The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1889-08-17
EMOTION AND INTELLECT

and the rest of animated natures u
gulf without link, chasm thLt
only God could stiide.
Below man We find all the rHdi-
mcnts ot his nature except the cap
sheat, the intellect. The sumo flesh,
bone, senses, instincts and wants are
ali there. Man Is based upon nature,
allied To it, subject 20 its laws, ADD has
nothing above IT till We come s>>tbe
MUD. There lac steps out, he is ar -.
There Is not even n rudlment of his
great mind and its appurtenance in all
that stands below him.
He thinks, speaks, imagines, specu-
lates on the past, the future, on
causes and consequences. 1t God or
anyeIs wanted 10 select a being ON
earth 10 be an agent of heaven, al the
conditions woula point Ia man rs that
agent. No other could be thought OF
tor moment.
Even the passions of mar are modi-
fed by his mind to make them fit
company as il were. He cooks his
food He forms family compact for
llic. klC tONNo Iia wiz 0ho
til death. lie builds home. He
uses weapons and tools. He work,
to-day for tomorrow. He becomes
philosopher, judge, orator, artists
u king.
He may be said 10 have two lives,
one emotional and another intellectual,
and he plays between the one and the
other continually. The emotional is
the basis Of his nature, the bedrock of
his happiness or mis,ry; and with IA
thousand the SUN If their happiness,
while only one will abandon them for
the pleasures ot the mind.
Occasionally we lind rapt genius
who soars upward, regardless of pa
rents. wife or child, will revcl only III
arr or science, deemlng life well spent,
grand success, II he will have car
ried lame or fortune in his tavorlte
pursuit. But for the most part these
Things are pursued only as u means
to All end; the end, the nome where
wife and children bring him all his
reward when the toil is d. ne.
To iavc bccume Pope, 10 have
reached the pinnacle of fame, or
wealth. or any other emiuence, cannot
be deer1ed or accepted AS ahappy aud
successful life, it it imply single
state.
On The contrary, the poorest and
least cultured of all have lived well,
who were born of loving mother, with
loving brothers and sisters, left them
ouly for loving wife, raised good
family of affectionate children and
died in their arms. Tins is emotional
lite. II may he humble or great, but
when complete il is the crowning JOY
of this world. 1t is the perfection of
human life when attended by modest
fortune and the charm at cultivation.
Domestic felicity is the only picture
that eau begin 10 realize the kingdom
OF heaven.
John Knox. of Scotland, somewhat
of an ascvtIc, in conversation with
one of the "Old KIRK" wno was thus
happily situated, sald IN him.
"You aud your whole family lack
the grace that saves, and unless you
change your hearts, ST. Peter will
shut the door in your faces"
well, wei ;" sad the old man.
"we Will camp outside and have hea-
ven there. Wherever we are we make
heaven for ourselves"
When we count up all the items Of
our happiness, We shall lind the emo
tions are concerned in ut least nine
tenths nf the whole sum. If this is
true as tu man, it is ubly SD as 10
woman She is essential y emotional.
Her life is made up of her loves; in
d difference is distress. For her love
must be active, demonstrative and
ever present. 1t begins with the cradle
and il should follow her to the grave.
A loved child, sister, wife, mother. is
the perfection of woman's life. To
have been that is success; and not
that, N dreary failure.
Accomplishments, high culture, am-
bition. fortune, fame, ARE well, but for
the few only, aud in their utmost per-
fection cannot compensate tor the
other. What blank when they at
tain nothing, and yet lose the pearl OF
great price.
This emotional nature needs prac-
tice, training and modulation. 1t
should be the mothers care to see that
it has all these from the earliest in
fancy. Cultivate the emotions in their