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Editors: NEXT The Lord Sackville West muid-| dle is just now attracting the atThere -+tention of two continents. is a grave question in the eyes of a 3, 1888, phy. It is doubtful whether. without certainty of death. Butas throughout in Nature there is found a remedy for every evil, or at least some indemnification, thus the same reflection that induced the recognition of death led to the metaphysical views which act as consolatory and. of. which the brute is neither in want nor capable. It is chiefly to this end that are directed all religious and philosophical systems, being, (in Schopenhauer’s mind) the antidote against the certainty of death produced by reflecting reason from her own resoueess: But the degrees in which this end is attained are very different; and it is good citizens | doubtless that some one religion or phiiarge number of whether the matter has not been losophy will enable man much more than PRESIDENT - Betore the Wirxty shall have appeared again, an election that is among the most important that have taken place in the Republic will have been decided. In previous élections for twenty-five years back there has always been some reliable given much greater prominence than its actual importance warrants. There is no question at all, however, that Lord Sackville has went outside of the legitimate bounds of his ministerial province, and that he has acted in a manner so indiscretionate as to be un- some other to face death with a calm countenance. Brahmanism and Buddhaism, which teach man to consider him the Being of itself, the “Brahm,” which knows of no coming nor going, are apt to effect much more in this direction than those systems which claim that he was made out of nothing or date his existence, received from another, only with his mundane birth. In accordance with this we find in India a confidence and a contempt of death of which western basis for a judgment as to the worthy of the great nation whose probable results. In the present representative he is; but were this nations haye no conception, campaign no such thing as a sub- country not now in the fiery heat stantial judgment is possible to of a Presidential campaign, in the first place it would not have been any living man. ‘There are those who think themselves qualified to likely to occur, and in the second guess and they are guessing, but place if it did occur there would their opinions are very much like Bro. Gardener’s passport to Saint Peter; he knew his salvation was sure because he did so long for it. We hear from Democrats who have reasons more potent than po- litical for wanting Cleveland elected that the outcome is as certain to be as they would have it as any mortal thing could be. Then along comes the money zealous Republican who is ready to wager the shoes on his feet and a year’s in‘|.come in advance that Harrison will be the next president. As a matter of clean fact the par- ty lines are so broken up by the tariff reform movement set in mo- tion by Cleveland that speculations on the election results, from whatever source, is mere idle clap-trap. ‘In the will Southern suffer no States the vote material change. The few negro voters whom three and a half years of Democratic rule may have redeemed from the delusion that with them it must be the Republican party or slavery, will probably change their ballot merely forthe novelty of the thing. On the other hand throughout the whole of the East, North and West election matters are in indeterminThe free-trade Re’ ate confusion. publicans with which the latter por- tions of the country are swarming are not liable to cast their political destiny with Harrison and Morton and the latter pledged to protection. As an illustration of this, before usis an interview by a representative of the New York Times with the members of the faculty of Cornell University, showing that the President and thirty-four the fourty-four professors will vote i twith the Republican party heart the voice of nature is everywhere of m infringing upon his territory. Young man, haye you been thinking of the meaning and significance of that word capability which in the aforesaid article was called to your notice?—I mean you. who are just at this moment pausing upon the threshhold of man- hood, dubiously. contending with your better ambitions whether you might not after crossing that critical landmark pine.for the ease and unconcernment of your present heedless, profitless, useless, condition of mind. That word comprehends a vast amount in this laborious life of ours. Suppose, then, to avoid possible confusion in the to- gether of In truth the fear of death is es: dent of all recognition; the brute has it, though not knowing ‘death. All that are born on earth bring it with them. But this very fear of death a priori is just the reverse of the will for life, which we all are. Hence there is innate to every animal, just as much as the care for its preservation, the fear of its destruction; it is this, then, and not the mere avoiding of pain that shows itself in the anxioussolicitude with which the brute strives ‘to make itself—and still more its offspring—secure from any one or anything that threatensdanger. Why does the brute flee, tremble and seek concealment? Because it is all will for human motive which such a question might involve, that we take a case which is plain and simple to