| Show Culture and Practical Pontr When we see a man who adapts means to ends successfully wo say he Is a man ot creat Invention a man of resource Ilg nol crafty skIlful clever chfeWd Htnicjoux talented adroit sharp cpilbete all l of them having reference to the mind Without looking experience experi-ence it would be at once concluded by a reasonable man that iu proportion propor-tion as we increase the vigor and quickness of the mind and give It materials 01 which to fauna comparisons com-parisons we Increase In practical jiower Voltaire a man of genius and a poet was one of the most successful suc-cessful speculators 11 Europe Chln eu Gordon was a highly cultivated man with a cajacity for all things small and great lie could fight ride shoot tinker negotiate conduct campaigns and all with unhesitating selfri liancc Emln who prior to his capture was doing In Central Africa thc work whence Gordon was token is alto a man of great practical power Who Is he Well lie Is d blOwer whocarHtd with him an heroic will and a universal I uni-versal education Into the heart of the Dirk Continent Who isStanlej Who is the man whoso African campaigns have been marvel of management Ajournalist literary liter-ary nun The progress of civilization civiliza-tion I has equalized t the liyolcal i quilitifaofman In years gone h l j the tron nrm mltl It Is thc tronl heajrults today Force Is dcthroi ed and where brute violence wofe a comnvt which tomtlnuw gleamed gleam-ed with barbaric ornament intelligence in-telligence wearing a diadem in which there la I no false glitter in which every gem Is of the purest water silent orl1nlpo nlqultn A revolution the 11101 beneficent forman for-man hw taken place and It is the duty as jt should be the delight of every citizen lo cultivate bb facUlties facUl-ties Bacon has said Knowledge is power Knowledge haUo pleasure tOIIS1f li ure I think tOI is Sir Arthur Hell that says a man who goes through life kuowibg only the trade or profession pro-fession by which he gets his bread Is I a KXr stuDIed creature There Iii I a close relation iMitwetin all the arts bclnreri potlry palntlne music sculpture and genuine proficiency pro-ficiency in any one of these prepares pre-pares the mind lo enjoy tile productions the others tstl cannot can-not really daze any faculty of the mind and have the rest asleep Ilappy is it for the uncultured that they know not what they have lo then t-hen u man Is destitute of rom great I hysical attribute the most superficial obsefVcr rcCogalies his incompleUiicss The blind can never See the piltple conrsers of morning cliatu l ff t rtotti emU to e-mU l or evening steep the landscape land-scape I hi every glorious md tender hue For the deaf the birds sing the voice of woman Is low and musical mu-sical and tile wind that grand ill harper smites hit thunderharp of pine in vain So far a those who have no sense of smell wo concerned con-cerned tile care of nature In making every fioivefand hhrtib tutU grass odorous islooUi while the cripple crip-ple the rapture of energetic moment < mo-ment Is denied In all these cases men recognize the absence of a faculty which would be cheaply cheap-ly I purchased by colos al wealth Slut how If we should want the teeing I io and this Hearing ear In 1 a more Important I cense than I Is covered by any physical deprivation depriva-tion How If there is a subtle aroma about what has been lId l > y highly gllted men we cannot catch a flavor we cannot appreciate if nature and art Item with beauty which is for us as though It never wa how If there I < a mu ic In the music which our unstrained ears can not catch The men of genius come to us each with so mUslou One takes us up to the highest heaven of harmony anotherpurprs our eyes that we may see Gods glorious works as they are George Macdonald toys Burns rnl lon was I to show non there was poetry Immediately I Im-mediately around them at their very door Now beauty and utility go handInhand In nature and the same is true of all Slung hich enable us to know her better Take drawing and designing they Increase In-crease the power of observation along the whole line and develop le r fa accuracy In all matter on which tillS mind employs itself roroito VccLly |
