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nit, by few suggestions expressive O
the wonderful inventions and achieve
mcnts Of man, together with compari
,ou Of civilized aud savage life, as ia
back a. the historical page Of antilui;,
furnish amy account.
We find those who have made greate-
progress To- lie those who have taken ad
vantage Of the brutal degeneration an,
evil thoughts Of the uncultivatcd, hl
rc-orting 10 the wise and efficient coun-c
transmitted to them by the pioneers q
literature. Step hy step the benign vir
tup. of literature have been making
thcm.elye- manifct 10 the world, sloNl,
accumuhtiug, aud n wave follows wave
addition hus been made bo addition, uuti
the virtues Of the prc.eut are set in de
fance to those Of the past, whilr with
soliciting aud he.ecchug cries the golden
future speak. out in thunder toner, and
waits tiding, Of hidden and unexplorcd
re ion Of knowledge--a vast inexhau. t.
tile trea,urc-tha has ben he'd in re.
serve from time immemorial which .ht
-ays is within the arena of Thought,
and within the mighty power and
geniu- Of man.
Taking view Of the past, we find
man very anciently incapable of estab-
li>hing or sustaining a civil government,
and not until literuturc began To dawn
upon the dark and bloody annal, of
hcatheui-m aud idolalry, spreading her
aings iu bold defiance, and proclain,ing
,hc necessity Of revolution tn establish
her supremacy, do We find him capable
Of ruling the aiiair, Of a natlon.
Il l. the ancient Greeks to whom We
are mainly indebted for the morning star.
light Of the urts and sciences with which
we are acquainted. Thi- people, accord
ing to history, made greater progress in
io>, time than was ever previously Know II
Of auy 9th ~ nation. From a mere tribe
pf animll-liko heathcn>, who haunt-
were not known except in the forests,
trail novels, and suhierancan resorts
amid wilder animals, aud whose food
VII, ffui,. and beast Of the for -, each
monarch of al he -uEyeyed, strangers
and bitter enemies 10 the cause of civili-
zation and refinement. aud M misterel only
hy the dictates of brutal passion, they
arose 90 the most con,piruou. cmineuce,
and u the highest point oi civilization
aud refinement that man WAS known 10
acquire in that era OF the worli. And
how did they ri-e; ii uply by educaii, z
their youth and training them in the
light ani influence Of literature.
Oten have We real OF the Athcnean
aud Spartan youth. being trained up at
, be icet o.! their aged, experienced and
worthy professors, and of their vir;uous
achievement, after having mastered their
proic.,i1us, which are not ,coued at 10y
tie mos, fastiiiuus and critical historian,
but stand out Us a lone star guide to
tnHi mon, modern successors.
Not only to the Greeks could we recitc
your minds. but to other, who have been
81. equally -uccr, ful in both the ancient
and more modern dat,s of the world to
>ho opre,eni, WhicAis very Significantly the
''golien ale Of the world. Compared
with all the age4 which compose the
mca ures Of the past, there is none to
equal il. II is towering eminencc
from who G summit the eye may survey
the broad cxpansc Of the worlds history,
Il is the asc in which old iogylsm aud
are fat reced ng from the
scientific truths OF profound investiga-
tion.
De puti,m, with it, haggarl train OF
moral and % ial evils, ha, no sway in
uur free aud enlightened country. The
empire of mind, the -piril of inve.tisa-
tiun aud re,earch, are enables, to gnpple
5 Iccessftll. Y with the powers Of ignorance,
Wee an'l superstition, which have evel
hound man To earth and ground him in
the du,t. The vast inland seas and the
migaty volume Of ocean, upon which the
,uper-liiaus aud unculiivated savage
looked with no small degree of amaze
ment, now Neem with the mighty fleets
uf commerce, thus converting the world
into one vast, general assembly.
Not only thi., bat many o;ler 'hieye
ments have followed in the vale o. man,
genius, The great iron-bound
ihorough.lares which span our continents
Nth their train of ears and noisy loco
enabling the people of different
sections Ia traffic and cary ON their in
and commerce, have been added Ia tn
inyentio, :.
Bul the greatest Of all are the electric
telegraph and the telescope, the ont
ihru ugh il, wonderful maguii,ing power,
"a to hring planetary bodie-, !
millions of mile, distant in the realm
4 space, seemingly TO one immedir.el
presence in the tNnkling Of an eye, a., |
he other u bring down triunphinth |
he lighning' Of heaven and eau G then |
% yield allegiance to the mighty power |
VI a cultivated reason, to become the !