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+Title: Fire Worship (From "Mosses From An Old Manse")
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+Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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+Posting Date: December 8, 2010 [EBook #9223]
+Release Date: November, 2005
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+                     MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE
+
+                      By Nathaniel Hawthorne
+
+                          FIRE WORSHIP
+
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+
+It is a great revolution in social and domestic life, and no less so
+in the life of a secluded student, this almost universal exchange of
+the open fireplace for the cheerless and ungenial stove.  On such a
+morning as now lowers around our old gray parsonage, I miss the
+bright face of my ancient friend, who was wont to dance upon the
+hearth and play the part of more familiar sunshine.  It is sad to
+turn from the cloudy sky and sombre landscape; from yonder hill,
+with its crown of rusty, black pines, the foliage of which is so
+dismal in the absence of the sun; that bleak pasture-land, and the
+broken surface of the potato-field, with the brown clods partly
+concealed by the snowfall of last night; the swollen and sluggish
+river, with ice-incrusted borders, dragging its bluish-gray stream
+along the verge of our orchard like a snake half torpid with the
+cold,--it is sad to turn from an outward scene of so little comfort
+and find the same sullen influences brooding within the precincts of
+my study.  Where is that brilliant guest, that quick and subtle
+spirit, whom Prometheus lured from heaven to civilize mankind and
+cheer them in their wintry desolation; that comfortable inmate,
+whose smile, during eight months of the year, was our sufficient
+consolation for summer's lingering advance and early flight? Alas!
+blindly inhospitable, grudging the food that kept him cheery and
+mercurial, we have thrust him into an iron prison, and compel him to
+smoulder away his life on a daily pittance which once would have
+been too scanty for his breakfast.  Without a metaphor, we now make
+our fire in an air-tight stove, and supply it with some half a dozen
+sticks of wood between dawn and nightfall.
+
+I never shall be reconciled to this enormity.  Truly may it be said
+that the world looks darker for it.  In one way or another, here and
+there and all around us, the inventions of mankind are fast blotting
+the picturesque, the poetic, and the beautiful out of human life.
+The domestic fire was a type of all these attributes, and seemed to
+bring might and majesty, and wild nature and a spiritual essence,
+into our in most home, and yet to dwell with us in such friendliness
+that its mysteries and marvels excited no dismay.  The same mild
+companion that smiled so placidly in our faces was he that comes
+roaring out of AEtna and rushes madly up the sky like a fiend
+breaking loose from torment and fighting for a place among the upper
+angels.  He it is, too, that leaps from cloud to cloud amid the
+crashing thunder-storm. It was he whom the Gheber worshipped with no
+unnatural idolatry; and it was he who devoured London and Moscow and
+many another famous city, and who loves to riot through our own dark
+forests and sweep across our prairies, and to whose ravenous maw, it
+is said, the universe shall one day be given as a final feast.
+Meanwhile he is the great artisan and laborer by whose aid men are
+enabled to build a world within a world, or, at least, to smooth
+down the rough creation which Nature flung to it.  He forges the
+mighty anchor and every lesser instrument; he drives the steamboat
+and drags the rail-car; and it was he--this creature of
+terrible might, and so many-sided utility and all-comprehensive
+destructiveness--that used to be the cheerful, homely friend of our
+wintry days, and whom we have made the prisoner of this iron cage.
+
+How kindly he was! and, though the tremendous agent of change, yet
+bearing himself with such gentleness, so rendering himself a part of
+all life-long and age-coeval associations, that it seemed as if he
+were the great conservative of nature.  While a man was true to the
+fireside, so long would he be true to country and law, to the God
+whom his fathers worshipped, to the wife of his youth, and to all
+things else which instinct or religion has taught us to consider
+sacred.  With how sweet humility did this elemental spirit perform
+all needful offices for the household in which he was domesticated!
