The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-29

,'Orestes, you are preaching the logic of
despair How can tell your How can
anewer such dreadful question l should
say the study of the truth, If that were not
a vogue answer"
I" Men are apt to prefer prosperous or
ror to an afflicted TRUTH" said Orestes,
quoting Jeremy Taylor.
"But all truth is not afflicted" said | I;
at must exist somewhere Everything is
not fraud and dishonor, else, like the wall
daubed with ill-tempered MORTAR we should
tumble to pieces"
(which we have come very near doing"
said Oresles.
england did not tumble because of
Warren Hastings" said L, "nor has France
been killed by corruption. Russin has sur
vived great deal, and Germany l i'm
aglno, is not free from slain"
"No; but republic ought to be"
81 don't know. / think republic has
very severe strains upon its virtues. We
have but few antecedents, and they are al
ways stronghoids of virtue. There must
be a rough and tumble fight for Office here
such, for instance as England can never
know. Who would suspect Mr.. Gladstone
or Mr.. Disrael There is sure to be any
thing but the survival of the fttest 10 our
way of doing things. No tyraut like
many headed one Aristotle says: a
king ruleth as he ought, as he lists king
to the profit of all, tyrant only to please
himself"
"That is pretty talk for the centennial
year, said Orestcs.
'JBy king l simply mean abstract viz
the, what the governing power ought to be"
"a decided abstraction, ! should say"
"AcCording to your ideas, abstraction ia
the fashion"
ayes; but not intellectual abstraction. ]
90 back to my original st9tement-l have
lost my pearl of price, and where shall |
find it 2'
"By counting up the thousands and thou
sands of good men and women whom you
know. DO you remember Sydney Smiths
facetious recipe against melancholy to a
fashionable woman Sit down and rcmem-
Ger all the compliments ever paid to you,'
said he 'nO matter how foolish they were,
it will console you So, if you will count
all the honest people you know, Orestcs,
no matter how foolish they are, it will con-
sole you They far outnumber the other
side. We have got to meet the fact that
the human heart is deceitfu and desperate
ly wicked, but there are some nice charsc-
tiers still unspotted."
"You have not convinced me-" said
Orestes, "and you have lost my place in
my Milton's Areopagitca. Think of tun-
ing from Millions prose-to talk to wo-
man There is a downfall of character for
you !"
"Well, Orestes, will find it for you
and here is your punishment. You did not
listen when l talked of truth, but see how
your noble and faveritc author come to my
rescue THE very essence Of truth is plain.
ness and brightness, the darkness and
crookedness is our own. The wisdom Of
God created understanding, fit ard proper
tionable to truth, the object aud end of it,
as the eye to the thing visible. If our un-
derstandng have film of ignorance over
it, or be blear with gazing on other false
lisicnings, what lie that to truth ?"
Very good of Milton he is always
good but what bearing has it on the sub
iects of our talk ?"
'Simpy that we have been worshiping
false gods; we have wandered from that
simplicity, thrift, patriotism, truth, on
which the truth was founded, and hence
these tears"
"You may hand me the 'Areopagitica,
said Orestes, which was all the answer be
vouchsated. Z, w. S., in Appleton's
J0UradL