Year: 1867

something, and no wit who Is good at every
thing. We DO not pick our juries from col
lege professors, but from men Of business
experience. To build house is a work of
common sense, but how few good houses do
we find Common sense, strong in some
nations, is weak in others. The English
are noted for it. Montesqaie thought there
was no common sense out Of England.


The man Of the world must have a direct
eye to facts. With these primary teachings
Of nature, before and after there comes So
ciety. No man Of learning listens without
envy to the sprightly and telling converse
Of merchants and men of business, WHO
are so conversant with the world that they
talk without embarrassment or restraint


The man of the world win listen with good
humor to arguments contrary to his own
belief though he does not change his course.
A cultivated person has the whole scale of
speech he can talk with scholars, in the par
lor, in the stFeet--eYeTywher as needed


Friendship Is species of nobility. So
clety Is word OF many meanings. 1t some
times means things very insipid and friyo-
lous. 1t teaches self-command, so that one
can everywhere be himself and comforta-
BILE. Ii teaches the law of conversation,
which is to hear as well as to speak Men
of rare intelligence are naturally solitary


Society is part Of our culture We want
the refinement of the gentleman. If cir
eumstance do not permit the high social re-
tinement, let it be remembered that solitude
has its value. Heaven sometimes protects
the thoughts Of a great man by con6ning
them in solitude. If it is a settled fact
that he and society shall be separate, why
need he blush so and bG so uncomfortable


But 1t is pleasant to see refinement pene-
tratlng into retired homes. The more piano
the less wolf, the less dirt The beautiful
should never be out Of thought 1t is as
right that the bread should be put upon the
table IN cOmely shape as that it should be
eaten.


The soul is always selecting from actions
that which IS human and superhuman
The heroic sacrifices something to humani-
ty There Is no face or form so uncomely
that 1t is not loved when associated with
high goodness or power, and if all were good
all would probably be great.


We all fall an easy prey to fine manners
The main power Of the South in our poll
ties was in their dinners and their manners
The North was talked over and talked down
by the social suayities Of that part Of the ma
ton.


But the true man Of the world is no mon
otone, no man Of one idea. He prefers a
middle condition, relieved from the task of
making show. lie tries to hide himself,
but his spirit discovers him. The one evil
Of the world Is blockheads the need of the
world Is scommon sense. The glory of Ameri-
ca is, as the glory Of Athens was in the exer-
else of creative power.


All the expenditure Of a cultivated man
upon himself is Ike the expenditure upon a
temple-public and benefcent


Wherever there Is a high civilization it is
the work ofgreat minds. France, the speak
er thought, is unjusty charged with being
simple frivolous on account Of her devotion
to fashion and refinement


Ii is the instinct Of men that education is
dangerous to tyranny The higher the cul-
ture the greater the liberty. The war has
established a chronic hope for a chronic
despair 1t is not question now whether
we shall be a nation, bat whether We shall
be new nation The humanity Of all ma
tions Is in the American Union.


Would chat we could feel that this eoan-
try is the last great charity Of the war, the
end Of all struggles to establish morality as
the object Of government. Intellect and
not property should be represented, or at
least not property without intellect. The
work Of America is 10 make the advance Of
ideas possble-to prove the principle that
everything that Is immoral IS human. In
the condition Of America at this hour pray
er has become right. Ii is relieved of its
moral curse it has no foreign complications;
it proposes to do right to all classes of its
people. and to make it possible that the
American eitizeus shall be true man OF the
world. .-Rdl0h WdldH Emerson.