+He was equal to the concoction of a grand dinner, yet scorned not to
+roast a potato or toast a bit of cheese.  How humanely did he
+cherish the school-boy's icy fingers, and thaw the old man's joints
+with a genial warmth which almost equalled the glow of youth!  And
+how carefully did he dry the cowhide boots that had trudged through
+mud and snow, and the shaggy outside garment stiff with frozen
+sleet! taking heed, likewise, to the comfort of the faithful dog who
+had followed his master through the storm.  When did he refuse a
+coal to light a pipe, or even a part of his own substance to kindle
+a neighbor's fire?  And then, at twilight, when laborer, or scholar,
+or mortal of whatever age, sex, or degree, drew a chair beside him
+and looked into his glowing face, how acute, how profound, how
+comprehensive was his sympathy with the mood of each and all!  He
+pictured forth their very thoughts.  To the youthful he showed the
+scenes of the adventurous life before them; to the aged the shadows
+of departed love and hope; and, if all earthly things had grown
+distasteful, he could gladden the fireside muser with golden
+glimpses of a better world.  And, amid this varied communion with
+the human soul, how busily would the sympathizer, the deep moralist,
+the painter of magic pictures, be causing the teakettle to boil!
+
+Nor did it lessen the charm of his soft, familiar courtesy and
+helpfulness that the mighty spirit, were opportunity offered him,
+would run riot through the peaceful house, wrap its inmates in his
+terrible embrace, and leave nothing of them save their whitened
+bones.  This possibility of mad destruction only made his domestic
+kindness the more beautiful and touching.  It was so sweet of him,
+being endowed with such power, to dwell day after day, and one long
+lonesome night after another, on the dusky hearth, only now and then
+betraying his wild nature by thrusting his red tongue out of the
+chimney-top!  True, he had done much mischief in the world, and was
+pretty certain to do more; but his warm heart atoned for all.  He
+was kindly to the race of man; and they pardoned his characteristic
+imperfections.
+
+The good old clergyman, my predecessor in this mansion, was well
+acquainted with the comforts of the fireside.  His yearly allowance
+of wood, according to the terms of his settlement, was no less than
+sixty cords.  Almost an annual forest was converted from sound
+oak logs into ashes, in the kitchen, the parlor, and this little
+study, where now an unworthy successor, not in the pastoral office,
+but merely in his earthly abode, sits scribbling beside an air-tight
+stove.  I love to fancy one of those fireside days while the good
+man, a contemporary of the Revolution, was in his early prime, some
+five-and-sixty years ago.  Before sunrise, doubtless, the blaze
+hovered upon the gray skirts of night and dissolved the frostwork
+that had gathered like a curtain over the small window-panes.  There
+is something peculiar in the aspect of the morning fireside; a
+fresher, brisker glare; the absence of that mellowness which can be
+produced only by half-consumed logs, and shapeless brands with the
+white ashes on them, and mighty coals, the remnant of tree-trunks
+that the hungry, elements have gnawed for hours.  The morning
+hearth, too, is newly swept, and the brazen andirons well
+brightened, so that the cheerful fire may see its face in them.
+Surely it was happiness, when the pastor, fortified with a
+substantial breakfast, sat down in his arm-chair and slippers and
+opened the Whole Body of Divinity, or the Commentary on Job, or
+whichever of his old folios or quartos might fall within the range
+of his weekly sermons.  It must have been his own fault if the
+warmth and glow of this abundant hearth did not permeate the
+discourse and keep his audience comfortable in spite of the
+bitterest northern blast that ever wrestled with the church-steeple.
+He reads while the heat warps the stiff covers of the volume; he
+writes without numbness either in his heart or fingers; and, with
+unstinted hand, he throws fresh sticks of wood upon the fire.
+
+A parishioner comes in.  With what warmth of benevolence--how should
+he be otherwise than warm in any of his attributes?--does the
+minister bid him welcome, and set a chair for him in so close
+proximity to the hearth, that soon the guest finds it needful to rub
+his scorched shins with his great red hands!  The melted snow drips
+from his steaming boots and bubbles upon the hearth.  His puckered
+forehead unravels its entanglement of crisscross wrinkles.  We lose
+much of the enjoyment of fireside heat without such an opportunity
+of marking its genial effect upon those who have been looking the
+inclement weather in the face.  In the course of the day our
+clergyman himself strides forth, perchance to pay a round of
+pastoral visits; or, it may he, to visit his mountain of a wood-pile
+and cleave the monstrous logs into billets suitable for the fire.
