New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-28

there sppears this differences bot ween the noisy and
quiet sort Of people Al first sight there seems no change
the realm Of philosophy But what iconocIast OF ,he
sculery vas ever noser man psn snch that
verify it
Than tired eyslis upon tired eyea"
80 Bichner the German materalist in his manner Is
scold though his rank Is high as philosopher,
cloud. Ii would be merely aggrayating and entirely
useless point these differences II they were en-.
temperament quite beyond individual control. but
they quite largely matters OF education aud haoi
unfortunate, the heir to it can see embodied IN
another person the dealof calm and beautiful
department. by resoute and persistent endeavor he can
But the words OF the Apostle. II beseech you study
to quiet" attain at to much higher degree OF
significance the moment that we come into the province
OF those purely personal regards which call friend
rations yearnings and ideles which make the re-
ligious life There those who to think that
love- no friendship that Is worthy Of the genu-
inc religion There Is whole school OF novelists ana
poets who constantly engaged in minstering TO TINS
appetite. Now, If one Is going to study to DO quiet Inc
less he has TO do with these books the better Aey
R Dh Ideal in Of mens s vs would make the
whole OF Christendom te better than society OF luna
tics The majority OF men and women are much TOO
healthy and grayitate too naturally TO the solid earth
10 keep themselves suspended at such any hight But
their lives after the pattern furnished them In such
books Ihave alluded to. They demand OF themselves
a constant fux Of VOWS and protestations state OF
ecstacy that borders hysteria. sentiment that
pass current their market Thank heaven there are
writer's afew OF whosepulse never eVered OF
senmentalism begins; who know that faithful
love is not synonymous with furious declaha'U nd
very likely too much cannot be said In their praise But
IL warm-heartedness means efuson then let Us naye@
lower Temperature. Let us not measure love Dy uec-
lamatoD. Least OF all let us allow warm heart as
we call It, 10 condOne for lack OF simple truth anu
Tn thn apf
be love- there can fathfuness there can be tender
ness and helpfuness where there are no superatVes
where all EXPRESSION Is OF the most simple, even Oh tue
most humdrum sort II You want to test yourself ana
fnd out exactly what manner or friend you are o,
husband, or wife, forget all the pretty or exalted
speeches you have made, aud ask yOurse uetner
you have honest or dishonest unsellsh or sen,
lust or unjust pure base generous or mean II the
oracle your breast answers all these questions ia'or
ably your heart IS warm enough. .,-,..,...o.,.
IL been the stock reproach OF Untaransm tnat u
has no heart that II is cold and The meaning
that 1t has been ELUSIVE; 1t has not piled on the
agony; it has had no revyals, no experiences, no
hystera Let US glory In nfrmities The criticism
is so complimentary that fear we are almost unworthy
of such praise IL Dr. Charming was not really as warm
hearted Elder Knapp, then II IL better NOT 10 Ds
warmhearted II Theodore Parker was colder hearted
mighty to put hook In his Jaws then let our spiritual
mercury be at zero rather than at tever neat ue iav
"a that any religious movement which insists upon
the Ten Commandments. ana as many more IMAM i
that manifesty ought to be obeyed ana insists ,nat
taned-any religious movement which does TINS VIII
who fancy that the moral is nothing in comparison
with a sentimental attitude with reference TO an mag
mary Christ. Matthew Arnold has defined religion as
morality touched by emotion" This Is good deal
better than to define u explicitly or implicitly as emo
ZION touched By moraity1 But for one do not think
Mr. ArnOlds is a good definition. The examples
by which he seeks TO prove his de1nton seems
TO me to prove that 1t Is Inadequate. Epctetus
is more firmly ethical than Dyld out Da'
yd's ethics are touched with emotion" While the
ethics Epictetus not and so the Psalmst s rei-
gious aud the philosopher is not But by emotion 1t
turns that Mr. Arnold means poetry Inc dference
between religion aud morality is difference OF more or
less metaphor II thi; is all the difference Is 1t worth
making 80 much fuss about or real emotion Epicetus
seems to me 10 have much David though he Is not
so elusive He stands no less awestrcken and aDashed
in the presence OF the moral law and the mysterious
mower rom which IL emanates. III emotion Is going 10
he made the test of religion lot us see to II tna emotion
is not meanIy understood God not in the tempest
or in the earthquake, but in the still small voice
Methodist rovvalist, exciting those about MIN 10
generous revary by calling upon them to shout louder
brethren is not really any emotional tnan was
COlerldge in prayer who
No wish conceived.
No thought expressed;
Only a sense OF supplication."
IL seems TO me that the most consliDmate hover OF
spirituality the perception OF the transcendent force
and value the moral law. that all other emotion Is less
genuine than which steers man, by far too deep
for words when considers the external difference be-
tween right wrong When such emotion ultiinates
in life Of purity justice and benevolence, the event
iustines the method call 1t what you WILL