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In treating of this subject our space'compels us
to be brief, and hence, we shall limit the term imi-
tation, to imitation in literary composition, with-
out regard to the ordinary and more minute pur-
suits of life. By imitation in literature it-is under-
stood that we mean an effort on the part ofa writer
or speaker to assimilate his style, diction, and
manner of expression to that of some other writer
or speaker, who, may have gained some emi-
nence and distinction among his fellows. Every
person who has read many authors, necessa-
rily admires some more than others, and the
admiration of different persons may be based
upon principles widely different. One admires
the deep and thoughtful heroics .of Byron,
or of Milton, while another grows weary of these
sublime authors, but goes into raptures over the
sweet and liquid numbers of Lalla Rookh, or The
Lady of the Lake. This difference of taste is the
result partly of a difference of mental constitution,
and partly of mental culture. Inasmuch, then,
as we have our favorite authors, we are apt
——should we ever attempt to become authors
——to ﬁnd ourselves endeavoring, though it may be
almost unconsciously, to assimilate our style of
composition as nearly as possible to that of the
author we most admire. - -- . .

Irrespectively of the dishonesty of such a prac-
tice—for a man’s originality of style is his own
peculiar property, and any attempt on the part of
another to appropriate that style, certainly» is an
act of dishonesty—the energy of the mind is
weakened by perverting it from its natural course,
and the intellectual nature that should be inde-
pendent of all ’outward inﬂuences, is taught to
conceal all marks of God-given and inherent dom-
ination, and by crouching to the abject servility of
imitation, to content itself with f‘aping at a dis-

tance” the Well-earned fame of those great masters-

who have laid down the fundamental principles of
all literature. Every person has originality of
thought—this is one of his attributes, a principle

that is born within him; and it is natural to sup-
pose that this, like every other faculty, was given
that it might be cultivated and improved. But it
is evident that imitation soon destroys all original-
ity of thought. For instance, suppose a man to
be endowed with avhigh intellectual capacity.‘ In
his mind there is a deep and untold intensity of
strength;in hisbrain are the germs of great pur-

poses as yet unformed; of vast thought as, yet .
immature. His soul shuns all companionship with'

lesser spirits, and ﬁnds enjoyment in its own
thoughts and in the contemplation of its own
powers. This man, in his reading, ﬁnds ~ankauthor
whose style captivates him. He feels that could he
but write in that same captivating style, earth could
afford no greater boon, his ambition would be sat-
isﬁed, his desires of greatness satiated, and his as—
pirations could rise no higher. From this hour he
becomes the slave of an admired style, his soul is
chained down to the servile practice Of imitation,
and his every thought is centered upon the degra-
ding purpose of crushing his own capacities. As
a result, his mentalenergies are broken and sub-
dued, all the essential principles of his nature are
dwarfed and shriveled, and his own individuality
is lost, or absorbed in the all-engrossing idea‘ of
mimicry and assimilation. :All consideration of
what is due to his 'own manhood is forgotten, or
disregarded; his originality of genius is destroyed
by long neglect; he forgets all save the one pur-
pose of imitating his chosen world, and becomes as
very a slave as ever crouched beneath the despot’s
lash.

Beyond this, there is not one in a thousand imita~
tors who meets with any remarkable success. For a
man to change his style of writing is almost as
difﬁcult as to change his vernacular, and none, we
will venture to say, ever becomes perfect in the
art of imitation. But even supposing success al-
ways accompanies the endeavor, is the success a
desirable one? Does it evince any of the gratiﬁ—
cations of manhood? Or does it not rather uproot
every principle of independence and self-sufﬁci-
ency? The same person cannot be an imitator,
and, at the same time, an original thinker and
composer. Originality and imitation are in-
compatible. When one is chosen the other
must [be discarded. No person who has a
true and noble spirit, and who rightly ap—
preciates the dignity that should attach to every
man, and particularly to a man of genius, will ever
outrage his own nature by stooping to a mean and

