Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-07-20
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falsehood and exaggeration--ail
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| The inordinate desire to make
money honorably.if youyan, dis
honestly if you must, is rapidly
destroying a healthy, healtbful,
literary taste and sentiment, and
"on this line must corrupt NOR
rails, pollute the sanctfty Of relil
gion and undermine and ovefturn
as it has done and is now doing
the principles Of true government,
and finally. Sampson like, pail
down upon US all the temple of
liberty, bqrying IN ruins the fab.
nc of our freedom. m Tellsme if
you can whence comes the won.
derful power that, in tan enlight-
eHed age, tolerates isand asustains
officials of ID government, from
the lowest to- the highest, ins bar
g0a2ayt for filthy rluere the
blood bought rights of a people?2
Can we suppose that if there was
q vigorously healthy public SEN
timent that it would be SO ?9 i''is
!, The body of american litera5
ture of day" is sick, and needs a
physician. From the complications
Of the diseases, with which it is
afflicted, it would seem difficult
to give the diagnosis aud remedies!
American literature has been made
for the most in the .sEand Of NOR.
al ideas )" and it is there that we
trace the principalef the diseases.
The "symptoms'' clearly indicate
that some of them are s'chronic, y,
certainly "organic," suggesting at
once that no Treatment" can
benefit the patient that is not
CONSTITUTIONAL" As the ; first
"cause," II mentionraia27ii Iis5I
%fm bna iiFANATIGIsM, yIste civ
which, attacking the most "yital
part" destroyed tlief.eeuilibrium I
ofjthel vital fofces,s causing the
circulation" to rush from, the
"extremities"' > to the sscenter,Hl
producing Congestion" from
which the .s'patient". came, we'll
nigh dying, and has mot yet re-
covered. from the > effects. But
scarcely had it begun ito slowly
when as might have been
expected, without great care, it /
was seized with the opposite dis
ease, i~'4-oz7 yeaaHa 8.tU5.a 4
a e's IEFlDELITY, k.s y5a "a
from which ever since it has been
intensely suffering. This still
further weakened the general
system, detlacted from constitu-
tional vigor, and put it in such ,
condition as TO be unable to resist
the thousand "ills that literature |.
Is heir to" and hence it was soon |
with German transcen-
dentalism, followed in rapid sue
cession by e"malaria" peculiar to I
that latitude, 7free-love-ism, social
ism, and 4 host of other ''isms"
that are not laid down in the |
books. s-7 aazs oss sFf
Never did such great duties and |
weighty responsibilities rest on
any people as now rests upon the
educated men of the South
would that they were intellectual
giants to pile Ossa upon Pelion
and deck the mighty mound with |
the ''leafy Olympus" but expe.
rience has taught US that they |
can not rely on the suggestions of |
"poetic fancy" and they must
work! acorkti woRK!!l {. |
The age is eminently practical,
and rapid advances are being made
in the development of all mate
rial resources. Win it pay is the
one great question On the lip of |
the world. For this purpose art
and science are taxed to their
utmost. Ingenuity ransacks his
brain and comes forth in triumph, |
with his thousands of useful in.
ventions. Men travel by steam
and talk by lightning. Time and
space are.annihilated. The whole
earth is moving up together, ere
long to form one community, per-
one. common brotherhood.
Facilities of .intercommunica-
tion augment the opportunities to
do good or evil, and will absolute
lyl soon place the keys Of power
in. the hands Of knowledge
Those three grand coordinate de-
of knowledge, toy wit:
Literature, Science and Att, must
be, kept equal and moving on.
ward! onaeardl4l in their glorious
mission. ,t0ne must not move atl
the expense of the ,other,i or be,
fore we. are aware the structure1
will crumble. Even now sect
Science gains on Literature and
Art In the uIorions racn lei |