Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-09-29
SPECTRA.

OHe IS tue world" says Tjmaus,
Through tie bond Of Deity alone, and made
according to proportion"
We want living minds to quicken aud in
form living minds. boys life, maid
ems time, is too precious to be wasted IN
committing words to the memory from
| books they never learn the use Of -Azcon
Ihere runs a chain throughout the
whole system Of beings In this chain
| one INK drags another; the meanest things
| are connected with the highest. The cal
amlty, therefore, is neither strange nor
much to be complained Of if a low, sensna,
person shall, from mere love of the animal
lie, lind himself drawn on, surprised, and
betrayed into some curiosity concerning the
intellectual. Bishop Bmkezey.
In place Of the Old Vicarious Atorement
he recognizes laao whose operation rules
All human history and thrills through every
individual life,--the law Of Vicarious Suf-
| ferlng by which no one lives and no one
dies unto himself alone, and no one sins
and none repent, no one works out his own
salvation, and none their own destruction.
without Involving veal and woe to Others"
He thinks that science teaches the imma-
hence OF the Divine Presence, proving to
us that all things are full Of Life and Prog
ress. The Myriad is but the one, one erav-
ltation one force, one life. Evolution re-
atllrms the idea of unity, showing that the
living All is One. Science does not lessen,
BAT increases mystery, showing US "the
presence of the unknown everywhere the
greatness of every least; the closeness, and
more, the correlation of Infnity with fnities
OF The universal with the each'- ". C..
GanneH.
We state Fitches character as ii is
known and admitted by men Of all parties
among the Germans, when we say that 80.
ROBUST an lntel' T. a soul so calm so lofty,
% 'ssive, aud III movable, has not mingled
IN philosophical discussion since the time
OF Luther. For the man rises before US.
amiG contradiction an debate, like gran
lie mountain amid clouds and wind Rid
lcule, OF the best that could be commended,
las been already tried against rhm; but it
could not avail. What was The wit Of q
thousand wits TO him The crv of a
thousand chonghs assnling that old cliff of
granite: seen from he summit these, as,
they winged the midway air, showed
scarce so gross as beetles, and their cry was
seldom even audible Fitche's opinions
may be true or false but bis character as.
a thinker, can be slightly valued only by
such as know it iii; and as man, APP
pro ed by action and suffering, in his life.
and in his DEATH he ranks with class of
men who We're common only in bet ter ages
than ours Carlylc.
In the human heart love and worship are
inseparably Connected Once let the in-
vlsable hllamentS of love reach GU, and
fastcn to any object real or ideal and the
whole being is bowed in alteration before
1t. The process of unbiased judgment have
little or no play thin his Elysean do.
main. In seme way all are idolaors, and
tie fact sgreater than our knowledge or
comprehension of it. 1t produces a nebu-
lous consciousness enveloping US like
cloud and preventing any just discernment
of its why and wherefore. Many Christ
ans do, not know that their whole reIig-
ous life is mere person worship of Jesus
Christ, full of idoalrous love for his person.
They easily forget to properly estimate and
worship the divine philosophy of the prin-
clples He taught, for which he came and
suffered death. They do not comprehend
the universal application of his teachings
TO the individual and social necessities OF
human nature. reaching like the laws OF
mathematics to an in6nity of combination
Said certain Methodist divine: aHis life
His example, His teachings were nothing
IN comparison with His blood" 1t was
this be worshiDed, and the estimate pro-
dnced its Kind OF character and manhood
Such ideas are not phenomenal In every
religion which has yet challenged the at
tentlon and secured the devotion of man
kind has this immutable law of human ma
ture asserted itself. The purpose of the
founder to unfold and set at work some
sweet. grand principle of eternal light
which should become he sheaiine of the
nations is gradually forgotten and love
sick idoatry takes its place. ". D. Hoard,
in Liberal Worker.
Do you recall, in the little book I sent
you, that conception of future art in
which the great science and beauty of color
should be developed as fully as that OF
sound has been? Since nobody feels more
keenly than what may be the opulence of
the unreveaed reserves of color in the dark
and chemic rays, nobody exults more keen
~ in the depths of the unexhausted wells
"a Soi0A 'n"s 70 uoNc, WY SudlI uOt U0.
gin the development? To me sheet of
clear and pure tint, be it blush or blue or
amber, gives rapturous ana Utmost salts.
faction and let such colors flow into one
another with soft counterchange and silver
blooms, and have the delight that per
feet strain of music gives. Think then. to
those who love absolute color passionately,
what some great symphony, founded on the
seven colors as on the seven tones. might be
with the palpitating glow aud gloom. the
combination of it's chords, the magnificent
movement of its members, through all de-
licious fluctnation to complete correspon-
dence and marriage! Think of chromata
in violet minor, with its radiant correla-
tons Think of that fancy of Haweis' of
delicate melodies composed of single float
ing lights, changing and melting from one
slow intensity 70 another, through the dark,
until some tender dawn of opal from below
might perchance receive the last Tutoring
pulse OF ruby light and prepare the eye for
some new passage Of exquisite color n
Well, somebody is to discover the notation
from which these marvels are to be pro-
duced Somebody is to discover the in
slruments, and decide whether they shall
appeal to chemistry or to electricity. To
nv mind those Instruments ara a II rood . for