The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-05

face. in fact. that he looked so virtuous that
be might commit any crime and no one would
believe In the possibility OF his guilt.
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once dissuaded youth from entering
the army. on which he was bent at the risk
OF breaking his mothers heart, by asking
him how he would prevent his sword from
getting between his legs IL quite staggered
him, he never eoived thc difficulty aud took
70 peace instead Of war.-Memoirs o. sydney
Smith.
There are certain half dreaming moods of
mind. IN which we naturally steal away
from noise aud glare, and seek some quiet
haunt. where we may indulge our reveries
and build our air castles undisturbed.-.
Westminster, Irving in The Mutability OF
Literature"
"a lovers plaid and a bed OF heath. -
says the right poetical Allan cunniugham,
ARE fayorite topics with the Northern muse
When tho heathei it IL bloom, It Is worthy
OF becoming the couch OF beauty sea
Of brown blossoms. undulating as far as the
eye can reach, and swarming with wild bees.
Is fine sight" Sir, | have seen it million
times, though / never set eyes on II. >
The globe we inhabit is dyisibe into two
worlds, one hardly less tangible. and far
more known, than the other-the common
geographical world and the world Of books;
and the latter may be as geographically set
forth. A man OF letters. ccnyersant with
poetry and romance might draw out very
curious map in which this world Of books
should be delineated and filled up, TO the
delight OF all eennino readers, as truly as
that In Guthrie or Pnkerton.-L Leigh Hunt.
in The World OF Books.
have been trying all my life to like
scotchmen, and am obliged to desst from
the experiment In despair. They cannot like
me-and. in truth. / never know one Of that
nation who attempted to do It There is
something more plain and ingenious in their
mode Of proceeding. We know one another at
! first sight. -
love quaker ways and Quaker worship.
! l venerate the Quaker PRINCIPLES. 1t does
me good for the rest OF the day when
meet any OF their people IN my path when
| am ruffled or disturbed by any occurrence
the sight OF quiet voice OF a Quaker acts
upon me as a yentlator tightening the air
and taking off load from the bosom. Blu;
/ / cannot like the ouakers Gas pesdemona
would saw to live with them. Charles
Lamb, IN Imperfect Sympathles"
But there Is Of culture another view, in
which not solely the scientific passion, the
sheer desire TO see things as they are, natural
and proper. in an intelligent being. appears
as the ground OF II. There is a view which
all the love of our nelghhor. the impulses
toward action. helm and benehcicnce. the de
sire for removing human error clearing hu-
man confusion, and diminishing human ms,
cry. the noble aspiration to leave the world
better and happier than we found it-motlYes
eminently such as we called social--eome
in as part Of the grounds of culture and inc
main and pre-eminent part Culture in tnen
properly described. not as having IT'S origin
In the love OF perfection; IT is study oil
perfection.
In thus making sweetness and light 20 be
characters Of perfection, culture IS Of IKE
spirit Of poetry follows one law with poetry
Far more than on our freedom, our pepu-
b. lation and our iudustrialism, many amongst
rs rely upon cur religious organizations ''
save us. ] have called religion yet more
important manifestation of human nature
than poetry because II has worked on q
broader scale for perfection and with greater
masses OF men. nut the idea of beauty Nnd
Of human nature perfect on all its SIDES,
which is the dominant idea of poetry, is a
true and Invaluable idea. though 1t has not
had the success that the idea Of conauerins
the obvious faults Of our animalty. and OF a
human nature perfect on the moral sac
which is the dominant idea OF religion =
has been enabled to have and II Is destined
adding to itself the religious idea OF de-
yout energy. TO transform and govern the
other Matthew Arnold in sweetness and
Light.