The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-03-07

| " iN'N - nv Nlil-NNpIIl' NiitIc ucI power,
Are all OF natures gifts her DOVER
1t is woman's mission to watch and wait,
And diSpcl the clouds from the brow Of
hate
1t is hers to soace when Others chide,
To strengthen the weak aud the erring
guide.
1t is hers 10 offer the mothers PRAYER,
That follows child through life Of care,
That Lighters the thorny path un,rod,
And points the way to a life with God.
After the reading of the poem, Mr. John
VI. Lansden read the following very master
| ly paper, entitled
THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY.
The Importance Of the study OF the past
must be conceded. However much knowl.
edge We may acquire however much WIS
dom We may possess, it will all come 10
little-it viii ali come to noughtlt II stands
in the face Of the lessons OF experience.
DemonsUatiye reasoning has It's own pc
cuiar place; but not less satisfactory nor
less mighty are the conclusions which past
! events force into recognition Ia the world
of abstraction, iusAe world Of intellect or
Of mind, We may stcrny demand to be
shown each link Or each step by which We
| are 10 come to the belief OF any
given thing; but in the great practical
world OF business, of society, OF govern
! mcut, the teachings Of events. the lessons
Of history are accepted as the iniallib.e
! conclusions Of experience. And while the
! relation OF the abstract TO the practical
| must ever cXist-the one indissOlub.y con-
nected with the o.ucr--it must not be for
gotten that We often learn what the abstrac:
is-what the true theory is-by giving al
toHtion to the practical,
Take away tyom man al, that he has &C
| quired by observation. and what YOU have
LETT would scarcely be recognized as man
at all, In the man Of to-day We tiud much
more than the mere man himself The OBJ
scryation, OF generations have almost made
HIM more than himself. IuIccj,rcrY many
Of the truly great thing, OF the world have
come from mcrt observation; ana while il
| is said that there j. kingdom
that cometl not with observation,
yet the observations Of men Lave
discovered 10 cur race many new kingdoms
and worlds, which taeir merely mental aJ
stractious would never have brought t.
| view
To US the observations Of men, the cx-
percnccs OF men should be q rich inherit
ance; for Oy what lamp are our feet 10 be
| guided II not by the lamp Of experience; II
! there's any Other, le, it be brought into use
I.t# d .Hrsfs
INTO the pas, and 90 forward in our eX
| ploration OF the incXpIorable future, feel
! ing that right over where one was dashed
to pieces and another swallowed up We
can sail without the fear OF danger But
if in fact there is no such lamp, no more
than there was an Aladiiu's lamp, let Us
| keep in the light Of the lamp Of the past, in
the light Of the lamp OF history; and then
! il We Go, indeed, 90 more slowly we viii
certainly 90 more safely This
bring, me to my subject this evening; the
philosophy Of history,
10 every thinking mind, or, rs one has
expressed il, 70 every one who thinks
with meaning, the events Of the
events Of the past are Il philosophy whose
! light shines forward into the future i.luM
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