The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1894-05-31

'N"i SiN"eANoe hiShNi th"h pug FiN"i
beauty.
Indeed, we search in vain for ma.
ion who insisted more upon the glory
Of manhood than did the ancient
Greeks, History tells us that when
one Of their dramatists uttered the
words, ~ am man and nothing that
is common to man is foreign to me"
that the whole multitude Numbered
back its applause because the words
struck a chord to which every soul
thTobbed responsibility. They Odored
art, beauty and intellect. Versatile
and brilliant, they were fond OF and
eager for discussions.
In their CITIES, filed with msgnif-
cent temples, statues and colonnades,
wit and talens are the keys that un
lock tie doors OF every saloon. Her
cities became the center OF the worlds
history in all that pertains to the fine
arts Poetry and philosophy flourish
alike in her classic atmosphere, In
FAINT Greece produced Homer and
Hesiod, the patriarchs of epic poetry ;
coming down through the centuries,
SHE brings out in song, hymn and ode,
Sappho, Simonides and Pindar; IN
tragedy, Hlschylus, Sophocies and
Euripides in comedy, Ari tophanes
and Menander in history, Herodotus,
Thucydides and Xenophor in orato-
ry, Pericles and Demosthenes; in
philosophy, Thales, Pythagoras, Soc
rates, Plato ard Aristotle and many
Others, presenting in all wonderful
GALAXY Of iutellects, which the world,
before nor since has never surpassed.
But when we step from the past 10
the present, we find that with many
the ideal of humanity is much lower
than this. We find, for instance, that
not few have returned to the physi'
cal ideal-not as il WIS even among
the ancients, physical grace and sym
metry, but simply muscular strength
and endurance, and this is prevalent
in circles where we might justly ex
pect something better. We shoulC
not speak disparagingly of true physi
cal culture fer the right purpose. 4
mans body is the temple of the soul
But the highest type OF manhocC
must be higher than Drawn.
AS pendulum always swings t,
the extreme, so we have class 0
: idealists the antithesis of this Thes
are the a,thetic. To them, life seem
to be melancholy symphony, stud
= in the art Of posturing, search ate
the utterly utter and the intensely in
q tense, Any attempt to arouse sue
, to enthusiasm for &ny cause, t
q awaken sympathy for the weak an
o oppressed would be utterly vain bu
. they can be thrown into almost I'll
comfortable ecstasy by the sight {
q some beautiful picture, painted eithe
in the imagination or on the canvs
& but, of course, none Cf us come III
y der that class
, Another id 81 is the one who make
q up his life 10 substituting for the verI
Ito be-" the verb, ito appear"-he ca
not conceive OF gentleman or lad
dressed in the coarsest materials il
. stead of the finest brOadcloth Al
. other, the secular ideal Of weall
social position, handsome house an
o fine equipage. The stamp Of manhoC
y with such is the stamp OF the coir
honor, virtue, noble sentiment an
generosity are MOI found in their vei
q limited vocabulary.
; Again, lie ided Of others is cute
;, lectual," which stands immcasurab
far above the others to which reie
3 ence has bceu made Manhood wit
4 such is to tie reached by the culture
- the mind Know Wedge is powe
- Daniel Webster said "fhe intel
y. gence of the people is the security
the nation" There is in this ide
4 that which commands our udmi alto
'Tis inspiring to see men and womt
y climbing HE steep hillside Of know
a edge st king the .ratdest Of all pc
session, - Truth.
= But there is an ideal higher eve
than this. There is a ftandard that
divine aud the highest type of ma
hood or womanhood is reached on
as we approximate to that. This
not physical, not secular show, not i
tellectual development alone, b
N moral character. Daniel Webster al
Al said on one occasion, that the me
% important thought that ever cross,
rs his mind was his personal responsib
"a ity to God. Twas Henry Clay wi
N said, Il would rather be right Thu
OF president" and thus the words, n
only Of these men, but also multitud
ID Of others, but also multitudes of othe
as who have fought the battles of Iii
BIT tell us that moral character is tn
10 moral character is that which max
's men and women. That part of
IN which lasts is that which we al
he Character makes the man. Tru
has it been said that our reputatiC
OF is what men and women see us to
~ our character is what God and Il
s. angels know us to be
As l said in the beginning it res
rs with US as TO whether we will ma
n ourselves true men and women or nj
We are the architects of our ov