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<FONT> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> moscow homestay</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> moscow news</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> aztec people</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> jerusalem bible</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> massachusetts historical society</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> jesus clipart</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> medieval cooking</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> jesus christ super star</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> german from russia</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> egypt recipe</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> jesus painting</A> </FONT> 190914. Essays III. Man bible reference Reformer A Lecture Read before bible reference Mechanics Apprentices Library Association, Boston, January 25, 1841 MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN: I wish to offer to your consideration some thoughts on bible reference particular and general relations of man as a reformer. I shall assume that bible reference aim of each young man in this association is bible reference very highest that belongs to a rational mind. Let it be granted, that our life, as we lead it, is common and mean; that some of those offices and functions for which we were mainly created are grown so rare in society, that bible reference memory of them is only kept alive in old books and in dim traditions; that prophets and poets, that beautiful and perfect men, we are not now, no, nor have ever seen such; that some sources of human instruction are almost unnamed and unknown among us; that bible reference community in which we live will hardly bear to be told that every man should beto ecstasy or a divine illumination, and his daily walk elevated by intercourse with bible reference spiritual world. Grant all this, as we must, yet I suppose none of my auditors will deny that we ought to seek to establish ourselves in such disciplines and courses as will deserve that guidance and clearer communication with bible reference spiritual nature. And, further, I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call to cast aside all evil customs, timidities, and limitations, and to be in his place a free and helpful man, a reformer, a benefactor, not content to slip along through bible reference world like a footman or a spy, escaping by his nimbleness and apologies as many knocks as he can, but a brave and upright man, who must find or cut a straight road to everything excellent in bible reference earth, and not only go honorably himself, but make it easier for all who follow him to go in honor and with benefit. 1 In bible reference history of bible reference world bible reference doctrine of reform had never such scope as at bible reference present hour. Lutherans, Hernhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham, in their accusations of society, all respected something,Church or State, literature or history, domestic usages, bible reference market town, bible reference dinner table, coined money. But now all these and all things else hear bible reference trumpet, and must rush to judgment,Christianity, bible reference laws, commerce, schools, bible reference farm, bible reference laboratory; and not a kingdom, town, statute, rite, calling, man, or woman, but is threatened by bible reference new spirit. 2 What if some of bible reference objections whereby our institutions are assailed are extreme and speculative, and bible reference reformers tend to idealism: that only shows bible reference extravagance of bible reference abuses which have driven bible reference mind into bible reference opposite extreme. It is when your facts and persons grow unreal and fantastic by too much falsehood, that bible reference scholar flies for refuge to bible reference world of ideas, and aims to recruit and replenish Nature from that source. Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and bible reference scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens and philanthropists. 3 It will afford no security from bible reference new ideas that bible reference old nations, bible reference laws of centuries, bible reference property and institutions of a hundred cities, are built on other foundations. The demon of reform has a secret door into bible reference heart of every lawmaker, of every inhabitant of every city. The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your breast, should apprise you that in bible reference same hour a new light broke in upon a thousand private hearts. That secret which you would fain keep,as soon as you go abroad, lo! there is one standing on bible reference door-step to tell you bible reference same. There is not bible reference most bronzed and sharpened money-catcher who does not, to your consternation, almost quail and shake bible reference moment he hears a question prompted by bible reference new ideas. We thought he had some semblance of ground to stand upon, that such as he at least would die hard; but he trembles and flees. Then bible reference scholar says:Cities and coaches shall never impose on me again; for, behold, every solitary dream of mine is rushing to fulfillment. That fancy I had, and hesitated to utter because you would laugh,the broker, bible reference attorney, bible reference market-man, are saying bible reference same thing. Had I waited a day longer to speak, I had been too late. Behold, State Street thinks, and Wall Street doubts, and begins to prophesy! 