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About The Ashland advertiser. (Ashland, Or.) 1893-1898 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1895)
Patronize Home Industry! Smoke Quartette Cigars! They are the Best in Town! while execution is moral force in mode of operation. Both ideality ami deair»» are masterful and not motiveless,— ideality is the form of th»» motive, desire is the spirit of the form. The character of the ideal will la» different as individuals are different in their dispositions, tast»»s and preferences. With Homer or Hafiz or Dante or Virgil, it will la* a |MH-m ; with Coysevoux, Coustou or Canova, it will Ia» r bit ot statuary; with Geraniin, a lamls.ap«*; with Rosa Bonhuer, a band of horses ; with Harry Hall, a choice lot ot hunters, while Titian's choie»» will la* a madonna ora profile; but with Creme ami Angel«» it will Is- a bit of ireseoing : Christopher Wren will Seleet a pelted 11 it zc ot a w el I pro|»ortion»*d «iorne «»r arch; Carlyle, Bacon ami Johnson will ch<a»sc an ele gant essay; New ton ami Hooke and Vu- eretius ami Darwin will make science their love,— “one more |a*l»bh* on the beach;” with Senaca, Socrates ami Em erson, it w ill I k * one im re fact in the philosophy of life and of law ; the Christ ideal is a jn»i «‘cl manl»«»od «icveliqa»«! within the eir le of Commonwealth, when» eommnnitx inteiests ami eoin- mon-goods l»v<-.«me the heritage of a people w hose inteleeis ami w ho*»e indus tries are reS|Minsiv»» to the co-opcrat ivc instinct; a Wallace will nnsheath his sword in liefence <»f national freedom ; Ben Franklid will wield his | h » ii in In half of individualism and to overthrow imjK*rialism; and Lincoln will stand forth with equality and civil liln ity em blazoned on his country’s shield, ami w ritten on an azure field. Perfect governmental s\stems, i. e. ideal commonwealths, have la*< n the burthen of the dreams of great and g«a»<l men during ten thousand years or more. The testimony to this fact is character— written on th»* brass tablets of Syria, the stones of Babylon, the temples of Asia and thd shrines of Egypt. Plato’s Re public, Ixct Atlantis, the Democracy of Coreyrea. Campanella’s City of the Sun, Moore’s U tophi a and Condorcet’s I’ni- versal Pease Empire all re fl er te» I the passion of the desire of th»» agesand were the emphasized manifestations of the di vine faculty in man, as exemplified ot set forth in the life and w ritings of saint, sage ami philosopher ; not only in almost eveiy p»*ri<xi of the | h « si - A lexandrian age,— but duiing the swerp of unremem- I ervd centuries now lost w ilh the history of dead and forgotten cycles. A nd now , again, in this age ; over th«» throbbing leagues of a tumultuous civil ization, past the laml-mards of dead re forms revived by the lamp of living »•inities; mind, still unconquer«*d and ini|H*rious, thunders iu» imperishable «•diets : in just ice ami equalit y, now and forever, lie the bulwark of the nation and the promise of civil lila»rty. Thiscivil, religious and p«» inical lib erty, of w hose spit it the communial at- tm»sph«Te is vibrant to-day, is the objective of all imxlern reform agitations, l he motive is to equable advanlagi* ami thereby ln«tlei human conilitiona. The drcam, hall rational, halt visionary |>er- hap-, is I H»*c<l upon a hoja» in the |*os- siblv future realization of ideal govern ment, in which the rights amt privileges of the unit ot government shall la* com* prehende«! in communitv int«*icsts, ami in which, also, institutional, practical, and opéraiive «Icinocracy shall make it imp •‘.‘• i ’ cc t<»r cor|x»rations. b\ grant of charl4*i. to obtain rights and privileges ovei the unit of government and to th«* disa«ivantagean<l injuiv of any or all ••ommunitiv <*<imprvhemie<i * within national constitutional limitations. 1 shall not insist that the ideal ho|a*«l for is |K»»-*ible of immédiat«* realization. What I <1 » insist ii | m » ii . h«»w«*ver, is that all effort in the direction of an nical brings u® nenrrr to that ideal, also that the effort along th»» wav. however weak, is latrn of sy myatli v for what is goo«l ami right ami pur«* in tin* moral ami social w orl<i ; consequent I \ that it is an im pulse in the direction of right thought ami right action. discovrrabh» in the de»*p remedial fore«* which underlies that system of |>olitiral «•«•omuny accord ing to whose rules ami principles all proper ami legitimate ro-o|M»rativr communities must la* governed. (Continued next week.]