The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-12

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ought to be e1soly the reverse. Only by
accident is work Of gonius Immediately
popular In he Gems being widely
bought. Thor ar, cscsP ions, az Tenny-
son and Ca ~ Iennyson waited
through ten vreie O. dtpreciation, and
Carlyle, if sues be ensured by price,
stands far bcirw your Belgravian novelist.
If you make literature a trade to live by
you will take-your talents to the most pro-
ftable market, and that will be no assurance
that you are making noble or even worthy
use Of them. "Better thousand times, if
"your object is to advance your position in
slife, that you should choose some other
''oalling of which making money is the
"legitimate aim, and where your success
"will vary as the goodness Of your work;
''better for yourselves, for your consoien-
"oes, for your own souls, as we used to say,
"and for the world you live in. Therefore,
81 say, if any of you choose this mode Of
spending your existence, choose it delib
''erately, with full knowledge Of what you
''are doing. Reconcile yourselves to the
condition Of the old scholars. Make up
'tyour minds to be poor care only for
"what is true, and right, and good. On
'tthese conditions you may add something
:sresl to the intellectual stock Of m Ankind,
''and mankind in return may perhaps give
'you bread enough to live upon, though
''bread extremely thinly spread with but
''ter." After few remarks on the temp
tation lying before young men either to lend
themselves t0 what is popular and plausible,
or to quarrel violently with things that they
deem to be passing away because they have
no basis of truth, DR.. Froude concluded
mo one can thrive upon denials positive
truth of some kind is essential as food both for
mind and character. Depend upon it, that in
all long established practices or spiritual for
mulas there has been some living truth and,
II you have not discovered and learnt to respect
it, you do not yet understand the questions
which you are in hurry to solve. And again,
intellectually impatient people should remem.
Der the rules Of social courtesy, which forbid
us in private to say things, however true, which
can give pain to others. These rules forbid us
equally in public to obtru 1e opinions which
offend those who do not share them. Our
thoughts and our conduct are our own We
may say justly to any one-'You shall not make
me profess to think true what I believe to be
false; you shall not make me do what do not
think just ; but there. our natural liberty ends
Others have as good right to their opinion as
we have to ours. To any one who holds what
are called advanced views on serious subjects.
recommend a patient reticence, and the re-
Election that after all, he may possibly be
wrong. Whether We are radicals or conserya-
tives, we require to be often reminded that
truth or fasehood, justice and injustice, are no
creatures OF our own belief We cannot make
true things false, or false things true. by
choosing to make them SO. We cannot vote
right into wrong or wrong into right. The
eternal truths and rights Of things exist. for
tunately, independent Of our thoughts or
wishes, fixed as mathematics, inherent in the
nature Of man and the world. They are no
more to be trifled with than gravitation. II we
discover aud obey them, Mt is we'll with us; but
that is NIL we can 90. You can no more mako
social regulation work k;Twen which is not lust
than you can make water run up Till. I ten
you, therefore, who take up with plausibilities
not to trust yoursWeight too far upon them.
and not to condemn others for having misgiy-
ings which ar the bottom OF your own minds.
If you look aosdeep, you will find that you
share yourselves with them. You who believe
that you have hold of newer and wider truths,
show it as you may and must show it, unless
you are misled by your own dreams, in leading
wider. SIMPLER and n,bler lives. Assert your
own freedom if you will, but assert it modestly
and quietly, respecting others as you wish to
be respected yourselves. Only. and especially,
would say this-be honest with yourselves,
whatever the temptation say nothing to 9TH
ers that you do not think, and play no tricks
with your own minds. or all the evil spirits
abroad at this hour in the world, humbug is
the most dangerous.
"lhis above ALTO your own selves be true.
And 1t will follow. as the night the day,
You cannot then be false to any man."