oners ne MA SSACHUSETTS 1EACHERS izes for original Essays: ASSOCIATION BERS OF THE ASSOCIATION, for the best Essay, on thfulness in schools-its preventives and remedy. es to be urged in the business of education. ys must be forwarded to the Secretary, Chas. J. ., Latin School, Boston, on or before the fifteenth Each Essay should be accompanied by a sealed closing the name of the writer. The envelopes acunsuccessful Essays will not be opened. The prizes rded by an impartial committee; but no prize will to an Essay that is not deemed worthy of one. essful Essays will be regarded as the property of tion. May 12th, 1854. JOSIAH A. STEARNS, President. ford, successor to Tappan & Bradford, 221 Washt, Boston, is prepairing a Lithograph Portrait of N. Esq., late of the Bridgewater Normal School. It cuted in the very best style of Mr. Bradford's well lishment. Those who are desirous of obtaining a supplied at the Annual Convention to be held at rin August. Per order of Committee. the ERS' ASSOCIATION offers t ATION, for the best Essay, a prize of TWENTY DOLLARS. -its preventives and remedy. the State, for the best Essay a prize of TWENTY DOLLARS, n. business of education. ed to the Secretary, Chas! ton, on or before the fifteent 1 be accompanied by a sealed the writer. The envelopes will not be opened. The pri committee; but no prize not deemed worthy of one. e regarded as the property AH A. STEARNS, President Vol. VIII, No. 8.] CHARLES HAMMOND, EDITor of DR. ARNOLD AS A MORA DR. THOMAS ARNOLD, of Rugby, sta at the head of the list of eminent ins century. His world-wide reputation, a chiefly posthumous. He died at the a on the morning of the 12th of June, did the messenger of death come, t announced to some of the members of they knew that he was ill. Previous to his death, the reputatio Arnold were limited to the scholars and land. He was known in the Universit scholars of his time, as an advocate of doors of Oxford and Cambridge to the and as a powerful Anti-Tractarian cham troversy between Dr. Hampden and professors of his own University of Oxf But though powerful in the highest s influence of his pen, and by the presen numbers, who were for the most part strenuous advocates of his opinions; a writer, he became deeply involved in th and State policy, which so greatly agi England during the ten years preced reputation could hardly be called natio spite of the most vigorous opposition History at Oxford. This great trium 16 old lived long enough to give assurance that his career, would, if he had been spared, as a professor of History, have been one of unsurpassed brilliancy, ace the days of Gibbon. As a defender of sound plied to the noblest ends, as a champion of human church and state, as an advocate for the rights of he had shown himself able to do what no man living tter than he. As a controversialist, he had shown al to any intellectual warfare that could be arrayed , and for that reason he was an object of pride to He was also a generous combatant, as magnanimous s opponents as he was earnest in defending his own uth, and for that reason, he had no personal enemies.* e respect of men of all parties and names had ed, when that time of life had come in which the s of scholarship are gathered, when all the powers of ad were most vigorous for noble action, when a quick mpulsive imagination had been chastened by time, to lose their charms, but only so as to become the vitors of the clearest reason and the soberest judg. then the bright orb in mid-heaven, to which all eyes arned, suddenly vanished in thick darkness from the n. There was no consolation left, in the general > great a loss, but to gather around the tomb of d there they who had loved him, and they who had ay against the Oxford Tractarians, he thus alludes both to the to personal qualities of Dr. Newman, who afterwards became a nanism: nger ex em times That E ints he of the mve at consiste be horos ken of him simply as the maintainer of certain doctrines, not as hem in any particular manner, far less as actuated by any particubelieve him to be in most serious error; I believe his system to be, of Christ's Church, that I earnestly pray and would labor to the endeavors for its utter overthrow; but on the other hand, I will d to confound the authors of the system with the system itself; at the most mischievous errors have been promulgated by men, bcen neither foolish nor wicked; and I nothing doubt that there 1ts in Mr. Newman, in which I might learn truth from his teaching, glad if I could come near him in his practice." ose tiro EDGE OF iscern th with th Fere in th manship #1840, and the c the Weste As the character of Arnold lives to undying example, so does his method and as a teacher of Christian morals. indeed incomplete, being a small part of he designed to carry down to the period of the Empire, in order that he might f Christian student against the tendencie delusive and dangerous work of Gibbo fragment, it is yet in itself the best A been written in the English tongue; method of Arnold immortal. He was th principles of historical research to a wo the example will be imitated in all val hereafter be written. Arnold's method of centuries the buried nations of ant hardly legible inscriptions, the voices of the dark allusions of old poets and ann clearly the private, and public life of longer existing, and to impart to their s ern times and all the interest of passin h to give assurance that nad been spared, as a profess none of unsurpassed brillian on. As a defender of sound ende, as a champion of hun s an advocate for the rights If able to do what no man living controversialist, he had show 1 warfare that could be arra he was an object of pride rous combatant, as magnanim s earnest in defending his o , he had no personal enemies of all parties and names of life had come in which athered, when all the powers s for noble action, when a qu a had been chastened by t , but only so as to become t reason and the soberest ju n mid-heaven, to which all re shed in thick darkness from consolation left, in the gene to gather around the tomb d loved him, and they who on, Tractarians, he thus alludes both to maintainer of certain doctrines, et I earnestly pray and would labor to t That same gift of insight, also, wh hints he could unravel the mazes of ar aid of that imagination which the histo arrive at actual reality, not less than th is consistent with reality, was often em the horoscope of future events. He h those two qualities of a seer, as defined EDGE OF HISTORY and the HUMAN MIND discern the signs of the times and the as with the vision of prophecy. Henc were in the habit of saying that he had manship enough to be Prime Minister o as 1840, while Louis Philippe was in and the causes of those dreadful agita the Western nations of Europe in 1848 rachel yes of Russia a control which she dared not disregard ? in soldier would ever set foot across the Balkan, if Engance, indissolubly joined together as the protectors of the on of Europe, were ready at an instant to pour their fleets ack sea, and without repeating the folly of the march to strike at the life of Russia, through her vulnerable heel; back behind the Pruth, to thrust her away from the shores e, and by occupying the Crimea as an impregnable fortress, he only outlet by which the evil spirit of Russian ambition th to trouble the world?" old had a high reputation as the author of works of alue. His temptations were very great to devote strict literary pursuits. But while he lived he never y enterprise, however important, to interfere with his teacher. Indeed it is very easy to see that all his author were made subsidiary to his great work of If he had lived longer, and devoted himself to which he regarded as the great literary labor of his rite a book on the mutual relations of the Church and ey are blended in the British Constitution - he might drawn from his pursuits as a practical teacher, and ce of his great example, as we now have it, might eclipsed by his renown as an author, and his fame ed chiefly to men of letters. always given to every great man to know himself. partial unfolding of the plan of his projected work rch and State, it has been thought by some of the ers of the time, that his success in that department of d proposed for himself, would not have been equal to His system has been deemed too fanciful ever to be ad the work which, had he lived, would have unfolded al theories, might have been put upon the same shelf s Utopia and Bacon's Atlantis. But had he satisfied wishes, and attained that rank among the writers on polity, which is assigned to Warburton, or to the gh rep ald de etters, a made up upils onl and bear rinted P From the of Stanle |