The Cause of Human Progress, Part 2 [pp. 328-336]

THE CAUSE OF HUMAN PROGRESS.
It teaches that though all be gloom, there should not be despair; that though all be adverse, the struggle should be
brave. The testimony of an approving conscience is all that
is needed, and then soon the bright star of hope will usher in
that mnorn which is to chase away the visions of the night, if
not in this world, at least in a far better, and a brighter one;
for surely sorrow would not be "Had there not been some recompense
To comfort those that mourn."
In times like these, when wealth and influence appear to
carry everything before them; when
"Rich men may jest with saints,'tis wit in them,
But in the poor, foul profanation,
That in the captain being but choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy."
When to be ignoble is to be landless; to be pitied is to be
clothed in domestic fabrics.
"Nil habet, infelix paupertas, durius in se
Quam quod ridiculos homines facit."
When physical advantages are the things mcost esteemed in
summing up the excellences of the individual, and the mind
is passed over as a kind of necessary, though not very useful
appendage, the want of philosophy will be exceedingly felt,
and not a few will betake themselves to her prophetic oracle.
For,
"Eased of her load, subjection grows more light,
And poverty grows cheerful in thy sight;
Thou makest the gloomy face of nature gay,
Givest beauty to the sun and radiance to the day."
ART. VI.-THE CAUSE OF HUMAN PROGRESS.*
To General Washington, and Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin
Franklin, and to a host of patriot men of our country, is due
much of the public prosperity and happiness we now derivederive, however, more immediately from the liberal principles
of civil rule themselves in agency and operation artorig us.
Some men, forgetful of the actions of distinguished men
that were brought to bear in the production of our admirable
form of civil rule, and looking more directly at the proximate
advantages that flow from the civil administration of our im
*Concluded from August number.
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