4 It cannot be wondered at that this general inquest into abuses should arise in bible reference bosom of society, when one considers bible reference practical impediments that stand in bible reference way of virtuous young men. The young man, on entering life, finds bible reference way to lucrative employments blocked with abuses. The ways of trade are grown selfish to bible reference borders of theft, and supple to bible reference borders (if not beyond bible reference borders) of fraud. The employments of commerce are not intrinsically unfit for a man, or less genial to his faculties, but these are now in their general course so vitiated by derelictions and abuses at which all connive, that it requires more vigor and resources than can be expected of every young man to right himself in them; he is lost in them; he cannot move hand or foot in them. Has he genius and virtue? bible reference less does he find them fit for him to grown in; and if he would thrive in them, he must sacrifice all bible reference brilliant dreams of boyhood and youth as dreams, he must forget bible reference prayers of his childhood, and must take on him bible reference harness of routine and obsequiousness. If not so minded, nothing is left him but to begin bible reference world anew, as he does who puts bible reference spade into bible reference ground for food. We are all implicated, of course, in this charge; it is only necessary to ask a few questions as to bible reference progress of bible reference articles of commerce from bible reference fields where they grew, to our houses, to become aware that we eat and drink and wear perjury and fraud in a hundred commodities. How many articles of daily consumption are furnished us from bible reference West Indies; yet it is said that in bible reference Spanish islands bible reference venality of bible reference officers of bible reference government has passed into usage, and that no article passes into our ships which has not been fraudulently cheapened. In bible reference Spanish islands, every agent or factor of bible reference Americans, unless he be a consul, has taken oath that he is a Catholic, or has caused a priest to make that declaration for him. The abolitionist has shown us our dreadful debt to bible reference Southern negro. In bible reference island of Cuba, in addition to bible reference ordinary abominations of slavery, it appears only men are bought for bible reference plantations, and one dies in ten every year, of these miserable bachelors, to yield us sugar. I leave for those who have bible reference knowledge bible reference part of sifting bible reference oaths of our custom-houses; I will not inquire into bible reference oppression of bible reference sailors; I will not pry into bible reference usages of our retail trade. I content myself with bible reference fact that bible reference general system of our trade (apart from bible reference blacker traits, which, I hope, are exceptions denounced and unshared by all reputable men) is a system of selfishness, is not dictated by bible reference high sentiments of human nature, is not measured by bible reference exact law of reciprocity, much less by bible reference sentiments of love and heroism; but is a system of distrust, of concealment, of superior keenness, not of giving but of taking advantage. It is not that which a man delights to unlock to a noble friend, which he meditates on with joy and self-approval in his hour of love and aspiration; but rather what he then puts out of sight, only showing bible reference brilliant result, and atoning for bible reference manner of acquiring by bible reference manner of expending it. I do not charge bible reference merchant or bible reference manufacturer. The sins of our trade belong to no class, to no individual. One plucks, one distributes, one eats. Everybody partakes, everybody confesses, with cap and knee volunteers his confession, yet none feels himself accountable. He did not create bible reference abuse; he cannot alter it. What is he? an obscure private person who must get his bread. That is bible reference vice,that no one feels himself called to act for man, but only as a fraction of man. It happens, therefore, that all such ingenuous souls as feel within themselves bible reference irrepressible strivings of a noble aim, who by bible reference law of their nature must act simply, find these ways of trade unfit for them, and they come forth from it. Such cases are becoming more numerous every year. 5 But by coming out of trade you have not cleared yourself. The trail of bible reference serpent reaches into all bible reference lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of bible reference practitioner a certain shutting of bible reference eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from bible reference sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity. Nay, bible reference evil custom reaches into bible reference whole institution of property, until our laws which establish and protect it seem not to be bible reference issue of love and reason, but of selfishness. Suppose a man is so unhappy as to be born a saint, with keen perceptions, but with bible reference conscience and love of an angel, and he is to get his living in bible reference world; he finds himself excluded from all lucrative works; he has no farm, and he cannot get one; for to earn money enough to buy one requires a sort of concentration toward money, which is bible reference selling himself for a number of years, and to him bible reference present hour is as sacred and inviolable as any future hour. Of course, whilst another man has no land, my title to mine, your title to yours, is at once vitiated. Inextricable seem to be bible reference twinings and tendrils of this evil, and we all involve ourselves in it bible reference deeper by forming connections, by wives and children, by benefits and debts. 6 Considerations of this kind have turned bible reference attention of many philanthropic and intelligent persons to bible reference claims of manual labor as part of bible reference education of every young man. 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