The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1869-02-27
sympathy.

7 The sympathetic temperament
though loveable, Is often a danger
Gus endowment Bulwer remafk'
with q profundity Of worldly wis
dom which proves him a studen
of human nature, no less than on,
thoroughly Yersed in ancient anC
modern lore, that because we s.
contentedly allow a drawing-roon
value to a man whose sympathies
with the drawing-room are more
vivid than ours, we believe that
out of the draWing-room, he counts
as zero. This opinion we en-
| dorse in the main, yet not fully,
since, in some few instances, we
have seen the courtier and the
scholar, the deep thinker and the
urbane member of polished socie-
ty, one and the isameoEtfd iIaIa
Iii True, this combination is rare,
but not less, on that account,
beautiful. Tit be impossible for
the mental constitution to harmo-
nize abstract thought and graceful
carriage, by all means give us the
thinker. and we consent, at our
own cost It may be, to dismiss the
polite gentleman. Yetswea cannot
see that this necessity exists. Il HUI
man sympathy should not be so
sternly controlled that kindly de-
pertinent, ,entleness and winning.
suavity, arc, held in allowance.
All difficult and abstruse study
reqqfees relaxation, and the graees
are best cultsYated in those mo
meats Of es%-e when conversation
fills up the gap, when lies great
aim Is temporarily abandoned,
and the sympathetic element I is
called into play. It is then that
dignity may be p. eserYed, and
cheerfulness displayed, without at
all endangering the former, and
greatlyrto the satisfaction of our
friends and associates, cultivating
the latter. Let a man keep his
-frowns fqr books; they heed no
cold looks, and impassiyely COM
municate the wisdom he seeks
from their pages; a cold demeanor
does not chill them; rude contra
diction does not mar their readi-
ness to INSTRUCT they are the dumb
transcript of mind, It may be, far
removed from sympathy now.
though2oDee glowing with that at
tributei0f humanity. Ii frUwns
are the thOrns, and smiles the ILL.,
hes, ola suggestive and speaking
face, it is more amiable to reserve
the former for solitude and reGee- /
ton, since the latter are lOEeler in
the eyes of all. A neglect of what
may be termed the minor virtues
OF life, converted johnson into a
boor, Swift into savage, and
learned men, of less note into, by
words of eocentlicity,- After all, h
this does not seriously lessen their
though affective to their
Warmest friends and admirers
Let such cultivate a sympathetic j
temperament, in their case a bles-
'lng, and alone dangerous to such
Is allow this endowment, intended :
rs all heavens gifts are, for the
happiness of their recipients, TO
low ina wrong dipection., rd4 rr
The strong will and right ihdq-
nent crush out all sympathy with !
nee. An iron front is presented i
0 every vicious allurement. bnt let !
ne good man, while doing this, re- q
member that sunlight nourishes .
nd expands LIES sweetest flowers: i
Election calls forth answering re-
.ard;it is the bread of life to q ne t,
.ial heart, for which it cries out. p
nd willtnot DO answered bystbny j
adherence. Fl
There is little virtue in repress- v
ing feeling where It really exists d
nd that is,mook di9nily which NJ a
rongs sympathy akin.to faith and y
1lall!ty These, in the unperyert- ?