New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-28

From The Londyn Spectator.
That which for the average man Is the dull, and,
perhaps, even the Supplying NE of seclusOn, l.
the very condition under which great genus Is
uur,ea into It's highest intensity 10 be really
dominated Dy great thoughts, you must have nNed
them, ana lIyDd ~ them TIL they assumed nun
dIed different aspects winch they are only capable
OF assuming Tor one VINO has applied them b. all
those CIRCUMSTANCES OF Ills lie ana MS icau4n9 10
winch they are really applicable. Thought never
becomes a passion until you have broOdcd over H.
tL IL flashes hgAt for yOu hundred hall
tauIII4g Things ~ ch, familiar a. they We're. you
never really understood tn you Regarded them Dy
the light Of this thought. Ard till thought he
comes passion, II h4r.Iy ever becomes a power
The true reason My The thoughts oi men influence
them - uttie Is that they JUS pass over the Hhnd
EAe Wind over The grass and never really SaJurAVe
Il. take solitude 10 get yourself SAtuFdltu of any
thought u tue great majority OF men even sol
iude Vii not effect IL, but OIL, lower thelf THINK
ID. power 10 the cong-;.iug point Nevertheless,
as 1lr. Darwin re a;lou 10 the gro"th ana
decay of species, the vcry condition Whcn Kills Out
4 weak thinking power. feeds and eievates 10 the
glowing point strong thinking power. Lord Bea-
cOusEeld always said, anu sdd truly enough Jhal
men were ruled not by their INTERESTS, but ~ pas
slou and Imagination. III the lie Of a thought
becomes identical With the lie OIL an emo
Jlon II viii never really dominate the minds
Of men. And far We can Judge by his
Tory this result l. never attained Tor thought, WITH
ont long, solitary DrOOdlug over II, TIL IL becomes
the master Key OF Tie mlnd winch conceived II.
The passions of "A man," says sJrlR1ng preacher of
the day Ar Scott Holland, are themselves intel
Lgcut; they move Under tile motives OF reIsOh"
mat, doubt l. more u less true o. ali men, but
of men of genius, a4sO true that their ideas
themsel YES passions, That they move Win the tidal
strength vi PASSION. anu, therefore, carry ali before
them. And We could hardly define better what we
conceive To be the difference between man Of
genus and man of no genus, than by saying that
Win uen of genius the thong It's behave more Ike
passOu than thoughts and yet are to all lntents
and purposes, thoughts sui; while with ordinary
men, thoughts mould and modify passions, but never
live the lie Of passion.
doubtless the reason why solitude is so necessary
10 ave great thoughts the sway of great passions
~ precisely the same the reason why tree when
is Ouped of Ils redundant foliage sends out roots
only the deeper ana stronger tor the pruning
Hardy minds which cannot md outward dlstrac-
mons grow inward aud TINS very often even
tuCuRl If they had outward distractions they
would ak pend themselves IN those distractions II
lakes. however some exceptional affinity Tor the
Lite Of thought 10 render IL possible at ali That
thought should grow INTO passion Isolate
some men with then thoughts, and their thoughts
simply dry up altogether. Isolate others
with their thoughts and Lns thoughts take living
forms With winch their whole being grad ualy De-
comes identical. Tins Is only another way OF say
ing That solitude tends every cOslderaDte tnlnh CT
10 urn the nfe Of thought INTO the LIE OF real ac-
non TO INN, thought becomes action, and there
lore also psssloE tor eioctlve action breeds passion
quite Us truly passion breeds action-lldeed7 no
paabIOs are higher Lnan those which spTlig out OF
mans knOw Hedge thai his thoughts arc giving
him new hold over the life WITHIN and outside
hun, ana are substituting for dun and hesItdLIng
tiadluOn, the tallAIilan VI new VISION, and the
spell OF new clew 70 the ways either oil nature or
VI man