The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-04-29

Justice Marshall, whose wisdom and purity
have made his name immortal, in an address
made about fifty years ago to the young men of
my native town in Virginia, said that he placed
above all other Influences. / endorse his good
idea Why? Because these organizations bring
their members together at regular periods for mu
tual advancement in elevated pursuits.
The youth who 3 his laudable search for
knowledge is confined to the narrow path of his
own reading, however capacious his genius, will
encounter many perplexities OF his we'll
informed acquaintance each, perhaps, might be
able to elucidate some obscurity and disentanele
some perplexity. He, too, in his turn, might
prove himself equally serviceable to each of
them.
ligence, extend the horizon OF the thoughts, cor
rect the style and expand all the faculties of the
mind Philosophers have said that no two spec
tators ever perceive The same identical rainbow
so il is perhaps true that no two minds ever look
at subject through the same medium. Hence
the interchange of various opinions is as requisite
to elucidate a complex subject as the presence
of varloue lights to illuminate complex object
And as the heavenly consultations guide the
mariner in his course ever the trackless desert of
the sea so the co.-stellasj0n Of minds will en-
tighten the pathway of truth. have thought
that the youthful mind thus circumstances,
might be compared to a traveller enveloped in
the morning mists. Gradually, as he advanced
the mists will be dispersed field and forests will
emerge from their dusky shroud, the river will
CLEAN in the distance. the hoary mountain un-
cover his cloudcapped summit and as the
"sun flares in the morning sky" the whole land
scape stands revealed in all its beauty and great
ness and spend0r
Lyceums may, therefore, be called the peoples
university, where men of all ages and ranks NAV
attend gratutously and learn lessons of practical
wisdom and truths of infinite vaue-lifl them
onlv e. t-I4 IL
lectual being May l say to the young readers
OF the FLoRIDIAN, what l would declare to every
young man in the State that more than one-haif
OF the class OF our population to which you be-
long, ii they were made intelligently conscious
OF their extreme ignorance, would be heard ex-
claiming Wretched one that am who shall
deliver me from the body of this intellectual
death" Alas not their unparental parents, nor
their Ruthless pater patri@s, the rulers that be-
who, in response TO the cry for bread, giveth
stone. Even many ol the better informed linger
in the vcstibule. and never cross the threshold of
the temple.
No young man, WHO has Just sense of his own
value, should fail to move in the direction have
indicated, ever mindful of the sentiment "that
he who resolves upon any great end by that very
resolution has scaled the barriers to it, and he
who SEXES the grand idea Of se!f:improUen,ent
will find that idea burning like fire within him,
and ever putting him on the line Of advancement
TO happiness and prosperity"
Oh for large-hearted men to devise broadly
and execute grandly that can thrill and shake
our people to those earnest and conscious activi-
ties that would enlarge educational facilities and
lift the damnng yoke of ignorance from the
necks of the ilterate that our State may in the
near future take her place in the march along
the royal highway of learning and refinement.
close this writing in behalf of the aggrieved
juvenile element of our population with respect
tul warning to rulers and citizens that in this
matter of education we might well attempt to
flee our shadow at midday as to avoid response
bilities in the performance of which it is a more
solemn thing 10 live than il is to die"
j. s J.
S T. LUcIE, INDIAN RIVER, April 6, 1884.