+He returns with fresher life to his beloved hearth.  During the
+short afternoon the western sunshine comes into the study and
+strives to stare the ruddy blaze out of countenance but with only a
+brief triumph, soon to be succeeded by brighter glories of its
+rival.  Beautiful it is to see the strengthening gleam, the
+deepening light that gradually casts distinct shadows of the human
+figure, the table, and the high-backed chairs upon the opposite
+wall, and at length, as twilight comes on, replenishes the room with
+living radiance and makes life all rose-color.  Afar the wayfarer
+discerns the flickering flame as it dances upon the windows, and
+hails it as a beacon-light of humanity, reminding him, in his cold
+and lonely path, that the world is not all snow, and solitude, and
+desolation.  At eventide, probably, the study was peopled with the
+clergyman's wife and family, and children tumbled themselves upon
+the hearth-rug, and grave puss sat with her back to the fire, or
+gazed, with a semblance of human meditation, into its fervid depths.
+Seasonably the plenteous ashes of the day were raked over the
+mouldering brands, and from the heap came jets of flame, and an
+incense of night-long smoke creeping quietly up the chimney.
+
+Heaven forgive the old clergyman!  In his later life, when for
+almost ninety winters he had been gladdened by the firelight,--when
+it had gleamed upon him from infancy to extreme age, and never
+without brightening his spirits as well as his visage, and perhaps
+keeping him alive so long,--he had the heart to brick up his
+chimney-place and bid farewell to the face of his old friend
+forever, why did he not take an eternal leave of the sunshine too?
+His sixty cords of wood had probably dwindled to a far less ample
+supply in modern times; and it is certain that the parsonage had
+grown crazy with time and tempest and pervious to the cold; but
+still it was one of the saddest tokens of the decline and fall of
+open fireplaces that, the gray patriarch should have deigned to warm
+himself at an air-tight stove.
+
+And I, likewise,--who have found a home in this ancient owl's-nest
+since its former occupant took his heavenward flight,--I, to my
+shame, have put up stoves in kitchen and parlor and chamber. Wander
+where you will about the house, not a glimpse of the earth-born,
+heaven-aspiring fiend of Etna,--him that sports in the thunder-storm,
+the idol of the Ghebers, the devourer of cities, the forest-rioter
+and prairie-sweeper, the future destroyer of our earth, the
+old chimney-corner companion who mingled himself so sociably with
+household joys and sorrows,--not a glimpse of this mighty and kindly
+one will greet your eyes.  He is now an invisible presence.  There
+is his iron cage.  Touch it, and he scorches your fingers.  He
+delights to singe a garment or perpetrate any other little unworthy
+mischief; for his temper is ruined by the ingratitude of mankind,
+for whom he cherished such warmth of feeling, and to whom he taught
+all their arts, even that of making his own prison-house.  In his
+fits of rage he puffs volumes of smoke and noisome gas through the
+crevices of the door, and shakes the iron walls of his dungeon so as
+to overthrow the ornamental urn upon its summit.  We tremble lest he
+should break forth amongst us.  Much of his time is spent in sighs,
+burdened with unutterable grief, and long drawn through the funnel.
+He amuses himself, too, with repeating all the whispers, the moans,
+and the louder utterances or tempestuous howls of the wind; so that
+the stove becomes a microcosm of the aerial world.  Occasionally
+there are strange combinations of sounds,--voices talking almost
+articulately within the hollow chest of iron,--insomuch that fancy
+beguiles me with the idea that my firewood must have grown in that
+infernal forest of lamentable trees which breathed their complaints
+to Dante.  When the listener is half asleep he may readily take
+these voices for the conversation of spirits and assign them an
+intelligible meaning.  Anon there is a pattering noise,--drip,
+drip, drip,--as if a summer shower were falling within the narrow
+circumference of the stove.
+
+These barren and tedious eccentricities are all that the air-tight
+stove can bestow in exchange for the invaluable moral influences
+which we have lost by our desertion of the open fireplace.  Alas! is
+this world so very bright that we can afford to choke up such a
+domestic fountain of gladsomeness, and sit down by its darkened
+source without being conscious of a gloom?