see. We all are acquainted to some extent with the lives and ambitions of our friends. _ We will presume that they are all laboring with hand and brain for the attainment of a single purpose; namely, the gratifying of self, in a line with the prevailing civilization. In such a pursuit,at least one thing is absolute;namely, an independent livelihood. Regarding man then as an intellectual being there life, but is doomed to death and wants to gain time, Just the same, by nature, with man. The greatest of evils, the worst that can be impending anywhere is death, the greatest fear is the fear of death. Nothing impels us so irresistibly to the most active sympathy as another’s peril of life; nothing is mere horrible than the sight or thought of an execution. But this evident boundless attachment is yet too many mixing two. one thing beings; this you may of were rather appear foolish, inas- whether existence is preferable to non- make as broad or take to do. However beloved we may be of our friends for amiable manners, etc., if we are chronical failures in the though would more that is necessary as narrow as you please. Some persons © are satisfied with the confidential love of a single soul; others are not content with anything short of the whole world and God. into the bargain for their friends. Confidence implies truthfulness, and reliability in the things we under- fulfilment ment we promises, as confidence, lovable as. angels,. would be simply impossible. The fear or the reverence which we feel for the God of our religion springs largely if not wholly from our faith that His word of <i <E Qn Death and Its Relationship {0 the Indestructibility of Qur Being. BY LEO HA@®FELI, for his own person, but that he also mourns violently over the death of those |Prefatory—The following not claimed asoriginal from but asoriginal from their greatest philosopher of the ideas are the writer, author, the nineteenth century, if not of all ages, Arthur Schopenhauer. The present writer offers them not for their.readers’ or their own near to him; and evidently not out of selfishness over his own loss, but out of Points on Capability, | and esteem of at least some of his fellow to life cannot have sprung from thought before them that attach- of the phases of to his happiness, that is the confidence or reflection; It is indeed, a dangerous thing to im- much as the real value of life is a very press man in this important epoch with ‘doubtful quantity, and it is an even bet feeble and untenable notions by early teachings and thus to. render him forever not I think feel agrieved because existence. If one were to knock at the promise and His omnipotence in its fulincapable for the reception of the more portals of the tombs and ask the dead filment are absoliité: have been much less ee taken correct and permanent. | For instance, f whether they wished to return to their | Let us now take & Gasual census of — 3!to teach him that just lately he had former state, they might shake their ou? aGqtiaintances, say of the generation of it, Lord Sackville ‘ tustifies ie Pena ia grown out of nothing (Schopenhauer heads. This was even the Opinion of just in advance of ours. Among them not heard that “Topsy had growed”) Socrates who discotirsed go sublimely on we find representatives of all the legitiwishing the minister’s retirement, had and consequently had been nothing for the immortality of the soul, and even mate vocations of life, the day-to-day but the matter is one that cannot an eternity past, and still was imperishthe gay ahd amiable Voltaire could not laborer, the skilled artisan, the artist, and should not be treated in a too able for the eternity of the future, is help saying: “One loves life,but: nothing- the merchant, the writer, the lawyer, the hasty and summary manner. That just like teaching him that he, although ness is not without its good'side; and, politician, the judge, the governor and... the ‘act of our government to no thoroughly the work or product of I do not know what the eternal life is, even the President of the great Repubanother, still should be in all eternity longer recognize. Lord Sackvilie responsible for his commissions and omis- but I know that this one is a bad joke.” lic, all designing and striving to be At any rate this life must soon end; so happy through the attainment of conWest as British minister will ser- sions. For if then, with matured mind They all of course have other that the few years one perhaps has yet fidence. iously impair the friendly relations and superincumbent reflection, the un- to live disappear entirely before the end- motives as well, but I select this one existing between England and the tenableness of such doctrines forces less time when we will be no longer here. because, as I have said,it has no excep-United States few can believe; itself upon him, he has nothing better Hence, to a reflecting mind, it appears tions. ‘I ask you now ‘to look these to put in their place; in fact he is not acquaintances over carefully, and upon and the loud-mouthed ravings of capable of understanding anything like even ridiculous to worry so much about your judgment tell me which are ahead this span of time; to tremble so much certain English papers will receive it and thus loses the consolation which Is it those whose. when our own or our neighbor’s life is in the great race? little consideration from ‘those nature had