The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-05-03

one who Is acquainted with the best
that has ever been felt or thought. A
man of the world in ordinary use of
that phrase. Is not acquainted with the
past. The present engrosses him. What
can he see with his own eyes, hear with
his own ears, touch with his own hands.
The thought of the past or the present Is
not what engrosses him, but the feeling
of the present. Not what others have
thought. but what / can feel. He is apt
to conclude that the senses can teach
MIN everything. Thus. as the outset he
IS In danger of entering upon a partial
life. The fascinating. 'bewildering, as
sailing life" of the senses Is upon him.
SO far as he Is a man OF culture he will
be able to stand firm.
l do not like to see this new i6eal-to
be man of the world-usurping the
place of the ideals that once controlled
American life. IT IS pretty ideal The
puritan ideals were breadth itself COM
pared with 1t. The youth imag!nes that
by loafing around hotel. hanging
about the theatre. frequenting' saloons.
ne Is becoming one who knows life, and
IN less than five years you shall see
th!s silded youth set himself up as a
man OF the world. Has he education?
Is he acquainted with the achievements
OF the centuries that are gomez.
once knew character totally oppo-
site Brought up in a village, the bible
was almost the only book he ever saw.
This man, who could barely read. was
saving his pennies with the one ambi-
t!on of going to Palestine. He knew
nothing here. he thought he should know
everything there.
But these striplngs do not know
enough even TO look away to Palestine
or 10 any other country or time They
al
universe like caramel. Simply ia have
shaken hands with a gambler Is hardly
equivalent 10 matriculation into the
university of all science and experience
men the names cf a Gladstone. of a
f'opert Browning are mentioned how al
niost palmetto these dcluded boys seem
GLADSTONE. browning, men of the world
the world OF history OF science. of D.,
eiry. OF religion. as well as of In.
| senses-such see Efe whole, not in paris
| Inc past Is thclrs. The present is
| thea 3. Ail that books can teaoh Is
| theirs. All that polite society know
tney Know better. Not making pleasure
| thelr only pursuit, they yet reap richer
| harvests OF II than they who seek naush,
else. Theirs not the mistake wbicb 81.
been characterized as an attemn, -
pare from life only the thin peelinc of
happiness wholly separated from dutv
CariSae scornfully said that Arneric,
meant roast turkey every day for evarv
p2dy. Well. this is the mistake hamnay-
ca nations have ever made. They have
imagined that the thrill of a nerve
| was the direct road to heaven 7,
better for Rome when habits were -
simple that the Carthaginian ambassa.
dors TESTED that the city had but one sa.
OF silver service, for wherever thay
olned tney encountered the same. Tbs
gay came soon enough when Caesa,
was compelled to make sumptuary laws
table. 'ht
Another characteristic Of genuine mon
OF ,ne world Is their reliance upon prin
cipie more than experience.
snam men of the world are actuatet
| Sy the spirit which asks first. as Dea,
stanley put 1t, rs 1t safe?" and second
y, rs 1t true?" Policy. prudence
lsnre"dness are not their notices. Tn,