The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1885-02-28
e ID u G. A r I o N .

lin fine, who at our births, are blu,
the carved statues Of stupidity
stand in great want of judgment
And whence is all this to be derived
[if not from the unbounded stores, Of
Education !?
Yes all that Of which we are de.
prived in our early infancy, and
which, as age advances, becomes, in
dispensable to our future welfare
and comfort, and TO- society at large
is unlocked TO US in the golden
treasure Of Education.
This edueation is derived either
from nature, or from man, or from
external things.
The internal development of our
faculties and organs, is the educa-
ton of nature ; the different appli.
cation, which we are taught to make
Of those developments, resulting
from the education of nature, is the
education of man ; and the acquire
ments of the proper experience OF
our senses on external objects is the
education of external things.
OF these three different kinds OF
education, that of nature effects it's
end independent Of our will or de.
sire ; that Of external objects is de-
pendent upon our will only in Ger.
tain respects ; but that Of man,
though the most Important, is the
only one which is truly subservient
to US, and it is to this special educa'
ton we will now turn our attention.
Education, as we know full well,
is the true foundation stone OF all
society, and to prove most beneficial,
it should always be accompanied
with a good sound moral training.
The mind may be we'll stored with
knowledge and science, but i: devoid
of those noble and sublime feelings,
which are always developed in true
moral training, the vill, instead OF
being guided by reason, will fall an.
der the sway of unruly passions.
which but too frequently lead their
.wretched blind victims. into the
dark bottomless sea of troubles,
there to be rocked, dashed and
wrecked by the raging wave Of
debauch and vice.
A literary education develops the
mind and prepares it for more grand
conceptions and undertakings !; it
opens to US an abundant field,
whence we may derive pleasures and
,enjoypents ; and in a word, it in
directly brings US into connection
with the different ages and nations
of the globe.
tits the most noble occupation of
the mind ; and we'll suited indeed
are the words of the great Cicero,
when speaking o. literature in his
orationa pro Archia he says -
L"Cetere adversiones aninai, neque tenn
poruw sunt, ne9me atotvm oneniaxs,
neque locosum ; at hqoc studio Adde'S.
centem acuunt, senecturm obkectant,
Fsecundas res e1aant, adversis peStua;.
I'M &c solatium pre6emt delectant
dom,i, non impediunt 1oris pe,moctant
nobiscum, peregrinantur, ruMicuntur."
Moral education, does not in any
manner develop the INTEL
gence ; it rather e~levates the mind
to nobler and sublimcr thoughts,
than does a simple literary cduca-
ton 1t brings man to a higher de-
gree Of refinement, and renders him
more capable Of approaching the
beauties of the different virtues, and
spictures in his mind more wildly all
the horrors Of vice : It is as it we're
AN anchor to his passions, which,
otherwise, might bear him on to
meet his fatal wreck.
Hence we see that a literary edu-
cation though most beneficial in
itself, is yet insufficient for man and
society ; it must be joined with a