The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-09-24

humerus an intestine.
The old necessities have passed away.
l We now have strong and noble living Ian
guages; rich in literature, replete with high
and earnest thought, the language OF
Science, Religion and Liberty, and yet We
bid our Children iced their spirits on the
life OF the dead ages, instead OF the inspir-
ing life and vigor OF our own times, do
moi object to Classical leaning-Mr from it
but would not have it exclude the liv-
ing present,
LITERATURE,
What the Arts are to the world OF matter
Literature is to the world OF mind
Many books we can read in railroadcar
and feel harmony between the rushing
OF the train and the haste OF the Author,
but to enjoy standard works We need the
quiet OF winter evening-an easy chair
beiorea cheerful fire, and all the equani-
nifty OF spirits We can command.
He who would understand the real spirit
Of literature sh0uld not select authors OF
any one period alone, but rather go to the
iOuntainhead, and trace the little rill Us il
COURSES along down the ages, broadening
and deepening into the great ocean OF
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exploring.
1t Is indeed an uninyiting task to bubble
up sentiment and elaborate thought in
obedience to corporate laws, and not inire-
Quently these children Of the brain, when
paradcd before the proper authorities, show
By their meagre proportions that they have
not been nOurished by the genial warmth
OF yelling heart
The true literary man is no mere CLEANER
following in the rear and gathering up the
fragments Of the worlds thought; but he
goes down deeper into the heart OF humani'
ty, watches its throhbings, analyses the
forces NJ work there; traces out, with pro-
phetiC foresight, their tendencies, and
thus, standing out far beyond his age,
holds up the picture OF what it is and is
10 be-
HISTORY.
History is but the unro!Ied scroll OF
Prophecy,
The lesson OF History is rarely learned
by the actors themselves.
The deyelopments OF statisticsare causing
History to he rewritten
Light itself is great corrective. A thou.
sand wrongs and abuses TINT are grown in
darkness disappear like owls and bats be-
fore the light OF Day.
All along the dim centuries are cleaning
lamps which mind has lighted, and these
are revealing to him-the histOrian-the
path which Humanity haS trod.
ThcOlOgians in all ages have looked out
admiringy upon the material universe, and
from It's nanmate existence demonstrate
the Power, Wisdom and Goodness Of God;
but We know OF no one who has demon
siratGd the same attributes from the His.
tory Of the Human race.
The worlds history il Divine Poem OF
which the history OF every Nation isacantO
and every Man word. 1t strains have
been pcaling along down the centuries, and
though there have been mingled the dis.
cords Of warning cannon and dying men,
yet to the Christian, Philosopher and His
toran--the humble listener-there has
been Divine melody running through the
song which speaks OF hope and halcyon
days to COME.
| TRUTH.
Truth Is so related and correlated that |
no department OF her realm is wholly iso-
lated.
Truth is the food Of the human Spirit
which could not grow in It's majestic pro.
portions without clearer and more truthful
view Of God and His universe.
| LAW AND ORDER
Mankind have been slow to believe that
order rcigns in the universe, that the
world is Il Cosmos, not chaos
| ~ IT. t,,,
been stubbornly resisted at every step.
The divinitcs OF heather superstition still
! inger in one form or another In the faith |
OF the ignorant, and even many intelligent |
men shrink from the contemplation Of one
Supreme Will acting regularly, not fatuit-
Ollsly, through laws beautiful and simple, |
rather than through titful and caprlcious
Providence.
FREEDOM ASD LIBERTY.
Poetry is the language Of Freedom.
Equality-the informing soul Of Free
dom!
Liberty can be safe only when Suffrage
is Illuminated by education.
English liberty to-day rests not so much
on the government rs onthose rights which
the people have wrestcd from the govern.
ment The rights OF the Englshman out.
number the rights OF the Englishmans
king
For a man to feel that every impulse for
laudable ambition must he strangled ut its
BIRTH TINT like the tabled Enceladus he has
been rived by the thundGrbOlt Of Power
and crushed beneath the mountain Of its
strength is more than this human nature
. - UFh,K ,,.n,1na Al, AT /
that ever and anon, when Freedom turns
the weary side-thc fires OF devOuring Ven
gCance burst forth and shake the fabrics
Of the old world, till Tyrants chatter on
their gilded thrones in idiOtiC terror. At
such moments, Freedom may seem to have
triumphed there, but when the fury OF the
tempest IL past, she lies blCcding-Samson
lke-beneath the ruin she has wrought.
MEMORY.
When the rough battle Of the day ls done
And evening peace falls gently on my heart,
bound away across the noisy years,
Unto the utmost verge II MenOry's land,
Where pnrth and sky In dreamy distance meet
And Memory dim with dark Oblivion Joins
Where woke the first remembered sounds that fell
Upon the car in chlllhool's carly morn., ,..,,,
-Fnm u pOcm on Memory contributed 10 The NRlidmA
quarterly
What poets tuncful Tyre has ever sung,
Or delirnteSt pencil e'cr pnrtmyed
The enchanted shadOwy land where memory dwellS
-hH.
The path Of youth winds down through many
vale
And Oh the brink oi many dread abyss.
From out WhoSr darkness comes no ray VI light
Save that phantom dances DER the guilt
And bCCkOns toward the verge Ibid.
SCIENCE.
We no longer attribute the untimely
death of infants to the sin Of Adam, but to
bad nursing and ignorance.
The scientific spirit has east out the De.
monsand presented lis with Nature, clothed