The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-04-29


doors while his brothers and sisters ar
at play, or if he join them he is behin
5 in every race and beaten in every game
His nerves, his muscles, his bones ar
smitten with this palsy. He vegetate
rather than lives, creeps rather thai
walks, yawns rather than breathes. TIL
animal in his nature is stronger than tn
intellectual. He is generally a grea
eater and active only when he canno
digest what he has eaten. 1t requires a
much effort for him to walk as for other
to run. Languor and drowsiness are hi
natural inheritance. He is built for ;
slow sailing vessel-a heavy hulk ant
an insufficient cutwater. Place an active
man in such bodily structure and the
latter would be shaken to pieces in one
day. Every law of physiology demands
sponsible for this powerful tendency Of
his nature. His great duty is resistance
When see a man fighting an unfor.
tunate temperament, all my sympathies
are aroused, and think Of Victor Hugo's
account of a scene on warship where,
in the midst of a storm at sea, a great
cannon got loose, and it was crashing
this way and that and would have de-
stroyed the ship; and the chief gunner,
at the almost certain destruction of his
own life, rushed at it with handspike
to thrust between the spokes of the
wheel of the rolling cannon and by a
fortunate leverage arrested the gun till
it could be dashed fast. But that strug-
gle did not seem so disheartening as
| that man enters upon who attempts to
! fight his natural temperament, whether
it be too fast or too slow, too nervous or
too Emphatic. God help him, for God
only can.
INCIDENCE AND WEALTH.
Furthermore, Incidence is often a re-
suit of easy circumstances. Rough ex-
perience in earlier life seems to be neces-
sary in order to make man active and
enterprising. Mountaineers are nearly
always swarthy, and those who have
toiled among mountains of trouble get
the most nerve and muscle and brain.
Those who have become the deliverers
of nations once had not where to lay
their heads Locust and wild honey
have been the fare of many a John the
Baptist, while those who have been fon-
died of fortune and petted and praised
have otter grown up lethargic.
They have none of that heroism which
comes from fighting ones own battles
The warm summer sun of prosperity has
weakened and relaxed them. Born
among the Injuries of life exertion has
been unnecessary, and therefore they
spend their time in taking it easy. They
may enter into business, but they are
untitled for it's application, for its hard
ships, for its repulses, and after having
lost the most of that which they have
invested go back to thorough inaction.
This costly yacht may do well enough
on the smooth, CLASSY bay, but cannot
live an hour amid chopped sea.
Another cause of incidence is severe
encouragement. There are those around
us who started life with the most san
game expectation. Their enterprise ex-
cited the remark of all compeers. But
some sudden and overwhelming misfor-
tune met them and henceforth they
have been inactive. Trouble, instead of
making them more determined, has
overthrow them. They have lost all
self reliance. They imagine that all
men and all occurrences are against |
them. They hang their heads where
once they walked upright. They never
look you in the eyes. They become
and pronounce all men
liars and scoundrels. They go melan.
cholic and threadbare to their graves.
You cannot rouse them to action by the |
most glittering offer.
In most cases these persons have been
honorable and upright all their lives,
for rogues never get discouraged, as
there is always some other plot they
have not laid and some other trap they
have not sprung. There are but few
sadder sights than man of talent and
tact and undoubted capacity giving up
life as failure, like line of magnifi-
cent steamers rotting against wharves,
from which they ought to have been
the expectations of a nation.
Every great financial panic produces a
large crop of such men. In the great
w uCit llty WERE part
ners in business they are now weighers
or draymen or clerks on small salary.
Revere is also cause of Incidence.
There are multitudes of men who ex-
pect to achieve great success in life who
are entirely unwilling to put forth any
physical, moral or intellectual effort
They have a great many eloquent theories
Of life. They are all the while expecting
to turn up. They pass their
life in dreaming. They have read in light
literature how men suddenly and unex-
pectedly came to large estates, or found
a pot of buried gold at the foot of the
rainbow of Good Luck, or had some
great offer made them. They have
passed their lives in reverie.
Notwithstanding he is pinched with
poverty and any other man would be
lowncast at the forlorn prospect, he is
always cheerful and sanguine and jovial,
or he does not know but that he may {
De within day or two of astounding {
success. You cannot but be entertained
With his cheerfulness of temper. All I
he world wishes him well, for he never '
lid anybody any harm. AT last he dies I
n Just the same condition in which he \
ived, sorrowful only because he must c
cave the world just at the time when a
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