New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-11
THROEs or 4 MIGHTY INTELLECT


midsummer repose, but really we would like
to know who Benjamin Paul Blood is, ana
what is the matter with him. He has bulged
upon the public with pamphlet entitled
The Democratic Heart: A Sketch OF Con-
servative Sentiment and Policy" A copy has
been sent to this office and its peIusal at
tempted by several persons who were i'll full
possession Of their intellectual faculties when
they began to read. but were reduced to mental
chaos after struggling through few pages.
We cannot imagine what is the matter with
Mr. BENJAMIN Paul Blood, but whatever 1t is be
has it in its most malignant form. 1t is not our
purpose either to review the document or to
summarize its points that would be impOs-
sible; we shall content ourselves with pointing
out a few OF its peculiarities.
Mr.. Blood remarks at the outset that it
seems to be generally understood that the Re-
publican party contains the more respectable
and better educated portion of the people.
and observes with force and elegance that
" this may be true as having measure Of truth
in it," but that "Only the unphilOsOphical mis-
" take half truths for whole ones; only the mex
perienced fighter mistakes bloody nose Tor
"mu ,der in the first degree" Mr. Blood is evil
IDENTIFY neither unphllosOphical nor "Inex-
perienced," for he proceeds "While we
"freey admit that there are more Republican
ethan Democratic newspapers, more Republican
"lyceums and literary bureaus-while we ac-
knowledge The Republican party as leader IN
"anti-siayery, temperance, and even iree-scn00l
"agitation, we must be forgiven if wesmle y
certainly, Mr. Blood, smile away" when these
facts are paradcd to prove more than for
ward haste for results regardless of their most
"iudicious attainment, to prove that pOlltl-
clans and professors and preachers who stam-
Innate and signalize these exalted claims are
men of frst-class ability or familiar with the
results of first-cass thought Ii Is possible
that Mr.. Blood knew what he meant to stam-
mate y by that oracular utterance, but he can
rest assured that nobody else will ever iinG
out what it was. After emitting 1t, however,
Mr.. Blood evidently felt refreshed, tor he went
on with his work with fresh vigor. Let us,
he saws "honestly and Intimately perceive
the difference of the two parties. Perhaps a
"few strokes of the pencil may bring this brazen
Bddy of the cartoons INTO classic proportions
Rather a fine figure that, hut ndiscreet III
Democratic pamphlet, as 1t might offend the
Irish vote. when we seek the difference OF
the two great parties" continues the phllo-
sophie Blood, the first important fact appear
ing is, that there are two-not only here but
:" in nations generally,-a fact so startling as
almost to suggest conjecture that the differ
sence must be as of good and evil. 1t has in
"deed a deep and fundamental significance.
= All opposition is OF two, for the world is OF
adnplex movement. Man is complication of
Il 10 il
"visible. mind and body, male and fe
"male, right side and left side" Gifted and
most observing Blood, what head he's got
We wonder it did not occur to him to say that
man is double also as to his ears. His readers
will make the observation and draw the INFER
renee that in Bloods case the ears are distinctly
visible from considerable distance.
From this Point on through the remaining
seven pages of the pamphlet we are unable
to follow the gifted author. He may have
something in his mind indeed he appears to
have several things there, but at the same time
he does not succeed III disclosing them IN a
comprehensive manner. The workings OF that
mighty intellect are somewhat imposing as
revealed to the outward eye, but they are not
iptclligibie Thus while ostcnsibly discussing
his great discovery that there are two parties
in most nations. he observes suddenly
aEvery hungry belly, whether by bad lnck or
"by bad management, holds natural declara-
8 ton of war against the existing ORDER
Before we are able to decide whether or not
he means to typify the glorious Democracy as
i @hungry belly" along comes this declara-
ton: ave are born into set of insoluOle
problems, which admonish lis to the Pyrrhonic
suspense of Judgment" That must be it.
Blood is an insoluble problem" and as such
entitled TO the "PyrrhOnic suspense of iudg-
mentn We give it to him cheerlully, rather
than try to comprehend him, and quote his
peroration without the slightest effort to I'M
derstand what he means by it, "Better than
/" all poems is that from which poetry is made
EXPRESSION is the craze of immaturty. There
is speech most beautiful when it tells how
golden silence is, in the presence Of the name
less mystery which we are
In spite of our suspense of Pyrrhonic Judg-
ment there are two things about this pamphlet
which persist in pulling us. One is what it all
has to do with the democratic Heart ana
tue other is how a mystery who signs himself
BENJAMIN Paul Blood can be called nameless."
Is not that name enough, in all conscience
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