The Influence of Moral Causes Upon Opinion, Science, and Literature: A Discourse Delivered on the Day Preceding the Annual Commencement of Amherst College, August 27th, 1834, at the Request of the Literary Societies of that InstitutionHenry Ludwig, 1834 - 44 pages |
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à me alienum action alienum puto ancient genius argument authority beneficent BEQUEST OF EVERT CAUSES UPON OPINION character COLLEGE comprehension contemplation of man's contradic Creator's described by Milton desire of benevolent doctrines dogma effect eloquent energies England error EVERT JANSEN WENDELL evil excite eyes facts utterly faith fame fancied favourite feeling fortemque full conception gain glory habits happiness heart human humble INFLUENCE OF MORAL intellectual interest involuntary ignorance judgment knowledge labour laws learning ledge lence light literary talent literature lonely minstrel's pride mathematical means ment Mental indolence mighty mind mind's moral causes moral character moral inquiries nature nobler numerous and complicated passions physical philosophy pleasure poli principles professed proud purer pursuit rational reality rills sagacious scholar sense side sion speculative reason speculative science surer taste teacher tendency theory things thou thought tical tion true truth vanity vast and wide victory whilst wisdom wise
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Page 38 - Alas! the fervent harper did not know That for a tranquil soul the lay was framed, Who, long compelled in humble walks to go, Was softened into feeling, soothed, and tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Page 33 - cui bono " to what practical end and advantage do your researches tend? is one which the speculative philosopher who loves knowledge for its own sake, and enjoys, as a rational being should enjoy, the mere contemplation of harmonious and mutually dependent truths, can seldom hear without a sense of humiliation. He feels that there is a lofty and disinterested pleasure in his speculations which ought to exempt them from such questioning ; communicating as they do to his own mind the purest happiness...
Page 38 - Scot, exclaims the lance! Bear me to the heart of France, Is the longing of the shield — Tell thy name, thou trembling field! Field of death, where'er thou be, Groan thou with our victory! Happy day, and mighty hour, When our shepherd in his power, Mailed and horsed, with lance and sword, To his ancestors restored Like a re-appearing star, Like a glory from afar, First shall head the flock of war!
Page 38 - Now another day is come, Fitter hope, and nobler doom : He hath thrown aside his Crook, And hath buried deep his Book ; Armour rusting in his Halls On the blood of Clifford calls ; — " Quell the Scot," exclaims the Lance — Bear me to the heart of France, Is the longing of the Shield — Tell thy name, thou trembling Field ; Field of death, where'er thou be, Groan thou with our victory ! Happy day, and mighty hour, When our Shepherd, in his power, Mailed and horsed, with lance and sword, To his...
Page 33 - ... pleasure in his speculations which ought to exempt them from such questioning : communicating as they do to his own mind the purest happiness (after the exercise of the benevolent and moral feelings) of which human nature is susceptible, and tending to the injury of no one, he might surely allege this as a sufficient and direct reply to those who, having themselves little capacity, and less relish for intellectual pursuits, are constantly repeating upon him this inquiry.
Page 40 - ... the past, Fair as these tints that cannot last, That all the heavens and waters o'er Their gorgeous, transient glories pour. Ye pastoral scenes by fancy wrought ! Ye pageants of the loftier thought ! Creations proud ! majestic things ! Heroes, and demigods, and kings ! Return, with all of shepherds' lore, Or old romance that pleased before ! Ye forms that are not of the earth, Of grace, of valour, and of worth ! Ye bright abstractions, by the thought Like the great master's pictures, wrought...
Page 40 - Return, with all of shepherds' lore, Or old romance that pleased before ! Ye forms that are not of the earth, Of grace, of valour, and of worth ! Ye bright abstractions, by the thought Like the great master's pictures, wrought To the ideal's shadowy mien, From beauties fancied, dreamt or seen ! Ye speaking sounds, that poet's ear Alone in nature's voice can hear! Thou full conception, vast and wide, Hour of the lonely minstrel's pride, As when projection gave of old Alchymy's visionary gold ! Return...
Page 44 - England blood in my veins, that many of my happiest youthful days were passed in her pleasant villages, and that my best education was bestowed by the more than parental care of one of the wisest and most excellent of her sons.* Imitating-, therefore, the language in which an ancient scholar expressed his attachment for all that partook of his common Gaelic descent, I too can say, that
Page 22 - ... and nobler conquests — in spite of all these, the present generation has still to blush for many of the self-same impediments to the study of truth under which our predecessors laboured — with them, indeed, the misfortunes of their times and circumstances; with us, wilful and self-imposed. " People complain of false theories," was the remark of a distinguished medical teacher ;
Page 12 - ... is the wing of Genius strongest and steadiest when it aims its flight the highest above the fogs and clouds of human passions and desires. Then is practical talent most efficiently, most successfully employed, even though it be in the humblest walks of its exercise, when it labours not to satisfy its own little ambitions, or envies, or jealousies, but when benevolence, or duty, when patriotism, or charity, or friendship guide and animate its energies.