The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-07-26
ur.,, isTssrsr- from the Golden Ace. l

HUMAN INTEREST From the Golden Age. ]
| The most Interesting TACT TO human beings
| every where is the hnman personality. There
is a strange facinu'ion in the mystery that
| envelopes hRsn4n life and nfolna CO. |
deeper experiences Of heart and p'u "liuS'
pie care very little for an uns OF tlaFehcis
uesS What draws tn Syria aR0 ArabDa Is
every year 10 EaSaliy attractive or grann 10
not anythiRrs, but the human interest thar
their Sc to hem, the legends Of human llfe
aft are woven over them, tie slories On
heroism and sacrifice and faith that encoanf
them beyond any materih pomps or sceac
,acinatioYs. The SehtpS representa- tne
speechless mystery of human experience:
bit OF marble from palace OF
Parnvrv or q tomb of Karnac brings tne.
pleasure and grief Of buried popwat'onS
buck to life. The ssHe thing appears 10 OUT
literature. a biography is ten umes more:
Interesting than treatise. boo%' ol tne-
Dlopy. dealing with the profoupocst TOPICS
of time and eternity. Jumpers Inc po"h
shelves. but SbeTqnaD's Memoirs sell 'as, ,,
/ than they can he printed, ana tne uIet'ae
journals, which deal with the gossip enp:cel'
rupt court, rug through score OF eoit'ons'
ard are read by every BODY. Inc poofes'
novel is sure of O larger sale than any 'sct-
book. because it deals with the sentiments
and svmnattfes and relations Of beings like
ourselves. Itis the persons in the iliso, ana
Shakesp rare, and Dickens that insure their
immortality. Tine old mythology hea lis
r,lace for centuries after oil belief in 1T bad
died out becauscits deities we're 80 intensely
human in their actions and passions, and
talked and acted 80 like men. The Old
Geek. fibased and gossipped, and played each
IrosBh false, like their gods.
The special interest thst attaches to scom'
Infested CRIME 10 high life grows out 'ei the
intensity Of the personal consequences 10 all
of Ms 1t is the sentiments, the pass,ens, tpe
conduct Of .bumau beings that make 1t iaci'
mating. It's the old and eTer bafhng myste'
~ of the relations OF men and women 10
each other, and the evolution OF l;fe undtr
q these relations, that holds the attention OF
halfa con tipent spell bound. Andltls because
we are huDan beings ourselves, ana zeal
ing with the same elements and p1>sioaS anu
pprpleXitses, and weaving the same strange
web OF eK perIence. and working our OWN u <
ures into The cbangeless fabric after one tash-
ion or another, that we are llVeteu 10 tDe
loom where other human beings nave so Ter
riblv tangled their skelns aud tied their hcart-
threads together. It. is not love Of depraTlty,
but interest in humanity, thai holds US spell.
bound a. it we're. People may get tlred Of
causes and topics, bu; they never weary OF
themselves aud their kind. Every disclosure
Of weakness and depraVify drops warning
or points wiser way. The poorest novel
sheds ray of Digit on some p'th or dlsll's a
drop Of comfort into some behrf. However
strong the feeling Of contempt or disgust may
rise in the mind sometimes at the disclosures
of folly and weakness, and even baser things,
the wise and wholesome way is to accept the
revelation and extract ills lessons. what we
call morality is the aggregate OF human ex-
pariencp, and the pains and penalties OF gen.
erations enforce the simplest precepts OF VIZ
tue, and show where pleasure can be found.
1t is the study Of human lie that makes
rich, successful human life possible, ana tue
more we know OF persons the nooler our
personality may become.