The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-09-10

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they willregard us asa fanisic. We.
own that we.are terribly 3 learnest'
pnstkis subject. Our Statd is Just.
setting optin ts.career, and il is all
important that we s!sft riSls If
we start wrong We like "a.
traveller who has talseil he wrong
road stepwe take carry.
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more rapid i we travel the s8rse IL
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tage and power of L lscsl
great strength to any people, and
confers great influence. But wealth.
is not the sole power in any commu-
nifty, nor is it the sole end for which
We ought to live. knowledge is also
power. In Holy Writ we are told Of
a poor man who by his wisdom de-
livered city. This man was ever
afterward, doubtless, an object Of
grateful regard on the part of his
country-men: Cincinnatus was u
poor man, and yet when Rome was
in her dircst straights she called him
from the plow to preside over the
destinies of his country. And the
time is coming when brain force will
be required to WELD the "ferce de-
mocracy" of our native land.
In the late Franco-Prussian war
the success of the Germans was as
much due to the intelligence that
controlled the armies of Prussia as
the drill of her battalions. 1t is
England's intelligence that gives her
the power which makes her so for
midable. She is vigilant, far-sighted.
Her eyes are ever turned to regions
of the earth that present promising
fields in which to plant colonies
Thus has she added possession to pos.
session until Mr., Webster's famous
figure is true-"Her morning drum.
beat, circling with the hours, encom.
pass the globe"
The cultivation of the intellect
lifts man to higher plane than he
can attain by either wealth or brute
force. It is doing violence to mans
nature simplyto ddvelopmtsGle aud
neglect his immortal mind Man is
a complex being. I'm common with
the irrational creatures he possesses
a body, but within him is q princi.
pie that thinks and acts and feels
This inward, subtle and immortal
principle constitutes the line Of de.
markation which separates him from
and raises him above the brutes.-
This will survive the shock that lays
our bodies in the tomb
"Dust thou art, to dust returnest
Was not spoken Of the soul"
To centre all our thoughts in the ma
terial and perishable and neglect the
immaterial and imperishable, is to
cherish the inferior at the expense Of
the superior.
We read in books of travel that
the Chinese bandage the feet of their
children SO that these important ap-
pendages never attain a size beyond
what they are in childhood. In
stances are on record, too, in which
the feet Of grown women have been
crushed because their betrothed hus-
bands refused to fulfill the marriage
contract with a woman whose feet
had grown to natural size. We de-
nounce the cruelty of this semi.bar.
barous race for doing this violence to
the human form. And yet is this
worse than to neglect the culture of
that immortal principle within us
that likens us to our Creator2 But
some one will say the cultivation of
the intellect to the neglect of the
moral powers is as great a amistake as
the cultivation of the body to the
neglect of the mind. We admit it,
and shall in due time give our ideas
on what we conceive to be the true
nature of education.
What we have said in this weeks
issue must suffice for the present.
Grcenbrier Independent.
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