Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-13
SPECTRA.

SPECTRA.
All good men may be called poets in act,
or in word; al good poets are so in both
Carlyle.
The One through all in cycles goes,
And all to One returning flows.
two produced three and three produced all
things" "Find your great in your little,
and your few says-Lao TIE.
You can know nothing of God, of ma
tire, of heaven, or hell, or yourself, but so
far as al. these things are self-evident in
you"
II inquired what iniqulty was" says St.
Augustine, ''and found it to be no SUD-
stance, but the perverson Of the will from
Thee, the Supreme, towards lower things"
We want living minds TO quicken and
inform living minos. boys life maid
ems time, is too precious TO be wasted in
coIamittipg words to the memory from
books they never learn the use of.-Alcoh.
The having divided, celebrating W ~
instead OF single and spontaneous is the
faulty of the individual. In the pure per-
sonality there oneness of spirit; in the
strife of individuaism, duplicity. deuce
within Insists upon truce and parley. The
recovery Of the unity in personality, re-
Cancellation by this oneness, constitutes the
one birth and redemption from selfhood.--
Alcou
All men appeal TO the supre me court in
the breast for the final Judgment, believing
there is in every heart better friend than
foe judg just as Justice itself, taking his
port spite OF hie crimes oven; an instinct
of compassion which renders every one a
partaker in the possible, if not actual, guilt,
and so commencing the offender to the
mercy of the court; all men feeling need of
clemencyand plead for forgiveness Bias.
"Who," asks Coeridge. s'can compre-
bend his own will, or his personality-that
is, his I-ship-or his own mind-tbat is.
his person, or his own life? But One can
distinctly apprehend them. In strictness,
God, like all other ideas rightly so called,
aud as contradistlnguished from conceptions
is not SO properly above as alien from COM
prehension. 1T is like smelling a sound.
The soul obeys higher laws than it trans
crosses, else doomsday would presently de-
populate the planet. Three parties are
present in every act of ours; our better self
and our worse, the spirit tina: underlies and
overbroods both. Our choice determines
for US. We are iu the swing, celebrating,
inclining to one extreme or the other, till
our choice is made. But the spirit main
tans and upholds whatsoever the issue Of
our decision, whether for veal or woe. The
righteous being alone with the spirit, alike
choose and are chosen, the will being one
| and above elaboration. -Alcoa
We reckon it the falsest of all maxims
that a true Poem can be adequately tasted;
can be judged OF "as men Judge of din
ner.' by some internal tongue, that shall
decide on the matter at once and irrevoca-
bly,. Of the poetry which supplies spout
ing-clubs, and circulates a circulating
libraries, we speak not here. That is quite
another species; which has circulated, and
will circulate, and ought to circulate, in all
times; but for the study of which no man
is required to give rules, the rules being
already given by the thing itself. We
speak of the Poetry which Masters write,
"hlch aims not at furnishing a languid
mind with fantastic shows and INDECENT
emotions, but at incorporating the everlast-
ing Reason of man in forms visible to his
Sense, and suitable to it; and of this we
say that to know it is no slight task; but
rather that being the essence of all science.
it requires the purest of all study tor know
ing it. Carlyle.
S1NdlSG.-Singing is favorite exercise
IN most OF the schools, and practised daily.
Where the teacher does not lead. one or
other OF the scholars can. There is de-
nclencv OF suitable songs, adapted to the as
soeiatlons OF American children. A book
OF school songs, set to music, the notes
PRINTED prettlly atop of the pages it wanted
now. 1t should breathe the airs and poetry
OF New England life. and be sci to the lnhi-
liant cblld-liSe heart. Music is one OF the
magical arts, the oldest of any, the speech
OF heaven, and of memory; welcome in
t1uence, spiritualizing and refining the
worst. Pythagoras held "That singing
contributed greatly to health, as wei as 10
purifying the heart and the manners; ard
be called it a medicine when be so used il
and qualifications; and be conceived that
each season had its particular melody He
placed in the middle player on thelv
and seated in circle around him. wera
those who were able to sing. And when
the person struck the Tyre they sung certain
peans, through which they were seen to be-
delighted, and to become elegan, aud ordev-
y IN consequence OF the eestaey; and he
had melodies devised as remedies n9aiasss
the passions. as anger sdespoadenoy, eoln-s
plant, inordinate desire; which afforded
the greatest ireliefto those malaaiss. HI
likewise used dancing. :, 81 s. ss.sas