Types Versus Troops

Uncertainty'in cstimating present things anu men, holdp more or less in all times: for in all things, even in those which seem most trivial and open to research, human sociely rests oninscrutable deep fountains, which he is, of all oth ers, the m st mistaken who fancics he has explored to the bottom. Series of causes aro as tissues or superficies of innumerable lines.cxtending in bread th as well as in length. and with a complexity which will toil and utterly bewilder the mort assiduous computación. In fact.the wisest of us must, for the most part, judge like the simplest; estímate importance by mere irngnitudc In this way it is, that conquerers and politica] reyolutionists come to figure as so mighty in their influences; wherens truly there is no clnss of persons creating stich an uproar in the world, wlio in the long run produce so slight an impression on its aflairs. Whcn Tnmcrlaiie had finished building his Pyramid of seventy thousand human skulls, and was scen standing al the gates of Da rnascus gliitering in steel with the battle-axe on hisshoukler lili iierce hosts filed out to new victories and new carnage, the pale onlooker might have fancied that Nature was in her death throcs; for hnvoc and despair had taken possession o f the tarth and the sun of manhood seeined setting in seas ofblood. Yet. it might be, on that very gala day of Tan;erlane. a little boy was playina ninepins in the streets of Mcntz, whose history was moraimportant to men than twenty Tamerlanes.The Tartor Khan, with his shnggy demons of the wildeiness, passed away like a whirJwind. to bc forgoth;n furever, and that Germán anisan has wrought a benefit which is yet immeasurably expanding irself.and will continue to expand itsell thrpugh all times. What are the conquests and expeditions of the whole Corporation of Captai ns compnied with liiese moveable types of Johannes Faust. - Carlyle. ilï see in ihis world." said Newton, "two heaps of human happiness and misery; now if I enn take but the emallest bit from one heap, and add to ihe oiher, I carry a point. If, as I go home, a child has diopped a half-penny, and iiby giving it another I :an wipe away its tears, I feel tiiat I have done something. I sliouid be glad indeed to do greater things. but I will not neglect ibis."