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The American Review has an article OH
words; we make the following extract
there!rom:


All classes appear to depend upon words.
Principles are nothing IN comparison with
speech. A politician is accused of corrup
ton, Inconsistency, and loving number one
more than ten thousand. Straightway he
floods the country with words, and he is
honoraby acquitted. a gentleman Of far
reaching and purse reaching Intelligence
concocis twenty millions of pills, and
works them OF 10 agents, and, in the
end. transfers the whole from his labora-
tory to the stomachs Of an injured and op-
pressed people, by means ot-words. Miss
4. stabs the spoticss name of Mrs. p. with
Il word sIile,to. The poisonous breath Of
n fanatic m5uIds itself into syliables, and,
lol a sect ot christians is struck with lepFo-
sy. Anauihor wishes 10 be sublime, but
has no fire in him to give sparkle and heat
to his composition. His ideas are milk
and er-!oggcd-ieeJie. common place,
nerveless, wIless, and souless; or his
thoughts are blasted with lead instead of
beng winged with inspiration. "What
shall dol he cries in the most plaintive
tones of aspiring stupidity. Poor poe.asterl
do not dispair! take 10 thy dictionary
drench thy thin blood with gin--learn the
power Of words. Pile the Pelion of Rant
on the Ossa of HyPerbole, and thy small
fraction OF the Tri,e shall be exalted tn the
heights Of the Sublime and the admiring
gaze of many people shall be fixed upon i,
and the coin shall Jingle in thy pocket, and
thou shalt be denominated Great. But it
thy poor pate be incapable of the daring,
even in expression, then groupe dubiousiy
in the dismal swamps OF verbiage. and let
thy minds fingers feel after spungy and
dropscal words, out of which little sense
can be squeezed, and arrange the oozy eP-
ithets and unsubsianlial substantives into
lines, and out of the very depths of Baihos
thou shalt arise a sort of mud Venus, and
men shall mistake thee for her that rose
from the sea, and the coin shall still chnk
in thy fob. and thou shalt be called Beauti-
full Such is the omnipotence OF words
They can exalt the little; they can depress
the high; a pJnderous polysylable will
break the chain of an argument. or crack
the pate of thought, as mace or battle
axe could split the crown of soldier in the
elder time.


Words head armies, overthrow dynasties,
man ships, separate families, cozen cozen-
ers, and steal hearts and purses. And IT
Psychologists aud me;aphysicians are drIv-
en- into corner, and are compelled to
give the real distinction between human
beings and animals, they are almost sure 10
say it consists in the power of sPeeci--in
the capacity to frame, use and multiply at
discretion, these omnipotent ''mou!hfuIls oil
spoken wind = Observation-Disclosures!