Importance Of Individual Action

U is stótetl in the CincinnoUi Clironiclo, Ihnt at Rn eduou-ion rnrotiirr Jatelvr lieJd in tliat ciiy. the Rey, Dr. téoclm relüiedthe ibüowwg "dieam,' n beiuÚU':] ülustration of the inii'ortnücn of. imUvi::'ul nction - and ffroWipg tint in re;niblic:iri country, iltiuxirrh itis oniy the ruasswh ':), acls lhVot':;!i i!)g laws, it istl-e individual wliic.'i raove3 he masB. - Mer. Ju:ir. "Fle isaid He !md a dream whicli üko o: hor (Irciims di.-l noiwhoüy éxpVois tfs&f, ïkI ín whicli some oi'li.e natural objèpii had the power of speed). He u-as travoÑjng j:cr Üw sourcesofthe Monong;.íc!a, ncl.in pussmg ovor a wr.gh country, at cvory sliort diíaueo, mot a litt ie stream, whicli lic cuuld t-top qvter: hut. al! ofthcïn wcre the ennie wuv. At liist, lio a.-kod onc, whcre he was gnuit. "Why" replie.l the linio ril!, "I to Oileans. I honid the poopio there want .1 grèttt Cfinal, a thousand qtiíIqs lon, nnd fífteen hnndrrd fcot wido, :tnd I goint; to help makc Lt.iAnd p ny wiiat can 3 011 do? I can step ovor you. What enn yon do?" "I clon't know what I cun do; bui íshaíl be Hiere.'"- Am sn eayinn;, it linrriod on. He cnrne lo another ad osked the 'samo Cjtie;tion, and roceived l!o same sjistyer. A il Io-cjuiii ijiuu uu _i; inriKc ue Lt.i nu canru, in wliich thlef teamsiiïps of the West. with tbeir iieovy bnrtlens HP.ro lo ba traiporied. On rlic hcadofthe ■ASBghxoy, the Scioto, and the Mississippi, he foimd thnusumla moro of littli; stroams, hufried on by tlie saine impuls, sná which, wtnïo he yet epoke to them, passed out of si!:t. Nono knew whaí he coujd do, luit nll wcre letermined to do somo:liinr. líe nns-ed o, ti'l hecarneto the mighlv Miésisi-ippi, a)i!i tiiorë ha found the cañal was i.mde! 'I'lie noble steamships rode proudly on ts surf;;ce, and, as its water diminihed, they were föftin replonished to the brim, by every 'moiüi;nin-spring- nrüi cvery stronm. Thus üoAhe iitlJd nlls in.ike slream. the streiun tlio river. tül the imitad waters of the whole pour on thpir war, rtejoicing, to the glorious ocenn. So is man to the mas?, and the mass i o tho grand tide of human nfítiirs. Each liulc mortal, wenk and weary t!iouJi he be, can do somethinnr in makíng up the mighty stream of huiuan cveuts, as it roils on to the occun of eterniiy.'1