Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1886 — SIGHT DRAFTS ON SENSE. [ARTICLE]

SIGHT DRAFTS ON SENSE.

[From the American Commercial Traveler.} He is either a fool or a philosopher ' who can laugh at the world. In striving to please others man finds for himself the purest and most enduring of pleasures. Discontent is a raven with a poisonous beak, picking, ever picking, at the heart of man. Each and every truth antedates the universe. The wisest sage cannot formulate a new, but the simplest child may bring one to light. Conscience scorned, out of justice •will set us on to ruin ourselves. It is the self-debased mind alone that exhibits contempt for the laws of so-, ciety. , Man’s every act is a square, the sides of which present to the world a different aspect. It is, therefore, the duty of singular humanity to abstain from the performance of anything until its different effects on mankind are weighed and understood. We are pleased with the works of a great architect; we admire the creations of a grand genius; but we delight in and espouse the cause of the virtuous, and, coming in contact with his moral gifts, make them at once a part of ourselves, and are thus stimulated to arrive at a higher state of being.

Of Hope’s sweet nectar once we taste. With nimble feet away we haste ; But haste conflicting soon with hurry, We lose our way in endless worry, And straightway feel thepressin’g need Of steadfast, calm, progressive speed; And he alone may win the match Who clears the way with stern dispatch.