attracted; de
 generate frcemen hire slaves to do their wor| en and mercenaries to fight their battles am al- no strength vitality or patriotism is left | ly resist the attacks of sounder and hardier bar ot barians. Occasionally, in the process of ter
 rtOrial argrandiscmcnt, nation outgrOws t pc administrative institutions the governments Te system and the ruling faculties which sutficc Ter for a small State prove altogether unequal t an the task of managing great one and th Ter empire or republic falls to pieces from lack q
 
 get above. Not unfrequently, it may be, tn oh mere progress of rational but imperfect civil bt. zati0n brings with 1t it's peculiar dangers an of sources of dsintegration the lower and les Us qualified classes in a nation, always neyitabl lg- the most pumerous, rise in intelligence an we wealth. and grow prosperous and powerful nd institutions naturally become more and nor -nc democratic: if the actual administration ( pe- public affairs does not pass into the hands c ess the masses or their nominees, at least th me policy of the nation Is nodded in acc0rdanc lil- with the views of the less sagacous and mor ces passionate part of the community; the mi, 1g- chief is done lnconsciously but irretricvabll ces and the catastrophe comes without bein nit either intended or foreseen. In other case na- states and mOnarchies come to an end simpl as because they have no longer a roison fetre- ad- because they never had in them the element Ow of permanence; because destructive or disi lat, tegrating causes, long in operation, have n- last ripened into adequate strength. TT is Ottoman Power is falling because the mil our tary spirit which founded it has died ava ngs and It has no other point of superiority lty the people over whom it rules because tl We Turks are stagnanf and stationary, and Il cd, Greeks are on fond progressive though the corrupt and undeyeloped race. Austria, to
 seems crumbling to pieces, because compose of of a host of ineongruous elements, and b ,m- cause neither the genius to fuse them nor il oth yigor to coerce them can be found amor nly their rulers
 tres Is there, then, no permanence in any earth