The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-03-22
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MORALS ~ MANNERS
BY A CLERGYMAN.

There are those in the community who
would have us believe that int c,ual
training is a panacea. The spelling book
and the rule of three if mixed and swal-
lowed will cure all the ills that flesh is
heir to some are assured.
No one denies the virtue of sound intel
lectual training. But this can never be a
reformatory power. And the reason is
obvious. Man is not being of mere in
tellect He has appetitss. passions, and
emotional nature. However broad and
deep his mental culture. he will be, as a
rule, far more readily and powerfully ac-
tuated by feeling than 10y Intellect. This
was the case with Bacon, "the greatest,
wisest. meanest of mankind" Daniel
Webster was an intellectual giant; he was
also sot and a rake The most proml-
n+nt French statesmen OF our dav are
men OF the finest culture, but they are
libertines almost without exception. The
late NJ. Gambetta died with his mistress
and it is charged by her hand.
Pass over the boundaries of Christen-
dom. and the insufiiciency of intellectual
ism is seen more clearly. because even the
intelectualism of Christendo dom is uncon-
sciously permeated and colored by Chris
tianity. Seneca was a supreme exponent
of mental development among the classes.
Turn to bis life, and. as Macaulay says,
hear him "declaim in praise of poverty
with two millions sterling out at usury;
hin,
about the evils of luxury in gardens which
moved the envy OF soverelgns; listen to
his rants about liberty while fawnIng on
an insolent tyrant; and notice how he
celebrates the divine beauty of virtue with
the same pen which han just before writ
/ ten defense OF the murder of a mother
/ by son"
/ The two most intellectual men of their
/ day we're Cicero and Julius Cesar. Cicero
! writes a letter TO a friend in which he tells
I MIN that he has just Toasted with Caesar.
/ He saws that they talked politics reclining
at the tab e. eating and drinking for some
time, and then took an emetic, and af er
the effects were over took wine to revive
then. and got fresh vIands, and at once
reclined at another least. So that then as
now the two most vulgar of appetite. viz,
giuttony and wine-bIbbing were beyond
intellectual control
HeathendOm today shows us the same
thing. Prof. Seelye after his return from
India told Us that he met among the
| Hindoos many o. the ripest scholars any,
where 10 be found. But theirs lie unadul-
teTated intellectualism. What has it done
for them-for India? Poligamy abounds.
! Woman is live brlc-a- brac. Caete splits
/ Hindoostsn up into classes. betwiXt which
/ there Is strict non-intercourse as there
was between France and England in the
! days of the first Napoleon. And OF
al liars" says Prof. Seelve, 'the edu-
Gated Hindoo is the chief.
/ The most eminent exponent Of intel
! lectualism in our times was the late John
Stuart Mil. His sad and cherries bl-
ography was given to the world few
years ago. His learning was simply
amazing. NurtGred in unbelief. schooled
in absolute atheism, he set out in life
with the idea that intellectualism was the
omnipotence which should perfect man
kind. But he had hardly reached his
twenty first year before his thought and
observation convinced him that intellect
ualism alone was fatally detective. To this.
therefore he added the culture of senti-
INDEPENDENTLY recognizing the fact
that mankind are governed more by feel
ing than intellect only Unhappiy. in
stead of proceeding to the true source OF
high feeling in rel II n, he rested the Gull
/ tivation of feeling In sentiment, in music,
painting poetry. and In what the Scotch
call the humanitles. At twenty-five he
met Mrs. Taylor, whom, TWO decades later,
4 l. ~ Al
shrine before which lie Worshiped.
I Writing after her death, he SAID Her
memory is to me a religion, and her apprO-
baton the standard by which, sum-
ming up as it does. all worthiness,
! / endeavor to regulate my lie"
Such is the testimony OF the foremost
| metap physician of the nineteenth century
the great apostle and high priest of intel
| lectuallsm. He himself hears witness by
word and deed to the insufficiency of mere
/ intellecIualism both as a prUpusive aud
as a restraining power. And being with
out hope and without God in the wore"
! the type scholar OF the century closes his
books in despair and goes out to seek his
God and create hi nope in the realm OF
fe-ling-in love. in wOmani There is no
more significant page in biography un less
il be that which records the similar in
stance OF Auguste Comte and his CO.
thiIde.
Congressman Burrows of Michigan, who
introduced a resolution for an investiga-
ton of the whisky trust, makes serious
charges against that organization, alleg-
ing, am ny other things. extensive
and injurious authorizations He saws:
From the same vat OF spirits can be
produced whisky of any age, rum from
Jamaica. or any other place on the globe,
brandy from the most celebrated d tricts
OF France, and the most approved after
dinner cordials. together with gin that
would deceive the most educated taste.
ANY and all of these can be produced
from few jars OF coloring matter and a