The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1893-12-10
REmEmRERiaS AND FoRGEr-
TING.


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y one had % choose between lincauIay,
who never forgot anything. ana Emerson
WHO rarely Remembered anything In an
n1act, literal way. one would fasson ussan
The Innn Of insight. and let the man or
memory 20 MS own way. il these days the
art Of Inemorixing has had great attention.
but the art OF forgetting has no protested
masters or tesrhrrs II Is Hs7arthcsosr.
one Of the most Important and most
charming Of the arts the art Of arts, IN
| deed. For the supreme SKIN OF the artist
IS b his ability 70 forget tho noa-easantiai
and 10 remember the essentiais rhe facul~
~ OF forgetting gives the mind & true
perspective, ana shows past evsnts IN
tnri just proportions and right relations.
The archaeoloEical pointer forgetr notntng.
ana ms picture !eANea US cold; the poetic
pHllltef Iufkets every ahing, save the two
or three Dgnihcalit things, ana his picture
sets osir imagination afame There is
man sGmeLimeS gets Ire better OF his
mem0ry; there Is Inspiration N Emerson
because the man speaks hsbitually as II
Al things were nev-cfsated, and there
Vas nothing TO remember The past Is 4
aeaShtful friend II ene cum live without
y put q the man who lives Ia It there IS
As the world grows older the power 10
toifet must GROW With 1t, or mankind
WI Demo. Ike Atlas, under weight
when VIII make movement Out OF The
question. That only watch dummies, eI-
iafges or cheers men ought Is 81 faineni-
herea; every thing else ought to De forgot
isii. Inc rose IN bloom has no need OF the
ciyN whose thorny shielding Il hes out
hLuNn, Nnen the recollection OF the past
s ,,l,i,isi and inspires 4 has Immense
tent 70 rest on ancestral achievements
4 u sore hindrance Final piety holds
VIZ VIZ ni.aties Of ne fathers sacred: but We
Ut more important that we should do
brave ana just deeds than that we shoufd
a ,,ia ,1 per that others have done them.
inc burning. 81 The Alexandrian library /
Was not without Its COMMUNICATIONS ann |
lne rate ~ which books are now nuiti-
ii,ie Xxx Fly some day compel such burrings
az oppressed rice. 'rfe books Of hover |
ittse ath4y5 lew nud precious. and long
,i,s y aeeIeen LOT them BY reason Of |
tne very vitality Which gives them their |
place.. but The books II iifottnafior must \
~ Supjscted % a niiuulDle OF Selection
v vssr snq more rlgorpusiy applied ae tire
i,.9 lorSet most Of The books we have
e Fer The Characteristic Of art-the thing
49, snrviyes-rls not memory but Insight |
wv cnlef concern II TO know ourselves
I ~ ~, oar Ipr pearsi and 70 master this mod
n c, ,sioaad, nor Ihe world q Caesar Or that
y personal cQntact With life, and while
\ y y may enrich his repart by apt and con-
bee sns fel &, i5 p the things that have
u Vision and dlrectness or insight. sour /
~ So; haya Emerson, lis retrospective II I
1llias Inc septtlchers Of the fathers II /
W Mites Biographies, histories and criticism |
=, lofe4olns generations hebeld God and
nAtuFe Iac2 70 face we, through their
49, why should not we also enjoy our
z ieinhl relation to the uniyerss2 Why I
,n,ou'1 hct We have poetry and phlloso-
pA{ Or Insight ana not tradition, and
.ehsion by revelation TO ns and not the
lssl2ry o. thelrsg Emhos1ned for a sea-
w m nature, whose foods " lie stream
FOUND aud through u.s. and invite us BY
nv powers tlley Supply, 70 action propof-
ivnfa y nature why should we grupe
imVnf The dry bones Of the past. or puf
~ ,hf4nk eeneratloa into masquerade oui
4 US fened wardrobe. The sun shlnes n
9ptf AifQ There Is more WOOL aud flax
inc hfiua There are new lands new
neni new fhonghte Let Us demand our
WE werks ana laws and worship" III
ffrperesa ~ largely conditioned an The 1
lons which have become Authoritative
took nearly a century OF Adventurous
e.llnlb ent pfrlous adventure to usrsuade
l''rfp thtt there was an undiscovered
pntlpent between China ana liz own
noffei 20 possessed was the ilnropean
inu Wish ne cons sent blunders Of the Z
ast about this Western hamisphere.
a Keen remembrance OF Injustice or suf- Z
'f'nS breeds cynlclsmi the power to for '