The workingman's advocate., 1870-04-16

likewise It is the name Of Roman god
dess. Il the name itself beautyf Might
rot ito linguistic relation to the dear name
ma (mater), mother. carry with It down
the stream oftime, though unconscious TO
Us, some 6lial feeling. while Nature, in its
fresh beauty Of spring. lends also its lustre
70 the name, and thus to us makes that
aame dear and bsautitulf 7 But other names
tAight be the absOrbents Of an equal amount
If glory from a surrounding Nature, %
aoftly beautiful, and address our minds n
we'll as cur hearts.
! Jsne-The month Of Juno, the goddess !;
NdOes this name convey any idea % our
Sgei She is dead to Ms, while Junos
bird" is vainIy stalking abroad in our parks
and elsewhere, unfolding The brilliancy OF
her plumage, and by her shrisking voice re.
Aealing the harshnees, the undeveloped and
inharmonious condition Of her real being
somewhat symbolic Of our social state.
Jnly-Julius Cesar, the renowned
Roman chieAain,-even had he himself been
she originator Of the calendar that bears
Ais name-might deem it proper now 20
replace also his name by another, the
name Of blood-warrior by that Of q moral
warrior, peace-maker.
\ Acknowledgements, the first Roman en-
perOr. Notwithstanding the anti-Republi
lean character Of its bearer, the name Is ar
august word in our language, and nigh
lhave had some moral bearing; but, being
las it is, in the company of so many nov
GObscure personages, we have not become &C
lcustomed, while wandering through time
asOwsrd. and when reaching this month, L
view it in any moral way and make Of it
perhaps, some moral application. Thus, o
what benefit to us is "Julius" Caesar o.
I" Augustus p These names, however
Igreat leaders Of the Romans, are unfit fo
ia place among the leaders or leading prin
lciples Of this and coming ages Not th'
dead past can move the nations onward anC
upward-tbis must be done by the living
present!
Here we have reached series Of month
l-Septem6er, October, November and De
cember-all Of which, according to oar cal
endar, are, linguis6cally or numerical,
4 two months behind the month respectivel,
assigned to them in other words, our mint
4 month is called the seventh, our tenth th
!. eighth, our eleventh the ninth, and on
4 twelfth the tenth month!
/ The Romano, in their original calendar
| bad no such numerical discrepancy for. q
1 the god Of war was their great inspirer
their year commenced, most properly, viii
bis month, that of March. by them tb
[ four last mentioned months thus were il
their proper place, and January and Febru
ary were the last months Of their year.
The Christian religion became the re
ligion Of the Roman empire The nativit,
of its exalted founder had been symbol
cally, if not historically. fixed ut the tim
when the Sun, in its annual circuit, com
mences its apparent return toward tb
northern hemisphere, and to the inhabitaht
thereof; and the Roman calendar wa
changed so as to dethrone Mars and bvin
the beginning Of the year in close proximit
to that nativity of the great Judean revolu
tionary Light. The last two months Of th
| Roman calendar, therefore, were placed q
. the first in the Christisn and, while th
heathenish" names were retained, th
four numbered and displaced months II
l tanned their original numbers as names
! merely! And thus our calendar stands t.
! day another evidence Of the singular patel
) works made in those remote ages.
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