Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-06-17

gathering here from All quarters u
the world. We need not only this
new education in the practical ana
applied sciences, technical educa-
tion and the training of mind, mus
Gle and nerves for the artisan ana
skilled laborer; but we need to en-
act it in our social code that labor IS
honorable and noble, where the
laborer is honorable and noble. In
these walks are soon to be found the
rewards of life. Here talent and
industry will soon reap rich rewards
in as noble fields as the learned pro-
fessions: but here also will be found
the leaders of social life, directors
in politics, the influential and lead
ing citizens as well as the leaders OF
/ the progressive column. In these
walks the men who tread every
| round from the bottom to the top
will be the men of power, position
and rule. Southern life is already
beginning to turn away from the
almost arcadian simplicity of an
almost exclusively agricultural peo-
pIe to the complex and many-siued
life of a modern material clVliIza-
| ton.
Here. along with the necessity OF
the hour is the peril of the hour.
No pains should be spared on the
Dart of our institutions of learning
to meet this great necessity. Ii Is
incumbent on them to prepare the
vouth of the land for their duties IN
new fields. Whatever the peril
there is no evading this duty. But
If Is also incumbent on them TO
ouard against the evils which VIII
Surely follow from this newborn
tendency TO material development.
n may he we'll 60 consider the
neonle of the South in their rela-
lions to the spirit of the age, and III
their relations to their own necesSl-
fies. to determine the dangers when
threaten them in common with the
rest of the world and those which
NAV be peculiar to them.
This century may well be called
tho material age. Man has turned
back. baffied, from speculative phi
losophy, from daring flights OF the
imagination, from profound stuuy
of beinp, from the past or ever tne
world was, from the here and the
hereafter, from contemplation OF
the supreme power, goodness ana
inteIIigence, from study OF NINA
and soul, to grovelling in the earth
heneath his feet, to studies OF LIE In
it's material aspects, to investigation
T of the forces of nature. While the
friumphs of mind over matter ana
+ the tremendous power conferred Dy
the inventive genius of the age are
! hut preliminary to higher spirit
nal and intellectual progress the
immediate results are reunwholeSouhe.
/, TThe aoe is sicklied over with an
unitarian cast and everywhere an
E artificiaI and mechanical tendency
is apparent. The power OF NINA
O over material forces has been vastly
q extended; innumerable materlal
) agencies have been recruited 10
! serve man when he shall have dls,
a cinlined himself for command anu
O drilled them to obedience. AS a
" cure future result, more men VIII
q enioy the higher life, more men VIII
; have leisure for the higher life ana
= material agencies will be compelleu
n To do life's drudgery and perform
|, those Iabors which wear away Ile
), life and tire the spirit OF man: 30
Il far this has been accomplished In lts
" preliminary steps with preciseiy
# the onposite result. Agencies Whlcn
q are to be obedient slaves ana Dehiii-
cont accents of man are too often ms
- on,rnSSive masters. The unskllliul
:, opInnnonder is vet ruled by the un'
- - Jr;iIaJ Ioob of material forces.
- - NJ, In his invasion of the realm OF
h master. after his first great victory
;s hos reneated the folly of the Cartha
- oenian and found Capua In Inc
~ sn.teriaI kingdom he went forth tC
# connuer. where he has lost or wastes
u BIC godIike mowers. The new in
o. vention. which is to do the drudg
= orv tenDorarily displaces and de
a. nrives of his living the unfortunate
o. human drudge. Ihe arllsaIS WIZ W.,
y nrotested against the spinning Jen
nv and the western laborers Wht
n applied the torch to reapers ;,lH nnS
ne binders, were protesting aSalna
e. yielding their places 10 woou an 7,
a iron, steam and horse power. -
H. was nothing to them that lulul'
4 generations would occupy hlsne
ar blame and cease from drudgery pe
ye cause of these inventions. An us:
ne knew and felt that they were uis y
Id placed and they knew not where y
IN turn for immediate new DreauIsH
ing occupation. 1t is NOT WltlIou
ve reason that railways ana otner hes
ye agencies in modern progress al
al sometimes denounced as opprG7olE.e :.
III No great good for all establishes ~ ~
ne self without temporary hardship ~ 10
re a part. Nevertheless, as lhe Ia
at future result, wood ana IRON, steal,
or and electricity will drudge 1or ma
10 and the human race live highe
he life @ ;,;h,
- everywhere. Our intellectual an
er snirituaI PHILOSOPHERS have been re
d placed by systems based upon ina
,ar which can be weighed and meas
~. ured. The saying of the phllosopott
m. ical poet: "On earth there Is notl
ns ING great but man; in man there
ne nothing great but mind" mas q
or place now when the realm OF inlh
he has been forsaken for those thlns
IN IN which are cognizable by the nv
NJ. M senses and physics have usurpe
,iy the place of metaphysics. All
M nj science, matter, force, the uselu
cd the ponderable and the imponder
ii. BILE. the unextended and the lmm
a"o a terial is brought to the test
in weights and measures. our Vei
md poetry, no longer sealing IN 10
VIC hiohtS. walks submissive after u
off, triumphal car of science and Gel
YES brates the glories of matter MIN
the in the very effort to subdue matu
rnd has submitted the neck to the IN
,on terial yoke. Faith scarcely oar
ees 90, to breast the storm of material !
iS buke, the sneer of the shallow SCI
al list and the ribaldry OF the reckle
cor who would follow in the tram
Rim priestcraft and superstition, II su
The were the tendency OF the age,
,tb readily as they now become |
ava camp followers of the grand arm
'ves of science. TO such pass has .
!, nc material civilization come that
we protesting, shallow, fantastic a
.on hollow e5theticism is symphonic
of am early, sincere and genuine
tho action. which is already work.
anJ with hot and ceaseless terment
fah. I the depths. Faith has grown col
If ~ q ii is not dead: philosophy has ce
- ed to fathom the depths of the pr
n ~ q lem of being and pauses ut pro
, in plasm; but philosophy VIII
nar- 4 rest there: poetry crawls along
ifdad ground; but new-winged 1t v
r. a again pierce the clouds. 1
aS, n0t oo,nnlainp that man, batl1ed