Litchfield enquirer., 1869-07-29
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all sympathies, quick in all d ;xS to all beanty and nobility, sensitive even las woman No well balanced character otherwise n possible Alona it keeps the heart fresh and young, pure and true.
 It is not merely on his own account that the yonng man should cultivate the finer feelings but SO only can he rightly appr6l .ciate and live with others That is Rreat
 art, almost the art of arts--the art Of liy-
 ing together -land it has to be learned pa4l stiently often painfully. The young are
 8 little too apt to forget other people
 thelr feelings, their rights, their wishes.
 their opinions Most earnestly insist
 upon the necessity of true manlinoss and dndependen of character; and yet thess
 with conditions and within limits The
 independent is he who, with due respect
 for hilnself, cordially accepts and respects
 llls relations to every body else. He never forgets the golden rnle, he is not proud,
 nor cold, nor selfish; he is not tho first per- son singular. incafnate He knows tllat
 liberty IS possible. only under law. Where
 law IS set aside comes license; and where
 the proper restrainings of independence are denied, come, impudence. A great
 many young men think themselyes inde- apendent who are impudent, int0ierabIy impndent. TLey forget tlat any one hes rights but themselves, and they trample
 futhlessly on that which is most sacred in others, to others. The great fact IS. that
 while we live together, We must reehrd
 others as ourselves.s Life must bo q oom-
 promise. not of truth, not of duty, not Of principle; but of conyenience, and Whim.
 and desire, and comfort, and seIfishn6ss
 cannot lay my hand on 1t, but I think Emerson OF Tnoreau says something like
 this: "A little avoided, little surrender ed, . little overlooked, and, lol the rough and jagged edges slipped into their places and life became an exquisite mosaic.Y | give you the idea, but the felicity in lan- guage in part escapes me. That is the big truth though. If you want to be indepef- dentsafter the selfish style, go to the des- ert. .shut yourself away from man, and have it out. Mayhap you will come back decent. If you want the independence that every body will respect. and that you can make of use, respect other people, remember God allows them just what you claim. and that your two claims must clash, unless by some wisdom of compromise, by some eiS- ing away We talk of straight road through life; bat the way of life must be curvllinear, series of avoidances. Tilt against sin, and wrong, and shame, and evil; but go around a feeling, right, even a .whim of another. You don't sacrlAce anything so. Your manhood is intact. yotl respect divine Hmitings. The jagged edges slip into pIace, and lolconcord and harmony. You may not sympathizs iD, you may not agree with, you may not re- spect much, what others greatly prize; but everything honest in another is entitled to mental hospitality and dscent courtesy. Tnongh the man be not great. nor wise,
 h -iaas rrnnIx and an- noying, God has respected him so much as to allow him to be born, and to give him the attributes of common humanity. You should do no less. The smallest right of an other should be as sacred as you would have your own be, and no life has greater harm than that which acts up to that. Lives must not be repellent spheres but continent streams. If you cannot take the doctrine on the broad Christian ground, or accept it on the philosophic basis Sf "self- interest we'll understood, take it on the lowest. Beware of treading on other peo- pies toes; your own have corns.-House- hold Magazine.