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THE HESPERIAN STUDENT.
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soul advancing, fairly rising over the
foolish greatness of u boy's long thoughts;
but. itiunniliiitul.v loso'your confidence in
(lie Intro's ability to climb, Napoleon like,
over dlflloultios, when you rend " when I
have forever lout her," and see by that
that his enthusiasm is tho apparent out
come ot a foolish heart sol in conjunction
with powerful mind. We pa&s over
many incidents that are of apparently lit
tle worth, (though thuy all aid in the one
object), viz. : His attending the theatre at
Hookdorf; hi arrival in the sweet little
town where he met Philina, and some ac
tors, associated and picnicked with them,
until we find him in conversation with (lie
stranger who pcrsonilics the parson dur
Jng their pleasure-excursion. Speaking
of educating, the manner of, the stran.
ger is made to say : " the man com
monly styled a genius, labors under great
er disadvantages than he who possesses
In form; and though distasteful to Wllhelm looked to replenishing her scanty excheq
from his small minded Insinuations, yet, lucr; Laertes appeared to have no parttcu
Wilholm could not resist his repeated en- laraim; but Wilhclm was devoting him
treaties to Invest In the theatrical stock, self to what Werner would call Idleness of
Ills disgust at Philina Is only temporary. ' the worst sort; but what was In reality
He fairly likes Laertes. Is mystified by lifting him to a level with himself. To be
before the Christian cm, obtain the thought
heroin so clearly expressed? Was it n
happy accident, a guess, or a religions
tradition? A religious tradition, I think
it must have been; for, In writing of the
creation, an ancient poet, who was clear
Mlgnon. Has formed no opinion what a successful middle-class man, one must i of all purpose In the Interest of science,
ever of Frederick. And his sudden fancy
for the old harper is surely a characteristic
action of an Impulsive mind that knows
no obstruction to the attainment of its
fancies. The pathos of the author Is no
where more copiously expanded than in
the scenes betweon Wllhelm, the old nar
por, and Mlgnon. There is some senti
ment, too, in the old man's songs, though
much of their beauty is lost in translation.
But a person of Wilhelm's stamp could
not possibly bo stayed in middle classes.
be self-interested, overcoming ideas by ac-. would have set forth the things commonly
lions, being made active by necessity as believed. It may have been one of those
I well as by combustion of thought. Ac- legends floating down the ages from tho
cumulation builds up reputation, with time when man conversed familiarly with
them. But with the class Wilhclm was the angelic beings who instructed him
for bis destiny, and that died out with thu
subjugation of primitive races.
It also seems to me that Ovid's account
about to enter, there was no dependence
upon pecuniary welfare. They were de
voted to culture, and the study of the
arts--what Antony would call " base imi- ( of the Four Ag ., of the Battle of tho
tatioir" They were uevoted to culture i Glanta, and of tho Deluge, is but an im
from sheer necessity of their situations. ( perfect statement of what Moses relates
But it killed actions of any particular j more clearly. Everything stands in 1U
It does happen, in aristocratic countries, j magnitude. They never allowed them-.order; tho steady lapse towards utter
that ability w'lM rise above custom, though 'solves to bo carried invay by an Idea; else wickedness, the giant btood of robbers
It Is not ordinarily so. His introduction j thuy might possibly have risen above im-, and murderers, and finally tho Deluge for
only ordinary talents, as the one can be ( to the countess, and his actions during the itating imitations, and studied with the renovation.
more easily mislnstrueted and driven 'lime, indicate plainly hi, former assocla- Gods themselves. Their affluence uncon-, XXV.
more inetrievably in a wrong direction tions. His slight embarrassment, in con- Isclouslj bore down their strength. Doubt-' ii,ato, of mohuow.
than the other." At this we are reminded versatlon with the countess, tells us that she lest, they would look now upon the self' Catherine II., of Russia, having Invited
r Byron, and the discussions that iiavo j was the first lady of refinement that he had nuule heroes of inodern days, with as inuch , Diderot to visit iier, at her capital, pro-
arisen over the distemper thai was born, ever met. And the doings of the om- desire to compete in worth, as did Wil J posed to amuse herself one day by having
and seemingly partly bred in him by a 'puny after their engagement by the Baron, ' helm upon them. They looked, to him, him bait Pinto, the highest church digni-
foolish, fond parent. "But will not genius 'makes them no wiser than those of the 'like the golden lining of a cloud, whose tary of her empire. Accordingly, having
Favo itself?" asked Wilhclm, "is she not .dame profession in the nineteenth century, richness of liuo contained the storm thai , given Diderot some hints of the line of
competent to heal her self indicted , that is, " they ordered a better dinner than
wounds?" " No one should they had lately been accustomed to enjoy."
