, 1881-01-02

eroas ais sdsmsn noSce may Il al Ivf The and most de ina
portant concerns of life; like Anson, he
may have been round the world and over
the world without having been IN the world;
and die I'M ignoramns, even after having per-
hills, swept the Kaaba with a silver besou.
drank OF the holy waters Of the Zemzeln, and
traced the source OF the Nile and the end Of
the Niger.
The drafts which truagenius draws upon
p0sterity, although they may not always be
honored as soon as they :sre due, are sure to
be paid with compound interest in the end.
Millions: expressions on his right to this
remuneration constitute some of the finest
efforts of his mind. lie never alIudes to
these high pretensions, but he. appears to be
animated BY an eloquei,ce which Is at once
an eloquence 50 much above ali present and
all perishable things that, like the beam of
the sun, itWarms While 1t enlightens, and as
it Hescends from heaven to earth raises our
thoughts from earth to heaven. When the
| great kepler had at length discovered the
| harmonic laws that regulate the motions Of
the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: "Wheth-
er my discoveries will be reasl by posterity or
by my contemporaries is a matter that COLI
Germs tien y more ! than me: may well b be
| when God himself, during so many thou
sand years, has waited for an observer like
! myself"
-Ayarice bepets more vices than Priam
did children, and, like Prlanl, Suruti,es them
all. It starves Its keeper to surfeit those
to- ,nora 1nnrt;f;ratinns to iose HeaVen than
| the 1nartvr undergoes to gain. Ayarice is 4
passion full OF paradox, madness full Of
| method; for, although the miser is the most
mercenary of all beings, yet lie serves the
worst master more faithfully than some
Christians f10 the hest ami will take nothing
| for it. He falls down and Worsillps the god
| of this world. but will have neither It's
| pompS, its yanlties, nor ITS pleasures Tor his
| trouble. He begins TO accumulate treasure
as 3netI9, to happiness, and by common but
morbid association he continues to accumu-
| late it as in end. lie lives poor to die rlch
/! and is the mere jaller or his house and the
/ turnkey OF his wealth. Impoverished Dy
| his, gold he slaves harder to lmprison 1t IN
| it from the mine. The avarice Of the mSer
may be termed the grand sepulchre OF all his
! other passions, as they successlvely decay
But t,ssunlike other tombs, It is enlarged by re-
| ptetto7e and strengthened by age: Ihls latter
| paradox so peculiar to this passion must be
| aScribed to that love OF power SO lnseparable
| from the human mind There: are three
kinds Of power-wealth, strength, and tai
ent: but as old age always weakens, often
destroys the two latter, the aged are induced
to cling with the greater avidity to the for
mer. And the attachment Of the aged to
wealth must be a growing and a progressive
attachment since such are not slow IN dis
covering that those same ruthless years which
detract SO sensibly from the strength Of their
! bodies and Of their minds serve only to aug
ment and to consolidate the strength OF tne1r
purse.
! Honor is unstable, and seldom the same !;
for sI,e fraiis uI,or, nniinion. and is Us fckIe
| "A her fooI. She builds d lofty structure on
fhe r. s, sandw a fonnation Of the esteem, Of those
| who are Of ali beings the. most subject to
| change Rnt virtue is u11iform and fixed. be-
cause She looks for approbation only from
| Him Win il the same Yesterday, to-day.
| and forever. Honor is most capricious III
| her rewards. She feeds us with air, and
/ nften nnlis dnwn our house to build our
monument. Sic is contracted in her views,
inasmnt.I ~ her hopes are rooted in earth,
hnnntled hv time terminated by death. But
yirta,e IS - genlareed and mint in Ier homes,
inas'1nch as theV extend beyond present
fhings even tf eternal: this Is their proper
snhere. anil,they viii cease only in. the real
ity OF deathless enjoyment. In the storms
be be- depended, on, because size herself pa1takes
OF the tumult; she also. IS bltteted ~ the
wave, anu 6ofne along Dy tile WI W1ltlw4lu.