New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-04-21
Magnaninsrs Hen.

1agnaninsss Hen.
There is no moral attribute into
which is SO closely woven the idea Of
largcness as magnanimity. The popu-
lar notion has, IN this case, followed
the original construction. for n,ag,,us,
great, and assinats, the soul, are its etYmo-
logical roots. Even physical size enters
into q first conception Of it. We may
at times accord some degree Of it to the
larger animals, but we find it difficult to
conceive of its pres. nee in insects. So,
although we cannot accept it as any
criterion, we yet feel it to be more like
" to exist in person of tall and COM
manding presence, with large and well
cut features, than in one who has mar
row and pinched appearance, and rather
to be looked for among the great and
powerful minds Of the day than among
those whose lives are spent in petty.
details. This impression is. however,
SO frequently corrected by experience
that we are thrown back upon the or
iginal meaning, and taught that it is
only great souls who can be magnani-
nous, and that they can live under
every variety Of exterior. and in ali
kinds Of circumstances.
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thing within him that will raise him
above what is petty and trifing. In
everything he will prefer the greater to
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Something If oontemnt :. o,so fe,t hv
the maonan;mons man for the small
nettv and interior thinrs that az MANY
are str;v;nr to Obtain. not that ha . can.
not annree;ata the valve ~ nonav 10 ~
power or nraise or comfort Or Measure
Init that When wa;rhad aro;nat ;nst;oo
or trnth ~ honor ~. ,oTa -, ,ou ei
thew rise ike feathers IN h;a scnI s'
Even life itself precious IA 8 10 "a not
tho host If his nossesa;one. +here or. orc
soma th;nos ha renEs at;l1 h;@har t.. II
time If DANGER ha vii, fnrrat h;s ,,.r
safety - liz earnest affarts ~ he,r ~" ~
onco;,roo no ~, roso,,o he fa1,o,n =.
III loves l;fa hit soonar thor hotrav
h;s fr;and ~ forfo;t h;s hove, -. ~
falsa to h;s oonv;ot;ons hn ,n;1, Low :.
down without n, . ~ " 10y =
III most If ns The events which ho,
nan 70 ns ara tho , greatest o th;nns ~ 1;fe
4 h;rth > death : n,arr;aoe 70 acoe es.
sim ~ : fort"ne tho ,nss of nv, nro" "or
tho romoval ~ o,r far,;,v . nhan"a -
ooo,,na,;nn thaso ond =, Ia. ;ss; ,.d ~
marx the dial.n1ate , Of o,,r ex;stence
and stand out with uneoualed promi-
nence. Not so to the man with a truly
great soul. He sees something larper
| than all these, something strong enough
| to hold them and wide enough to con
tain them, vet superior to them. George
Eliot, in her Felix Holt makes Esther
| "a young girl lust waking into thoueht)
say to her father, That must be the
best life?'' "What life, nv dear
child?' ..Why. that where one bears
and does everything. because of some
great and strong feeling, 50 that this
and that in ones circumstances don't
signify She uttered deeper truth
| than She imagined. The best life. the
most valuable, and the most solidly
happy, is one which is SO full OF some
thing out of self-so intent on some
noble enterprise: or SO enthused by an
ideal of what life should be, that the
events which ripple its surface do not
disturb its full and deep undercurrent.
Not that the magnanimous man is
apathetic to the joys and sorrows which
visit him; he enjoys the one with keen
delight, and endures the other with all
the pain it brings; but the one does not
lift him off his feat nor tho other sinh
him into desnair There ia somath;no
frmer than either IN which he rasts
and which can never disan,,o;nt his b;s
trnst. He views h;s lie not Re an end
= itself Int as a nowarfn1 maans ~
promote bioher ends Inst "a = snr.
reon NAV take Measure IN tho h;oh
6olish and graceful shane Of his ;nstrn.
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Se4hshness canEot flourish where
magnan'm'ty felgns. Ihe man OF large
soul sees far beyond his own little orbit;