The Red Cloud chief., 1877-05-24

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The bGief oksep0ucular individuals
are a11snded t3a6pd fortune which
make thsm d6dka6b ~associatesin any
'~entesltise Of u1eehsin success exists
not only among those who take part IN
political and military projects. but in
f11euces AZ joint action of commerce
md aff&fs, and q corresponding as
surance In Tho tndivid uals so distin-.
guished meets and justi6es the expec-
tation of others bv a boundless self
trust. Il have a lucky hand. sir" said
Napoleon to his hesitating Chancellor;
"those on whom I lay it are fit for any
thing" This faith is familiar in one
fOrm-that often a certain abdication
o fprudence and foresight is an element
Of success; that children and young
persons come of safe from casualties
that would have proved dangerous to
wiser people. We do not think the
young will be forsaken but he is fast
approaching the age when the sub
miraculous external protection and
leading are withdrawn, and he is
committed to his own care. The young
man takes a leap in the dark and
alights safe. As he comes into man.
hood he remembers passages and per-
SON that seem, as he looks at them now,
to have been systematically deprived
of injurious influence on him. His eyes
were holden that he could not see. But
he learns that such risks he may no
longer run. He observes with pain not
that he lncurs mishaps here and there
but that his genius, whose invisible be-
neyolence was tower and shield to him,
is no longer present and active. In the
popular belief ghosts arc a selecting
tribe, avoiding millions, speaking to
one. In our traditions, fairies, angels
and saints show the like favoritism so
do the agents and the means of magic,
as sercerers and amulets. This faith in
a doting power, 80 easily sliding into
the current belief every where, and is
the particular Of lucky days and, for
tunate persons as frequent in America
to-day as the faith in incantatiOns and
philtres was in old Rome, or the whole
some potency of the signs of the eros
in modern Rome-this supposed power
runs athwart the recognized agencies
natural and moral, which science and
religion explore. Needed though it be
In many actions and partnerships, it is
not the power to which we build
churches, or make liturgies and prayers.
or which We regard in passing laws, or
Sund college professorships to ex.
pound. 1t would be easy in the pOliti-
cslhistory of every time to furnish ex-
amples OF this irregular success, men
having a force which, without shining
talent, yet makes them prevailing. No
equal appears in the field against them.
A power goes out from them which
draws all men and events to favor
them. The crimes they commit, the
exposures which follow, and which
would ruin any other man, are strange
ly overlooked, or do more strangely
turn to their account. l set down
these things as l find them, but, how
ever poetic these twilights Of thought,
l like daylight, and / find that, some
what willful, some play at blindmau's
bun when men as wise as Goethe talk
mystenously of the chronological. The
insinuation is, that the known eternal
laws of morals and of master are some
times corrupted or evaded by this gypsy
principle, which chooses favorites, and
works in the dark for their behoof, as
if the laws of the Father of the uni
verse were sometimes baked and
eluded by a meddlesome aunt of the
universe for her pets. You will OBJ
serve that this extends the popular idea
of success to the very gods; that they
foster a succes to you which is not a
success to all; that fortunate men. for
tunate youths exist, whose good is not
virtue OF the public good, but a private
good, robbed from the rest. It is a
midsummer madness, corrupting all
who hold the tenet. The monologic
is only a fine name for egotism, an ex.
aggeration. namely. of the individual,
whom it is natures settled purpose to
postpone. The race never dies. the in
dividual is never spared there is
one world common to all who are
awake, but each sleeper betakes him
self to one of his own" Dreams retain
the inirmities of our character. The
good genius may be there or not; oul
evil genius is sure to stay. The Ego
partial makes the dream ; the Ego total
the Interpretation. Life is also q dream
on the same terms.-R ". Emeyscn
North American Rerie,c.
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