Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14

readers and speakers, is deep, close
thought; for these are progressive
times, during which human intellect
is moving, running, leaping into
speculative philosophy, necessitating
the continual exercise of strong con-
sentative. minds to condense and So
lidify vague, theoretical conceptions.
Minds the motive power of the
universe, and thought the harbinger
of action. Thought directs the eye,
lifts the hand, guides the feet and
moves the tongue. The ability to
conceive ideas and clothe them in
fitting and appropriate language is
the legitimate offspring of we'll dis
ciplined mental activity.
The science of mental philosophy
may teach us hoo to think, reading
and experience furnish good materi-
al, but the human intellect can be
properly developed only by contin-
uai exercise. The we'll disciplined
mind possesses golden key to the
treasury of knowledge, and can open
his untold wealth at will. Mind, in
its search for truth, meets with MANY
stubborn difficulties in its onward
march and upward fight, arriving
at It's conclusions through the tedi-
Gus process of closely scrutinized de-
auctions, which savors far too much
OF mental labor for any but those
resolute, determined characters whose
m otto Is excelsior, and hence the
greater part of the human family
either draw impromptu conclusions
or take them by rebound from others,
as it suits their vanity or idleness.
And here, it may be observed, we
ind solution of the problem, why
the absurdities of error and super
stition have 30 successfully resisted
the oft repeated charges of well d.
rected thought. 1t is really suspris-
ing to see the disposition manifested
by human beings to run into one of
two extremes either indolently mo-
ping along in the old beaten paths
marked out by an inferior civiliza-
ton, or entirely abandoning the an
Gent landmarks, for no other reason
than that they are old, and survey
ing highway of widest fanaticism
and when such extremists collide
with each other, the unity of public
sentiment is broken and peace and
harmony are superseded by bicker-
ing and strife.
Tie world not only needs men
and women of thought, but of liberal
thought, not such as call themselves
liberal and are not, for be it under
stood that generally speaking those
who pirate most about their liberal
sentiments are the most intolerant
and narrow minded of all theorists.
Let deeds, not words, declare the lib
eral minded man.
The Turks have caught new idea,
that of popular education and a law
has been enacted ordering q system
of public instruction, in some partic-
ulars resembling our own. Attend
ance on the primary schools is COM
pulsory, much the same as in Ger
many. Provision has also been made
for normal schools throughout the
Ottoman Empire. Cruel, degenerat-
ed Spain begins to breathe a purer
atmosphere. Intellect, so long en-
shaved aud signing for the boon OF
liberty, sees the deliverer approach
ing. Thought is laying its sinewy
arms around the pillars of ignorance
and error, ready to hurl the temple
of denominations to the ground when
returning strength shall give the sig
nal for the deed Spain shall yet be
cleansed from immoral pollution, lift
ed from the sink of debauchery, wash
ed from the stains Of her infamy,
when free thought, free speech and
free press shall be protected in her
borders. Father Hyacinthe, unin-
timidated by an Ecumenical coun-
Gil and unmoved by Vatican thunder
bolts, like the noble Hebrew captives
in the plains of Dura, refuses to sac
rifice principle to policy, or subscribe
TO religious tenets-"calling them
selves christians but are not" He
claims the right and prerogative to
draw bis own conclusions from the
oracics Of truth, Pope and Council
to the contrary Notwithstanding.
BY afiliating with people of other
lands, the Chinese begin to move
forward into the line of progress
some Of their young men are learn
ing to think in American and Euro
pean schools, while Christian mission
aries in the Celestial Empire have
planted institutions of learning. and
lifted up standard Of truth among
the people, and the time is not far
distant when q better civilization
shall dawn upon that ancient nation.
e6s-A call has been made for q
melting Of the third exposition of the
Wooden Manufacturers Association
of the West and South at Indianapo-
lis, commencing August 2, and to
continue three days. The objects of
the exhibition arc TO make known
the extont, variety and present con-
dition Of the manufacture of textile
fabrics in the West and South, and
the objects to be exhibited will be
textile fabrics, staples of fabrics, ma
terial used in manufacturing, and
machinery employed, comprising
every natural or artificial product
directly contributing to, or resulting
from, the manufacture of wooden,
cotton, silk or flaxen goods. The
two preceding expositions-at Chica-
a