designed for him too, as an endangered, or to compose tragedies the eyes are always on the alert for a loop- . who are inclined to take a sober indemnity for the certainty of death. very essence of whose horror is only in hole through which they can avoid or escape personal accountability, who preview of the situation. Only a few In consequence of such mental develop- the fright of death. ment we see now (in 1844) in England, fer using their hands for a dollar a day Consequently this potent attachment |days more and the whole matter among corrupted factory operatives, and to life is entirely unreasonable and rather than their brains for two dollars, will fade away into coniparative in Germany, among corrupt students, blind; it can only be explained from the or their hands and brains together for insignificance. the prevalence of the absolutely physi- fact that our whole very being is will for three or five or ten or twenty as the eal view of existence which leads to the life, whence our highest good, however case may be; is it those whose minds. result of “Hdite, bibite, post mortem from morning till noon, from noon till A MAN in Fall River, Massa- nulla voluptas (“Hat, drink and be embittered, short and uncertain. But cognition, far from being the origin of night and too frequently from night till chusetts, has discovered his back merry,” etc), which can be designated by are occupied continually that attachment to life, even opposes it, morning yard to be sowed with’ Spanish no other term than that of bestialism. out sources of temshowing the vanity of life and combat- in seeking After all, however, that has been ing the fear of death. porary diversion and gratification; who doubloons. One of his ancestors, are exhausting at least half their mental In short, all these reasonings aresuman associate of Captain Kidd, did taught about death itis not to be denied that at least in Europe (of course Schothe sowing, and left-a chart to tell penhauer’s idea here includes, or would marized by Schopenhauer in the four energies in shunning self sacrifice, and theses with which we close this some- working out schemes by which they may where it was done. Considerate include, America also) the opinion of what dogmatic but quite suggestive shift every disagreeable burthen that ancestor! Fortunate descendant! mankind, yea often even of the same essay: haps within. their way upon the shoul| It is seldom in mutations of this individual, vacillates from a conception 1. The Will for Life is man’s inner- ders of some one else. Or on. the other hand is the leader world that there come so happy a of absolute annihilation to an idea that most being. we are immortal, so to speak, with teeth 2. In itself this Will is blind, without in the race.he whose brain is constantly coincidence of circumstances. Wonand toe-nails. Either of these views is knowledge. exercised in. the study of the conditions — der if that man will be generous to equally incorrect; butit is not our prov3. Knowledge is originally a stranger about him that.he may avail himself of his relatives! ince to look for a middle between these to it, or supplementary principle. every legitimate means at his command; two extremes,but rather to try to attain 4, Knowledge struggles with Will and whose hands are ever ready in the perthe higher point of view,where and when our judgment gives its approval to the formance of duty, and whose eyes are on such extremes fall away of themselves the watch for opportunities to increase victory of knowledge over Will. from our mode of reasoning. powers;. who. seeks responsibility Addendum. The foregoing views will his In these considerations we will first remind readers of the higher class of because it adds to his resources and start from the empiric (experimental) the theology of Mormonism of many gives him additional powers; who, upon standpoint. There we first have th® ideas more or less plainly correlating, finding himself wanting in some imporindisputable fact that, according to although entirely independently evolved. tant requisite to his calling, instead of sinking back to.a lower level, bends his natural consciousness, man does not energies to the acquirement of a higher fear death more than anything else only of for Cleveland.~ “It is a signiticant sign,” observes one of them, “to see the majority of our earnest thinkers and students, who were but. Death there would be any philosophizing. A great Chinese work of antiquity says: “All men desire solely to’ deliver themselves from death; they cannot. deliver themselves from life.” agents, > ~~ QE kk convictions, only for specimens of the modern form of German thought in the field of metaphysics.] standard of capability; who dotes upon being capable of whatever he undertakes, and is. always in readiness to NAS Ele what he feels capable todo that will advance. his usefulness in the achievement. of. good purposes, and add there- IT want to make a few supplementary compassion over the great misfortune remarks on an article I read in the that has overtaken them; wherefore he WESTERN WEEKLY some two weeks ago, his energies reproaches as heartless and uncharita- addressed to the young men. The field fore. to. the value of and indeble those who in such bereavement fail of argument covered by the question. which, implies confidence J ACKDAW. to mourn or toshow grief. 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