THE CINCINNATUS. 



llol.l. SEPTEMBER 1, 1856. JCo. 9. 



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The days of chivalry and knight-errantry are passed, and the 

 question is not now, as formerly, " AVho are your ancestors," when we 

 would know who had eminence and station. In this busy, bustling 

 age, but little importance is attached to the living, walking, encyclo- 

 jpedia. He is deemed but little superior to the one bound in leather, 

 on the shelf of the student. 



The characteristics that mark the man adapted to these times, and 

 our own country, are peculiar. They deserve our attention ; they 

 should command our careful consideration. To educators it is very 

 important to mark attentively and heed carefully those distinguishing 

 traits, which must, in the very nature of things, exert a commanding 

 influence over mind, and mold and fashion its destiny. 



We propose, briefly, to answer the question, " What kind of men 

 does the age require?" 



We proceed, at once, without further preliminaries, to reply : 

 Firsts It is demanded that a citizen of such a country should be emi- 

 nently a practical and common-sense man. The days of theories have 

 passed away; and the man that will dream over hypothes^es and abstrac- 

 tions, either religious, political, or scientific, is a dead fossil at best. 

 Even genius, ever delighting in wild fancies, has sprung from the 

 day dreams of its youth, and gone forth to the substantial enterprises 

 of its manhood. Imagination herself has become practical. The 

 poet, the creator of these later times, brings forth not wild fancies, 

 but realities. 



The steam engine is a more potent and praiseworthy Ejjic, than 

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