Our young people by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Conduct of life
Publisher: Nashville, Tenn., Southern Methodist publishing house
Published: 1882-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

er almost without a flaw to mar their beauty. It w^as thus that Milton created Paradise glowing with beauty celestial.

We owe to the imagination many of the richest and rarest flowers of literature, the finest gems of poetry, and the sublimest strains of oratory. It is a noble faculty. When tired of the dull monotony of this world, we can create other w^orlds shining in pristine beauty, unstained by sin, and never visited by death and sorrow. It can pass beyond all worlds, and look out upon the infinite void in which no sun shines, and no world revolves. Corrupt, it creates scenes and characters whose very actors are of the pit, and whose touch is moral death. It was the corrupt imagination of Byron which conceived the dark pictures in Don Juan. By such an imagination the world has been flooded by the filthiest ichor that ever sent its pestiferous stench to breed moral desolation. Its pictures corrupt the innocent, and seduce the young. They fascinate to bewilder ; they charm to destroy. They fire the passions, and pollute the conscience. They fill the air with moral malaria, and spread abroad most poisonous miasma.

It is almost universally true that the moral sense is tainted through the influence of the imagina-

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