Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-03-03
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Tho other day was talking With one OF
the brightest aud most accom- plIshed young
ladies' have ever met who remark cd on
the lack Of appreciation most people dis.
played for Whatever goes to develop the
higher nature of man ~ compared with
their FREQ Indulgence OF the sppotites and
desires OF the lower, the merely physical
People who don't hesitate 10 spend any
thing from five TO ffty, or Ave hundred
dollars for some luxury for the table, Of
dress, furniture, or jewelry, will not spend
Ave dollars for . book the whole year
round. They consider Il an Unnecessary
extravaganza 10 supply the needs Of the
mind, but nece essity 10 pander 10 tho dc
sires OF the body. They fstten tho animal
nature and s,srvs ths spiritual.
/ don't believe In starving the body by
any means. But Just ~ littlo do l believe
In starving and stuntiDg the mind. don't
think we have . right wtlfuiiy to do either
The two parts or sides OF our being have
equal ts,--thars oil 1 insist on. / even
60 farther and say that II preference has 10
be shown to one, that one ought not TO be
the merely ply sicsl, which after all Is only
temporary and pershabie part OF us, but
rather the mental, or spiritual, which IL
the essentially human and alone enduring,
imporishable part
For example, suppose you are man or a
woman xho has fiiiy cents to spare. That
sum Of money will buy you good treat for
the stomach In the shape OF oysters, &., or
II will buy you treat for the mind like
Emerson's Nature and O,her Essays"
bound IN cloth, well printed, II you send
forty cents to the publishing house OF John
b. Alden, New York, and leave you ten
cents over for neat paper edition OF
Hamlet, Othellc, King Lear, or any one OF
Shaktspesre's Immortal plays o., II Will
buy you tho whole OF that famous work al
Dr. Geikie's "The Life and Words OF
Christ, In a good, cloth. bound volume or
the same authors charming book for young
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science, 1t will buy you Principat Dawson's
| entertaining, Instructive. and every way
| excellent Story OF the Earth and Man "
| or Prot Drummond's coleb' Cd, and most
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Law In the Spiritual World" Or else II
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| bound edition, In large type, Of Owen
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You will then have twenty i've cents left,
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"Mrs. Caudie's Curtain Lectures" to
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Now think Of II a moment, Please, and
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| and any OF these works famous In litera
,ure. which ought a sensible, n rational,
human being choose9 Which can the truly
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seems ridiculous, almost Insulting to your
common sense even to ask the question,
isn't It degrading and disRrsceful, almost
criminal, to answer II ss the majority rrac
ticaliy do every day As between thu
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tsvors to one that IL granted the latter Il
IL a wonder, that such being the case, mar
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| very existence OF mind. They fiud no evi
denco a mind or soul in themselves, ent
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they seem not TO have.
It really Is amszlng how much got
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comparatively trihipg outlay OF money
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