, 1874-04-19

! Villains march vide betHl1t the legs rs II the
! had gives on
! Now, just as there are Grahamitas who thin
that, because they are virtuous, there shall b
; "no mora canes aud le,"-iving skeletons
who
=. That which they love most teoi1e1ly;
Their best and deares: friend, plum -porridge;
l.. Fat OK and goose ise1f orpJse, ii
Aud b'aspheme custara through the nose,-
| go there arc
/ MORAL dRAHA1urEa TOO.
| They have certain course of mental dictetics
| which they declare to be most conducive to tll<
| welfare of man. tho microcosua, in his relations
to tho macrocosm- j. The moral Grahamites are
the men who set their faces against the higher
and more difficult branches Of education taught
in our colleges; who prefer the wholesome bran
bread Of the practical sciences to the roaat-beet
and plum pudding of scholastic lore. Give US,
! they say, the who makes a now moving
machine, or q Ho5bs-defying, burglar-proof
| lock, harder to be opened than the rid
| die of the Egyptian sphyn1; giro us
the man who construct TUNE,
| under Lake blichigan,-who can build q railroad
| across the Rocky Mountains, or a first-rate
| steamship. Such men are the great benefacsors
! and movers Of the world. The poet Longfollow,
| who makes Goldon Legends; his neishbor,
Winlock, who scoops up now Asteroids from the
depths OF space, Powers, who carves statues in
marble; Bietstadt, who transports us amid tho
1ncrEels of the fosemite Whitney, who detects
the atfinities of remote languages, aud Emerson
who cultivates divine philosophy,-dnd little
favor with our G1ahamltes. Look, they. say, at
Pnllman and his palace-1estaurant-c and
at Donald Mckay and his big ships! Donald
Sc FRA
certainly, il Providence intended that ship
building should be the end of our creation, he
would be greater than Socrates or Plato, Shak-
spearo or Milton, and only equaled by Vanderbilt,
James Fisk, Jr., the late lilibustering lawless
George Law.
4. 1ur WHAT 1s THIS ''PnAc11cA1" EDUCATION
for which so many persons ere clamorine? Are
there any two persons among them who can
agree as to what it is? II by practical education
Is meant that minimum Of training and teaching
which will Just enable q man to house, clotha,
and feed himself,-to pay his bills. and keep
clear OF the poor-Louse which is summed uu
IN the three Rs, '.Readin'. Ritin', and Mthmo-
tic, c,"-thcn We deny that such m education
subserves, in the highest degree, even it's own |
petty and selfish ends. The w1etched econo |
my which tries to sift the eo~caued practical |
from tho true, the good, and tho beautiful, fails
to get oven the good it covets. But the most
popular idea Of o practical education Is that
Which regards it training for q particular
calling or profession Our colleges arc begged |
to treat Smiths Eon Rs incipient tape-sellcr
Browns as an undereloped broker, Thomson'e
Is an embryo engineer, and Jones as budding
attorney Well, VIC admit to the fullest extent
the right OF Smith, Brown, Thomson, and Jones. |
Juniors. to qualify themselves for any occupa- |
ton they choose; but nc deny their right to de-
mnnd Of tho State or OF our colleges special
training which RhalI qualify them for buying cali
20, building bridges. drawing declarations. or
'peculating in stocks. Young men demand On
education which shall make them good mer-
;hants, lawyers, and carpenters; but they need, |
FIRST OF All,
Ind more imperiousJy than all things elec to ho
,ducated as 71er.
of piece OF timber you may make mast, a |
nacnlne piano, or pulpit; but, first Of all, it
AUST become timber sound solid, and we'll
easoned* The highest and truest education ia | !
ot that which deve]opa, trains, and stren.thens :
biz or that faculty, but that which yitatizca and
Einulates all tho facnltics,-which does for the 1
'lnd what tho gymnasium does for the BODY. y
'erg'zes it by robust and bracing exercises. IN q
10 development OF d single member or organ e
tile body is not trne physical culture. 20 tho b
Iordtuate development OF the memory. the is
nas'nation, OF tue reasoning faculty. is not in-
AectuM culture. The first condition of suc
'ssful bodily labor is health; and, as man in
9ath cen DO what an unhealthy man cannot do. q.
III as OIL this health the properties are strength
'ef6S, agility, graceful carriage and action. ! tc
anuaa de1ter1ty. and endurance OF fatigue 80. | 1"
nRo manner, general culture Of mind 1s the di
ss a'o TO professional and scientific study sa
u tue educated man can do what the illiterata eli
an cannot. As Prof. ]. Fl. Newman II
almsen brilliant example Of tho cul- ii
70 that comes from liberal studies-re~ of
'rks: 1.-THE man who has learned to think n
10 reason, and to compare, and to discrip. nj
lte, and to analyzei who has refined his taste RAJ
Il formed bis Judgment, and sha1pened h1s NJ;
ntat vision, will not indeed at once be ae,au- bill
: OF pleader, or an orator, or statesman is1
physician, or good landlord, or man af na
nncss, or n SOLDIER or an engineer. or Il chem. wt
OF geologst, or an antiquarian; but le will an
placea IN that stato OF intellect in which ho | Co
taRe up any one Of these sciences or call hir
3, or any other for which he has taate or | eor
c1al talent, with an cage, grace G vereati1- La
ana success, to which another is stran- Sta
aga
'et Us not be misunderstood. I've cherish no sic
rene opinions on this subject, of
We HAVE NO SYMPATHY tle
tnose who think that all wisdom is summed
II knowledge Of Greek particles,--with the I
VINO can give exactly all the dates of the one
:; = snlmlahes in tho Peloponnes,an War; and the
nA'o always supposed that Hyde and Claren- Fra
"e4e oa1elent persous,-or men like D7. Spa
80 WIZ doooted whether Frederick the yeal
~ "1%a an bis victories, could conjugate love
ca se'p IN 1aa- we cannot but think little chai
- ou1Aes genius, because, in the House OF lect
.uons' 40 accented the antepenu1t instead Of env,
psuut u Vec''9a1; or OF the Duke Of We'll only
WI = oecaose' tnoueh he conquered Napo- One
:. he turned round, when reading almt