The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-01-19

imag Unable however, frequently invades the vast de-
main of credulity. knowledge and imagination are
not The attaiuable then is whatever may he ac-
quired by education. knowledge requires object
upon which to act. fthere were sound would
have no knowledge OF fmusic-thunder would he a term
unkBown-brass bands would never have existed. If
there colors patriotic effusons over the
Red, White and Blue, would become meaningless.
Were blind from birt our ideas of color would be
vague. The patient in the blind asylum being asked
define red, Ga color) said lit sound
trumpet The function of sight. therefore. enables
us by experience to acquire much knowledge. 1t Is
cot however denied that blind may be made to
stars''-metanhorically. Again, know that |
only of which we are conscious-could we know all
then would be omaiScicnt. Science another
for knowledge. In an accommodated sense, there are
many sciences-Botany, Chemistry, Philosophy, |
Mathematics, Astronomy, and, since the advent of
"Old Probabilities we may add Meteorology. Butt
conscious of all the facts embraced In these
called sciences, we have only increased knowledge
have made only step toward the Omniscient
Education cenfers upon by some kind of expert
knowledge of 1hat is-of called science; and
unlessscience, by system of rules unknow to knowl
edge, that be discovered that do not exist,
furnish demonstrations of facts undscoverahle of
nonentities-it cannot differ from knowledge-it is
knowledge. and no more. Notwithstanding it be
draped in the variegated hues of the rainbow be her
aided by the bright scintatons of the stars, iuile
bied by the swelling of the accompanied
the crash and thunder of the tempest ornamented
MOVERS Oh IN their Vernal Deauly. ana
sweetness. lighted by the fiery eye of the volcano
rocked upon the broad bosom of mother earth, while
trembling with the throes of all the pent internal
energies yet little known, it still is knowledge: If
these adornments concomitants and adjuncts exist
knowledge operates on ohat u.s.. But OF the attain
able there infinite adversity and the selections
various the of those who choose. The
majority, perhaps. content with things as they
find them; to live as their fathers lived; never desr
of extending the boundaries of their mental hori
et eac all
particular requirements within the bounds and limits
of his chosen station Men have grown gray the
smoking laboratory of the Alchemist, in rain search
for principle regulating the transmutation of me-
tails, or their creation Lives have been out in
fruitless endeavor to endow inanimate matter with
sentience. and to apply the same to machinery-to
create perpetual motion, that shall continue to
throughout the hoary centuries, aud be arrested
| except by the hand of Omnipotence, but
and forever, uncontrolled by any voitinn its
own, and that created by man. The. euphust idles
away his time and life, seeking and practising words
and methods of expression, high sounding rounded,
and eXquisitely polished, but in the residue
of his kind be concerned, innocent of meaning
and much less forcihle than the rather inelegant.
| "D-n your eyes" of the English soldier. War,
politics. literature, mathematics, indeed every
ceivable branch of knowledge has its votaries, its
followers, and, rule, the votary of one branch is
apt to derfde the followers of all others. And yet
the varied circumstances of life varied knowledge
becomes convenient. That eminent professor of Ian
guages who had spent all his life in becoming
qualnted with words, until he familiar with
them in all their texture fibre, roots spongioes and
fbrils made a sad mistake when his ship wrecked
| upon lee Shore and he, desiring to float to land,
seized upon the anchor instead of life preserver He
soon learned by experience that gravity frequently
plays important part in passing events. Coeridge
the poet, versed in Roman Greek and Hebraic lore,
learned in all the fable legend and history of ancient
times, with all the literature of the mod
erns, found himself unable from lack of knowledge
| to put collar upon cart horse and was compesd
to call upon the Kitchen girl He even expressed his
when the girl holding the large end of
the collar upward, slipped it easily the horse
head, and then reversed the collar upon his neck.
