Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-20

) sophie thought fragmentarily. 1t il
f better to have a whole view of 6
, master of seeing like Coleridge, than
the partia! glimpses that you may ge,
from many minds. One philosopher
we'll mastered is positive possession
Several looked into, merely cancel
each other and the residuum is moth
ing.
This is precisely the advice Senator
Carpenter gave to law students In,
may say that famous Washington adj
dress, few years ago. He said, take
some master of law, and read him up
entirel y-see how the law lay on his
mind. Take Marshall, or Story, and
read not only their elementary treatises,
but chase them through every record
ed syllable of their thought. Read
every decision they ever wrote. lis
thus that you get whole man. and if
he is great man you get possession
What | have said respecting Cole
ridge, | would say with reference to
Carlyle. Read him, and read him
thorough. Then you will be prepared
to wreslle with all schools of thought.
1t requires some resolution to look
these great realms of thought out of
counteDance. But it can be done.
But TO do it you must not be lost in
what Carlyle calls general solution in
aimless discontinuity," but you muse
map out a course and hold yourself TO
it with Will and energy, 1.-THE fault
dear Drutus, is not in our stars, but in
ourselves, that we are underlings'
For all young people there is an
open door to something to do. This
is certainly true with reference to
young men. They at least can say,
''No pent up Utica contracts our powers,
For the whole boundless universe is ours"
The worlds industry is open to man.
Young men can find something TO do
and something that is honorable-if
not precisely what they would like,
yet something that needs to be done,
and for the doing of which they and
the world will be the better. Where
young men shall take hold of the la
bors OF life makes but very little dill
ference. One thing needed to be
done is as honorable as another One
position or Occupation is as fertile in
opportunity for self-development and
for we'll doing to man as another It
onl y requires the wit to see what priv
ileges there are about US, and tie tao;
to utilize them to make one situation
as pleasant as another. To young
man it may be said Enter in any
where, "He that reapeth receiveth
wages" But in my assumed audience
| have young women. Their indus
trial sky is supposed to be not quite so
clear. Still woman was made for work as
we'll as man And it is as unfortunate FIR
her to be removed from the pressure
of necessity in this direction as it is
for man. With young women, how
ever. the question of industrial oppor-
tunity is not quite so clear as with
young men | have but little light to
give upon these questions of opportun-
ity. Society is feeling its way toward
the light, and one individual has about
as clear perception of objects in the
glimmering as another But attitudes
of spirit are worth something to US
while difficulties are settling Because
the world is not quite right it will not
pay to become sour about it. Oyoung
women, let not your souls be always
exercised to querulousness and COM
plant on the industrial conditi'n of
women. It is slow work that men aud
women together can make, even when
both mean to do right, to solve the
problem CT humanity Once in
while, young women, look around to
see how far you have come in the up
ward march of civilization. And,
once in while, feel and express thanks
that your lot is cast iI these days and
not in the days of old. Prophetesses
and Queens shave desired to see the
days that you see and have not seen
them. There are few industries
from which woman is now debarred by
law or by public sentiment. If you
must live by your work, you will do 1t
by fitting yourself for some of the in
dustries that our ever widenin. intel
lectual and material civilization de-
mand. Though all things may not
have found their proper level, I con-
graduate you on the open door there
is for fairly remunerative reward, re-
ward that will enable you to live
wholesomely, dress as respectfully as is
demanded by an honorable society, and
that will secure to you the best intel
lectual advantages of the age. With
thankful, brave and hopeful hearts,
take up your work in education, art or
hand;craft. You have an open door
for something to be.
| Young men and women, you are
given being which you are charged
TO train, with all skill. to every excel