The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-06-17


Aud all our knowledge 10 ourselves to
know. Pope.
Use begets facility, and the latter
in turn increases relatively our
strength. Habit becomes, to a Ger.
tain extent, as a second nature to US.
and long continued, grows almost
to be spontaneous in its action.
How much better then, that what
ever habits we do form should be
good and beneficial, such as under
no circumstances need we be
ashamed of them. To the young
such things are very important,
though perhaps few may appreciate
their real magnitude or significance,
while tbs glamor and flight hearted
ness of youth rose-tint all things
around. Youthful vigor and eXuber-
ant vitality awaken the imaginative
powers. increase enjoyment and
gid in RAINBOW hues of !glory, the
Vistas of future life; and only, as
experience is won, as well digested
plans end in failure, as hope after
hope, like shimmering mirage of
the plain recede before the traveller,
do they estimate things at their
proper value. 1t remains for ma
turer years, or for age, TO rejoice at
good habits pc seSsed. or mourn the
mis-spent time, unproftably eXem-
plihed in sinful, deceitful, bad
actions. No aim is wholly bad that
results in good to its possesSOr or to
others; nor can any finite mind
point out the exact pathway or
course of study best suited for each
individual to follow. AS morally
free agents, we ourselves have a
choice as to what we will be, though
many of US are compelled by mate
rial wants to labor in a GER
tain occupation, or follow a
certain gleoYe of bread-winning
from the cradle to the grave.
Association goes long way in form
ing our habits, nor can we at all
times choose our company, yet we
can ever zealously try to elevate the
more ignorant to our level rather
than to descend to theirs. The adages
-"Tell me what company you keep
and I will tell you what you are;
civil communications corrupt good
manners; Birds of a feather flock
together" each has similar bear
ing; and he who recognizes the
truth of them to the fullest extent,
has greatest care in marking out his
course. STOOLS rush in where an
gels fear to tread" and ignorance
is often more presuming than
knowledge. AS the higher eleya-
tlon gives the more extended view,
displaying each frowning precipice
and dangerous chasm before I'M
known and unseen by the dWeller
Of the valley, SO wisdom detects the
deceitful pitfalls of sophiStry and
the dangers of a hardened unbelief.
Cautious in expressing a dissent be-
cause knowing to the wide range of
possibilities in nature, knowledge
must weigh and test and prove, be-
fore deciding, approaching the fact
that there is no truth but correiates
with all other truths. Reason
never goes at anything hap-hazard,
trusting to chance for proper solu-
ton nor is any great success ever
achieved, unless study and applica-
ton have been used to cultivate the
faculties and develop the powers,
both of body and mind in, that partic-
ular direction. There is no such thing
as accident in the development and
formation of haracter-though &C.
cident may give rise to certain
trains Of thought. or arouse feelings
otherwise dormant, that followed
up consistently and continuously,
may lead to eventual success in a
certain direction-as the rising and
falling of his mothers tea-kettle
lid, led Wattsl to investigate the ex-
panSive power of steam and
invent the steam-engine; thRs
multiplying more than thousand
times the productive powers of man
or as Martin Costar, idly amusing
himself in cutting the letters Of the
alphabet out of bark as playthings
for his grandchildren, seized the
idea, perfected by Gutenberg when
birth was given to movable type
and printing-the means Of diffus-
ing knowledge broadcast among all
civilized peoples, making the
chances Of the poorest peasants OBJ
tanning learning more than equal to
those of despot centuries before
or as Prince Rupert in his cam
paigning, from the rust on his sword
scabbard inVentlng the art of meZzo-
/ tint engraving. Steam and print
ing have been the greatest civilizers
the world has ever had. Where
they have f1ourished side by side
tyranny, Ignorance and superstition
have receded. Let us hope nc
more to return. They have made
possible the before-times impos-
sible-they have tunnelled the
hugest mountains, spanned the
deepest Yalleys-swam the trackless
seas, explored deserts and CONT
nents before unknown toman-they
have made the cottager and artisan
of to-day more intelligent, more
comfortable, more generous and
cumulative and free from prejudice
and sin than the noble, or king, of a
few centuries ago.
The obstacles we have to meet in
life may generally be put into two
ciasS es, those that arise from our.
selves and those proceeding from. or
arising from conflict with others.
The irst is lack of judgment or i'm
maturity OF thought-action before
theory has developed sufficiently