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Show The Inspiration ol Patriotism. Tyndall says: "In his efforts to cross the common, com-mon, bourne of tho known and the unknown, the effective force of tho man of" salenco must depend, de-pend, to a great extent, upon his acquired knowledge. knowl-edge. - But knowledge alone will not suffice; inspiration in-spiration must lend its aid." Then he explains that scientific inspiration is the effect of deep study. We suspect that were he alive now, and were he to ro-wrlte the above, he would say that inspiration comes through concentration of thought upon any high theme. But that would not cover half the fields in which inspiration gives direction to the human mind and causes men, deep in the night, to write things sometimes that surprise them, when they Tead them in the monning. And the sources of inspiration are infinite. The Frenchmen would not sell the lady a pair of children's shoes. "But," said the lady, "can you not make another pair like these?"' "Ah, madame," was the reply, "I made those shoes in one moment of inspiration." inspira-tion." The shoemaker was afraid that ho could never again call around him the thoughts and feelings that materialized in that pair of children's shoes. Tyndall's words appear in the opening of his essay upon that intangible something which we call "the sky." He had watched it through the days and nights of half a life time. Ho was an expert on colors and how they were brewed. He was an export upon the air and know all its subtle mysteries. Ho was an export on tho sunlight sun-light and knew all the laws of reflection and refraction. re-fraction. He was an expert on heat and cold and knew how they presented themselves, and what changes they could bring in colors and in tho pictures which nature in her different moods presonts to us. Ho knew that tho sky was an optical delusion, framed and hung to glvo rest to the myriad eyes that would be strained to see, and to tho myriad souls that, gazing upward at the magnificence of a soft night, would long for a sign through which its wonders might be explained. And ho, adept that he was, with the herl, strained his eyes to the blue vault, lighted by the reflected sheen of planets and the electric light of infinite, far-off suns, like the herd was searching for the explanation of tho mysteries that overwhelmed him with their glory. How many years he wrestled with the problem prob-lem no one know; but when an explanation Anally Anal-ly came to him he said with awe: "It is inspiration." inspira-tion." We toll lovingly of tho mighty intellects that framed our Government and gave It form among the governments of the earth. And theirs were great souls, sure enough; but their equals in that regard live In ovory generation. That govern- I ment which they1 gave to us did not come from H their intellects. Their minds enabled them to I give it form in words which the humblest may jfl understand, r but the inspiring cause behind all H was their patriotttm. In their souls for' years the H master thought was to dedicate the now world to a form of freedom that would open all the, gates I of promise to all tho people and through which H they might work out a matchless fruition, and H that longing finally brought tho harmony of H spirit which made their work read to all men H like inspiration. We know this is true bedauso H when "wo analyze the characters oC the" men, thdy 1 'wore not porfeot men at all. Washington loved H money and tried Some rather sharp practices to H obtain it. . Hamilton loved power , and the order H which comes of a power strong, enough to' control H the elements around it to compel power. Jeffer- , H son was a natural aristocrat; ho was, moreover, H envious of others who seemed to be more in the public eye than himself. Franklin loved monoy H and science and gloried in his belief that in the H latter field he had achieved for himself immo& H But .when - they came to consider the form of HI government which would last and give to tlie H people their rights for all time, all that was little fl in their naturos was subordinated and they were H inspired; H And eaoh onje JfiiawJ.hOfrealsecrftf ln,hlg own jH soul and that was why they placed in the hands B of the people, to bo their perpetual defense, an H untrammeled ballot, their reasoning being that H under such blessings as the new government H would be to tho people, there would such a pa- H triotism spring up in their souls that tho inspira- H tion would be given them to do right and to vote H right and to) compel the right. H And the reason that Utah has gone wrong M politically from the first is because the needed flj patriotism has been smothered in the people's H hearts; their true fealty hag been to another H power, and tho light of the inspiration which H comes of real patriotism, real love for the land I that has drawn so many blessings around them, H which opened every opportunity of the wonderful H land to them, has never been theirs, and because H of this tho peace and' faith -which comes with full I love of country has never been theirs. H |