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A KNOWLEDGE of the modern languages, especially of German, French, and Spanish has come to be considered almost an indispensable part of a good education; and the dead languages are losing much of the reverence which has sustained them in the Universities long after their usefulness has mainly passed away. There was a time when no considerable learning could be obtained except through the dead languages. All the literature which survived the common wreck of letters and civilization was contained in the Greek and Latin tongues. But now every thing that is valuable in these languages has been faithfully translated into English, and most modern languages, so that they are no longer of the least importance as treasuries of knowledge. It is sometimes urged that a knowledge of Latin is necessary to a good understanding of our own language, by enabling us to trace our own words to their roots. But we do not happen to find those roots in Latin or Greek. Many of our words are indeed adopted directly from those languages. We have whole verbs from the Greek; and some of our nouns are merely Latin supines, only varied in having um changed into ion, as constitutum constitution. But this is by no means tracing our English words to their roots. To say that auxiliary come from the Latin auxilium, or phlegmatic from the Greek phlego is only ringing changes on the same words, without in the least improving our idea of their roots. To get at the real root, we must go through those more remote northern languages whence the Latin and Greek were derived. Seven-tenths of the words used by our best writers come direct from the Moso-Gothic and Anglo-Saxon dialects. If therefore we are hunting after primitives we must set ourselves to delving in the dark and laborious shaft of Teutonic tongues, rather than be digging some hundreds of years this side of where the primitives may be found. Indeed we stand much nearer a majority of our primitives while studying the German language than when we are on the Greek and

Latin tongues. Professor Behnsch, of Breslau, in Prussia, in speaking of the elements of our language says, "of the 40,000 words of the English language are 24,000 of German origin." And then as an exercise for the mind German has every advantage over the Latin. German far excels the Latin in power and comprehensive exactness, as do the French and Spanish also in simplicity and neatness. There is a pomp and vastness, a great, solemn, funeral-state richness in the German language and in German literature, which cannot fail to elevate and strengthen the mind and heart; while at the same time opens the way to the richest fields of romance and poetry that lie in the literature of the earth. In her education and literature Germany is at least half a century ahead of any other nation on the globe. And the time, too long delayed, has come at length when no lady or gentleman is deemed fashionably educated until they can read the language in which Burger and Stolberg wrote. The poet, or the lover of poetry can no longer content himself until he can sing in the native numbers of Schiller and Goethe. The disciple of romance must have inspired fiction from the great original of Jean Richter, and Tieck; while the philosopher and philanthophist must drink from the fountain head of Klopstock and Kant.

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There has been an impression on the minds of English and American Christians that the German Philosophy tends too strongly to liberalism in religion; and this impression undoubtedly is one of the causes which has kept German literature from entering deep into the literature of our own country and that of the most cultivated districts of Europe. But fortunately for the world, Christians are beginning to understand that real Christianity, absolute religion, can never suffer harm by any false philosophy. Entrenching herself within the nature of man, and ministering ever to his heart, she courts severest scrutiny, challenges the false in all philosophies; while the eternal true is her own and can never be given to another. Religions, like systems of science, are found traveling up and down in the earth; earning their own living,-sustained not quite so much by accident and authority as formerly, but more by the awful realities of their own value. It is more than probable that the diffusive, elevating spirit, and mystic charm of German literature has contributed its share to this reform. But it astonishes one that such an influence and such a literature should come up from a country so politically debased as Germany a literature which asserts the highest dignity of man, elevates him to an innumerable company of angels, and sweeps round the world to refine and enlarge his capacities for an earthly immortality, coming out from a country where a man dare not give his own weary brother a night's lodging without the consent of the polizei. But so it is; in that land where men's minds are boldest and thought is freest, there is no political freedom to cheer the night of the ages. That inner boldness of German thought, speaking out in her philosophies, in defiance of her guilty outward entrammelment, is the result of her splendid system of education. Educate men, and Roman priests and Milton's devils will strive in vain to hush up

their almighty thought. Enchain wisdom as you will-lock it up in prison walls, to lie in the stocks, and dream upon the straw, you cannot quench its spirit nor restrain the unfathomable uttering of its thought. No: rock God's thunders to sleep in an infant's willow cradle as soon!

Troy, December 16, 1844.

