Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-03-20

WITHOUT HASTE, WITHOUT Rest
What II wrangling, scrambling, hustling,
jostling world this is See the anxious,
careworn face, ever in II hurry here and
there, to and fro. for ever and for ever
onward! No moment for leisure, no hours
for recreation, no opportunity for cool,
calm. ripening thought, and II more
thorough knowledge Of the better acquain-
tance with ones self. Everything ON the
high pressure system. The average child
scarcely is out of the cradle when it is
hurried away to school, compelled to sit
six hours in the day. five days in the week
and from thirty to forty weeks for the
first number of years, on IL hard bench,
studying the bare naked letters from +,
printed book. Then comes the choice of
Il vocation and the rushing for its climax
And soon after in natural order follow the
wrecked mind and body. failures, disap-
pointments, regrets, discomfort and un-
rest The child has been literally cram
med with foo !, whether digestiblc or in
digestible. until surleited. 1t has no relish
for anything and therefore loathes all.
" Without haste and without rest is II
law of nature. Her productions are never
premature, imperfect or incomplete With
no conflicting or intermediate agencies
every tree, plant and animal would grow
natural and therefore perfect, adapting
itself exactly TO the uses for which il was
designed. The tree grows to Il purpose,
for use, extracting nothing from the earth
and atmosphere but what is necessary to
It's growth and sustenace. The flower
takes Just what it must have to grow and
thrive, make glorious lis brief life with
beauty and fragrance, and departs, leaving
its storchouse securely packed with germ
mating seeds.
The child delights to take its first lesson
in the green fields, beside purIing rivulets,
studying the wonders of the earth, the
sky, the trees, the pebbles, and all things
else natural and beautiful. One watches
for II fail in the rivulet in which TO place
his miniature water wheel, and thus his
first lessons us IN amateur machnist.
Another listens to the song of the birds
and the breeze. and in his soul is whis-
pereda nursery rhyme, developing there
after into the everything productions of
the true poet. Another studies the peb-
blcs, thinks of their structure and variety
thus preceding the natural mineralogist.
And still another watches the stars in the
clear blue sky, wondering if they are really
worlds and how they travel, and whether
they ever collide with each other, and
who laid the track in the vast sea of blue
for them TO travel in. And so on through
the long list of natural vocalons to which
humanity is adap ed, each little organizt-
ton drawing from the vast field of n ture
Just what is necessary 10 its Growth and
development, and al acting in II sphere
for which they were created, they prove
successes, and the worll calls them mer
and women of genius only because they
are in the right place. Would it not bt
well to break little away from the con
veutionalties of society. and instead o.
forcing our children to like hot hou>,
growths into vocations in life not Of thei
own choosing give them time and oppor
tunties to develop aud perfect, so far a
may be, the special talent God gave then
each for the most noble and wise purpose
I-EGchan9e.