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Perpetual Forces.

his memory should he respected in this way,
his deserving and helpless descendants ought
not to be lett to the workhouse. Ec
Perpetual Forces.
If We were truly to take account of stock
before the last Court of Appeals. that were
an inventory What are my resources
| ''Our stock in life our real estate. is that
| amount of thought which we have had, "
and which We have applied, and so domesti-
| Gated. The ground we have thus created is
forever fund for new thoughts. A few
moral maxims confirmed 10y much experience
would stand high on the list,constituting a
supreme prudence Then the knowledge un-
utterable of our private strength, of where it
lies, of its accesses and facilitations, and of
its distinctions. My conviction of princ-
| pies, that is the great part of my possessions.
| Certain thoughts, certain observations, long
familiar to me in night-watches and daylights
would be my capital if ! removed to Spain or
| China, Or, by stranger translation, to the
planet Jupiter or Mars. or to new spiritual
societies.
Every valuable person VINO joins in any en-
terprise, is it piece of industry, or the
founding of colony or college. the reform
of some public abuse or some effort of patri-
otihm, what he chiefly brings, all he brings,
is not mis- land or his money or body's
strength but his thoughts, his ways OF cassi-
flying and seeing things, his method. And thus
with every one new power. In proportion
to the depth of the insight is the power and
reach of the kingdom he controls
IL would be easy to awake wonder by
sketching the performance of each of these
mental forces, as of the divine-bell OF the
Memory which descends into the deeps OF
our past and oldest experience, and brings
up every lost jewel or of the Fancy, which
sends tits gay balloon aloft into the sky to
catch every tint and eleam of romance OF
the Imagination, which turns every dull fact
into pictures and poetry, by making 1t an
emblem of thought. What a power, when,
combined with the analyzing understanding
it makes ElOquence, the art OF compelling be-
lief, the art OF making peoples hearts dance
to his pipe, And not less method, patience.
self-trust, perseverance, love, desire Of knowl-
edge, the passion for truth. These are the
angels that take us hy the hand, these our
immortal, invulnerable guardians. By their
strength we are strong, and on the signal oc-
casions in our career their inspirations How
to us, and make the simple wise, the weak
able, and the timid brave, make the selfish
and protected and tenierly-bred person
strong for his duty, wise in counsel skilful
in action, competent to rule, willing TO
obey.
delight in tracing these wonderful pow
ers, the electricity and gravity of the human
world. The power OF persistence, OF endur-
ing defeat, and of gaining victory by defeats,
Is one OF these forces which never loses Its
charm. The power ofa man increases steadi-
ly by continuance in one direction. He be-
comes acquainted with the resistances, and
with his own tools increases his skill and
md tha faynrahl. tnn
and favorable accidents. He is his own ap
prentice, and more time gives great addi-
ton of power, Just as falling body acquires
momentum with every foot OF the TALL. How
We prize good continuer | knew manu-
facturer who found his property invested in
chemical works, which were depreciating in
value. He undertook tho charge of them
himself, began at the beginning, learned
chemistry, and acquainted himself with all
the conditions OF the mnuiacture. His
friends dissuaded him, advised him to give
up the work, which was not suited to the
country. Why throw good money after bad
But he persisted. and after many years sue
ceeded IN his production OF the right article
for commerce, brought up the stock of his
mills TO par, and then sold out his interest
having accomplished the reform that was re-
quired.
In each the talent is the perception of an
order and series in that department he deals
with,-of an order and series which pre-ex-
listed in nature, and which this mind sees and
conforms to. The geometer shows us the
true order in figures the painter, in laws OF
color the dancer, in grace. Bonaparte.
with his CELEBRITY of combination, mute, un-
fathomable, reading the geography OF Europe
as If his eyes were telescopes his will an
immense battery, discharging irresistible vol
ok
right time.
There was story in the journals of poor
prisoner in Western pohce-court who was
told he might be released If he would pay his
fine. He had no money he had no friends,
but he took his flute out of his pocket, and
began to play, to the surprise and, ms 1t
proved, to the delight of all the company ;
the Jurors walked up the sheriff forgot his
duty, the Judge himself beat time, and the
prisoner was by general consent OF court and
officers allowed to 60 his way without any
money. And | suppose if he could have
play ed loud enough We here should have
beat time, and the whole population of the
globe would beat time, and consent that he
should go without his fine.
| knew stupid young farmer, churlish,
living only for his gains. and with whom the
only intercourse you could have was to buy
what he had TO sell. One day | found his
little boy OF four years dragging about after
him the prettiest little wooden cart, so neat
ly built, and with decorations too. and learned
that Papa had made it /; that hidden deep III
that thick skull was this gentle art and taste,
which the little finger and caresses of his
son had the power to draw out into day he
was no peasant after ALL So near to US is
the towering of fine art in the rudest popu-
lation. See IN circle of school girls one
with no beauty. no special vivacity but she
can so recite her adventures that she Is new
er alone, but at night OF at morning, where
ever she sits, the inevitable circle gathers
round her. willing prisoners OF that WONDER
iul memory and fancy and spirit OF life.
Would you know where to find her Listen
for the laughter, follow the cheerful hum
see where Is the rapt attention, and pretty
crowd all bright with one electricity there
in the centre of fellowship and JOY is Sehe-
heraZade again.
See how rich life il rich in private talents,
each of which charms us in turn and seems
the best Ii We hear music. We give up all
to that If We fall in with acricket-club, and
See the game mastery played. the best play
er is the first of men ii We 80 to the re6at-
Ia, We forget the bowler for the stroke oar
and when the soldier comes home from the
fight, he fills all eyes. But the soldier has
tLt shllt VI Hi'ut
ary debater And poetry and literature are
disdainiul of all these claims beside their
own. 1t seems as If the story were gospel
truth, OF the boy who thought III turn each
one of the four seasons the best, and each OF
the three hundred and sixtyive days III the
year the crowner.
The sensibility is all. Every one knows
what are the effects of music to put people
in gay OF mournful or martial mood. But
these are effects on dull subjects, and only
the hint of Its power on keener Sense. Ii
is stroke on a loose or tense cord. The
story OF Orpheus, OF Arion, of the Arabian
minstrel, are not fables, but experiments on
the same iron at white heat.
BY this wondrous susceptibility to all the
Impressions OF Nature the man finds himself
the receptacle of celestial thoughts, of happy
relations to all men. The imagination en-
riches him, as if there were no other ; the
memory opens all her cabinets and archives
Science her length and breadth, Poetry her
splendor and JOY, and the august circles of
eternal Law.
These are means and stairs for new ascen-
sions of the mind. But they are nowise I'M
poverisbed for any other mind, not tarnished,
not breathed upon, for the mighty Intellect
did not stoop to him and become property,
but he rose to it and followed its circuit. at
We do not use 1t.
And SO, one step higher, when he comes
into the realm OF sentiment and will. He
sees the grandeur of Justice, the victory OF
love- the eternity that belongs to all moral
nature. He does not then invent his sentl.
ment or his act, but obeys pre-eNistmg
right which he sees. We arrive ut virtue by
taking its direction instead Of imposing
ours RdiIh Waldo Emerson. IN he Worth
lmericu, Rerie,r.
"WHY, asked Plato of Socrates, ms they
languidly rose from the symposium and
walked up the Applan way. why IL lazy
dog like sheet ofpaper;' Socrates thought
fully rubbed his ear and said. Seems t. me
I've heard that before somewhere well,
old anthropos. guess 1t, Hie r'Spo,H quickly.
Socrates made seven futile attempts, turning
the pun on the words tale" write"
,canls " when Pinto bprotn,. imnnti,spt