Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-23

sarily shorten life, while non-excitabls'
work tends to promote,ath afAl
hence prolong life; there re poets are
not 80 long lived as mathematician.
Now it must be evident to you that the
union of these processes of reasoning
combine the greatest power. When
the deiuctive reasoner has reached
the conclusion by his process, that
poets are not SO long lived mathe-
maticians, and resorts to the inductive
reasoner's statistics and finds his con-
clusion verified by the facts, he feels
that he has clinched the nail he had
first merely drove through. 1t is said
by great thinkers that woman has by
nature the deductive faculty to great
er degree than man; and hence all who
desire the advancement of learning.
should insist on woman's aid in this
great work. While the children &C
cumuIate facts-gather statistics-iet
their thinking faculties be also devel-
opeh: for without Neutrality-suspicious.
facts will be only so much rubbish
and loose lumber in the mind, without
method. The mind becomes a power
just in proportion as it is trained to
think. Indeed, the only object of edu-
cation is to teach the children to think
to give them the power to call the
mind from its wanderings and tasten it
upon q given subject and hold it there
till 1t masters it. The power of con-
centration of mental thought is a neces-
sary condition oflogical thought. When
the child has learned to concentrate his
mental forces, he takes the facts of ex-
perience, and by his plastic hand, he
weaves them into new forms and from
them evolves new truths; he gets out
of the ruts of his fathers; he looks from
the seen to the unseen. Watt watched
the tea-kettle lid raise and fall; he saw
the steam-the water-the fire. These
were the facts; but he sat in his chair
called in his thoughts-and looked be-
yond the steam-the tea-kettle-the
fire, and saw the steam engine; he saw,
in his imagination, q great giant that
was to bless and elevate mankind.
Oh, the power that lies in the human
intellect when properly developed. 1t
should be the object of our teachers to
The heavens, the earth, and the things
upon and under the earth lie before u.s.
Many secrets yet lie hid there from gu"
gaze. We need thinkers to draw them
out. Upon you teachers this task of
giving us thinkers is imposed. Your
position is responsible one. The
destiny of the human race and the
safety of our civilization and prosper-
ty is largely in your hands and under
your control. And while the comforts !
Of life have greatly multiplied, and the
facilities of communicative and social
intercourse greatly increased, and the
moral tone of society has grown and
with our intellectual
strength and growth, you must re-
that there is much yet to do. |
We cannot stand still. We must Ell |
Their retrogade or advance. The inhe-
rent forces of American society are rest
ess and active, and they must be |
yrasped and moulded and controlled |
by the elevation and education of the
people. And permit me to quote to |
you, in conclusion, the words Of one of
he best and greatest men of our or any
'ther age, Henry Thomas Buckle
"a vast and splendid career" SAYS he,
'lies before US which it will take many ages
or US to complete. We see looming in the
distance rich and goodly harvest, into
which perchance some Of us may yet live to
hrust our sickle, but Of which, reap what we