The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-03-16
"A Higher Grade
CONCLUDED FROM FOURTH FACE.

oooh, us IL Were In WhlC0 one cOulu paste
with the mucilage of memory little thought
gems, little crumbs of heart food, and
many an hour that would otherwise hold US
in iron claws, while the whip of conscience
drove us on in unpleasant duties, would
lose its dulncss and WEAKNESS as we
feasted on these dainty morsels thus held
in reserve for our rcfreshment. We could
forget self almost, rise above many of the
little worries that prick rs like nettles now,
because in thinking of peasanter things,
we should forget them.
Suppose we should start out to-day or to-
morrow and attempt this mind-flling pro-
cess, and myriNds of little home and social
duties should buzz like so many worrying
gnats around US, until in sheer despair we
should give up the unequal contest, what
theni Should we have lost anything
Should we not, though seemingly defeated,
really have added something to that grade
which is to help lift US above the waters Of
sloth and ignoranCel You think not at
first perhaps, but think again. Suppose,
for instance, you had commenced the study
of astronomy, and had only succeeded in
learning the first pager Does not familiarity
with even that one page open before you a
magnificent world hitherto unexp.oredl
Has not your mind broadened just that
muChl
Or suppose you should have attempted
some line of art, and gone no farther than
the fundamental part Of 1t, have you utterly
tailedt Not So. Do you not look with
new interest and more intelligent eyes upon
pictures or wood carving, or wh.teyer you
may have attempted, forever atterl You
are no longer blind 10 the beauty or grace
or severity Of line or curve
or color, as once you were,
no more than the child who has
learned the alphabet, is completely igno-
| rant Of the contents of books, He has the
| foundation. ATTAIN ba p,as IN aIro,s, maid
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at first, logger and harder as time plsses
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ca Tue h''eS anu 'AeIF 'a'ue' Il your HuSe's
Ut VOICE h"a only III iS'oreo ''e scA'eS' you
can never again NC as 'SuoF'n' Vi 'he nai'
'"ony anu I! Jun u music 9' you ''' o7en
before
We are all familiar with Wordsworth S
poem, in which these lines occur:
"A primrose on arger's bFiu,
Aye.,o" primrose was 10 h'm'
Won n,an ho snro ,Ho M, - Union, :,
voo wr;,,or had rovsr s,rd;sd ho,orr
usd ho nosso.sod l,oou,ol,o of .ho
ooros ,ho a;r,ro,. no..s g souors oror,
ho o,,,, L,uo ,oo,, MANN h;ooa ,ho. bio
roo,,ich.orod ,ro. foi,od 70 discoyor Tn.
..o.d of ho,oI, ,o,Iou rr;rroso tboro
r,,,5 hor. hoo. ovor;s;,o creation
,in;n h,,oh;,c hari,c all 10 doio.v
,o5 =, oo,,f,,I,,, and ri,.Ir 10
or.our ,is,i,. s,ouors no,al. and colrv
ali ua,a,,orn f,r a,o aoro,or % .ha
bIossor os ara bo.rt ond hr.i, and oar
srd ovo tors And 70 that narson who boo
evar r,r,ia,,v s,udiad natural history
mnst came with new force and sveetness
rowolI,s vordorf,ll, ,r,o W, roo,ic l;nos
And there's never leaf or blade too mean,
To be some happy creatures palace"
We can easily prove | think, the fallacy
of the old saying, that "a little learning is
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