The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-07-19

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nothing but unpleasant toll, the
world would never have heard of
either of the silver tongued orators
of antiquity. If the labor necessary
to produce statuary that almost
spoke, and paintings that almost
breathed, had been nothing but un-
pleasant toll, the world would never
have heard of Praxiteles and Mich
ael Angelo, Apelles, Raphael and
Rubens. If the labor necessary to
discover the nature and laws Of
matter and mind had been nothing
but unpleasant toll, the world would
never have heard Of Plato and Aris-
toltle, Bacon, Locke, Newton,
Leibnitz and Kant. Every master,
in every department of study, be-
came such by making that in which
be obtained the mastery, play.
When Archimedes discovered a
great law in nature, he was so filed
with pleasurable emotions that he
ran out into the street crying out,
Il have found it, I have found il"
When Newton was prosecuting his
astronomical studies he was so
overwhelmed with pleasurable SEN
sations at times as to be under the
necessity Of temporary rest to avoid
nervous prostration. 1t is not only
a matter Of experience, that the
pursuit Of wisdom is attended with
pleasure, it is also a matter of rev.
elation. "Her ways are ways of
pleasantness." People talk about
peculiar aptitude, or genius, as
though that would account for the
difference between ordinary and
mastery minds. What is genius
but that persevering industry that
makes work play? Remember this.
Ever act upon it and you will
ever be in possession Of the secret
of success-the true philosophers
stone that turns all that it touches
into that which is ''more to be de-
sired than gold-yea, than fine
gold"
III. Haze confidence in yoecr CO.
pacity.
The opinion was once common
that woman was Intellectually in
ferior to man. This opinion, like
the false philosophy in which it
originated, is fast disappearing from
the world. The history Of the race,
Notwithstanding man has generally
had a monopoly of its best educa-
tional advantages, shows beyond a
doubt that there is no difference in
mental capacity, on account of sex.
In the sphere Of government
Semiramis, Catherine Of Russia, and
Elizabeth, of England, figured just
as conspicuously as Nebuchad-
nezzar, Peter the Great, or Alfred
the Great. In the sphere of state
craft, Madame DeStael figures just
as conspicuously as any one of the
strong minded men during the
French Revolution. In the sphere
of authorship Margaret Fuller,
Elizabeth Barret Browning, George
Eliot, Mrs. Hemans, and Mrs. Sig
Quincy, suffer no obscurity from
being compared with Goldsmith,
Addison, Walter Scott or Charles
Dickens. Among the living literatli
of America, the female group stands
just as high, and seems just as
much at home, on Parnassus as the
male group. In the sphere of as-
thetic art, which, until recently, was
a sort of Terra lacognita to woman,
she is disputing the palm with the
sterner sex, and her natural love
for the beautiful and easily ac-
quired skill in adornment give her
peculiar advantages for obtaining
eminence in this line Of culture.
She sees the picture on the un-
painted canvass, and the statue in
the block of marble just as readily
as man, and can just as readily
paint the ideal form on canvass. or
with the mallet and chisel, develop
the statue from the block Of marble.
In the sphere Of religion she has ever
shown a devotion superior to man.
She has larger sympathies, stronger
affections, and religion whose
essence is love and whose founda-
tion is faith, and whose manifesto
ton is beneficence. addresses itself
especially to her heart. Last at
the cross, first at the selpulcher,
earliest to proclaim the resurrec-
ton, she exhibited, in those typical
acts, that self-sacrifcing sympathy
for religion, which, in universal ex-
ercise, will restore Paradise to man.
Woman's sphere always has been,
and always will be less public than
mans. Man has, until recently,
had monopoly of the professions.
He is seen more and heard more in
public, and that is because God has
made him physically stronger than
woman. He has stronger bones,
muscles, lungs and voice, and these
fit him for the bar, the bench, the
rostrum, the pulpit, the arena Of
politics, and the head of the army.
But strong bones are not the neces-
sary concomitants of intellectual
power, else physical giants ought
always to be intellectual giants.
Let no person think because she is
a woman, that she has no capacity |
for the most thorough intellectual
culture. She has the capacity, and
that capacity is one of the talents
committed to her keeping, that it
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