Santa Clara University Scholar Commons The Owl SCU Publications 11-1871 The Owl, vol. 4, no. 2 Santa Clara University student body Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.scu.edu/owl Part of the Fiction Commons, Nonfiction Commons, and the Poetry Commons Recommended Citation Santa Clara University student body, "The Owl, vol. 4, no. 2" (1871). The Owl. Book 17. http://scholarcommons.scu.edu/owl/17 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the SCU Publications at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Owl by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1~-· I Vol, .IV. NOVEMBER, 1871. No.2. I I I H WL A MAGAZIN.E DEVOTED rro MENT .AL IMPROVEMENT. EDITED B Y THE~ IJO I"-S OF ,8AN1:'4. ()LARA COLLEGE SANTA C LAHA : C OLLEGE PRESS. 1871. CONTENr]~s : lJ'agetJe DE~IOCRltCY, ~ ~ ' •.•. " O' •••' •••' O' •••' .. 0' • • •• 0' ••' J ••••••••• 45 ~ Trnc CHOICE OF A PROJj'1'ESSION, •. or '••••• 49' THE ICEBERG, , ., , , , 5 j THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE', ' 5Z THE N IGIITM1\.RE, or • r ' r , 55 A DIALOGUE BE'r'VEEN D ,EAN S'VIFT AND FR.. PROUT, 57 rrHE AINSI,IES,. ' or or •••• ~ . ' 64- I~ECOLLECTIONS OF THE UAPE OF GOOD HOPE', 69 IDI.JE N O'l'ES,. ' ' • . .. 7'5 Ti\BI.J]~, EDITOR'S 0 " or.' ' ••• e ' 0.' e .78 OLIl), , ' ' .. .. ' ' •............ 81 TABL}~ OF I-Io~oR" , ' ..' 83 EDITORS FOR 1871-72 = JAMES B. CAMP11ffiLJ.J, JOHN T. MALONE, HERMANN B. PEYTON, HENRY HAURISON. ~~"'f.M"-- Direct alt comrnunications to THE OWL, Santa Clara College, Santa Clara, California. t e, SANTA OLARA, OALIFORN IA. Under the lYIanagtnnent of the Society of Jesus, \" 'HAS.now th~ la,. r~e s t n.unl?er .of Professors .and Tutors connected with an y eduoational institution on the Paciflc Coast. IT EMBRACE S SCHOOLS OF THEOL'OG ~ PI-IY SICS, (}LL1SSICS, PHILOSOPHY .nILlTIIEMATICS, ORA110RJ:; CHEMIS1~~ MIN ERA L 0 G ~ LITERA11URE, FRENO.a, GERlJ£AN, I TA L ILI N, SPANISH, (By 'reachers native to the several languages) ~r\t1titttt1tXltl, ~ttltltnitat, ~atut~tapt and ~iguxt ~xltt\titt!J t IIUI\II~ V.GAL A.' 1••fI1BUlIllllTJAL@ DEI-JIVEI~Y, I ' DANOING, DR.AMATIO ACTION AND ::t\l[I~ITA.RY DRILL:J Practical Schools of Telegraphy, Photography, Surveying and Print­ ing , Daily Assays of native ores, in a thoroughly fitted laboratory ; One of the most complete cabinets of apparatus in the United States; Several Libraries; A brass band; The fulle st collection of printed music possessed by any American College ....... -- No compulsory course. Youths of all denomlnatlons admitted. ~ERMS: Board, lodging, tuition, washing and mending, school stationery, medical attendance, medicines, baths, fuel , lights, $350 per year, payable semi-annually, in advance. 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A paper pass-book ,\\~j11 he delivered t o the agent by whom ~he deposit is made. .... ... ... Deposits Received from $2.5Q and upwards. Office hours, from. 9 A.M. to 3 P.K ·E Vol. Fi". NOVEMBER, 187l. No.2. DE1vl0C:RACY. CHARL}~S l~'. s. 'VILCOX'. .N San Jose, a time ago, there ley to-day, strikes out the same I- was exhibited a sketch of Li­ roots, builds the same unyielding berty, standing above the bodiless wood, bears the identical furrowed heads of the Sovereigns of Europe. bark, and the sinuate leaf dark The picture is admirably drawn-s­ and firm in like manner with its full of fire,-but does it eonvey the l)rogenitor of three thousand years true concept of liberty? , ago. The cold lTIOOn as regularly . Freedom is, a noble child of rea­ sails into the shadow of the earth, son, and does not stain her pure and emerges from it fresh like a nature to ascend a throne on such sea-nymphs bride, as it did when steps as tho bloody heads of la\v the' spheres were first separated and order. 