The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-08
4 Broken Philosophy.
. I.OrSe

Philosophy is very poor, unsatisfacto-
~ sort of thing after all. 1t is beautiful
theory, there is something noble and
and and sensible about it when it isn't
l. .eded at all 1t only fails when it is put
:, actual practical tests. A man always,
g nearly always, has a little school OF
;lilosophy for himself When he has
rot the least particle of trouble, or grief,
TT misery, or care, he finds that his phil
;ophy sustains and comforts him most
''rlrmingy. Being rocked to slumbcr
It'll Paradise Lost isn't Il circumstance.
d he man cnlarges his philosophy, he
i,kes it more liberal he extends its tencts
; ID theories to include u great many
rings that need reforming And Just
: 'out the time he has got everything all
'.afortably fixed and the world all nice
reformed, some thoughtless mortal has
&C ten Gritty to make a practical applica
i IN of his theories and philosophy, and
- they fall to the ground. OF all the
,-.Aceful, imposing fabric the progressive
.i;osopher had reared, there is nothing
! t; crash, great clouds of dust, groans
., walls and shame and suffering, and
juggling out of the dust and debris of his
. uttered philosophy, the rcformcr and
rnder of the new school of thought
rms at last that nothing can take the
! ICE of old fashioned Christianity and
4
~ guides.
How thoroughly they found it out in
,oklyn. Tilton, educated, talented ,elo-
' mt, scholarly, lived so high above the
ry day, plodding world that he imagin-
lie was in advance of it, lie would
| public thought, and revolutionize
nj customs, and reform VIII .tevcr was
ing or unwholesome. He went up and
"vn the world proclaiming new school
philosophy, part of which he found in
! Woodhulrs office, and the rest of
j.: rich he evolved from his inner con-
> BUSINESS. The world would never be
tie happy, he said, and doubtless he
l;eved it until it adopted his progressive
views on marriage. 1t should be consid-
cd nothing but contract, to be broken
=. will by either or both of the contract
:; parties. The children of these affini-
Y should be turned over to the State rs
=. ION as they were born and be brought
y ?.by hand in public institutions. This
. ) his philosophy and he put it in prac-
! =. Whenever he found an affinity, he
nears to have preached his free love
u ''trines to her, and carried them out
81 Il her. 1t might have been, and indeed
:? rppeared TO be rather unpleasant to Mrs.
ton and somewhat exasperating to good
>" rs. Morse, Theodores respected mother
-'aw, But they were not progressive
's"insn, and couldenot be expected to ap-
g relate the beauties Of higher and
. 2nerc advanced school of philosophy. But
u j and by Mr.. Tilton's wife became a
p'oseiytc to his doctrines. She saw i.
vas good for Theodore, why not for her ?
'-Aont the same time, it appears that Mr..
ton made another famous convert. Mr.
recher, it isalieged, embraced Theodore's
A:iosophy and his wife And what be-
me of Mr.. Tilton's philosophy then?
OF all his high-strung theories, not one
':'at would stand in his hour of need.
= ter all that he had said in advocacy
:Fnf support of free love, it was hateful
l'e.isfin the moment it entered his own
i 1mc, save in his own person. After all
} denunciation of the. ld-fashioned idea
es the marriage relations, he saw and felt
nj knew that it was the only pure and
r lie and holy view that has ever been
2 iopted. lie saw that the philosophy of
e 'lrtezans and libcrtincs was never intend
"a for; the purity of the home circle. and
chile it seemed perfectly right and proper
.'i1t Colonel Blood should vacatc his room,
nj sleep up in the third story in order
mt his place by bis wifes side might he
q cupied by Mr.. Tilton, it was quiet an
~. ler thing when Theodore was called
.ai"pn TO act the part of Col. Blood, and
II Beecher took Theodore's place. And
set he had written and published and lee.
led on this very subject, and declared
'.iat such proceedings would be entirely
right and proper. But when lis own
f.iaorles were put into practice in his own
i.ouse, he pitched his voice in a wall of
sorrow and rage that was heard nj, over
the laads le threw the story of his
wrongs into the public press, and the
hinged fgbtnings carried it from one end
'i the country to the other he called
roon the law to avenge him of his adyer.
fary, and he is Spending mint of This
e'iends) money, and employing the great.
est legal talent in the Republic, to punisl,
man who endorsed and put into prac.
We the theories lie had himself announc-
ca and advocated. Selfish and false and
Di1eous, such theories cannot stand in
r"actice. The vagaries of that little
q 'erle of advanced thinkers and white
S lied people of Brooklyn have all disap-
2 sred into the cave of gloom whittier
tons free love doctrines found their
way. TIE old fashioned world and .he