Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1870-09-10
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the most distinguished philosophers
II the Rolosiic School, WAS born in
the village OF pOnlels, Amer leay'
ing the Normal School, lac Was made
Assistant Professor OF History OF
Philosophy, and finally ''iIular Pro
fessor ui Philosophy a. the Faculty
Of Letters. He was, besides mem,
Der of tho Institute OF the Counsel
OF Public Education, and OF tho
chemher OF Deputies, L-
JoutlrOy has published his Trans,
lation oi "Rcid's Philosophical
/ Works" and that Of "Skelohcs Of
Moral Philosophy"b by Dugald Stew.
art, "A course on "Natnral Rights,
A course on "Rslheties" and two
volumes on Philosophical Miseella'
nies.
Ills style, ever natural, easy, an''
mated, N times eloquent, has n pu'
rity, "A sOVpItsse which one finds in
but very few philosophical works.
"LIfE."
SnceeK malc at the distribution
OF l'riEes in Charlemagne College,
! in 1910, by Jouiiroy,
THAT life, have in great meas
urc passed through; | know its
prdmiscs, it's realities, It's dcccptions,
YOU might ask mo how one iancies
! II, | am going TO tell You how dhc
finds il, not 10 crush Tie ilowor OF
your noble hopcs-liio is perfectly
GOOD TO whomsocrcr kroNs its aim
but TO warn you upon that snmc
ultimutum and to teach you or learn
YOU, In revealing What il can be-
Stow, what you have to ask of IL,
and in what way you should spend
it. :.
"Onc believes il lchg,hy. IotRg
pupils, il is very short for youth is
only lis slow preparation, and old
age its slcwcr destruction. In sew
en- or eight years, yon will have
seen through all tho formulating
IDEAS of which you are capable,
there will only be left you some
twenty years Of real strength in
which to realize thein. Twenty
wears! that is an eternity for you,
and in reality but II moment 30
licvc in those for whom those twcn'
ty years are no more; they pass like
u shadow and there is nothing left
but the deeds with which they have
been filled. Learn then The value
of limb; cthploy 1t with IN indetiiti
gable, u jealous activity. DO whdt
crcr you mag, those gears which arr
uroiliag themselves Jefore yoa Hh'
an endless panorama, ~W nerer &c
ccmpiishJ Jut a faint part Of you,
youihfm ideas; the others wW remain
useless germs, upon rhich the fee
summer cf life shall hare passed uith
out giring them birth, and mhtch shat
die out truitiess in the iciclcs Of OLE
'"Your age still duludcs itself il
another way upon life; it dreams
In it happiness, and what it drcami
is not to be found. What renders
youth SO ID utiiul and makes one re
grct it when it is passed, is tia
double illusion which dciers aht
gilds the horizon 5flile. Those no
bic instincts which speak within
YOU, and which aspire to such OK
alted aims; those mighty desires
which agitntc and call you, HOW cal
one not believe that it is God Wht
has implanted them in you to graft
) fy you, and that this promise llf'
viii fulfill? Yes it is promise
i the promise of Il grand and happy
destiny, and all tho expectation
which il incites within you will u
} fulfilled; but if you think tAat j
will be in tllis world, you mistake
! This world is limited, and the dc
sircs of your nature arc infinite
Were each of you to grasp BY him
s, If alone all the pleasures which i
contains, those pleasures hurled in
to that abyss would not fill it; thos'
pleasures bcirg contested, one oh
ttains u part Of thtm only at th'
price of Il fierce c6ntlict, and then
fortune does not always accord th'
hest part of the most deserving
, This is what life teaches us, this il
what saddens and discourages us
thus it is that we accuse it, alu will
it, that providence which gave it t.
Y
, us. No other period was happic
than ours; no other has opened NOR
/. literally to all, access to the liappl
ness of this life and yet it rcsound
With this accusation, we blame ev
crybody for rot being happy, w
blame God, men, society and thos
who govern it. Let not your voic
, be heard for one moment in this III
!. sane accusation; let not your soul
succumb in turn, to this wrctche'
2 despondcncy, and for that learl
early to sec life as it is, and to no
ask of it what it cannot give you
1t is in mistaking this aim THAT W
blasphemc and are unhappy; it /
in knowing or in accepting it tina
J we are men. Listen TO me and a
low inc to tell you the Truth. ..
"Ybu are about to go into tn
world. Of the thohsahd path
which It Opens to human activity
each of you will choose his own
. The course Of some will be bright
p that of others obscure and gloomy
r The circumstances and fofttne Q
e parents shall in a great rhchsur
! decide. Let those not mufrntir VIII
5 shall receive the most moderat
!, part. On one hand, Providence i
$ Just, and that which is ihdcpenden
Of us cannot be real good; on th
I other hand, the country lives on tn
competition and labor Of its ehil
dreh, and in the mechanism c
society there is no useless spring
Retwbef1 tiie minister that govern