'I'hese are the points from the conglomer-ation of all which I desire briefly: to touch. matter, each into its place of ba1­ When Cresar sa y~' : ance in space; and the SUll with .. But I am constant as the Northern StUl'J brother systems was set revolving, Of whose true-fixed and resting quality in trac'ks unvaryingforever, around 'I'here is no fellow in the firmament," huge central bodies, for which in how aptly from the mouth of N-a­ common language we have no ture does he seize the utterance of narue, Nature 1110ves without de.. her greatest oharaotcristio ! What­ viation or error, because her law ever modification she assumes, who is the thought, will, intent of the has detected her waveriug, or Deity ; fixed, grand and silent as eaught the glanpe of hesitation in fie who has framed her to her'per­ her eye? Since the bases of the fection, and who undoes his work earth were laid, the elementary only to rebuild no 11101'e. matter has been chemically join­ Science confirms this immuta­ irig, deconlposing, recombining, in bility. In despite of the bad logi ' ~ unvarying proportions. The oak of Mr. Darwin, Agassiz and our which casts its shadow in thisval- other natnralists teach us, that not 46 ·.Dernocracy. [Nov. even an orderly progression is, or ficient ; so are we of a grade infi­ has ever been taking place from nitely higher than all, by our free one grade ofexistence into another. spirit. We are reasoning and free; Man, the inhabitant and yet th,e all else is fixed, 'without thought. stranger here, like nature, inas­ Here is our mark of sharp distinc­ much as he is renewed according tion from the rest of nature, our to la WS, unlike, inasmuch as his patent '.of nobility above it; the intellect enables him to master her, noble boast with which the Creator alone is poised in doubt, shifting has endowed us, who are made to his action to suit various intents, His own image, or retracing it; a gern ofhigh value I thank Heaven that I live in a which emitslllany vacillating colors democratic land, because it seems from the midst of a setting of solid to me, that in such does the . soul fixity. bask in richest sunshine, for the . Indecision,.which ,ve COIllUl0111y reason is placed in the full perfec­ . attribute to weakness, is here a. tion of its exercise. It is fittiIH?", surface color, an out-cropping of that he "rho governs himself as an the noble nature with which we individual in the private path of have been endowed, marking our life, should 'enjoy a voice in the superiority over what is around course that the whole body of us, as significantly as the gold in­ which he walks a member, is as­ dications of the Sierra Nevada­ suming. It is evidently becoming; stamp their faces with a rank that, a reasonable being, he should above the parasitic mountains .of be guided by his own reason. To the Pacific. Indecision in us marks he led. by his own reason, does not 'the soul; the soul not ignorant.ly lie, as atheists, .oommunists, and bound like brutal instinct 01' the ad vanced thinkers of- various de- . 'wind or the wave in their 1110V(,­ nominations believe, in the rejec­ ment ; hut the soul who beholds Lion of l~"ajt.h, all authority, all' Juany paths of actiou opening' social order and legislation: .gUtellv . before her, ~nd. who, seeing through ;,0 hai 1 th(~se aids, t~hese r(;'~-~1~ t}~a;'l "pace and,time down each road to· which there are no others, towards its termination, hesitates between the attainment of tl1c objects of / • I this course and that, .that she Inay our living here, i~ most rcasouablc. study and choose the best ;--th(~ 'I'o act otherwise is essentially dis­ reasoning, free soul. 1\ 8 the plant orderly ; and those who set them­ is .nobler than the stone, because selves up to he God; legislator possessing an active organism ; as and individual at once, reap th e the denizens of the field, the air, fruit of their disorder in the 'very t hewat er, arc superior to the plant, govcrllll1ents-if such the mob­ hecause their orsranism js directed ocraey, for instance, of Paris, Iuay by a spirit, of lif~, dull, but: all-suf- be st.yled-\\l'hieh they found. 1871.J Democracy.. In a republic there must be con .. and happiness, and ultimately to -eession from every hand, it is true, the securing of their last and na ..