The Greenville times., 1884-06-07

eSeSA~uo anu uIcutNeeI
ing, without reserve and whole
souled III whatever it does-but
these qualities as. among the no
Dlest of human nature, deserve
the ioblest employment. Lost
youth can never be recovered.
Whosoever loses ii, loses with its
opportunities a genius for enter.
prise which no wisdom Of age can
replace. The most wonderful
achievements of our race have
been won By its young men.
Young men are among its fore
most heroes in war, in council, in
letters, in art and in religion.
When you remember that
Charles MI was but eighteen
when he fought the battle of Mar.
va Conde, but twenty when he
cut his way through besieging
hosts into Metz, Bonaparte twen-
ty seven when he oyercame the
armies of Austria, and Alexander
thirty when he had conquered the
world; that Maurice of Saxony
was a great ruler at seventeen,
and William Pitt England's great.
est prime minister at twenty-four;
that at twenty-six Shelly had writ
ten "Cenci," Keats all his poetry
and Goethe thought his "Faustn
into form, unpublished as it was
until many years afterward; that
Raphael at thirty-seven had com.
pleted his vast gallery of pictures,
giving to romaptic art its eternal
ideals OF beauty, and Mozart
brought heaven within hearing of
earth by his music; and best of
all, that the perfect, the divine
man finished His human work at
thirty.three and died while yet in
Ills youth. as il in order that men
might reverence youth forever as
life's divincst period-when you
remember these Illustrations,
which might be indefinitely multi
piled, of youths aptitude for seri.
GUS and magnificent work, you
will resent the imputation that it
is the waste poriod Of life, fit only
for the sowing of senseless seed,
even though their senselcssness
Yield no fruit Of corruption.
Nor need youth fear, because it
is capable of serious and magnifi-
cent work, that it ought to be de.
mure as age and refrain from
amusements, which play out its
redundant vitality and SO keep 1t
young. Young men may wear
banged hair and still cover brains
with it; they may cannonade ci.
garet.e smoke through breech.
loading nostrls as it they carried
batteries under their coats, and
yet discharge the duties of peace.
Not dress and diversion, but the
abuse Of them are the essence OF
foppery. For while good clothes
help a mans appearance and self.
respect, it is a mcagre manhood
that can be made out of Sleeps
wool and calfskin; while amuse'
mcnts, such rs the dance, may be
pleasant and graceful pastime, the
life that should be spent in
dancing as its chief accomplish
ment were but little better than q
yed-capped monkeys on a hand
organ. Yea, deeper even than the
abuse of dress and diversion lici
the essence Of the evil of foppery
even In the notion that manhood
is for parade and life for pleasure
and that the work which inter
feres with such pleasure aud par
ade is on evil to be avoided, or Il
be deplored if unayoidable-a no
ton that puts the idler, especial.
} If he can afford to idle, above TIN
worker, and regards the privilege
of idling as the aim and rewar'
oil wUfk lIseiI.
; This notion is not crotchet 0
r young men only but affects olde
i. fancics. Fathers who have coin
| cd every dollar of their wealt'
: from sweat Of orow or brain thin
| il q matter of pride that their son
/. will be exempt from the necessit
, of work which made their wort
!. and the absence of which wi
: make their sons worthlessnes'
, How can be be other than wortf
i less who takes his course fror
4 the conception that it is nobler T.
1 spend money than to earn 1t, tha
r he who. earns it is the paryen'
n and he who spends 1t the afist'
I crat! Nevertheless this concel
f ton largely governs society an
4 forms an undertow to public opil
/ ion. which moves against its SUI
J. face expressions and drugs nan
:, a yonng man who does not stan
!. well up on the shore OF bette
f Judgment and principle to the u
' ter drowning of his character.
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