+
+It is my belief that social intercourse cannot long continue what it
+has been, now that we have subtracted from it so important and
+vivifying an element as firelight.  The effects will be more
+perceptible on our children and the generations that shall succeed
+them than on ourselves, the mechanism of whose life may remain
+unchanged, though its spirit be far other than it was. The sacred
+trust of the household fire has been transmitted in unbroken
+succession from the earliest ages, and faithfully cherished in spite
+of every discouragement such as the curfew law of the Norman
+conquerors, until in these evil days physical science has nearly
+succeeded in extinguishing it.  But we at least have our youthful
+recollections tinged with the glow of the hearth, and our life-long
+habits and associations arranged on the principle of a mutual bond
+in the domestic fire.  Therefore, though the sociable friend be
+forever departed, yet in a degree he will be spiritually present
+with us; and still more will the empty forms which were once full of
+his rejoicing presence continue to rule our manners.  We shall draw
+our chairs together as we and our forefathers have been wont for
+thousands of years back, and sit around some blank and empty corner
+of the room, babbling with unreal cheerfulness of topics suitable to
+the homely fireside.  A warmth from the past--from the ashes of
+bygone years and the raked-up embers of long ago--will sometimes
+thaw the ice about our hearts; but it must be otherwise with our
+successors.  On the most favorable supposition, they will be
+acquainted with the fireside in no better shape than that of the
+sullen stove; and more probably they will have grown up amid furnace
+heat in houses which might be fancied to have their foundation over
+the infernal pit, whence sulphurous steams and unbreathable
+exhalations ascend through the apertures of the floor.  There will
+be nothing to attract these poor children to one centre.  They will
+never behold one another through that peculiar medium of vision the
+ruddy gleam of blazing wood or bituminous coal---which gives the
+human spirit so deep an insight into its fellows and melts all
+humanity into one cordial heart of hearts.  Domestic life, if it may
+still be termed domestic, will seek its separate corners, and never
+gather itself into groups. The easy gossip; the merry yet
+unambitious Jest; the life-like, practical discussion of real
+matters in a casual way; the soul of truth which is so often
+incarnated in a simple fireside word,--will disappear from earth.
+Conversation will contract the air of debate, and all mortal
+intercourse be chilled with a fatal frost.
+
+In classic times, the exhortation to fight "pro axis et focis," for
+the altars and the hearths, was considered the strongest appeal that
+could be made to patriotism.  And it seemed an immortal utterance;
+for all subsequent ages and people have acknowledged its force and
+responded to it with the full portion of manhood that nature had
+assigned to each.  Wisely were the altar and the hearth conjoined in
+one mighty sentence; for the hearth, too, had its kindred sanctity.
+Religion sat down beside it, not in the priestly robes which
+decorated and perhaps disguised her at the altar, but arrayed in a
+simple matron's garb, and uttering her lessons with the tenderness
+of a mother's voice and heart.  The holy hearth!  If any earthly and
+material thing, or rather a divine idea embodied in brick and
+mortar, might be supposed to possess the permanence of moral truth,
+it was this.  All revered it.  The man who did not put off his shoes
+upon this holy ground would have deemed it pastime to trample upon
+the altar.  It has been our task to uproot the hearth.  What further
+reform is left for our children to achieve, unless they overthrow
+the altar too?  And by what appeal hereafter, when the breath of
+hostile armies may mingle with the pure, cold breezes of our
+country, shall we attempt to rouse up native valor?  Fight for your
+hearths?  There will be none throughout the land.
+
+FIGHT FOR YOUR STOVES!  Not I, in faith.  If in such a cause I
+strike a blow, it shall be on the invader's part; and Heaven grant
+that it may shatter the abomination all to pieces!
