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Article #196 - Advice for Living

 

 

                        For the Journal

            FRIENDSHIP

            The friendships of the world are oft

            Confederacies in vice, or leagues in pleasure.

                                    Addison’s Cato

 

 

True friendship is found only in a true life, and is strong and holy, as life is pure and exalted.

 

Article #195 - Education

 

 

[Evidently a fragment]

 

2ndly    We do not legally owe service to our fellow man neither can he compel us to obey his mandates only as we prefer to follow in the old and beaten track, in preference to breaking a better one for ourselves over the rough surface of reformation, and removing the briers and thorns of unpopularity and long established customs.

Article #193 - Temperance

 

The change in the license system has been of great benefit to the temperance cause, although it was accomplished through the instrumentality of the rum party, who thought their victory certain if they could get it throwed back to the court. But how sadly were they mistaken.

The feelings of the court were not as dead to the cause of humanity as they supposed....

Article #194 - Temperance

 

Article #193 - License

 

  License

 

            The change in the license system has been of great benefit to the temperance cause, although it was accomplished through the instrumentality of the rum party, who thought their victory certain if they could get it throwed back to the court. But how sadly were they mistaken.

The feelings of the court were not as dead to the cause of humanity as they supposed....

Article #192 - Science of Algebra

 

Can the utility of the science of Algebra be estimated by those who do not comprehend

the science.

 

[No, says the author; though those who know algebra are convinced of its utility, it takes much study.]

 

...And when they come to study it for themselves they would provably [sic] be ready to exclaim

with the Lawyer, Madam rumour has so often been convicted of a falsehood that she was not

entitled to be he[a]rd as evidence...

Article #191 - Jenny Lind

 

 

            Jenny Lind in Philadelphia

 

 

            Ever anxious to keep pace with the times in what is new and interesting, and having recently had a fair specimen of Negro oritory [sic] in which the cause of humanity was earnestly

enlisted, and a few days later enjoyed a delightful intellectual feast provided by the world renowned orator, phylanthropist [sic] and reformer from the British Parliament and upon seeing

Article #190 - Education

 

 How might mankind enlarge their capacity for thought and action, become enterprising, and energetic, and permit circumstances no longer to control their happiness and destiny, if they would only come under proper influences such as would follow a believe [sic]in the silburn philosophy that teaches every day of life to be a combat, a combat of joy, and every night a

Article - 188 - Lyceum

 

Would not the object of this association be more effectually promoted by confining the subject of its Lectures, Essays and Discussions strictly to Science?

 

            This question an answer to which was given at a previous meeting being one of general interest perhaps an expression of the difference of opinion entertained in relation to it might be useful, I shall therefore note such thoughts as have been suggested by the question and answer.

 

Article #189 - Lyceum

Very similar to 188, but signed Frank Darlington, April 1851.]

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