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servile action. Man’s prerogative should lift him
above servility, and his self-respect should teach
him the sufﬁciency of his own endowments. And
while there is something noble and honorable in
true originality of thought and purpose, he should
be taught to consider any departure from such
originality as an outrage to his mind and an insult
to the God who gave it. This is a senti-
ment that many will not endorse, from the simple
fact that it strikes too near home. There are
but few writers who are not imitators to a greater
or less extent. Those few are the great spirits
who control the literary world. They write not for
honor, not for fame or wealth. but for the good of
posterity. All others are a motley gang of parrots
and magpies, chatting incoherently the same
thoughts and nearly the same expressions. Why
is this? Should you ask them if they copy their
styles because they haven’t the ability to use a
style of their own, you immediately 'oﬁend them.
But if they have originality of genius, why do they
content themselves with 'parroting the words and
thoughts of others? The reason is, that there is
too great a lack of manhood and of the spirit of
independence among the authors of the present
and of every age. They fail to recognize the fact
that true genius should scout the idea of borrowing,
and blush to ackowledge its own inadequacy to ac-
complish the end in view. They are slow to gather
the belief, that man, though governed in most in-
stances by surrounding circumstances, has the
power within him of governing, rather than of
being governed by, circumstances. And not until
these facts are thoroughly understood and duly
appreciated, will our authors acknowledge the dis-
honesty of a studied imitation, and relinquish a
practice which not only leads thought into servi-
tude, but, at the s me time, cripples all, the
native vigor of thegind.

IE]? SﬂfﬂﬁIOﬁZZY 0F ZEE
CEQISZYﬂ/V’S EOTZZ’.

This address was delivered byMr. J. H. Crutch-
er, in Morrison Chapel, on Commencement Day.
Much to our satisfaction, and, doubtless to that of
many other students, he has consented to permit

Of all the passionsimplanted in the humam
soul by the hand of a benevolent Creator, there is
not one perhaps, which gives greater incentives to
exertion, or which affords a more proliﬁc source of
happiness, than Hope.

Memory, looking over the past, may kin-
dle pleasant emotions by painting upon her
canvas visions bright; but these are often dimm-
ed and obscured by clouds of gloom, while pros-
pective Hope, eliminating from the future all ex-
cept the desirable, bids us anticipate that alone.
Memory permits us to pluck a rare ﬂower here
and there along the highway of life; Hope bids us
ramble amidst the garden of delights.

As by Memory we live in the past, so by Hope
we live in the future, and derive pleasure from

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the contemplation of halcyon days to come.—
The agriculturist plows and sows in hope. 'The
mariner, reckless of his present comfort, risks his
life and launches his bark upon the bosOm of the
tempestuous sea under the inﬂuence of hope.—
Hope lights the lamp of the scholar, moves the
tongue of the orator, and ﬁlls the imagination of
the pOet. Hope gives courage to the heart, and
strength to the arm of the warrior, through the
bright anticipations of the Victor’s crown.

Hope is expectation and desire exercised upon
an object; and the energy which it inspires, as well
as the happiness which it bestows, depends upon
the value of the object, and the certainty of its
attainment. Is an education the object of a young
man’s hope? then the strengthof his hope will de-
pend upon the'e‘st'imatiomoilthe value—efﬂan edu-
cation, and the probabilities of its acquirements;
and the energy'with which it is undertaken, as

well as the pleasure derived"=1‘rom the pursuit, wilL ’7 'I

depend upon the strength of his hope.

It is in the great Value of,_the ob'ect, and the
certainty of its attainmentythat‘ the s perierity of”,
the Christian’s hope is Seen._.=”Its value/ is ines—':,
timable. Not untilfw'e are “able to. answer the
question, “what will it proﬁt a man if he shall gain

the whole world, and lose his oWn soul?” shallWe ./

be able to estimate the value of theChristian’s hope.
Not until we are able to exhaust the meaning of
Heaven and Eternity, shall we be able to compre—
hend and describe the object of theChristian’s hope.
Such a conception bankrupts all language, and
baﬂies the highest skill of painters and poets.—
We may over-estimate the value of objects with
reference to this life, and ﬁnd more pleasure in
the pursuit than in the possession; but not so in
regard to that which is eternal: imagination’s ut-
most stretch, in awful wonder dies in contemplat-
ing the “far more exceeding and eternal weight of
glory” and happiness, that remains for the people
of God.

