The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-04
q SHORT SERMON.
From the Real Estate Register.

From the Real Estate Register.
Panics, whether in an army or else
where, are the most senseless things in
the universe. Nobody has ever yet
been able to give reason for Il panic.
Nobody has ever made a correct dag
nOsis of panic, neither has any one
discovered a remedy.
That an abnormal condition of mind
should exist in few persons of a GER
tain temperament, is nothing wonder
full, but that whole communities should
be so affected at the same time, with
out apparent cause, is one of those hid
den things in nature, which the science
of man has hitherto been unable to
pG netrate.
Panics are not only without reason.
but are generally contrary to all rea-
son.
The Irishman's action in placing his
head in the hole just made by cannon
ball, was dictated by sound common
sense, when compared with the unrea-
soning fear that leads the multitude to
avoid the same spot. The safest place
in a thunder storm, is under the tree
which has just been struck by light
ming.
The healthiest community is the one
which has Just been decimated by con-
tagion, because the causes of cOntagion
have expended themselves Hpon their
victims, and because the weak, sickly
and the predisposed, have been remov-
ed, by it, leaving the average tone OF
health higher than before.
At the present time there is in the
public mind a general feeliRg of panic,
occasioned, not by any causes now eX-
listing, or in all human probability
likely to exist, but by an unreasoning
fear left in the mind by dangers already
Ddst. No one gives any reason for the
feeling. Not single circumstances
now existing is produced to justify it.
On the contrary, nothing but the most
improbable contingencies are brought
forward to give color to the dark
shadow. ''IF, this or that contingency
happens" (of which there is not the
slightest probability, "we shall all be
ruined" To be sure. II lightning
strikes us we shall probably be killed.
II an earth quake swallows us mp, or
the end of the world comes tomorrow,
all our earthly labOrs viii be of no
avail. One hypothesis is about as rea-
sonable as the other. Admit that there
is no real reason why exceptional cir
cumstances many not occur twice in
succession, yet the probabilities are
that they will not.
No one looks for one great financial
crash to Immediately follow another.
The pestilence does not devastate the
same region twice in succession. The
tornado does not follow in the track of
its predecessor. Extraordinary sea-
sons. good or bad, do not Immediately
repeat themselves.
There is much more reason to fear
disaster after long continued prosperi-
ty, than after severe adversely. Change
is the law of the universe. Are we to
conclude, because of the exceptional
and unusual circumstances of last year,
that this fair land is not TO be peopled
by the universal Yankee Nation?
Is it reasonable to suppose that the
All-Wise Father intends that the
heart, the vital center of this continent,
shall be abandoned to wild beasts and
wilder savages:
There Is no reason to believe that the
fnmutable laws which have ruled and
governed al things from the begin
ming, are to be repealed just yet.