Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-01-23


When we see a man who adapts
means TO ends successfully we say
he is a man OF great invention, q
man Of resource, ingenious, crafty,
skilful, clever. shrewd, sagacious,
talented, adrolt, sharp-epithets, all
Of them, having reference to the
mind. Without looking at expert
ence il would he ut once concluded
by a reasonable man that, in proper
ton as We increase the vigOr and
quickneSs Of the mind and give Il
materials OH which 10 found COM
PARSONS, we increase in practical
power. NoltaiTe, a man Of genius
and a poet, was one Of the most sue
cessful specelatOrs in Europe. Chin
ese Gordon was highly cultivated
man, with a capacity for all
things, small and great. He could
fight, ride, shoot, tinker, negotiate,
conduct campaigns, and all with
uuhesitating self-reliauce. Emin,
who prior 10 his capture was doing
in Genital Africa the work whence
Gordon was taken, is also n man Of
great practical power. Who IS he?
Well, heis a German, who carried
with him an heroic will and q uni
versal education into the heart Of the
Dark Continent. Who is Stanley?
Who is the man whose African
campaigns have been Inarvels Of
management 4 journalist-a liter
airy man, The progress Of civiliZa-
ton has equalized the physical
qualities OF man. In years gone 10y
the strong arm ruled. Its the strong
head,rules today. Force is dethroued,
aud where brute violence wore a
coronet which sometimes gleam-
ed with barbaric ornament, in
telligence, wearing a diadem in
which there is no false glitter, in
which every gem is Of the purest
water. sits an omnipo,ensqueen. A
revolution, the most beneficent for
man, has taken place, and it is the
duty, as il should be the delight, Of
every citizen 10 cultivate his facul-
ties. Bacon has said, knowledge
is pOwer.3 knowledge is also pleas
ure. | think il is Sir Arthur Helps
that says a man who goes through
life knowing only the trade OF pro-
fession 10y which he gets his bread
is n poor stunted creature. There j.
4 close relation between al the
arts between poetry, painting,
music, sculpture-and genuine pro-
ficiency in any one OF these pre-
pares the mind to enjoy the
productions OF the others. <Oi can
not really Nahe any faculty Of the
mind aud leave The rest asleep.
Happy is il for the uncultured that
they know not what they have lost!
When q man is destitute OF some
great hysical attribute, the most
superficial observer recognizes his
The blind can
never see tile putple coursers Of
morning chase night frCiil fnarge to
marge, or evening steep the land
scape in every glorious and tender
hue. For the deaf the birds sing,
the voice OF woman Is low and mu-
steal, aud ''the wind, that grand old
harper, smites his thunder-harp Of
pines" in vain. So lar as those who
have no sense Of smell are con-
cerned, the care OF nature in making
every flower and shrhb and grass
oior5us is h0Otless. while 10 the Grip
pie the rapture Of energetic move
ment Is denied. In all these cases
men recognize the absence Of
faculty which would be cheap
ly purchased by colossal wealth.
But how II we should want
the seeing eye and the hearing
ear in 4 more important sense than
is covered by any physical depriva-
ton? How il there is a subtle
aroma about what has been said 10y
highly gifted men we cannot catch.
a flavor we cannot appreciate; If
nature and art teen with beauty
which is for Us rs though it never
was; how il there is music in the
music which our unstrained ears
can not catch? The men Of genius
come to us each with his mission.
One takes US up TO the highest
heaven of harmony; another purges
our eyes that We may see Gods
glorious works as they are. George
Macdonald says Burns mission was
to show men there was poetry im-
mediately around them, at their
very door. Now, beauty and utility
60 hand-in-hand in nature, and the
same is true Of ali things which
enable us TO know her better. Take
drawing and designing, they in
crease the power Of observation
along the whole line, and develop
accuracy in all matters on which
the mind employs itself.-7oroato
Weekly.