George ILL., Monarch of Eng land the king thunder
Ing ships, the head of vast army the potentate, 10
whom the conqueror of Bonaparte at Waterloo, rem
dered homage. delighted at the dumpliDg. and
was only curious to know how the apple got in,''
without leaving any The pert boarding-schOol
girl enquired of the hotel waiter if cucumbers in
slices: And the Agricultural editor of certain city
newspaper maintained with great seriousness, that
the Pumpkin tree ought never to be shaken in as
much the fruit liable TO be injured by the ia Il
still the editor would complacenty fold his arms
aud say what don't know, amt worth finding out,''
and so it is with almost every the eclipses
the world. knowledge being the result of experiment
tai research Rnd the variety of objects
| follows that individual requirement is limited by
| life and mental and physical capacity. The most
have fancied themselves as standing but upon
the shore, while the great undiscovered truth
rolled its wealth of waves far into the mists of the
hidden eternity. Beyond that education which ap-
pertains to the rudest people, there is however, much
in the world of acquired wisdom. Since that great
period in the history of mental activity, when the
fruit of the tree knowledge left to without
restrictions, the flaming brand of the Cherubim, d-
rected only against the daring hand of him who,
would venture to pluck the fruit of the Tree of life
steady advancement has been made. Step after step
been taken and although mortal eye has yet
seen the gilded dome of ame's vast temple yet the
feet of the adventurers are now treading the vest-
bule knowledge being capable of including the sum
of all things its progressive stages may be unin-
teresting Its custodians in various epochs may be
considered This indicates that the highest standard
of knowledge attained in any age is not possessed
generally by the masses, but by the few. We have
patrfcians and plebeans in mental well material
wealth.. And what at first sight appears paradoxical,
is that creduity and wisdom, the known and the
known, fact and fiction, The imaginary and the real
have gone hand in hand together, in companionship
as brotherly the angels of death and sleep. ever
since the period when Sinai shook the thunders of
Almighty presence, when the law was handed to Mo-
ses amid the terrors surrounding the mountain s
brow and yelling the IRrisible presence the
rious of the tents of Israel knowledge and superst-
tfon moving among the children of men, animating
them for good evil, directing them in the right
path, the wrong, shielding and protecting and Wis
iting them with destruction-Knowledge and super
stitionhe latter the custodian the guardian of the
former-Superstition under the guise of religion.
The high priest in his sacerdotal robes-the Urim
and the Thmmim-Swingingt the golden censor be-
fore the congregation Of Israel purifying and
Grating the people, and the custodian of the written
law and revealed will of God from which flowed all
the learning, the pety and intelligence of Ancient
Israeli And when the Priest forsook his high calling
and turned away after false gods, molten images.
and golden calves, pnlluting the sanctuary desecrat
ing the altar and profanng the temple of the Most
High and by his nfdelity, led all the people into by
and forbidden paths and caused them renounce
their allegiance to the King of kings, Almighty
geance arrested both priest and people, and laid upon
them heavily the hand of Justice, that again
would they hearken unto the voice of WISDOM and
ter once more within her portals. In heather Rome
from the day which the indignant workman with
his pick dispatched the Inflated Remus his
tumely in eaping the city walls. down through
the time of the kings the tribunes of the people the
consuis and senate, the triumyrate the Imperial
| outfon- the removal of the Capital to Byzantium,
and until that day when Constantine, the first Chris
| tian Emperor limned in coors of living light
upon the couded vault of heaven, the great sign of
human redemption, the presteses of the heather di
whites the keepers and custodians of the writ
| ten knowledge of the world The archives OF wisdom
were in their keeping, and Jupiter and Apollo. Aph
rodite and Minerva, through their hand maiden
perstiton showed the faltering footsteps of know
edge, and bequeathed the gathered wisdom of the
primitive centuries to the Christian Era which
to follow. However much may censure the Holy
church, and deride the Holy Fathers, and contemn
the people ignorant and ridden.
PEELED to that during the middle when riot
and boodshed the daily sports of and war,
with all it, horrors, continually deluged Western Eu
rope with blood Ignorance the most most profound,
and superstition of the deepest die, rested dark
pail all the other Kingdoms and COURTS the Holy
See, if faithful in nothing else, faithful in its
dianship of the previously gained wisdom from the
hoary harvests of the past and when the reformation
came, convulsing Europe with train of religious
IDEAS and falling like loosened cliff upon the
ing fabric of Catholicism, the Holy church transmit