The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-25
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There is a strange, mysterious awe
that attends knowledge, and superior
wisdom commands respect and imposes
fear And whoever, righ.fully or wrong
fully, wears their livery or badges, shares
more or less the instructive revere nee
that belongs to them. Intellect and char
acter are what we have In common with
Oeity,-arc the divine part OF us,-aDd
Just according to their development in us
are we worthy of respect and honor
And so il is that what we call cultivation
| is so highly regarded, so mu ch esteemed
in the world And so il Is that 'he word oul-
tiyation Is regarded as mysterious kind
of thing which the common people are
TO admire with bewildoIed gaze, and ask
no questions Thence follows impos-
ture, and numbug. and infinite nonsense.
And mankind are fooled to death by all
SORTS Of monstrosities in the name OF cul.
tivation or culture. The most horrid
snobs and frauds that affect humanity
are in tie name Of literature and intel
lect
God gave all men hearts and minds TO
be used 10 the best advantage. The patr'
mony Of manhood IS divine mines Of
infinite wealth are concealed there and
infinite capabilities belong there. II is
no small thing TO talk Of cultiyating
human soul and developing It's resources.
"Out Of il some,h bread. and under ii is
turned Up as it were fire" In It's depths
are seen very glimpscs OF the most high
suggestions of deity. To the general
world cultivation is all identified with
books To be full Of book learning; 10
be able to talk learnedly on all subjects.
and know everything, is to be cultivated;
to have heen run through the machine, and
tamely 10 have fulfilled all tasks imposed,
submissively TO have yielded to all require.
ments, and done everything you were
told 10 do, and meekly await orders
this Is to be cultivated. And the well
broke Slave passes into the world TO beg
for its honoTs and emoluments, seryile TO
everything. \ strong ass crouching down
under his burdens in the sweet and
pleasant land, bows himself and becomes
a servant to tribute. And r not this the
condition of most that the world calls
intellect. aud heart too almost as much
as IL dress? And minds that have been
exercised 10 activity have been trained 90
turn oil their activities TO the account Of
ambition and ayarice, plain e-sefying
Is this cultivation
Cul ivatiOn is not mere stuifiing nor
mere intellectual gymnastics. A garden
Is not cultivated that is planted with all
manner of plants-good, bad and indil
eren'.
Order. discrimination, life. yigOur, in
diyiduality, fertility, method and bar
mony must characterize The cultivated
soul, a. they would mark the garden Of
higher nobility. Things rank and gross
in natur must have no place in it. The
" Waiered garden whose waters fail not
is the approved type Of the cultivated
mind-set and adorned with beautiful
things in which run rivers of truth,
wherein grow all manner Of trees Learing
fruit, whose leaves are for the healing of
the nations, in which light is perennial.
The mind is its own place, and of
itself can make he'll Of heaven, heaven
Of hell Horace's education was:
"Condo eli compono quae mox deponere
pOssim.' lie only put in Latin what We
all know in English, "lhe good man, out
of the good tretApro 81 his heart, bringeth
forth that which IS good" Every one
has seen the reverse Of, the low minded
man In spite of all his core and culture
when stirred TO its native depths, and
true springs only casting up mire and
ciu.'