Here man is a pendulum, vibrating between a
smile and a tear; but there, it is one eternal Sum-
mer'and clouds of sorrow never come. Here our
pleasures are brief, the greatest of which is but a“

ripple from the sea of bliss; but there our souls

will be ravished with unending felicity, where l

_ there is “fulnes-s of joy” and “pleasure evermore.”

Hope is the daughter of Faith; for the sure if
foundation and guarantee of the Christian’s hope,
is the word of God; which lives and abides for-
ever. Kingdom’s may rise and fall; thrones crum-
ble and be forgotten; the earth shall be consumed
by ﬁre, the elements melt with fervent heat, and
the heavens be “rolled together as a scroll” and
“pass away with a great noise,” “but the word of
our God shall stand forever.”

How true it is then, that, to the Christian, hope
is a pleasure in prosperity, a solace in afﬂiction, a
support in adversity, and makes him a hero in the
hour of calamity.

What is it that racks the brain, breaks the heart,
and ﬁlls the soul with unutterable grief? Despair.
What is it that causes the deepest anguish of a

,‘ fond father and a doting mother over the untime-

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1y deathof a wayward boy? DeSpair. ,As the lit
tle boy chasing the golden-winged butterﬂy from
ﬂower’ to ﬂower through the live-long day, lies
down at night, faint and weary from his fruitless
toil; so, when man comes to the close of a mis-
spent life, when the death damp is gathering
round the brow, and he looks backward over a life

3 spent in the vain pursuit of earthly happiness,

and thinks of disappointed hopes and neglected
opportunities for the preparation for such an hour,
what is it that causes him to shrink from the King
of Terrors, and see nothing but the blackness of
darkness in the fast-approaching future? It is deep
despair. .

On the other hand, what is it that binds up
the broken heart, calms the troubled heart, and
brings peace and consolation in the midst of afﬂic—
tion? Hope. What is it that causes the Christian
mother, in the depth of her grief, to look upward
through her tears and bless the hand that holds

the rod of afﬂiction, and exclaim in the language -

of one of old, “the Lord gave, the Lord has taken
away; blessed be the name of the Lord”? that
causes her to plant the myrtle and the evergreen——
embléinsof immortality—where the green grass

grows above the little mound beneathwhich sleeps
all that remains of her ﬁrst-born? It is Hope, foun-

, ded on the belief thatHe,who triumphed oVer Death,
. "Hell, and the Grave, and carried captivity captive,

is able to wake her sleeping babe, robe it with im-
mortality, and give them a glorious reunion at
God’s right hand in Heaven.

Hope cheers the faint, gives strength to the
weak, and makes the Christian a hero, in time of

persecution and peril. Hope disrobes Death of his ‘

terrors, and “makes a dying bed as soft as downy
pillows are.” The ﬁery fagots may kindle round

the stake, and the furnace be heated seven times .

hot; yet, inspired with a Christian’s hope, he can,
like the martyrs of old, march up to Death as to a
friend, and take frOm his outstretched hand, the
Victor’s wreath of immortality.

To us, beloved Professors and Classmates, this
hope is indeed a blessing. To-day we part; on
earth, perhaps, to meet no more; but pangs of
parting are alleviated by the thought, that when
we leave this place, around which cluster so many
hallowed associations, and go forth to try the
sterner realities of life, we have this hope in com-

‘ men, which is an anchor to the soul, both sure and

steadfast, reaching to that within the vail, to en-
able our frail barques to ride serene the tempes-
tuous sea of life, and anchor us all at last in the
haven of eternal rest. '

Animating Hope! when clouds of gloom gather
round the soul, and we, faint and weary, are well
nigh ready to fall by the wayside, and the battle
of life give over, then dost cheer us onward “to
ﬁght the good'ﬁght of faith,” and “lay hold [on
eternal life.” _ -

Conﬁdent Hope! all earthly hopes are uncer-
tain: objects mayrise like beautiful visions before
the raptured eye, and fascinate and cheer us with
their bright promises; but when we put forth the
hand to grasp them, they burst like bubbles on the

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ocean, and are gone forever, leaving naught but
disappointment; whilst thou art the same unfad-
ing, increasing, conﬁdent Hope.

