Sharp County record., 1878-06-21
THOUGHTS FROM ENyp,

We are to know that VI.
without a pilot. When W.
how to steer, and dare not ~
we can drift. The currepr !,
way, though we do not. S'
stars and sun appear; when
conversed with navigators =
the coast, we may begin to n.
oar or trim a sail. The sbiIp y
guides itself, and will M, ~
wooden rudder.
How came this creation
cally woven that nothing a..
mischief but myself-that a,
fence surrounds my being wbi.!
me from all harm that | viii !. /
If l will stand upright. the cr.'.
not bend me. Bet if I yiolsl.
if l commit a crime, the ligS,.I
tiers by the speed Of retribDsl
every act is not hereafter bm Il
neOusly rewarded accordiDs
quality. Virtue is the adopss.
dictate of the universal mind II
dividual will. Character is NH
this obedience, and religion Il
companYing emotion, the en-
reverence which the preser~
universal mind ever excites IN
vidual.
The mystic or theis.
scared by any startling matersf
knows the laws OF gravitatiopn
pulsiOn are deaf to French al
they never so witty. If theolOr
that opinions are fast changing
so with the convictions of ma1l
gard to conduct. These renal
most daring herOism, the mos
plished culture, or rapt hOliDs
exhausted the claim of these h,
ties-never penetrated to ther
or was able to look behind tbei
We can not diScnchant, we cg
poverish ourselves, by obeds
by humility we rise, by obeds
command, by poverty we are
dying we live.
Man does not live by breaI
but by faith, by admiration, by
thy. 'Tis very shallow to say
ton or iron, or silver and gold,
of the world; there are rulers
at any moment make these
Fear will; love will; charac
Men live by their credenCe.
ments stand by it-by the faitAa
pie share-whether it comes H.
religion in which we were bred,
an original conscience in tha
which the popular religion ed.
government could only stand
if the instinct of the people was
the government, it is plain The
ment must be two to one, in Oh;
secure, and then it would m
from desperate individuals.
the old commandment, " ThOui
kill" holds down New York,
don, and Paris, and not a
horse-guards.
The credence of men It
molds them, and creates at vi
another surface. The mind al
transfers very fast its choice 4
circumstances to the cause; ND
tesy to love, from invention to
from London or Washington
public opinion, to the SeltH
idea; from all that talent el'
the sentiment that fills the
dictates the future of nations
The man of this age must
ulated in the university of scisa
tendencies flowing from all paaI'
He must not be one who ca
prised and shipwrecked by eIi
or subtle word which maig
acute men may utter in his heil /
should be taught all skepticln
beliefs, and made the deStrq
card-houses and paper walls !
sitter of all opinions, by BEN! j
to face from his infancy with !
"A man who has accust9A I 4
self to look at all bis clrcunls
very mutahle, to carry his P1s
his relations to persons, anl 4
opinions, in his hand, and lla d d
pierce to the principle ana r
and everywhere to ind tla
himself out of the reach Of /!
cism; and it seems as if whateI :
affecting and sublime in our ID |. :;
in our happiness, and IN ~
tended steadily to uplift US 70
extraordinary, and one nights
human.-N0rth AmeTtcaa ha
Injuries of Lille