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Collectanea.
aspire to the highest , and this in their sleep-walking , they dream is highest . AVake them , and they shall quit the false good , and leap to the true , and leave governments to clerks and desks . This revolution is to be wrought by the gradual domestication of the idea of culture . The main enterprise of the ivorld , for splendour , for extent , is the upbuilding of a man . Here are the materials strewn along the ground . The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy—more
formidable to its enemy , more sweet and serene in its influence , to its friend , than any kingdom in history . For a man , rightly viewed , comprehendeth the particular nations of all men . Each philosopher , each bard , each actor , has only done for me , as by a delegate , what one day I can do for myself . The books which once we valued more than the apple of the eye , we have quite exhausted . AVhat is that but saying that we have come up with the point of view , which the universal mind took
through the eye of that one scribe ; we have been that man , and have pushed on , first one , then another , we drain all cisterns , ancl waxing greater by all these supplies , we crave a better and more abundant food . The man has never lived that can feed us ever . The human mind cannot be enshrined in a person , who shall not set a barrier on any one side to this unbounded , unboundable empire . It is one central fire , which , flaming now out of the lips of Etna , lightens the Cappes of
Sicily ; and now out of the throat of Vesuvius , illuminates the towers and vineyards of Naples . It is one light , which beams out of a thousand stars . It is one soul which animates all men . —Man Thinking , an Oration by R . W . Emerson .
LOVE OF COUNTRY . —As Abernethy saicl the parks of London were its lungs , so our mountains , forests , and moor-lands are the lungs of the whole country . It is there we drink in from all things around us a new life , a new feeling , full of the benevolent calm which is shed by its Creator over the world . Scott said he must see the heatherat least once a year , or he should die . Crabbe mounted his horse in a passion of desire which could no longer be resisted , and rode fifty miles to see the sea ; and more or less of this feeling lies in every bosom that is not totally dead to the true objects of life . —Howitt .
MARCH OF INTELLECT . —A famous lecturer on English grammar , in explaining to his pupils that the noun was the foundation of all the other parts of speech , said it was like the bottom wheel of a factory , being that on which all the other parts of speech depended , in the same manner as the upper wheels of a factory depended on the loiver one . Having occasion afterwards to examine his pupils in parsing , he asked a fine stout lad , " What is a noun ? " when the other replied , with an air
of entire confidence , " It ' s the bottom wheel of a factory . " ABUSE OF LABOUR . —Men often toil all their lives , and refuse the enjoyments ' -ivhich can onl y be relished when life is in its prime , that they may be rich when the power of enjoyment is over . HYPOCRISY . —Hypocrisy is a moral pestilence ivhich wafketh in darkness . We feel it not till its cold hand withers our bowers of lovelinessblights all our joysand turns our garden of liht into a
wilder-, , g ness of woe . An orator , holding forth in favour of women , concluded thus , " Oh , my hearers , depend upon it nothing beats a good wife . " I beg your pardon , " replied one of his auditors , " a bad husband does . "
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Collectanea.
aspire to the highest , and this in their sleep-walking , they dream is highest . AVake them , and they shall quit the false good , and leap to the true , and leave governments to clerks and desks . This revolution is to be wrought by the gradual domestication of the idea of culture . The main enterprise of the ivorld , for splendour , for extent , is the upbuilding of a man . Here are the materials strewn along the ground . The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy—more
formidable to its enemy , more sweet and serene in its influence , to its friend , than any kingdom in history . For a man , rightly viewed , comprehendeth the particular nations of all men . Each philosopher , each bard , each actor , has only done for me , as by a delegate , what one day I can do for myself . The books which once we valued more than the apple of the eye , we have quite exhausted . AVhat is that but saying that we have come up with the point of view , which the universal mind took
through the eye of that one scribe ; we have been that man , and have pushed on , first one , then another , we drain all cisterns , ancl waxing greater by all these supplies , we crave a better and more abundant food . The man has never lived that can feed us ever . The human mind cannot be enshrined in a person , who shall not set a barrier on any one side to this unbounded , unboundable empire . It is one central fire , which , flaming now out of the lips of Etna , lightens the Cappes of
Sicily ; and now out of the throat of Vesuvius , illuminates the towers and vineyards of Naples . It is one light , which beams out of a thousand stars . It is one soul which animates all men . —Man Thinking , an Oration by R . W . Emerson .
LOVE OF COUNTRY . —As Abernethy saicl the parks of London were its lungs , so our mountains , forests , and moor-lands are the lungs of the whole country . It is there we drink in from all things around us a new life , a new feeling , full of the benevolent calm which is shed by its Creator over the world . Scott said he must see the heatherat least once a year , or he should die . Crabbe mounted his horse in a passion of desire which could no longer be resisted , and rode fifty miles to see the sea ; and more or less of this feeling lies in every bosom that is not totally dead to the true objects of life . —Howitt .
MARCH OF INTELLECT . —A famous lecturer on English grammar , in explaining to his pupils that the noun was the foundation of all the other parts of speech , said it was like the bottom wheel of a factory , being that on which all the other parts of speech depended , in the same manner as the upper wheels of a factory depended on the loiver one . Having occasion afterwards to examine his pupils in parsing , he asked a fine stout lad , " What is a noun ? " when the other replied , with an air
of entire confidence , " It ' s the bottom wheel of a factory . " ABUSE OF LABOUR . —Men often toil all their lives , and refuse the enjoyments ' -ivhich can onl y be relished when life is in its prime , that they may be rich when the power of enjoyment is over . HYPOCRISY . —Hypocrisy is a moral pestilence ivhich wafketh in darkness . We feel it not till its cold hand withers our bowers of lovelinessblights all our joysand turns our garden of liht into a
wilder-, , g ness of woe . An orator , holding forth in favour of women , concluded thus , " Oh , my hearers , depend upon it nothing beats a good wife . " I beg your pardon , " replied one of his auditors , " a bad husband does . "