Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1877-10-13

the deep thinkers, quiet workers
may IN 4 great measure he attribu
ted nearly all the noble achieve
ments OF the past, and to them mus
we lock in the future. We must no,
depend Oh the great geniuses VIII.
desire to attract the attention @
the world every time they speak
or act. "Fuss may cause the world
to stop and look, but it will REQUIRE
brains to command its respect"
Education proper, would teach
young men that burning the mid.
nishtoi around the gaming table. OF
tagging around the DEVILS hotel I'm.
der cover of night, is the surest and
speedlest way to eXtingnish the
lamp of life ; that hours OF thought.
less, degrading dissipation lay tine
foundation for months, yes years,
OF regret, OF unavailing sorrow that
mel and women are not made of
iron or brass, but that unless they
eat and rest, and sleep, their lives
Will indeed be short and that l,u-
man beings have no more right to
commit suicide by excessive study
ing, or preaching, or praying, or
blowing, orby tretting over uuavoid.
able calamitics, than they have to
commit by poison, o by any other
transgreSSion that results in prema,
ture death.
Education as it should he infused
into every mind, would teach men
upightncss, and bring them to a
sense OF their personal responsibility
to God and their fellow beings it
would abate to reasonable degree
the mania of the present time of
striving for the mastery. needless of
consequences, but would charitably
allow every man bis room in the
void.
II the voice of education were
listened to, we would have no mort
cages in our country, but every man
would be free ana independent.
would owe no one anything but love
and goodwill; would live within his
means, even if that living were in
rags and on bread and water. 1t
would whisper to young ladies that
the Almighty knew what was the
best IL! human form, and the
lacings and determines which the
tyrant fashion imposes upon them,
or which they themselves court. are
as impious as they are unhealthful.
as sinful as they are absurd, and
that no person a yield to every
within of fashion, or listen to every
beck and call of every votary of the
tyrant, without destroying peace.
happiness, health and even life itself.
Education would teach people not
to suppose that they can do two
work in one, and then settle
for it by swallowing gallon OF
bitters. 1t would teach them that
they cannot violate the laws Of ia.
ture until they are sick, and then
improve their condition bcataking
medicine enough to kill a wen man.
1t would teach them that the laws of
are sacred ; and that laying
blame of their ontrages on Divi-
ne Providence insults their Maker,
work they have abused, and
loes not relieve them of either guilt
'r responsibility. It would instill the
essons Of propriety, Of trngality and
integrity; lessons of humble submis-
zion to the will Of God and q love
or all mankind.
Education is a better safeguard Of
than standing armies; and,
since impressions made early in life
ire the deepest and most lasting,
low important it is for every n in
his dear, but almost crushed South,
busy themselves in sowing seeds
II the minds of the young, that will
pring up into manly. straight, gene !,
Gus: selfcontrolling, self.sustain-
ne characters. f.,
Educate the masses and you re-
luce the number Of the poor,b by tea.
hing labor how to make itself-rich.
This is all age Of progress; and we :;
rust that before another decade, .
here will be one grand universal, =
inward march to universal educa- ,
There is no royal roadt to learn
ng, but the way is open to all and
one can, by assiduous study by .
lose observation, and by taking y
seed of the invaluable lessons of
xnpripncp. hpcOme edncated. and
h, how lovely is a mind that is adj
rned with wisdom! Then let us, as
rue Changers and true Southerners ,
ssDespise q mean and little soul, ;
The wreck of fallen hope. !.
Take in the whole wide realm ofthought, I
Frpln nothing up to God, 7
Al tread with great. expanding soul, c
Where all the good have trod." :