Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1883 — Americans Live in a Hurry. [ARTICLE]

Americans Live in a Hurry.

Because we are comparatively free from those deeply-seated and debasing forms of social corruption which have been the. ruin of past civilization, it does not follow that we are thereby free from those evils to which I have alluded, and which, because they are undermining their nobler energies and destroying our equilibrium of life, are, or ought to be, wortny of our serious attention. Instead of keeping before our minds the importance of mental equipoise, and instead of remembering that the true estimate of life consists in a harmonious adjustment of all its parts, we simply rush madly on, thinking in a hurry, living in a hurry, and for the most part dying in a hurry. The feiiina lente of the Latins is almost entirely unknown to us, and in place of it a thoughtless rush renders us more and more The slaves of custom and established mode, With pack-horse constancy to keep the road. —Henry C. Tedder, in The Manhattan.