New-York tribune., 1880-06-27
CKEAM OF THE MAGAZINES.
qHB MlDsUMMBR ISSUES.


Dr. Oiper Wendell Holmes IN The Interfsaondt Rev,eT
Ii Is impossible that people OF Ordinary sehsl9n li
jties shoald have listened 10 ms torturIng us
courses without becoming ut last sick OF hearing OF
Infinite horrors and endless agonies 1t came very
hard 10 kind-bearted persons to 6elieye tnat tne
least sin exposed creature GSS nsd be svs,em en- lad
too much of the character OF the savage poop'S oy
whom the wilderness had SO recently Deenn
was what he called it-insatiable exhaus'ing it's in
Qenuity iu contriYing the most exquisite tornenS ;
fere was the hereditary hatred garng on tnS oaDs
IA its cradle; there were the suffering wretcn ana
The pleased and shouting lookers-on Every natnral
grace of disposition all that had once charmed IN
gaystv of ehiidhood in the winning heplessness OF
infancy every virtue that Plato had OreaIneu oi.
overy character that Putarch had tLa h,scr
fRsS sesS were accuised Of God-fhe d"nninG word
WITH all bis powers his virtues, his eoquence,
rst have been more than people ,fSv GSvS %U
o Sa,sd and oter sSc bard names Bit
: whist must have been the feeling OF Northainpton
moshers when they read what EDWARDS salu @ auOuV o
xll@ir q arlings 1t that there had been COM
iais,s against some preachers for frightening poor
INV ,ent children. he says. with talk OF helIne
arr a. damnation. But If those who complain
seaH . eve what they profess to, they show, nc
thinks, great deal of weakness ana inconsluera-
t,en4 Then follow the words wIice te wIeF % a, IGo
brought him letter from much-respeeted 1 orth9-
: anx clergyman. asking whore they could be found.
II
icsiSaa in vain for them in the tenvoume edition of
Ei,sards's works, published under the editoTshp OF
hiseyn predecessor, grandson OF EuWaids, GnS HeN
rhat edition. But the editor of the sdtlon OF on fne
Nerk Reyivas. published IN NeT,aor* IN lo3I onit
the passage, and this Is the way 1t reads:
Asanoeent rs children to be 10 MS, yet II they
ere sa' Si Spers and 0S are inney more an
yrcrs and in most miserable condition, US well rs
ro ~, uereOus; and they naturally very senseieSa
f siipid. being born the Wild asss colt, ana heed
) rnuch 10 awaken them.
& IL "a possbe that Edwards read the text mothers
9 ,ove 40 we'll Suffer little vpers to come unto Inc,
: and forbid them not, for OF such is tho Kingdom OF
: 'sfhe truth is, Edwards belonged to Scotland to
4 witch he owed so much. and not to New-Eng-
! rsriarkable {" Resolutions" of Edwards without
s!syssca ssssssass ff Ills Beliefs and bis conduct
have lately, seen unquestioning and unquestioned
tiith" ending in ehid-murder The spiritual ma
tufei - no safeguard against error OF doctflne OF
orty of all the spiritual natures in tho world would
! be found in Christian countries .
Edwards's system seems, IN the light OF to-day. TO
the last degree barbaric, mechanical materiastic,
pessinistic If he had lived hundred years later
written with such old-world barbarism as we find
IN mig volcanic sermons. We can realize IN our day
the truth of Montesquieus SAYING; II the punish
lnsuts Of the Orentals horrify humanity, the req;
cor "a that the despot who ordains them is above all
laws. It is not SO in republics. wherein the laws are
always mild because he who makes them IS himself
Z u subject We cannot have selt-government and
husnanc laws without its reachng OH our vleT or
9 The Divine administration. 1t was not SO strange
that Thomas Boston, from whose livid pages Ed
wards derived much Of his inspiration should put
lila hearers OH the rack of bis deprayed imagination
= sof he could remember the days when torture was
used in Scotland to extract evidence. he may have
heard the story told in his nursery-for he was
boy six years old at the tIme--how they had been
.aprIiyDg the thumb screws for an honr and half
xI~ HOlVrOOd Palace,
under the direction of the Prlvy Council
= Again. what can be more mechanical than the
) God of all gods he cOntrived-Or accepted-under
! tie name of Justice-a piece OF iron machinery
which would have held back the fathers arms
Stretching out 10 embrace bis son, and shed the
blood OF the prodga instead OF that OF the fatted
What con be more utterly materialistie than to
ah;tv vu0 10 eeai snfering in conseouepce to lit
tie organic bundle. with no moro knowledge of its
relations to the moral world than marsupiai EN-;
bryo in the maternal pouch has OF its geographical
Aud what pessimism that ever entered the mind Of
man has gone farther tnan that which taxed tpe
,magiuation to the utmost for its horrors, and de-
slared that these were but the faintest image of
what was reserved for the bulk Of maDkindf
Much that was morbid 10 EdwardSs theology was
doubtless owing to illhealtb. from which he was
babtual sufferer, melanchoc temperament, and
the habit of constant moral lntrospecton, of which
his diary gives abundant evidence. Mr.. Cation IN
his work Oh "Hercdty." says, after having looked
up the history of a good many clerRymen;
gently and fagsed rs spirit III nass rs snas
DAYS. There is an air Of invaidsm about
most religious biographies" And Taine. in hie
detection. gloomy and continued despair, the hor
rbe malady of the nerves and the soul which leads
to suicide. Puritanism, and madness"
PERPETUAL sef-inspection leads to spiritual hypo-
chondriasis. If insists on counting his pulse
twenty times day, looking at his tongue every
hour or two, on taking his temperature with the
himself three or four times week, he will soon ind
himself in doubtful state of bodily health. 1t is
their spiritual pulse, taking the temperature Of
their feelings, their human and necessarily
imperfect characters against the INFINITE perfec
These melancholy diarists remind one of children
in their little gardens planting bean or lupine
ing to see whether Il has sprouted how it is get
ting on. The diars; pulls his character up by the
roots every evening. and finds the soil OF human
grow clin gug to its radcles. Then he mourns over
HIMSELF as did the sanity Brainard, as nexpressi-
bly, loathsome and deded." calling himself so vile
!" that (he) dared not look anybody in the face"
and soou becomes fit subject for medical . treat;
nent having los; all wholesome sense OF tile world
about him aud of his Own personality.
The fact that while Edward's name is used as q
war-cry, and inscribed on the labarum of the old
,bow-and;arrow controyers alists, his works are
lence or repudiated, shows that his great powers
were under some misguiding influence. The truth
with she story Of the fall Of man." the curse of
the father of the conveyed by natural descent
to his poserty, the casting Of the responsibility OF
death aud ali The disorders of creation upon the
fortunate being who found them part of the ar
rancements of the universe when he FIRST made his
appearance, is gently fading out Of enlightened
human Intelligence, and we are hardly In cOndi-
tion to re.lze what tyranny it once exerted over
macy of the strongest minds
w. NJ, HUNT ON DRAPERY AND ARTISTIC
ANATOMY.
H. O. Angeu in Tie ARaRte
Once, In talking over the work of some OF hts
lady stndents remarked that q certain painting
by one OF them thought very ereditable. on the
whole. but that It lacked, in comparison with his
work iust O certain quality that one might well
smpnoss it wonld have. One could not expect great
excellence in flesh tint color, and In composition,
but the artist being q woman, and dressing wei!