The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-01-04

which by the destroying process of ones
prejudices, the subjugRtioB Of his passions
and the overthrow OF his su oorstitons, makes
all mankind akin and in the palace cham.
bers Of the heart set. up an asylum Of
charity, of generosity If feeling, and liberality
Of thought and act 60 roigu supreme. For
the more max .nows. my Young friends,
the more fully does be recognize that he
knows but little. The more light he sur
rounds h'D self by, the greater the envelop-
ing daTkr.ess Stand by n Ere in the country
on dark night and you will feel like the
man expressed it whsn under that eircun
staLce, he was asked what he saw. " | see
dArkneSs;" Increasing the volume Of Hrelisht
he said 10 saw "more darkness" Aud just
so it is with mental light.
Besides this, the increase and diffusion of
knowledge does yet another thing, as l Incl
dentally remarked few moments ago. it in
spires love of liberty that grows by what it
feeds on. and that sort of recognition of the
rights of others which produces true har.
mony which suggests to government n
spirit of prudence that softens is harshRess
without mpaiTing its strength, that model-
ates the presumption of legislators, checks
arrogant confidence and silences the impstu-
GUS loquaeity of superficial folks. For l
tell you that there is q correlation between
wisdom, and modesty and kindlineSs, and l
care not whether We regard the political ma
chinery, the social sphere or thSdomcstic cir
Gle, for despotism in the state is sssoci-
ated with despotism in the family,
as witness THrkey, Egypt, IndiS, China and
Russia, under whose barbarian codes woman
is forbidden TO sit at table with "ker lord and
master" or TO 20 unveiled in tho presence Of
tho 'lords of CREATION" or not permitted 10
sing, even the praises Of God in the resenca
of "kingly man." and where flisl disobedi-
ence, however slight, is written down in the
Coniucian calendar as crime next in afro
city TO murder, and where, under the Ma
hometsn dogma, it is claimed that "women
hsvo no souls" II is the emancipation from
all these absurdilies and tyrannies that au
educated civilization is accomplishing for u.s.
But l am OBTAINING you, and will close by
urging upon you to take the fullest advantage
OF thil morning Of your life 70 acquire all
possible knowledge, as each Of you is a unit
in the grand socisl aggregate. Intellectually
in all you do, you must cultivate a good pur-
pose, while morally you must keep in con-
slant exercise your higher feelings and re-
strain your lower.
You, Ike the natiouE,sre in transition state,
and all transition or formative states rra eriti-
cal sad dangerous, See to it that your char
acters and dispositions shall in their plactio-
ty mould proper development. Endeavor
so to conduct yourselves that each nights in
spec,ion Of the parade procession of your
Thoughts and deeds will detect no trsito-iE
The line. You arc all more or less familiar
with the Photographic process by which the
portraits Of cur friends, or other views may
exist yet be hidden from the aye, on the sen.
aiLiye surface, but ready to make their ap-
poarsOo3 IS soon as proper developers are re-
sorted TO; well, II has been slid, that Just so,
if on a cold, polished metal, IS a new rszor,
any object, such rs y wafer be laid, and the
metal be then br1athed upon, and when
the moisture has had time to dis
appear, the wafer be thrown of,
though as yet no trace of any form is per-
cephble, il wa breathe onca mora upon it,
the spectral image Of the water comes plainly
into view, and this may be done sgain and
again. Just so il is that the impress of
wrongful. act or intent is indelibly and for
eyer impressed upon tho mind. And it is
said, too, that shadow mover falls upon
wall without leaving upon it permanent
trace which may be made visible by some
process yet to DO discovered so that tho now
dumb recording walls of our most private
apartments where we think all is secrecy AMI
the eye of intrusion is altogether shut out,
there exist forever the vestiges ofsll our acts,
the telltales of whatever we have done.
Jus! so again, my young friends, within the
cell walls of your memories your acts will
be forever photographed preserving the out
line and the whole contour of your lfe's
conduct, There, in those silent
galleries, we are advised will be hung such
microgrAphs rs you shall commit to the
custody of q ladeless memory. And that
yelled enchsntress, even in your latest years,
will present to you in paaoramic procession
the ambretypes that it may have been your
good fortune or misfortune to put there for
your misery or your solace. Whether you
| shall make for yourselves cave Of hideous
images or an ri Dorado of beauty, lies with
yourselves Remember that conquest is the
premium that nature gives TO we'll di.
rected effort, and this is the shibboleth that
passes you into the laboratory of her work
houses, where in the successive strata of her
deposits you may freely quarry and gather
from her magnificent ores, rich, golden
truths, with which you may be ssrvicesble
in this your day and generation of advancing
freedom in all the departments of life.