The Hickman courier., 1878-06-21
Thowhts Of Emerson.

We are to hOw that we &ce never
without pi1t. When we know not
how TO steer, md dare not hoist q sail,
we can drift The current knows the
wav. though Ve do not When the stars
and sun appeg when we have convers-
ed with uavigstOTs who know the c0sst C.,
wa may beginto put cut an oar OF trim g
esil. The ship OF heaven guides itself
and viii not GCept . wooden rudder.
JAe credeace Oi men Il is that
moIds them, snd creates at viii one or
another surfsoe. The mind as it opens
transfers veU fast its choice from the
circumstances to the cause from cOur-
tesy to love rom invention TO science,
from Londm or Washington law, or
public Opinion, to the self revealing idea;
from all hastalent executes to the sens
timent that fills the heart and dictates
the future OF nations.
The man Of this age must be matricu-
lated in the university of sciences and
tendencies flowing from all past periods.
He must notbe one who can be surprised
and shipwrecked by every bold and
subtle word which malignant and
acute men msy utter in his hearing, but
should be taught all scspticisms and
unbelieis, and made The destroyer Of all
card houses and paper walls, and the
sitter Of all opinions, by being pnt face
to face from bis infancy with reality.
A man who has accustomed himself to
look at all his circumstances IS very
mutable, TO carry his possessions, his
relations to persons, and even his Opin-
ions. in his band, and in ali these 10
To pierce TO the principle and moral law,
and everywhere to find that, has put
himself out Of the reach of all scepticism,
aud It seems as If whatever is most
affecting and sublime in our intercourse,
in our happiness, and IN cur lOssf =,
tended steadily 10 uplift Us 70 s. life 80
extraordinary, and one might say, super
human.
How came. his creation 50 magically
woven that Sling can do me mischief
but mvse,fa /. gvsnvisible fence sur
ro1nd,g ~. r.. screens me from
bs M q "a ~ l-ssJ II / will
stand u ~ # 8, 9lation can not bend
me. But i ~ 5iste myself, if ] commit
crime, tbrvightning loiters by the
speed of retri ..s1ticn, and every act Is not
hereafter but instantaneOuslv rewarded
according to it's quality. Virtue IS the
adopting Of tbis dictate of the univer..
sal mind bv the individual viii.
Character "a the habit OF
this obedience and religion IS the ac-
comPanying emotion, the eLnotloh 20, u
reverence which the Presehce % !lIe
universal mind ever excltes IN the IN
dividual.
The mystic or theist is never scared
by any startling materlailsm- he KNOWS .s
the laws of grayitation ana Oh repulsion
are deaf to French takers oe they never
so witty. If theology shows that opin-
ions are fast changing, 1t Is not So win
the convictions of men with regard To
conduct. These remain. Inc most
daring heroism. the most accomplished
culture or 1ant holiness, never ex0austed
the claim of these Iowly duties, never
penetrated to their origin, or was aole 70
look behind their source. we can not
disenchsnt NC can not impoyerlsh our
selves, by obedience; but by humility
we rise, bv obedience We command. by
poverty Wa 60 rich, by dying we live.
Man does not live by bread alone but
by faith, bv admiration, by. sympathy
'Tis very sbsllow 10 say that cotton OF
iron. or siIvar or gold, are kings OF the
world tbere are rulers that will at any
moment lp.I NAL a'e these forgotten; Fear
will; love lii. character Will. Men
live bv cradoaoe Governments stand
by it, by the faith that people pplfoina snafs ;,,
whether it comes from tne aeiigl1i nT, gr;linaI !,
which they were bred, or from ;oh an otistita 4be
conscience in Themselves aoInrnr,ani mnlom tT1
popular religion echoes. II g6sermnnn gov ins4inct
could only stand by force, II tils IN, lns-snu r,,
OF the people was to resls' 1ne gOnean ,an,
ment, 1t is plain that tle = oheinr,en he sac,' -
must be two to one, in order err 70 os5 Pc Sec5 5e
and then it would not De saie nom ON uJs nIs
perate indiyiduals. But no; the oi'