The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-12-05
EXAMPLE.

in all cases where there is a conflict OF opin'
ions and entire freedom of speech, consider
able warmth of feeling was displayed by the
advocates of either side; and opinions
whether rational or absurd, were maintained
with commendable (!) pertinacity. 1t was
admitted, that knowledge gave new induce
ments to virtue, and opened new paths 10
happiness that its dissemination was the
diffusion of principle that taught TO man
his exalted nature and its noble purposes, his
duties, his hopes, and his immortality; thau
the violence of his passions was refined ana
sottened, and due degree of humility asso-
ciated with his other requirements Dut, as
an offset to this, the doctrine was urged that
knowledge also gave new life to the principles
of vice. that inert inclinations for wicked
ness were developed and brought forth,
thar the human mind, naturally prone to
evil, received an impetus indeed, but one
that gave lu1uriant growth to its INFORM
latent yiciousness, and fostered every weed,
like the vicinity of stream OF water. AS,
for example, no one withous education,
could be a hypocrite; for hypocrisy to be
successful, requires mind tutored by the
rules of art, and individual instances were In
troduced Of men in high lie, whose careful
education gave them the ability OF PRAGUE
ing successfully thsir nefarlous schemes upon
the INDICTMENTS and fortunes of the unwary.
Notwithstanding ali this array of argument,
the right side ultimately prevailed; and it was
concluded that it was better to be wise than
to be ignorant, although the unlearned man
might be capable of understanding all his
moral and other duties. But among all the
advantages of cultivated intellect, that were
so diligently canyassed, from some inadver-
tence or oversight, the value of example, es-
pecially in historical reading, was not
even mentioned. Now, to store the
mind with knowledge Of past
events, of the fluctuations Of diff
tereut bodies, from an empire down
to a private family, and the changes that
have taken place in the face Of nature since
the world was fresh and young, is indeed,
truly agreeable, either as theme Tor
thought Cr conversation; but, in addition
to this, history has another use, and that by
no means secondary one, arising fro IN the
study of the examples there met with 1t Is
well understood that the mind, when not vi
tiated, nor made inaaxible by the chill OF
many years, is apt TO acquire the bias and
opinions fits companions, or the objects Of
ten presented to it. Hence the well-known
and time honored precepts which school
masters used to give THAR pupils to copy,
EVIL communications corrupt good morals"
and Example is better than precept.' lnsen-
sibly, in the natural admiration OF what is
great and good, ana beautiful, we are led 10
practice what is great, and good, and lovely;
and in the abhorance Of what is low and
vicious and deformed, we have safeguard
from falling ourselves into such practices.
Formerly the female mind was gem
whose value was but little appreciated by the
world and while the artists hands we're un-
ceasingly employed in purifying and chisal-
ling other stones this one was suffered %
repose in its native rudeness rich, It's true
but obscured by veil of prejudice, save An
occasional instance, where an irrepressible
brilliancy has burst through all distractions
to irradiate the sphere of its existence. But
q brighter day has dawued, and woman OF
sense IN q information is no lcnger prodigy
nor snetfi Ugly called q blue-stocking. TAX
ing courage from and following the example
of few less timid spirits, ladies of the fire
respectabilily are forming societies for intel
lectual improvement. They are no longe
content to be mere dressed.up dolls or sim
ply domestic drudges and machines. 1t il
needless 10 expatlate on the advantages o
such An association, rs they are too obyiou
to DO overlooked, even by the careless, o
any, except the bitterly prejudicci. ETC!
individual would have the same solli
ties for progressive improvement whe
separate rs when united; bI; tn
human mind is so framed tina! it requ're
some stimulus to produce great eXert'on'
This moro love of literature is, of itself, nc
sufficient, except ina small number who ma
be called genilses. All Others require u
additional motive, without which the attemE
to pen ar essay, tale or poem might nev'
be made. Add to this lsudable amoitio
and dread ofinf riority, which actusteS mo
minds when in view of the exertions
Others, and we have IN array OF motlv
which are all-powerful. In short, nothin
but An abuse of their means, somethir
which is poesible b ut not probable, can NAL
project like this degenerate from Its pu
and original object of intellectual improv
ment, and human ingenuity will not readi
, devise more agreeable method of diffusir
the lights of science and cultivating IL
flowers of literature. Aud it Is an exsmp
a that we would gladly soc followed more el
tensively.
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Q Penn's Aunts.