flatter himself that he can overcome the This, of course, is tho company Molina
impressions of his early youth," icplied has managed to collect at the tavern
tho stranger. This would throw many a where they were all stopping. Hut Wil
weight upon blameless souls, if it had ev- helm debated with himself some time be
cr been the cause :f a paralysis of the ef- fore concluding to visit tho castle with the
forts talent continually makes, in this troupe. The fasclna'ion of the glimpse
age of freedom, to tin on off the enthrall- 't higher life his short talk with the
menl of inferior youlhtul associations, countess had given him, overcame an)'. lias shown itselt to be in the man, not in The method of Plato's notification of
"JIappy those whom Fate protects and j reasonable objections he might have had ' his situation. How much better is ho that his elevation to the Primacy, was eliarae
cducatos according to his talents," said , to allowing the company to play at the1 baffles envy, struggles with destiny, to . teristlc of Catherine's levity. In the rll
Wilholm. "Fate is in truth an excellent, castle with Ills assistance. His "great ob- -grasp a crown, than whom Fortune sets ual of the cathedral sen lee at Moscow
but a dear instructor. I should rather re-!j'ct was to study mankind." That is, it upons an high hill, eyon the high hill of there is a prayer for the Metropolitan
ly upon the understanding of a human ' '. nt that particular moment. But his aristocratic security. He shall have more , Upon the death of Plato's predecessor, it
teacher," said the stranger; which would knowledge in that direction rendered him perfection, tor he must have .siillored had been determined to raise him to the
was hid beneath. If the same scenes were conversation he was to pursue, she sent
set for to-day, they could look at him, ' for Plato, and introduced him to tho
with his sturdy, eourlicrlike form, and Frenchman. As soon as all parlies were
uncommon brilliancy of mind, and per- seated, Diderot abruptly addressed the
ceive the extra acknowledgments he , Primate with the exclamation " JVwj et
would receive from the men of learning VA,u!" Quick as lightning Plato re
and the world in general, after he , spondod In the words of the Psalmist,
should have attained the topmost ro'und; JJix.it xtultiii in conhmto, Xoiut Dm;"
simply for the reason that performance and there the conversation ended.
lead us to the prosaic life of imitation, little wiser He was just as apt to he swin
and kill all experience, good or bad, died by Molina, cozened by Jarno, or led
make homely youths ot us all, with home, into a pitfall, at the end of his career, as at
ly wits, to boot. But then again, ho talks i the moment he exclaimed: "What ease,
so soundly whm he adds, " Are not many what a natural urace is theirs, who are born
things v'r mighty in their hcginnigfl. to hereditary fortune!" Iiis marriage with
which after all, terminate very absurdly ?" 'Natalia justitles this assertion. In that
WPhcIin is plainly in the dark hero, for case, reason affection would have well-nigh
In; suggest, " Yon jest." Willi Founder, crushed him, hut for the foolishness of
lie vainly imagined that the "attractions crack brained Friedrieh, and the soliclla
are proportioned to the destinies;" but ' tions of Lothario. In litis he seemed al
wilh Emerson, he was- yet to see that De?.- most as entirely disinterested as, at the out
tiny lies willi Deity, common sense with J set of his career, he was in his association
man. His enthusiasm was of the poetic with the troupes of actors he so frequent
kind, but ho found himself at a loss when , ly met. His discomfort at the castle,
ho came to converse with experience. He J keeping himself with the rest of the com
had not yet learned that pedantry consists j puny, when his bearing might have so
in strictly adhering to technicalities; ob- cured him holler quartern are the actions
livion to the end in view through a too ; of one who lias not yet found the faculty
are
amount to
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greatness, fearing pedantry. All this talk .Tlu culture of the higher life imflled his l('moi,,,,ni,lnn
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often found shelter In silence, hut we can- were as Gods to him. Like Dial.' temple , ""'""""' "w 'ru ouori.. urn, turning
not see, at his next conveaMition, bo It, as viewed by those of tho present Ilg(. ',,)V,'r " n'J'.v V Ovid's Metamorphoses, a
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icrru imiibiMi MiiiiruiuiL iui inn iiuiiiiii- iiiinu wo can piaiuiy see, will never cry
greater self-denial. Kami's.
