The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-19
THE APRIL MAGAZINES.
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and appliances, TO untold the human beiOg
through the successive stages of cnildh Dod,
boy hood, aod youth--so to develop the embryo
msn that babbles at his mothers knee that he
ehaN PbteT manhood equipped, as thoroughly as
Dis individual nature VIII admit of, for perform.
Ing oil the functions and duties implied in his
beng, and thus for continuing his
sducsuoD; for, rightly viewed, all life
structed In what will make him best
At his predeterm ned place as merchant, Law.
yer, engineer, clergy man. manufacturer, ph5st-
deeper % ,6ap ,Si. lies @ tSst % wnicS % in each % one @
should be unfolded TO make him as much of a
man as Nature dcsgued him to be. Moreover,
whatever his calling or daily bread. work.
not only will he enjoy as individual man tae
facilities he has acquired beyond the mere
needs OF business, and as citizen unoon.cio lsly
dispense the stores he may bave laid up, but iu
proportion 10 lbe tb0rOugbuess OF his general
culture will be his. efficiency in the higher avo.
cations; nay, we might say, in al. 1t is found
that porter who can read Is, simply as q
porter, more serviceable TIL M one who cannot.
Tue good initiation and tuition the grown man
Aas had breces bin, empo Vers MIN, for auy
part he may bave TO play. The farmer who has
straiped his means TO send son to college
would not (nad the college instructions been
given on ph losoDhical prihc lples) have had to
complain Of HIM that, after all the cost, he did
not know how to salt mnles; for the
sons sense of fitness aud his perception of the
connection of tbngs would then prob ably have
been SO cultivated as to lead him to discern that
1he salt should be put in small heaps aud not
scattered broadcast in the ned: AMI, IN the last
resort, be would have prac lired what he had
been taught-namely, self-dltfideuce iu eerfectly
new circumstaDces-and wo1ld have asked
for q hint before undertaking an untrled pro-
Ged1re.
':Nature is a great schoolmistress, If we read
her Alright aud clearly. The subtle correspon-
dence between our faculties aud her resources,
cur ability TO unseal her secrets, to torn her
nyster,es into kno owledge, her laws to uses
this, besides being high intellectual exercise,
carries moral discipline. Every law that we
learn is fresh ihc llcation of truth. The
Divine order-which is the more apparent aud
The more imposing as our apprehension Wtdeus
and deepens-the recognition of the iuces-
SAINT, ipexorable logic OF God, the per-
oeption OF the invisible linking OF things
into vast, sublime, multiplex unity-al this
feeds our thought, and, while strenetbeniug
the intellect, enllg gntens and exal,s the moral
force within us. The more distinctly we see
and the more deeply we search, the more do we
behold law ruling all phenomena. By emotions
of eTanoeur and beauty the mind Is spiritualzed
as we become aware that in every domain, in
every motion, i'm every conjunction. God is
methodlcal, consequent presclent, scientific"
''Were the time-running through many
years-Dow spent In trying 10 learn Greek and
Latin (and even the tutors and professors are
themselves but trlers, whose knowledge is, for
The most part, super icial) )-were this time
given to English literature, 10 critical and at
the same time hearty study OF the choicest
English pages, especially those of the poets,
NOT only would the few who. from linguistic
aptitude, acquire some command over the
vocabulaIies of the ancient languages, get dou-
BILE the proht-owing not only to the greater
distipCtness Of the thought, but chiefly 10 the
warmth wherewlth sentiments conveyed in
the mother tongue are embraced, and 10 the
deeper stirring of the mind through sympathy
with national, fraternal spokesnen but che
majority of every class-those who learn little
rs Undergraduates of or through Greek or Latin,
and as graduates never open a Greek or Latin
boOk-Would most of them learn much, and
hold what they learnt as a permanent Resource
becoming at once cordially Interested in their
native writers, into whose meaning they leap at
sight graspng words with fervent familiarity
aad even the slowest would gather up some-
thing either of languaee for use, or OF uncon-
sclous refinement in sentiment, or OF rectidca-
tion of opinion.
s'Tut, it may be urged, and fairly urged. a
young man whom it has been thought worth
while to send to college is not Literally educated
nnless he knows something of the two great
cultivated historical peoples o. antiquity. True;
hut 10 get this desirable kuowiedee the surest
path does not lie through lbe dictionary and
ihe grammar, through which most colegians
learn only "a little Latin and less Creek the
most of them Iepelled by the, to the most,
4ruitless dIudgery from looking into the life
OF these auclenis, Eh,o, . fsr oil as they lie,
the whole class be taught so much of the
ahought and being of the Greeks, and the Ro-
mans that they, macy of them az least, shall be
stimulated to get more by themselves. BY q
method which carries the teaching vivfdly into
thpiy heedful minds, let them be taught what
Homer was and Nschylls, what Virgil and
AuIelius, what Socrates aud Zeno. Especially
should the heroism OF Grecian aud Roman
story-which is the underlying granite OF a
national lie-be brought home, to the heart.
History .is, by the young, read with the most
distinctness and impresslyeness in the throb-
bing pages of biography. To them let the lives
OF the purely great stand for human life. The
lower side of life they learn fast enough on the
playground, in the street, 1t may be at home,
OF on some other tract OF the foot worn arena OF
reality. WDat is peculiarly healthful to the
fresh, expanding seDsloillies is the ideal, as
manifested in the lives of the best and greatest
From TRADITIONAL Fish Stories" by W. W.
Crane, we take the folio Wing;-
"The story OF SiD6bad's adventures with the
Old Man OF the Sea, taken in connection with the
great resemblance 10 men. both in appearance
and manners, as well as tue unlimited capacity
Tor drunkenness, of the qltQdrunl1nd that are so
plentiful in Malaysia, ooes not seem by any
mears SO groundless as It has been considered.
Yhe ouraOg outaDg exhibits this resemb ance
strongly enough 10 make its name of wild
man very appropriate one; aud the gibbon
lily O6dteS dT) with its long arms, bent form,
and singularly human like face, enclrcled by
long white hair aud whiskers, presents exactly
such figure as Slndbad describes.
''Sindbad's account of his capture by canut
balls, whom he described as blacks. appears very
plausible when we remember that the inhabl
SAINTS OF New Guinea and many of the neighbor'
lag Islands are both cannlbals and blacks,
while The natives of tue FIJI Islands, although
of q different race, come under the same de-
soriptioR with equal proprlety. 1t Is most pro
bable, however, that the savages referred TO are
1he people of the Apdaman Islands, who belong
10 the Papuan or New Guinea race, ana are men
Homes as caunibals by Marco Polo. elndo al say:
1he cannibsl blacks gave hlmselfand com pauion
species OF hero to eat. which he managed u
avoid doing, but when the rest had eaten |
iheV lost their reason, so that the pIacks naa u