The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-02-21
ssw xax AsssmasM 1ssseass. .coNcoRDlAh !. PHILOSOPHY.
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 Who can truly wiite the realf Less than everything is partly talse and sine demands no more in narratiea than k consistent wiih prevailing Ayposhesis The all of action Is loo comprehensive and the effect of minutie is b hewildeS. Sequences irom remote Agsncies arc lost in their silent windings and conclusions must be instantaneous The rationale of life is quickness of perception, or an ap- Oearance that satisfies tho same end. Patience in the labyrinth of reason Is de- ssructive of the results we have arrived at al nes, and we abhor all destruction that touches our creations The part that is false may never be known. and if so, may easily find an excuse in the csm- munity of sentiment that hurried beyend it. Action is of such great prominence that we hurry towards it despite the yearn. ing cries that deliberasion throws across our paths. We can act now and think when we have leisure. Thus we have the fruition of all things without the corresponding delay that accompanies investigation. We may eat the best fruits with no reference to labor or sea- son. We may drink the best vintage without fermentation or the slow mellow ings of age. We respect ourselves and that includes our conclusions; to suspect the latter is an attack upon the former. We maintain ourselves in proportion to crr esseysiven~ss: and in . race of as- sertions we dare not look too narrowly at the premises. Thus life assumes an ap- pearance of wonderful reality and we play on the assumed stage until we be- come part of its talsity and lose all ln. clination to know 1t as 1t is. Man merRes into . machine. Manhood comes to be equal to certain, almost universal, prop critics of the biped, beyond which we have not time to go and below which 1t is almost impossible to fall. We are equal in the humdrum, and the fe.ters of this same humdrum enjoius upon us the perpetuity of the equality. lnferiority is unknown and a uniformity of living is the resultant. Superiority is denied for the reason that 1t inveighs against our selfrespect and runs too nearly parallel with an examination that we have re- solved not to make. This Is an agree able state of affairs, not only because 1t lessons the labors of existence, but also, because disagreement being unknown we have the all.suficient concord that per meates satisf .ctory mediocrity. Sim ilarity of structure in the leguminous family. enables the independent ovals to take to themselves without ratiocination the sustenance necessary to an almost uniform growth, and :c ex;:: .s delight full companionship inside the pcricarp until death there begins life elsewhere. "As nearly alike as two peas" is the balm we apply to our lack of fruitful living, and is the cause of our continua- ton in nothipgness. The standard to which we bring our acts for measurement is the environment of the age and we are sure not to fall below it. Everybody makes it and we are a part of 1t, indis- tinguishable 1t is true, but as separate and as real to ourselves as we desire the separation and reality to be. "Unwept and unsung" we may be, but we will not be alone in the enjoyment of this drsuth and silence. It is the common end and we dare not trench upon unco nmon ground. We have lived with our neighbors in an uneventful life and our tombstones, of the same Aatness, night, and unity of de- sign, will tell our children our sameness and urge them to repeat the process. Who can write the reala Who can live the real Childhood is .es! s:: cA:lAhced !. 90 short. The simulations Of the race in. | bred through six thousand years have shortened the life sf the child by an | earlier introduction into manhood. The i egis of the unreal touches the child al- | most at the beginning of its talking, and | never pauses in its march towards sub jugation until the physical symbol of childhood is wrapped in the unity of sameness, and merged in the malfor ma tions of its predecessors. Oh, for q reality of childhood that could Last throughout the Legal minority How the meridian sun of that life would shine and | glorify the descending track to the be- ginning point. How cheerily the full | grown powers of that life would meet the facts of the little world and eater with confidence the realities of the greater. Laughter would mean enjoy ment; tears would indicate grief, and condslence would be worth one hundred |