(l.i bucoiitluiluri.i
Hemps from my Note Boole.
XXIV.
OVinoNUKVKI.OPMBNTOKMOHT ANDIIKAT
There are two promicnt hypotheses 'a
to the source whence (he sun derives its
light and heat without apparent diminu
tion of its mass. The first of these assorts
that there are vast' streams of meteoric
substances, (such as tho earth crosses twice
in its annual orbit,) constantly falling into
tho 1 in II id ocean nf .vi.i-liit.tiiiir llmm. lli.it
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surges over the solar surface. This by. ' "' """ "HK,.U ,,,m w n'ml ,,,c' s"'",,m
polhesis is the more commonly received. ' I'"'";1" t!;""'1' ''' Pler wiih blank;
The second maintains that the' light mul ,1,,,,.lh; "wl.v-xvitl.scl Metropolitan did as
heat of the sun are the result of pre,, re . ' ' "" ' I"c"r,,u" "uw unpressive
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fin in. mi, i."iiiiin;iii'iii unit, ; uimi creaii'u
the world out of nothing." These Morlc
I glean from Dean Stanley's History of the
Kastern Church.
vacant dignity; but the matter was care
fully concealed from him, and the priest
who was to conduct the sen ice for Iho day
was instructed by the Empress to intro
duce Plato's inline into the prayer for the
Metropolitan. His stmt of surprise, when
ho heard his name in that connection, win
an object of such amusement to Catherine,
that she had Plato' portrait painted as at
the moment of listening to tin' ill timed
announcement, and to-day it may be seen
in tho Bethany convent,
The Km press once had a sheet of paper
sent to Plato as lie was ascending the pul
tj to defend himself from (lie plunder
ings of his so newly made and readily
accepted friends, is boyish in the extreme.
We have no menus of knowing his exact
ngo at this time, but would think him
about 22 yeais old. Old enough at least to
discriminate between characters, and to
lseern an object in every man's encroach
mentupon his poeket-monoy. But here
;gnln, wo And that our hero was himself
bound, and fairly set -In the stocks, of
arly associations. Molina wks a prince,
out impatiently at the "utter lack of men
giiiningwlfh thcfiwih, Hook 1., struck me
as having probably suggested his line of
In Italy." as' did Napoleon who., he '''"'' ''"; i'n..nn scientist, to who...
petulantly remarked that there wore hut
three men in the entire peninsula.
Wilholm was undoubtedly superior
to his associations; else why the
attention of (lie Countess at first
we owe the notion that pressure, such as
(tod alone can bring to bear, is the source
of solar flame:
" VI x ft limit tlntM ilinMipiuriil timiilfi i-crtlK.
Cunt we trettit dlu iuuhhu lot mire niiIi llln,
XXIV.
ll.l.i:ilTIMA(V AVI) KKVOI.ITION.
It is a source of wonder in most people
that Paris is so full of communists, ami
always ripe foi revolution. Since 17WI,
no government in France has lasted long
er than twenty years; and the question
that plagues every ruler Is, How to keep
the dangerous classes of Paris under con
trol. But one glance at statistics clears up the
mystery. In I84H, at the time of tho
HUleeu rotntrunt loin Kfftrrtttert roeto."
aigm. one louixi in Him tlic l Bcarecly Had ho separated all these with-, overthrow of the Orleans dynasty, Hu
man of ideas, not of actions. One in certain limits, when tho stum, which, population of Paris nuniberei' 1,05),XX)
who should have boon set in a more exalt- 'premed, long lay hidden under ihnt mass, inhabitants, of which 1100,000 were of ille
ed sphere. Bcflnement knows refinement ; began to urvwfertcnt in the whole heaven. gitimate birth. The proportion is alKiut
vulgarity knows it only as pride. Molina ) Where did an old Roman poet, who died ! the same to-dny. Onctliinl of tho noonle.
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