Sustaining Hope! when afﬂictions come, and
worldly pleasures ﬂee; when friends forsake, and
foes deride, when the pleasures and follies of earth
are receding, and Eternity is opening to view, thou
art a friend to support us in all these trials; and
when the night of death comes, thou canst enable
us to fall asleep in the arms of Jesus, to wake and
behold the beauties and glories of an endless day.

“Eternal Hope! when yonder spheres sublime,
Pealed their ﬁrst notes to sound the march of Time,
Thy joyous youth began—but not to fade :—

When all the sister planets have decayed; ,

When wrapt in ﬁre the realms of ether glow,

And Heaven’s last thunders shake the earth below,

, Thou, undismayed shalt o’er the ruins smile,

And light thy torch at Nature’s funeral pile.”
MAY 21st, 1873. 7, J. H. C.

Misery loves company, so does a marriageable'

young lady.

The Danbury News remarks that “the dearest ob-
ject to a married man should be his wife, but it is not
unfrequently her clothes.”

Susan B. Anthony says she wouldn’t be frightened
at standing face to face with Satan. But how would
it affect Satan?

Bright Bey.——Motherif you won’t let me duck that
old turkey, I know 'what Ielse’ll stop her settin.’
Just cut off her head and I’ll bet she’ll lay. .

- The Grave—An ugly hole in the ground, which
lovers and poets Wish they were in, but take uncom-
mon means to keep out of. , l. -

“Ye are the children of the aavil,” was the text of
a divine in the morning, and in the afternoon he said,
“children obey your parents.”

A transcendental teamster says it took two lives to
pull his wagon through the snow drifts, last week.
“Life is buta span,” says he, “and I had to yoke two
span to go through.” .

A little boy in Springﬁeld, after his customary
evening prayer, a night or two ago, continued, “And
bless mamma and Jenny, and Uncle Benny,” adding
after a moment’s pause, the explanatory remark, “his
name is Hutchinson.” .

CoNCLUSIVE.— A fat old gentleman who had been
bitten in the calf of his leg bya dog, came to Jonah
in a towering passion, declaring it was J onah’s dog
that had bitten him. Expecting an action for dama-

ges, the wag drew up the following articles as the

ground for his defence: 1st, by testimony in favor
of the general good character of my dog, I can prove
that nothing would make him so forgetful of his dig-
nity as to bite a calf; 2d, he is blind and cannot see to
bite; 3rd, even if he could see to bite, it would be at-
terly impossible for him to go out of the way to do
so, on account of his age, fatness, and severe lame-
ness ; 4th, granting his eyes and legs to be good, he
had no teeth ; 5th, my dog died six weeks since; 6th,

, I never had a dog.

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LEXINGTON, KY., - - - - — JULY 15, 1873

Z’E YOUZ? OWJV Eli’ﬂOﬂlﬂ.

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The following Address was delivered in Mor-
rison Chapel, Kentucky University on Commence-

{ﬂuent day, by James B. Jones, of Bethania, N. C.,
”a member of the g1aduating class, who has kindly

consented to let us print it in our columns:

Every investment calls for a pr10p01tionatc re-
turn. In the work 1equisite to secure a diploma,
both professors and students have made an invest-
ment. How this is to yield a proﬁt, I am, in pa1t,
to show while the watch ticks away eight minutes
of eternity. The question for solution is this. —
How shall every man be his own diploma? Will