THE PRINCIPLES OF ODD FELLOWSHIP :

An Address delivered before the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Monttreal, on Wednesday evening, 20th November, 1844.

BY REV. BRO. ALBERT CASE.

WE live in an age full of interesting events; an age in which the restless spirit of man is engaged in seeking his own comfort and advancement, and in promoting the welfare of a wide-spread humanity. No obstacle appears too great for this spirit to surmount; no labor too severe for man's enterprising energies, while he cherishes the fond hope of a triumph at the last.

He is constantly adopting plans by which to achieve new victories -gleaning wisdom from the vast sources that are opened before him in nature, philosophy and experience-exploding false theories-reviving old truths, associating them with later developements, and reducing old truth to the infallible test of practice.

The energies of men are all aroused; they grapple with the forked lightnings of heaven, and bring down the red thunderbolt harmlessly from the clouds; they arrest the ascending vapor in its upward course and convert it into a power that enables man to laugh at distance, and achieve a mighty victory over the obstacles that space had interposed to the intercourse of man with his fellow man.

They traverse the rivers and great waters as a bird on rapid wing; and is not yet satisfied-man stretches his arm from the Atlantic coast over the vast plains and fertile valleys-he forms passes in the rockribb'd hills, whose tops pierce the clouds of heaven, and unites a vast country in ron bands, so that in a short day he can view the whole with the same ease that the citizen in his "old arm chair," can inspect the plants, and flowers, and fruits, of his own quiet garden.

He enters the political arena, and contends with all the powers of his mighty mind, for the reformation of antiquated abuses-the establishment of just and reasonable laws upon correct principle. They unite in parties and bands, thus combining the wisdom and strength of the many, in the hope thereby to succeed.

They associate in churches, societies and fraternities, for the ostensible object of promoting a knowledge and practice of what they deem the right, and true, and useful.

In many of these we behold an increasing benevolent spirit ;-we see the deep affections of the soul rise up and go out to claim its relation to a kindred humanity;-it views a fellow, however low and ignorant, as capable of improvement;-it sees in him powers and faculties fitted for progression. Our Saviour himself has given the high authority of his sanction to the doctrine of progress, in so far as the kingdom of nature is concerned, in the figure of the fruit of the earth. "first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the And in the moral world man sees a similar arrangement, and feels that man is capable of going on to higher degrees of perfection. Plans are laid, schemes adopted and unions effected, to carry on more successfully the great work of mental and moral culture, thereby to promote the temporal, moral and social condition of humanity.

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Many are the associations that claim to have this for their object. But, among the most favored and most successful of all institutions of human origin, exerting a salutary influence over the physical, social and moral condition of man, I place that of the " Independent Order of Odd Fellows." I mention this Order at this time, because it is appropriate that I should do so. It is at the call of those who worship around its altars that this assembly is here, and through their respectful invitation that I am permitted to speak on its behalf.

I have to speak briefly of the early days of the Order-its progress and condition,-to lay before you its principles, and claim for them your sanction, to defend it from false accusers, and urge my Brethren of the Order, to a practical exemplification of the charitable and moral principles they profess. I shall speak of these things, because I presume there are some present who have not yet learned what are the principles and objects of the Order, and because, as Odd Fellows, we delight to dwell upon them, and bring home to our own hearts the convictions of truth, and the duty we owe to God, our neighbor, and ourselves. I am aware that some may desire me to trace the history of our Order, link by link, back to the time when it first obtained a local "habitation and a name." They would claim for it reverence and respect, on account of its antiquity; but let them judge it by what it is, and we are satisfied. Mankind are disposed to go to the past: they desire to revel amid the recollections of its difficulties and dangers, especially when it is identified with personal interests. They delight to stand beside the deep bright fountains of antiquity, that send their sparkling waters toward the skies, until the mind is imbued with the beautiful colors of the intellectual bow they form in the firmament of the memory. The poet and historian delight to wander amid the bright spots of other days, and as distance lends enchantment to the scene, decipher the records of the past, and collate the history of nations which have figured in the splendid drama of earthly empire; yet, like Maurius amid the ruins of Carthage, they find themselves surrounded by broken arches, shivered shrines, and tottering columns, obliterating by the gloom of their desolation, the landmarks that guide the chronicler, as he records their birth, their existence, or the expiration of their great