The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1883-06-13
Man. HOOD Il
AND HOW 10 REACH IT.
Lecture.
BY mo. i. SMITH, >. D..

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valuable prize Or perform any no.
/ bic work, two things are to be dis
tinctly Set before him; first, the.
prize toHbe won and second the
nearest, surest, pleasantest~ way.
! to win il. AsIa rule, the prizes Of
life are hedged in with difficulties
and dangers proportionate to their
value. Stones may be had for the
gathering, but, for the Jewel that
adds lustretto the brow Of queenly
beauty, and flashes its conspicuous
splendor from the diadem Of
/ princes, a life of search is often
vainly given. Nature, and by na-
ture I means Gods method of dol
ing things, guards her treasures
with sleepless vigilance. Her choic-
est are buried deep In the vaults Of
her inner fortress. Between them
and you are sentinel and moat, and
! draw, and bastion, and tower brist-.
ling with trained artillery, and a
garrison that only surrenders to
the undaunted hero. Victory neve +
I comes Of accident, Men may stunt
bic into fortune; they may be born
+ to place and power, but. greatness |,
the royal character, manhood
comes only2of earnest, tireless, re-.
Ysistless effort. The highest object
THAT any one can set before him, tn
brightest goal that ever cleaned in
the far off horizon of mortals, is
manhood To place before you
the dignity OIL, your nature, the pos
sibilities within the reach Of all, to
! stir you with the lofty ambition to
reach the distant goal with The vic
tor S cry Eureka, is the object Of
this evenings lecture. To be a
man. Where is he, who bearing
thesimpress of SO lofty a lineage,
born II 70 noble 4 heritage IS satiss
1 lia1 "A =.
who tOeS net I'M % f6n rs LII
seafeest commodity Of time III Put
men in the. hopper, turn the crank,
blow upon them the winds of trial
and 10, the great bulk is chaH the
sport of summer breezes, and Of
the remainder, nearly all have fallen
through in. the first sifting, bruis-5
ed, manned, weevil-eaten, ruined,
screenings, with only here and
there grain rounded to fullness to
show the original design But let
no man sheer at his kind, for if the
theory developed from Darwin be
true, We have certainly made vast
progress since the time when our
forefathers chartered to each other
in the primeval forests, and build
-ingin the swaying branches their
bowers of leaves, were rocked to
sleep by fierce preadamite storms, /
If this be- true, the time may yet
come in the far off future, when
the weakest and poorest of our
race shall have attained to a degree
ofGdlture, a power over nature, a
llotiness and Symmetry of char
acter, that is to-day beyond the
reach Of the widest imaginations.-
And whether it. be true or false,
the blindest among us, be he]
preacher or poet, politician or po-
Gtical economist, dreamer or dolt,
can catch glimpse, of far off heights
bright with morning. sunbeams and
gorgeous in the. glories Of a never
ending day. We dream and speak
and long for the coming time when
the last. thrall shall be liberated,
and the last fetter Of mind and spirit
shall. be shivered,; and humanity
shall rise thosefernpyreans heights,
and walk again the flower wreathed
lawn Of that paradise from which |
by transgression and ignorance he
has been SO long an exile. II is
said of Diogenes, the old cynic Of
Sinope, that he went wandering
one day at high noon up and down
the crowded streets;of "a city with
a lighted lantern land when asked
the meaning Of this strange pro-
cedure, he replied, ri am IN
search Of a man. I have found
children in Sparta and Women. in
Athens, but 'a man 81 have not
found" And AS there was no one