The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-11
the pAssllolism is made clear in the following

the pAsallelism is made clear in the following |
tsrse sentences:-
"By resolving iufnite ages into decades We
strike the chaos OF modern Democracy hu
close ompanionship lies It's A1oic era. IL va
thing with no vitality save that OF xStynS ~
siiuTian age. The mollusks OF faction began
to swarm upon the waters. Their party Cog gmns a
peSranee startled, rS tey could st take
tage Of uncertainty and avoid conseq"e"0o' W
retreat Within their shells"
"Good Lord - as Mrs. Partington used to
say. sis the man mad 20 What relation
exists between the companions Of Calhoun
such men a. Benton, Cass, Buchanan, to
say nothing Of Clay and Webster-aud the
"vapid announcement which preceded the
omollusks' that "smOuched the body politiof"
But as II to pale all Intellectual fires, the
learned writer, the political Hugh Miller,
goes on TO say that Mr.. Calhoun-against
whom he seems to be particularly vindictive-
had "cOnohord escapements," that he was
huge whale, "and houndered on the surface of
events" and acted with "riotous rapacity."
But If the state of America was alarming in
the "Silurian" age, what uuexampled honor
was in wait for her in the "Carboniferous I"
It is thus described
'stalwart men sprung from the earth, not
yet enough cooled TO admit OF the fruitage OF sn
entire humanity. Like the monster pines OF
the coal measures. they were proud of proper
manurial agent the phosphates-even the
bone, bone and sinew T Of slavery: Che strata OF this
hulks that In confusion line them"
Our neighbor, in an ecstasy Of geological
frenzy, calls Pierce and Polk "fungi," aud de-
clares that their "vertebre were paralyzed."
p.1f al fr- kbo~
will merely add, in explanation of the later
career Of the nation, that ga saving hand was
thrust forward to save IL from the Mesozoio
time;" and also that, "with the Cenozoic
era--the Mammalian sge-the time when man
was to be regarded mortal and a citizen, and
an endowment Of human rights should follow
the ecognition-Democracy has but little in
common" Charles II used to give offsnse to
foreigners by calling them ''odd fish," O'Con-
nellnearly threw an Irishwoman into fit by call
ing her "parallelogrsm," and Webster
crushed his adversary in debate by terming him
"a thing" but to the Press belongs the credit of
inventiDg new system Of political abuse. We
need not term an opponent "rascal," a
"mercenary wretch" nor yet an 'illiterate
fool" ALI these expressions have grown trite
with age. We will call him mollusk or sau
risn, or, if we want to go ahead of all ordinary
denunciation, We will call him a "megotheri-
um'' or ''plenotherium." We thank the
Press for the suggestion. When geology is
exhausted We can call in botany and astrono-
my. Why should not we call our brother OF
| the Age, in the heat of political discussion, a
"petal," and MIR. Seymour an "asteroidY" By
this means We would make abstruse names
science familiar to the ears of the public.
But pace forbds US to publish the whole OF
this admirable article. We will merely sam
pie its ethical sentences. Thus:-
"That mind should thus pass through the
phenomenal evolutions OF matter may appear
anomalous, put when fatuity tmpregnates
not an attribute Of modern Democracy"
We find no such superb sentence as this
even in the clear writings of Carlyle or the
easy reasoning of an Emerson:-
when the guardians of human rights en-
tered into harvest. fields ripened by war. To
gather issues and carry them TO the garners OF
sperts pTf Of an oid formation Aristocracy' under
whose pilotage slavery was to march In
domain, had fretted itself to death over the loss
Of its pyOte0e. state rights-the apparition OF
aristocracyIthe ghost ofsayery-the only ido @
bellion-drew to itself the scattered enthusiasts
Of the old regime"
Mr.. Blair, in his work on Rhetoric, favors
the use of one metaphor only in each sentence
60 that we can form picture of the analogy
If We cannot form clear picture, the sentence
is defective. BY this test let us try this one:-
"Soms guardians reaping ripened fields are
met by a number Of chores. Aristocracy saili
with pilot in its march for domain, and freti
itself to death over its prOtfgt, which is al
apparitiou, ghost, and an idol, after thu
icopoclasm of rebellion" There is picture
for all realers which any one might envy
West or Rubens might paint or Hogartl
sketch il. We have merely called at
, tention to some Of the beauties of tn
, ! "Azoic Age'' in order to let our neighbor se
r that we appreciate scientific references, and
t however unappreciative the world in general
q some at least see the wonderful resemblanc
|. pointed out between Democracy and tn
j. Azoic, CenOzoic and Carboniferous age OF pre-
Adamite days.
n The outstanding of Poland.
Tup MAS of poland baua lnrn =.