The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-01-01

ing room will therOre be open for busi-
ness all day.
THE YEAR TRTHAs CLOSED.
The world gensrlly makes no other
note of time than 1t passage, and there ia
always one impOrtnt point in the Listo-
ry Of every twely months where every
body with one acccd makes note that
an important unithas been subtracted
from the sum total itheir existence. This
is the day-New Yars Day-and is re-
currence marks anw score for every in
dividual. So muchoi our capitalize been
spent, whether wssed or not and is now
gone beyond RECALL Curious as 1t may
seem, those who hHe spent thus much Of
their capital lavislly and thoughtlessly
generally have tbeiewestregrets over It's
loss, failing to realize that time is any
thing more than . much money, TO be
used for whatever qualifications can be
got out Of 1t.
It is no wonder that the world i'm.
proves so slowly n an intellectual and
moral point OF yi.y. There is no agree.
ment as to how oil the world Is: as to
how many thoussris Of years mankind
has consumed in taching It's present stage
Of development :itit all men eminent as
thinkers and teachrs, agree. that the great
obstacle to intellectual and moral en-
lightenment has ben this careless, super.
fetal and sensual Indifference to every
thing other than he daily qualifications
Of life. To this purely selfish end the
great mass Of rkind have ever been
ready to sacrifice fhatever Of isturdy self
denial was requird to elevate them high
ly in their own rspect, and give them a
daily consciousness that they were really
doing something vorth living for.
The world has been literally dragged
along to where it's by.a very few minds.
Passiveness, or ele active opposition, the
latter amounting n some cases to the Bit
terest hostility. .ae always the conditions
to be overcome b the few. Hence near
ly every name nov recorded. .on the pages
Of history was i its time an object Of
popular distrust intolerance, and, per.
chance, persecuton. The bane Of the
world has been ignorance. Ignorance
naturally begot prejudice, and prejudice
begOt intolerance The most enlightened
are always the INST tolerant.
Thegrest hop, of the future, as COM
pared with the 1ast, is in the increasing
facilities for dlpellihg this ignorance.
In our wide wotIl, says Thomas Carlyle,
@giaefs is but oIelltogether fatal person
age-the diHee. ..ae. that..sees not and yet
thinks he seea.' In otRersesds, i is
the stupidity bid perverseness that Il
born of ignorane. This il is that has
kept and still reps the world SO serious
ly hampered.
But though th world moves slowly, ii
moves. It will move faster in 1873 than
in the year just closed. There is no lost
motion in ID, intellectual universe.
Whatever is acquired is retained, be it
ever SO minute or imperceptible. The
great events Of his year 10 Eastern Eu-
rope have "put he hands forward on the
dial of the ages, aslSas said Of the battle
Of Waterloo. The conflict that has oc'
CURED between Two radically antagonistie
civilizations hasibeen worth a century OF
peace in scourging ignorance and in
tolerance out Of, Europe. The Turk
,s a. last going to the wall, andTto
save himself Is ready to adopt
and guarantee constitutional and repre-.
sentative government TO both his Chris.
tian and Mohoaedan subjects. But it is
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