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matter, must have for each other the utmost accord. However wide the apparent 
gulf over it there is a bridge for the feet and between the most celestial truth 
and the most terrestrial there is a ladder whose golden rounds sustain the ever 
ascending and descending angels of recognition and friendship. 
Something of this thought is in the words of Lorenzo to Shylock's Jessica, 
" There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st 
But in his motion like an angel sings 
Still quiring to the young eyed cherubim : 
Such harmony is in immortal souls, 
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay 
Doth grossly close it in we cannot hear it. 
Some of the old-time learning, confided to these professions in recent days, 
has passed into the keeping of other orders of proficient experts, and the acquire- 
ments of the teacher, the civil engineer and, more than all, of the fully panoplied 
editor, have either " molested the ancient solitary reign" of these pursuits or 
have given new force and direction to some parts of their original vocation. 
The teacher of to-day is a far different person from the village schoolmaster 
of Goldsmith, and his field of action is covered with smoking batteries and rigid 
squadrons, the product of an age transcending in all great elements of progress 
any that has preceded it. The v:ist height and depth, the length and breadth 
of the curriculum of the most ordinary college of the land requires not one but 
many masters to unfold and impart. As we look in upon the higher circles of 
the teacher's life, the multitude and amplitude of his researches, in even one 
department of learning, suggests the mournful reflection of the old German pro- 
fessor of Greek, who, dying, bewailed that he had not given all his life to the 
dative case. Year after year we behold in our universities the division of chairs, 
the separating into different heads the investigation of what had before constituted 
a single line of instruction. 
The complex character of the teacher's profession grows apace with its wid. 
ening scope and importance. Not so distinct in its boundaries as the others, yet 
of immense importance and value is that profession whence comes the skill and 
wisdom to apply to the myriad uses of man the laws of nature, which tames the 
fiery spirits of the air and transforms into faithful and unwearying servants the 
blind unreasoning forces of the earth. 
The profession which marks out the dimensions and mode of erecting a 
bridge over a turbid,' violent river whereby one city shall become great and a 
dozen others well nigh ruined, which deals with iron lathes, gigantic trip-ham- 
mers and molten, metals until out of the commotion there comes into the tidal 
waters a ship that can cross the Atlantic Ocean in six days, lashed along its furi- 
ous course by the fires of twenty-five hundred tons of coal, a profession that 
projects a path for the engine up and along dizzy precipices, through spiral tun - 
nels in solid granite miles in length, which laughs at the efforts of the Pyrenees 
and the Mediterranean to stay the flight of the steam-horse and boldly takes up 
