The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-06-15

These are the powers whose weight so goody
felt,
Whose blows to vice. whose gifts to virtue dealt 4;
The tree shall meier its offer fail to fill,
Nor the split itself TO satiate us still
/ know Of nothing more strikingly i'm
pressive than the influences comprised
within the vast empire of Silence In the
immensely of space the interlinear fields
OF Nature and Art, around or above, there
is much belonging to the republic of ST.
lence. These Silent Influences" what
are they? We answer, not vague, UNI
meaning characters that might be imagined
to convey no significance, no import. We
might begin to illustrate this important
subject with the exclamation OIL, Tempo
ra y When we think of the elimination
ofour affairs here, TO some degree by Times
restless, unretracting hand, how serious
then is the truth that this same memorable
power is as diligent in his unwearied work
when we are reposng at midnight or
other intervals, as in our most active sea-
Sons. Where, indeed is not the impress of
time seen ? See the changes that single
decade brings about in the matter of indi-
viduals and surrounding objects. 1t re-
quires no clashing of the homogeneous or
heterogeneous forms of matter to make
them understood by rational intelligences.
Silence is fully alive and perfectly con-
spicuous through respondent figures and
operations. In our local, rural tours, when
we are surveying the variegated phenome-
ma of Art and Nature, and especially when
sojourning for pleasure and recreation, one
Is apt to fall into reveries of enjoyment so
genial, so natural, and, like Byron, enjoy
the pleasures, " the painless woods" af-
ford, or the raptures the lonely shores :"
may give, with that society where none
intrudes," where contemplative sustenance
is found. Still, what of silent influences {?
What are they2 All They are not couch
ed III hieroglyphical writings. They need
no interpreter to make their meaning I'M
derstood, but carry their own clear ex-
PLANTATION. There are figures and forms me-
chanically created in everything through
out the whole realm of the universe, that
introduce the subjects they represent at
once to the mind, and convey a history of
their own.
Even from the tomb the voice of Nature cries,
Fen in our ashes lived their wonted fires.
The hallowed influences extend through
the very abodes of silence, for memory it.
self is Il great silent influence. There is
the famed statue, the silent dews upon a
thousand fields, or going abroad among
the municipal curiosities, we behold the
mighty edltices of temples, churches and
halls, colleges and palaces, that we so often
admire; or there is the silent academy of
Memphis, in Egypt, Or going further into
locals, think of the Sicilian Dionysius, a
king, with his devoted Democles, and how
the threatening, overhanging sword ter
inmates his enjoyment for the hour; or the
handwriting on the wall, in connection
with Belthazzar's impious feast. What
mighty xt-book is in nature. The va
riegated clouds by their hues forming such
artistic pictures. The wonderful properties
of the magnet and electricity; the glory
of the heavenly bodies; the circulation of
the blood and again how psychology OPP
crates with us. 1t is said that the indom-
liable Bruce of Scotland made six unsuc-
cessful attempts to liberate Scotland and
it was only after watching in silence the
workings of the isolated spider that was
running and replacing its web, that he
gained his last and most glorious seventh
battle and victory. What abundant rhet-
oric in the instructive volumes of Silence,
and instruction as well. TENwoRTH.