Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1884 — MAN. [ARTICLE]

MAN.

Poetic Thoughts Concerning Him. Man passes away; his name perishes from reoord and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told; and his very monument becomes a ruin. Washington Irving. To understand man, however, we must look beyond the individual man, and his actions or interests, and view him in combination with his fellows.— Carlyle. Man is his own star, and that soul that can be honest is the only perfect man.— Beaumont and Fletcher. The scientific study of man is the most difficult of all branches of knowledge.—Oliver Wendell Holmes. The man of wisdom is the man of years.— Young. Han whose Heaven-erected face The smiles of love adorn, Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. —Burns. Stood I, O Nature! man alone In thee. Then were it worth one's while a man to be. —Goethe. . A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Borne, Gaul, Britain, America lie folded already in the first man.—Emerson. Such is man 1 in great affliction, he is elevated by the first minute; in great happiness, the most distant, sad one, even while yet beneath the horizon, casts him down.— Richter. What a piece of work is man 1 How noble in reason 1 how infinite in faculty 1 in form, and moving, how express and admirable! in action, how like an angel 1 in apprehension, how like a god 1 the beauty of the world 1 the paragon of animals 1 And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Shakspeare. When faith is lost, when honor dies, Then man is dead. — Whittier. Beading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.— Bacon. A man that is temperate, generous, valiant, chaste, faithful, and honest, may, at the same time, have wit, humor, good-breeding, mirth, and gallantry; while he exerts these latter qualities twenty occasions might be invented to show he is master of the other nobler virtues. — Steele. # God, when heaven and earth He did create, Formed man, who should of both participate. —SirJ. Denham. Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites are apt to change as theirs, And full as craving, too, and full as vain. —Din den. Consider, man; weigh well thy frame; The king, the beggar, are the same. Dust formed us all. Each breathes his day, Then sinks into bis native clay. —Gay. Nobler birth Of creatures animate with gradual life Of growth, sense, reason, all summed' up in man. —Milton. The proverbial wisdom of the populace at gates, on roads, and in markets, instructs the attentive ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously arranged.— Lavater. Man, though individually confined to a narrow spot on this globe, and limited, in his existence, to a few courses of the sun, has nevertheless an imagination which no despotism can control, and which unceasingly seeks for the author of his destiny through the immensity of space and the ever-rolling current of ages. — Colton.