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Show OUR DAILY LITERATURE. Tnere is auJ cn be uo sceers to the general mind but by be way of general truth. A daily newspaper may uot expressly obtrude univ.rs&l principles, but should never forget ihem. Na euterpriae depends eo much lur the full measure of its sua cees on philosophy, truly so called, as the daily press. Aud yet it might be i inexpedient to make explicit meutiou j of philosophy at all. Jt is "Great Hrarl" that conducts "Feeble Mind" and "Ready to H-ilt" thruugh tbti: I pilgrimage. Tuere wis never such! acope for the play of magaanimiiy, in the full meaning ol tbe term, aa iu, Oaiiy journalism. Perhaps I shall be Owtter understood by say iog tliat tbe conductor ol a daily ouru-tl must te wiUely and prolouudly verseU iu bu i man uulureu And this invmrcs more tuan science or suarpue?s; mur than ahrcwJnsa of intight into cuuracter; muie than tlio talents mat goes to the composition of a pouuuan. wuuoui caul; yet not without thorough benevulence, con--cioutneea of a purpose that could untold un-told it-felf to all ebould it not be necessary cr pioper, yet no breath of pretentiuusn.B; tinnut tn.it tails nut and cnarity tbat Uilo nut, direr ing uutaihu poll leu ess ul uemeanor; a pbilaothrutjic Uiue of thought tbat cuJum aptly aud filly tbe treatment of me iowueot lopic. Such thesa are qualities that seem iudiepenoibie in a pubhc mentor, teacher, preacher and uiUe, and tDeretore neceary in the conduct of a daily paper. Otherwise expressed again: A soundness ot judgment judg-ment thai U too result of the good culture of a good heart; or again, good seube so well disciplined and irue tbat it cannot be U5tm by sur prise; or again, the Jearnedness that nas read the volume of human nature tnruugh, page by page and line by une; and yet believer in human ua t .re, loves numan nature, reverences human nature, and gives to humanity pity, sympathy aud honor. Less man thmw too little; more than this is not too much. It is a fortunate peculiarity of our country, morally and socially, that the popular habit is so thoroughly practical prac-tical that we combine more or less tue calculating lone witb the speculative, specula-tive, and cherish an ideal witbour surrendering ourselves to it. Another ixmeideraiion: The majestic greatness of a nation is a safeguard, because it combined interests so diverse and momentous that the tendency or inn of any one line of interest or ot ueal speculation is neutralized by iiher interests, and our policy is tnus iendered stable and crude revjiuuona prevented. Tue journalist must then be nurougbiy informed and well disposed dis-posed with regard to all diverse n tcrests, and high aspiratives. caid tbe old heathen epecuiaiial: "I aui man, and think notbiug foreign to myself that concerns mankind." L'here is, ii one may so express mm nelt, hardly anoiber term coveting the full meaning of the function, and so nearly equivalent to tbe trae Uefinitionof the woid "tditor" as the word "man." Gentilb. |