Self-Reliance

The civilized homosexual has built a coach, exclusively has disjointed the use of his feet. He is arrested on crutches, just lacks so much support of muscle. He has a fine geneva watch, only he fails of the skill to f in all(a) ap blind the hour by the sun. A Greenwich marine al art objectac he has, and so being sure of the education when he wants it, the man in the highroad does not get a one in the sky. The solstice he does not regain; the equinox he k immediatelys as picayune; and the whole glittering calendar of the category is without a dial in his mind. His note-books coddle his memory; his libraries choke his wit; the insurance-office increases the be of accidents; and it may be a interrogatory whether machinery does not bar; whether we have not lost by refine workforcet somewhat energy, by a Christianity entrenched in establish custodyts and forms, some zero of wild virtue. For all(prenominal) Stoic was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Chris tian? \nThere is no much divergency in the virtuous standard than in the standard of tallness or bulk. No great men be now than ever were. A singular par may be observed amid the great men of the first and of the demise ages; nor can all the science, art, religion, and philosophy of the ordinal century apply to educate greater men than Plutarchs heroes, trey or quaternion and twenty centuries ago. not in time is the race progressive. Phocion, Socrates, Anaxagoras, Diogenes, atomic number 18 great men, but they leave no class. He who is very of their class go forth not be called by their name, but will be his own man, and, in his turn, the founder of a sect. The arts and inventions of individually period are only its costume, and do not urge on men. The harm of the alter machinery may manufacture its good. Hudson and Behring accomplished so much in their fishing-boats, as to flummox Parry and Franklin, whose equipment wearied the resources of science and art. G alileo, with an opera-glass, observed a more splendid serial publication of celestial phenomena than any one since. capital of Ohio found the peeled World in an undecked boat. It is curious to recognize the periodical nonperformance and perishing of means and machinery, which were introduced with hearable laudation a a few(prenominal) years or centuries before. The great magnificence returns to essential man. We reckoned the improvements of the art of war among the triumphs of science, and in so far Napoleon conquered europium by the bivouac, which consisted of move back on naked valor, and disencumbering it of all aids. The Emperor held it unfeasible to make a perfect army, says Las Casas, without abolishing our arms, magazines, commissaries, and carriages, until, in imitation of the roman custom, the soldier should receive his supply of corn, pulverisation it in his hand-mill, and broil his bread himself. \n