, 1874-03-16

yal tho artist viii DO lnor work for having fnor
mea',s. And 30. though noble minds llnvo dono
noble work In half-mado aid diseased bodioa,
Thna firm proAonce nobIo nlion, nweot.toned
voice. and healthy brnin arc divine toola for \
nsan to labor with. OF col1rso a iool can turn
tom ton iTto fopnory. bat ON @ not spoatg for
bio OF doing them any good. ''' '@'0 0''N''
Though now this niattor Ia worry largely bo-
yona our conkrol, 30 lar as ourselves arc cot,-
cornod, will suggest a truth tint will DO tho
tI,omo OF aermot,H and books In tile future. Wo
Buall some timo waito up to tho importance Of
race culture; and wo Rlsall feel that 1t is not
only worth while to ,tBo oslr science and our caro-
in Imposing Tho typo OF our vinoB, and trees.
aud birds. and cattlo but TINT 40 should so troat
herit a finished, mud therefore beautiful, physi-
cal life.
Az d pnrt OF his magnificent body. Summon was
endowed with large and finely organized brain,
tation. For wllatevor o mans mind may be, 1t
n,ust EXPRESS itself to othora through tho mcdt-
um Of llis braln and, as light taltos atho color,
dint1osB or Brightness, Of stained windows
through which It shines, 80 tho mind can show
itselt higher md bester than tho Instrument
through which 1t works,
there Is 10 lesson tor ua bocnuao Ii is popularity
supposed that ability Is . myHtorious glfE over
which wo havo no control. Wo havo no dlroct or
immediate control. But in tho long run, by tho
cnmulation Of tho bost oo1nents Of humanity,
through tho law Of horoaity believe wo havo I.
only tho hoart-power, but tho lcad-power of tho
future.
Those for thought pass on now to what all
may 900 to bo direct md pressing practical moods
native gilts Of person, Or proso,lce, or brain;
Through long yoars, and BY pationt toll, md
wisoly-soeinE purpose, he sought 10 obtain for
himself the broadcast and highest culture.
canian,.- for il It ia then farewell freedom mud
our future hope but 1t ID now tho fashion In
high political circles to snoer at eulture. anl
eSalt In its placo whnt iB falsoly called common
souso. And 40 would.bo statesmon go on STU
pldly aud lgnorantly repeating ofIoto and OK
plodcd blunaors, and thinking tt,om the atest
discoveries OF modern American wisdom. Il Is
most wofully common, but tho sense ia loft out,
Culture Ii tho highest Honso. For what is II /?
It is simply an athletic training Of tho facnltioa
TO their highest ability, aud making them capa-
bic Of tho best they can do. Aud next, it iB IN
acquaintance with tho best thinking ara tho
best work that tho race las dono in tho past +;
aud then this culture comeH to the work Of
solving present problems with oil tho light OF
what has boen attempted and wrought In all
agoa.
1t is marvel to me to 300 how stupid and
foolish poop1o can bo in governmental matters,
Of thoir own nfraira. Men like Sumner and
Schurz arc snoorod at III Congress as thoorlats
and impractical men because thoy happen to bo
mou Of culture, and to think Ii wise to hnvo somo
principles aud plans about the way OF sottng ZIP
aud running tho most delicate and complicated
machinery known to man-tlatls. The machinery
| OF government.
Ii man wants q houao built no thinks 1t wise
to employ one VINO has cultured nlmseif II TINT
dlreot'on-an arclhteot-to build 1t. Whnt 10 his
plan but Il theory.7 II q steam-ongino is to be
constructed, cultured engineer is thought bost
fitted to superintond tho work. But those who
| would think the MN fool WIG should employ
hod:earrior or htokor q to - baild house or at'
| recommendation to high placeH III the dovcrn-
| mont. Mon at Washington hayo ragged around
the foot OF Sumner and rldicnled hla cultnre,
looking for all the world like the alx-inch LII
he, With head above tho dust OF the Bs1uabbles Of
his feot, has looked before and aftcr," and
sought to apply the wisdom OF all nges to the
| rght doing Of the present.
sion for Shame mud those WHO think deeply
| will lind in It cause TOR grayo aIarp1
It las given ua men at the head oI
the National Treasury who have not only folt
| but dared to expreaH thcir contempt for aus
ucienco OF finance, and in their bluudering
| ignorance they hnyo gone OH to recklcssly and
wAstefully use tho RESOURCES Of tho nation. Il
has made horses supreme oyor books at the
White House. It haa turned our Civil Sorvico
into tho corrupt machinery Of denngogues, 1t
has made our commercial relations with otler
countries u cuuungly oontrivcd systom Of nota
and traps and webs, In which crafty fishera and
| hunters mud spiders eutrap and fatten on the
honest men and business prosperity Of the lln-
tton. It has made our third-rato politicians and
oftontimoa ignorant farmers think that wclted
hands, mud hay-soed in tho hair, aud tile grim Of
nnachino-shopB on the face, wore bottor quaiif-
cations in d statesman than law, history, and
sociology. As If ono were fitted for q peculiar
work in just tho dcgrco In which he knew moth
ing about It, How would farmers and u,aohinists
1iko tho application concerning theirown affaira2 ?
| Suppose so and urge my claim to instruct the
farmer in his business on tho ground OF my
| never having been on q farm in all my lfoi
What ia needed to-day in our politics beyond
nil things else, except honesty, @ia culture. AS
lawyers aud doctors and merchants do not flud
that thoy cau know any too much about theirs
business, so, onlymuch more, ,doos legislator need
VIDE knowledge. and as an ignorant physician
might TO on ropeuting the mistakes Of ali the past,
that botter culture would toacA him to avoid,
80 an ignorant legislator perpetually repeats tho
blundeis Of history. And IL is something that
our young men and women mood to know COLI
oerning aIi tho business Of life, that mkt to the
| disposition to do right, comes theS necessity OF