Year: 1866

seeing it in print. l give it word for word, as
found it. 1t is possible you may think the poetry
not sufficiently meritorious to be embalmed in print
but it conveys moral lesson and deserves preser-
vation.1


The wind roars, ... ..


The rain pours . .....
| ... DO up your chores,


Fasten your DOORS
" And go to bed.


And thus every night,


- May you take your delight,


In doing the right,


Indifferent quite


To everything said.


The rain does indeed pour from the clouds,
and, would have you, under the rule of
right, determine your position, by dutiful
consideration respecting the basis or un-
derlying principle of all philosophical in
vestigation. To analyze the theory of me-
chanical force as it may be applied to NOR
ality, and ethics, you are to prove all things
holding fast to nothing, for nothing venture
nothing have, and nothing is the result.
Mr.. Carlyle has written the life of Fred
eric Bradenburg, our old school-master,
whose theory of volcanic phenomena is
contained in Paul's speech to King Agrip-
pa, on the occasion of his coronation by
the Lord Bishop of Durham, at Schone, in
the highlands near Cape Matapan. You
will understand from this fact, that water
is fluid of a specific gravity of one in
ten, or hundred, or a thousand, as you
may chance to place your numeral on the
right or left of your decimal remainder
But all this counts for nothing in the great
calculation of antipathies, or as some the
ologians say, idyosyncrasies, but whether
of pleasure or pain, whether of justice on
the one hand or of conglobation on the
other, this deponent saith not. Further
than this, my Lord, cannot assert for
am bound by conscientious scruples and
have no doubt of the atomic theory of in
dividualities and infnitesimals, as contra
distinguished from Mr.. Emmerson's Histo-
ry of the Russian Campaign in Algiers,
and the duel between Peter the Great and
Emanuel Swedenborg.


That we may proceed in order, we are to
consider, first, the positive Philosophy of
John Calvin, and compare it with Swift's
Tale OF Tub for in these we find the
sum total OF the Unconditional Philosophy
OF Alexander Hamilton.-but of this more
when we come to our second part. The
American drama is founded on incongrui-
ties and impossibilities. We are lost in
meditations upon the starry heavens, and
borne away upon the wings of our own
fancy for where is the proof of the Divine
ailiatus IN reconstruction and gravity. Sir
Isaac Newton and P T. Barnum, have filled
the measure of their country's glory, and
the style of Naval Architecture has been
vastly improved since Boswell wrote the
Life of Andy johnson, and the Loves of
the Angels. Ours is not the degenerate
age some cynics call it, for the sun, the
moon, the stars, the nebula, and other
bodies belonging to the solar system, prove
the universally of nature, and men are
taught by irrefragible evidence the vanity
of human reason, and the folly of common
sense.


Our second part treats of man in his So
cial aspect, as an individual entity, as a
compound of body and soul, or of matter
and spirit In his social relations mans
inhumanity to man, makes countless thou
sands mourn This is not a text from the
Bible as some diyines quote it, but mel
ancholy truth, nevertheless See Josephus,
where not only a thousand, but thousand
thousand mourned, not only in sackcloth
and ashes, but in starvation and death -
See also-but it is too long a list to men
tion here. Julius Caesar says, or said, that
towards die many times before they are
stabbed in a Senate house, as he was,
when the ideas of March obtained such a
fixture in his brain as to Danish all fear of
death. Pity for him and all the world too,
for had he lived, Rome would never had a
Pope to write such nonsense about Troy,
and Paris, and Helen, the -(but we won't
call names in a moral DISCOURSE and a
wooden horse crammed with thousand
living men. doubt it somewhat,-a Pope
shouldn't tell fibs for he sits in Peters
chair, and is Peters legitimate son in the
church. But enough of the Pope and Pc
ter too-let all who read this history, bear
in mind what our great American poet has
written of Truth, one line of which l quote
lest it be forgotten


g Truth crushed to earth shall rise again in hel
majesty and beauty in some one of the long


years which are hers"


Alas, alas. how long deferred is her resur
rection from that death dark tomb which
error is one day to fill.


Now, nobody ever quotes the above line
in these days of premiums on Gold and
Fenianism but we must hasten to a con
clusion, nevertheless. Man is an indvidu-
al, and life is forced state He breathes
but the breath is forced into his body