The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-06-02

what it receives. He would esp ecial.
ly affirm Of virtue that it does not
consist il what we inherit, or what
comes to US from abroad II is OF
inward growth, and it grows by
nothing so much as by resistance of
foreign influences, by acting from
our deliberate convictions in opposi
tion to the principles of sympathy
and imitation, According to these
views, our society nature and con.
noctions are means.
Inward power is the end a power
which is to triumph over aud con
troll the influence Of Society.
We are told that wo owo to So
ciety our most valuable knowledge.
Aud true it is, that were wo cast
from birth into solitude, wo should
grow up in brutal ignorance. But it
is also true that the knowledge
whice we receive is of little value,
any farther than it is fool AL ex-
citemont to intellectual action.
Its worth is to be measure I by
the energy it is sought aud employ
ed. knowledge is noble in proper.
ton as it is prolific in proportion
as it quickens the mind to tho ac-
QUESTION of higar truths. Let il
DO rested in pas ,ively, and it potts
us nothing. Let tho judgement oi
OF hers be our trust, SO that we cease
to judge for ourselves, and the in .
tellect is degraded into worthless
machine. The dignity of the mind
is to be estimated by the energy OF
its efforts for its own enlargement.
II becomes heroic whenit reverences
itself and asserts its freedom in q
cowardly and .SsryiIc age when il
withetands society through a calm
and inviucible lovo Of truth, and q
Consciousness If tho diguity and
progressiveness Of its powers.
IN proportion as Society become
enlightened, talent acquires impulse
In rude ages bodily Strength is the
most honorable distinction. aud in
subsequent times military prowess
aud skill confer mastery aud eini-
nonce.
But rs Society advances, min |
thought, becomes tho sovereign OF
the world and accordingly, at the
present moment, profound and
glowing thought.rthought breathing
only from the silent pase-exorts n
kind of omuipotent aud omnipresent
energy, 1t crosses aEi spreads
through nations aud, at one anl
tho Same moment. tho conceptions
of u single mind are olectrifyins aud
kindling mutitudes through wider
regions than the Roman eagle over q.
shadowed.
These facts. uudeniable facts,
have again, 80 recently, been Demon
strated to MS, in our late spirited
aud heated political canvass, for the
ascendency to the throne, below tho
dome, in the Capitol building.
The Napoleon of America yielding
to the talent Of a single state. This
agency OF mind ON IN ind, / repeat
it, is the true SOW ereiguty OF the
world, and king, and heroes are be-
coming impotent by the side of men
of deep and fervent thought In
such o state OF things, medicine
would wage q very unequal war il
divorced from talent aud cultivated
intellect. God plainly intends that
it should be advanced by human
agency and does he not then in-
tend to summon to itsaid tho might
lest and the noblest power with
which man is gifted
There is Wisdom in the dec
laration of Jesus that to be His
disciple, we must "hate father and
mother" or, in other words, We
must surrender the prejudices OF
education to new lights which
God gives us that the love Of truth
must triumph over the influence of
our best and earliest friends. View.
cd scientifically it is clearly seen.
that these grand truths, we cannot,
we dare not pass by unheeded as
they will stand the test when the
ages, and time itself, arc lost In
oblivion. That powerful engine OF
Medical Science, which the con-
centration oI the world started in
1876, is now rolling onward with a
scientific motion, and taking gigan-
tic strides, grinding that part which
is to be the future NJ. ID. rigidly