The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-07-21


fools have got to be taught in it or not
at all. The oft-repeated lesson Of life
and experience. how certain effects fol-
lowed certain causes, "rerum cognos-
eere causdS, makes the value Of his
tory and the sum Of mans wisdom. One
Of the earliest Incidental lessons OF ms
tory that We are all familiar with is
one of causes and effects. how the
Spartans taught their boys to hate
drunkenness by making their slaves
drunk, and showing them manhood
prostituted and dobased by inebriety-
the visage quite transformed Of
him that drank. and the in
glorious image OF brute fixed
instead If the Spartans could
have had kind Of supplementary ex-
hibition to commend the moderate use
81 good wine, and show how that in
moderation it makes glad the heart Of
man, they would have done still an
other good thing. It's self government
that makes men seem divine. Illustra-
tions that deter from vice are almost as
important "a those that invite to virtue.
The story Of the Flood has its place as
well as the picture OF the New
Jerusalem.
Our practical age is freely teaching
by examples. in the State aud in social
life. The big dam breaks aud the towns
are destroyed The big trusts draw the
Hfe-blood out Of the people, and the
people vote in droves, and their dearest
franchises are sold for trife. Aud the
people are seeing and learning the les
sous. Aud prescutiy a new food and a
new revolution may bring in new era
Of individual freedom and self govern
ment and social equilibrium.
In social life il is interesting TO see
how lessons are taught By absurdities
and burlesqucs. We all remember
how the old Turk and his son walking
on Broadway and seeing a dude in all
his glory. the old man said to the young
one. See there. my son, to what you
nav come by neglccting the Koran.
our good darkics illustrate TO as many
homelv virtues The ambitious ones
show uD human weaknesses perhaps rs
preposterously and ridiculously as
they can very we'll be present
ed. High life below stairs is
absued enough in England, where the
iackass of chief butler or the chief
housskeeper lord it over the men and
the husseys aud make them know
their place. characterizing the real
pride aud tyranny OF my lord and lady.
"Hieh life below stairs is an old
farce. where ignorance and vulgarity
ape greatness, aud greatness gets no
honor from it,. But If il is so in Eng
land. how must it be where Gully
and Sambo put on white crayals
Land swallow-tails. assume the ned.
affect the God, and seem to shake the
spheres" Why, in one 81 our big
hotel dinng-rooms. with solemn, state
! ly darkies standing around, and a
great imposing. consequential. magniii.
cent and condescending king bee
ordering things. as if with the
p1wfr Of life and death, what
chance does a poor fellow
.tludy Eat? Why man feels that
not only his responsibility. but his very
life is at stake. lie is glad to get out
alive and unmarked. He viii allow
himself TO be fed ON the yilest stuff that
ever Frcnchmen compounded, OF IN
ventive Yankee conceived. The lessor
comes when man gets to thinking OF
how an that show was IN the interest Of
pride and vulgariiy, and fraud anc
robbery. Then. too. comes the whole
mcr lesson still. Of how desirable 1t De-
that pride aud consequence should b'
forever exhibited ina the blacklist color
and pomp and show be manifested "a
identified with ignorance and essentia
lOwnCss.
CHRISTIANITY is the last hope of the
orld, and It's principles and ideals are
tue and original laws AMI illustrations
of normal aud perfect manhood. 10
light is full enough in the world. an'
its standards and measures sufficient,
familiar to make worldliness and vanit,
appear IN their monstrous deformily
the very antagonists and oppcsites O
that character which Is the worship o.
every child If Heaven, but which Is e
modern oilers, as TO old heathen' m
comprehensive and inappreciable