‘ he do this by framing these mementos of toil and

hanging them In some conspicuous place? Could
self and diploma be made one and then changed
into the beau- ideal of an illustrious artist, this
might secure a world- wide reputation; but the
cries for knowledge that are wafted to our cars by
eve1ybr,eeze it could not answer. These me not

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to be stilled by pedantry. They do not grow quiet
at the approach of imposture. The tahour has
come, and now is, when humbugs must be wakcd
up by the trump of ability, industry and integrity.
Tiuth says, do not seem, but be. Profession with
the pen and with the lip, must yield to exp1ess1on
in the life. He who wraps himself _up in his
“sheep-skin” and lies down to rest in self-conceit,
will awake to ﬁnd that he has a sheep’s brain as
well a sheep-skin. Trust not in the past. Diplo—
mas, like druggist’s labels, vouch for the quantity
and quality put into the earthen vessel. They do
not say how much has evaporated or passed back
into unconsciousness. Nor do they prove that all
knowledge “lives, moves, and has its being” in us.
God has so so made mind that, though forever
ﬁlling, it is never full. Its ceaseless cry is knowl-
edge. On this it feeds, grows, and expands.—
While it may rejoice over past victories and take
pleasure in the independence of present posses-
sions, its chief delight is in the work of the fu
From the depths of our own souls, and
from the highths of heaven, comes the same advice:
Work out your own physical, intellectual and

spiritual salvation, for God will work in you both ’1

to will and to do.
Here you are ready to ask, what is that work?

I reply, a work of appropriation, of transforma-
tion. Create, we cannot. God only creates. Cre-
ation ceased when Elohim rested from his six
day’s work. From then till now, it has been man’s
province to have dominion, to appropriate. Yes,
a gracious God holds out the keys of knowledge
Take them, he exclaims, un-
lock my store-houses and use for the good of my
Penetrate to
earth’s remotest depths. Read on the rocky pages
of strata after strata the history of myriads of
creatures that lived in other ages. See in them
my inﬁnite wisdom, goodness, and power. Be—
hold all that now inhabit the ear,th air, and sea.
On Pope’ s poetic wing

“Go, ﬂy through vast immensity pierce,

See world on world compose one universe,

Observe how system into system runs,

What other planets circle other suns,
What varied beings people every star.”

Then know that all these are yours to use. EX
tensive dominion! All ours, and we God’s. From
no good thing are we excluded. Natuie shuts
her doors only against indolence and ignorance.
Her warm invitation is, “Seek and you shall ﬁnd,
knock and it shall be opened to you.” These ale
the sources whence mateiials are to be drawn for
appropriation. They ale as inexhaustible as their
infinite Creator. Before the immensity oi these
resources, the stoutest heart and st1ongest mind
are almost paialyzed. The only 1eliei is found in
the fact that man’s constitution and the organiza
tion of society call for division of labort7 The
highway to success is unity of puipose and unity
of action.

The superﬁcial may strive for universal scholar—
ship; but the successful will be content to make a
single thought the center of life. Around this

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will every other thought be made to revolve. As the
convex lens concentrates all the rays of the sun
Within its compass upon a single focus, so let
unity of purpose and unity of action apply all the
' knowledge at command upon some chosen work.
No na1row and contracted sphere of action is ad-
vocated. Widen this in every direction as far as
time, health and capacity will permit; but keep
every accession of territory within appropriating
reach of the center. Extent thus made brings
power; any other is weakness. Let each man,
then, select and occupy his appropriate department
in the great drama of life. No one of them is ex-
clusive. Each is more or less inclusive of every
other. If one borrows, the other lends.

Does a man intend to be a linguist? Language
may draw accuracy from ﬁgures, and life and
beauty from the animal and vegetable world. Is
he a scientist? A thousand anglicized words may
proclaim that Latin and Greek are raised from
the dead and made as immortal as his deductions.
Do you aspire to be a mathematician? You may
change the theoretical into the practical. Build
railroads, tunnel mountains; bridge rivers; con-
struct steamboats; ‘erect factories; strike the
mountain with your scientiﬁ