Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1873-11-13

short of tie comprehension of the subject
/ under investigation. Hence fallacious
theories, fallacious only when they oppose
revclation,are if propagated a source of an
endless variety ofreasonings, and doubts,
which are presented under an hundred
phases of apparent truth, bolstered only
by th-ir own specious arguments, and
satisfactory only to the ideas of the in
.erested theorist. A fallacy if popular,
and rcmuneratiye is ct deadly animosity
with all that opposes it. The fate of
Calico is as common to day in wish, at
least, rs it was in his day in act. Tyranny
is the handmaid of false-isms, and cruelty
is the argument of tyranny. The CON-
parative Immunity of the present age
from religious persecution, may be owing
more to concession to an evangelical
cncncss of sentiment for expediency than
10 preponderating charity on the part
of the stronger, for the weaker sects.
Hercsy and errors are spared the rough
handling of torture to extirpate them,
more because it is not policy, than be-
cause ofa higher grade freligious morals
than existed in the days of the martyrs.
If this be mere presumption, why the
growing tendency on the part of every
sect, to set up its only correct fingerposts
on the only right roads, ignoring the plat
form of common faith having in view a
common goal. An established church
supremacy, grated again upon national
protection, would merge the spiritual
aims of religion with the paying proper
ties of the world, and opposing creeds
would experience the human nature of
persecution, as fierce and malignant as in
the days of Huss. IF the religious world
is then not rooted in the bonds Of peace,
upon subject which to its partizans has
reference to common gain hereafter,
how shall the political world, which offers
ut best the "bauble reputation" ard is
allalong beset with "gift bearing Greeks"
be reconciled to any policy looking to
general good. tits not that civilization
is expanding too much light, that science
absorbs the attention of the mind to the
exclusion of other thoughts promotiye of
happiness; that truth is myth; and
morality failure; No! knowledge is
essential to the correctness of practice
science when not used to discover for
man, any other destiny than his account
ability here and hereafter, enhances his
appreciation Of his present, and future,
and Truth must exist coeval with mans
dignity, and cannot like chattel be
swoppcd for gain. The failure to har-
monizc any scheme for mans general
advancement, and harmonious existence,
is found in the qualities of his teachers
and rulers. Let the places of power be
filled with the corrupt and base, who
gather around them their kind, where
honors, rewards and bribes are spread
out to hush the inflmy of the degraded
officials, and where every element of worth
and virtue is pushed aside to give place
to the time serving sycophant, and where
those who know the right but for pay
choose the wrong, then must the scene be
one of chaos, and the verdict be shame.
Guizot says: "La premiere afIairc du
government, c'cst de chcrchcr cette
verite, dc decouvrir qui est juste, raison-
able, ce qui convient Ia societe"
The first business of our government
is to search for bitter partizans, and these
make friends with those who value profit
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