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

ought TO be exactly the reverse. only Dy
accident is a work Of genius Immediately
popular in the sense Of being widely
bought. There are exceptions, as Tenpy-
son and Carlyle; yet Tennyson waited
through ten years Of depreciation, ard
Carlyle, if success be measured by price,
stands far below your Belgrayian novelist
If you make literature trade to live by
you will take your talents to the most pro-
itable market, and that will be no assurance
that you are making noble or even worthy
use Of them. "Better thousand times, if
"Sour object is 10 advance your position in
'.life, that you should choose some other
"calling of which making money is tho
"legitimate aim, and where your success
"will vary as the goodness of your work;
"better for yourselves, for your conscien-
''ces, 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
"your minds to be poor care only for
"what is true, and right, and good. On
"these conditions you may add something
''real to the intellectual stock of mankind,
Go N n m oonly;nd ~ ,ot,,rn nov porhonq oiua
"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 to 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:
"No one can thrive upon denials positive
truth Of some kind is essential as food both for
mind and character. Depend upon 1t, that in
all long established practices or spiritual for
mulas there has been some living truth and,
if you have not discovered and learnt to respect
it, you do not yet understand the ques.ions
which you are IL hurry to solve. And. acain,
Intellectually impatient people should remem-
Der the rules of social courtesy, which forkad
us in private to say things, however true, which
can give pain to others. These rules forbid US
equally in public to obtrule opinions which
offend those who do not share them. Our
thoughts and our conduct are our own. We
may say Justly to any Une-'You shall not make
me profess to think true what 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,
1 recommend patient rcticence. and the re-
1ection that after all, .ho may possibly be
wrong. Whether NO are radicals or conserve
tives, we require to bo often reminded that
truth or falsehood, justice and injustice, are no
creatures of our own belief. We cannot make
truo things false, or false things true. By
choosing to make them 80. 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 trlfed with than gravitation. IT we
discover aud obey them, it is we'll with US; but
that is all we can do. You can DO more make
social regulation work well which is not just
than you can make water run up bill. tell
you, therefore, who take up with plausibilities
not to trust your woight too Far upon than.
and not to condemn others for having misgiv-
uIgs WHICH au the bot+ena of your own minds,
il you look 80 deep, 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 ard must show it, unless
you are misled by your own dreams, in leading
wider, SIMPLER and nnbler lives. Assert your
vn freedom if you Will, but assert it modestly
and quietly, respecting others as you wish to
bo respected yourselves. Only, and especially,
would say this-be hoHcst with yourselves,
whatever the temptation say nothing to 9th
crs that you do net think, and play no tricks
with your own minds. OF all the evil spirits
abroad at this hour in the world, humbug is
tho 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."