St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-08

tribute bearing with 1t immortality.
That alone shall whisper the eternal
spiritual truth. 1t shall cover every
crumbling ruin of the old earth with liv-
ing vines and fragrant flowers. Men
gifted with this magic sense in its living
essence shall perpetually call aloud in
the earth's wilderness Of woe, to be
laughed at by their fellows: but remoter
generations of men and women shall
DOW before the tombs of these prophets,
and worship them as gods. | give il TO
Socrates, and he is superbly blest in tn e
companlonship OF Zantippe, and as he
listens to the ratings Of his tempestuous
spouse gains patience as teacher of
his fellows. L bestow it upon Buddh,
and he Is forever thereafter The Wise.
L confer 1t upon Mohammed, and
through his teachings millions OF inhu-
man barbarians bow at my altar and are
humanized. 1 battle Homer in it, and
men OF base clay become immortal in
courage, constancy and self-sacrifice. [
clothe the Son Of the Carpenter of Judea
with this divine essence. and this "mere
mechanical" proceeds to rey0lu-
tlonize the social system of man
KIND. L confer it upon a CON-
mon EngliShman - drunkard. actor,
Bohemian-poor in character as in
purse-and the whole world of rank,
wealth and intellect proclaim, marvel
ing: 1T cannot be. This man is to o
small to be so great. Let us gaza into
the clouds and find cryptogramr L
hnnnnly n
of Scottish plow boy, and his sublime
music swells, sweet and resonant,
around the world. i place it in the
brain of Franklin, and the puny arm of
man reaches into the clouds to pluck
down the lightning to his uses; in that
OF Fulton, and space is annihilated: in
That OF Morse, and time is chained: in
that OF Edison, and the stored sunshine
OF million years flashes brilliant day
light into the murky lnlstS of midaight.
"And So" God says. 1.-The blessing of
Imagination shall take the place of all
other blessings, counterbalance all there
is of actual evil, aud baptize humanity
with perpetual BENSON"
Men who write beautifully commit a
crime when they write realistically.
They betray the genius with which God
has vested them with the Judas kiss of
dirt. Any man with Imagination (pre-
supposing the liver and stomach 10 be
normaD owes it to himself and man
kind TO write sunshine. In every line
OF talent the pure note OF the robin
should be heard. Brooks just un-
chained from winters icy letters should
gurgle, ripple and murlnur gently and
rhythmically through each recurring
sentence. AS the curtain rolls down
upon the last scene of every drama
pictured by every poet, the boxes, par
quette and dress circle should rustic
and flutter out its most delicate per-
fumes; and the gallery gods go wild
with honest, though unkempt enthu-
Siasm.
Relegate lola to the everlasting
shadows; condemn HowallS TO rayless
Obscurity: crown Wallace with the Iau-
rel OF perpetual fame. ReSurrect the
gentle DIR. Primrose, and restore to life
again Tom Jones, and Wilhelm Melster,
and Goetz Won Berlichingen, and Rob
Roy. and Jean Vatican, and William
the Testy. Daily dealing with the ac-
tual is business, work. riot. Living for
day in the imagination is recupera-
ton, relaxation, rest. The man or the
woman who braveIy stoops to bear the
burden of actual life is entitled TO fire.
quent seasons uf repoSe in the Happy
Valley of Dreams.