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+                     MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE
+
+                      By Nathaniel Hawthorne
+
+                          FIRE WORSHIP
+
+
+
+It is a great revolution in social and domestic life, and no less so
+in the life of a secluded student, this almost universal exchange of
+the open fireplace for the cheerless and ungenial stove.  On such a
+morning as now lowers around our old gray parsonage, I miss the
+bright face of my ancient friend, who was wont to dance upon the
+hearth and play the part of more familiar sunshine.  It is sad to
+turn from the cloudy sky and sombre landscape; from yonder hill,
+with its crown of rusty, black pines, the foliage of which is so
+dismal in the absence of the sun; that bleak pasture-land, and the
+broken surface of the potato-field, with the brown clods partly
+concealed by the snowfall of last night; the swollen and sluggish
+river, with ice-incrusted borders, dragging its bluish-gray stream
+along the verge of our orchard like a snake half torpid with the
+cold,--it is sad to turn from an outward scene of so little comfort
+and find the same sullen influences brooding within the precincts of
+my study.  Where is that brilliant guest, that quick and subtle
+spirit, whom Prometheus lured from heaven to civilize mankind and
+cheer them in their wintry desolation; that comfortable inmate,
+whose smile, during eight months of the year, was our sufficient
+consolation for summer's lingering advance and early flight? Alas!
+blindly inhospitable, grudging the food that kept him cheery and
+mercurial, we have thrust him into an iron prison, and compel him to
+smoulder away his life on a daily pittance which once would have
+been too scanty for his breakfast.  Without a metaphor, we now make
+our fire in an air-tight stove, and supply it with some half a dozen
+sticks of wood between dawn and nightfall.
+
+I never shall be reconciled to this enormity.  Truly may it be said
+that the world looks darker for it.  In one way or another, here and
+there and all around us, the inventions of mankind are fast blotting
+the picturesque, the poetic, and the beautiful out of human life.
+The domestic fire was a type of all these attributes, and seemed to
+bring might and majesty, and wild nature and a spiritual essence,
+into our in most home, and yet to dwell with us in such friendliness
+that its mysteries and marvels excited no dismay.  The same mild
+companion that smiled so placidly in our faces was he that comes
+roaring out of AEtna and rushes madly up the sky like a fiend
+breaking loose from torment and fighting for a place among the upper
+angels.  He it is, too, that leaps from cloud to cloud amid the
+crashing thunder-storm. It was he whom the Gheber worshipped with no
+unnatural idolatry; and it was he who devoured London and Moscow and
+many another famous city, and who loves to riot through our own dark
+forests and sweep across our prairies, and to whose ravenous maw, it
+is said, the universe shall one day be given as a final feast.
+Meanwhile he is the great artisan and laborer by whose aid men are
+enabled to build a world within a world, or, at least, to smooth
+down the rough creation which Nature flung to it.  He forges the
+mighty anchor and every lesser instrument; he drives the steamboat
+and drags the rail-car; and it was he--this creature of
+terrible might, and so many-sided utility and all-comprehensive
+destructiveness--that used to be the cheerful, homely friend of our
+wintry days, and whom we have made the prisoner of this iron cage.
+
+How kindly he was! and, though the tremendous agent of change, yet
+bearing himself with such gentleness, so rendering himself a part of
+all life-long and age-coeval associations, that it seemed as if he
+were the great conservative of nature.  While a man was true to the
+fireside, so long would he be true to country and law, to the God
+whom his fathers worshipped, to the wife of his youth, and to all
+things else which instinct or religion has taught us to consider
+sacred.  With how sweet humility did this elemental spirit perform
+all needful offices for the household in which he was domesticated!
+He was equal to the concoction of a grand dinner, yet scorned not to
+roast a potato or toast a bit of cheese.  How humanely did he
+cherish the school-boy's icy fingers, and thaw the old man's joints
+with a genial warmth which almost equalled the glow of youth!  And
+how carefully did he dry the cowhide boots that had trudged through
+mud and snow, and the shaggy outside garment stiff with frozen
+sleet! taking heed, likewise, to the comfort of the faithful dog who
+had followed his master through the storm.  When did he refuse a
+coal to light a pipe, or even a part of his own substance to kindle
+a neighbor's fire?  And then, at twilight, when laborer, or scholar,
+or mortal of whatever age, sex, or degree, drew a chair beside him
+and looked into his glowing face, how acute, how profound, how
+comprehensive was his sympathy with the mood of each and all!  He
+pictured forth their very thoughts.  To the youthful he showed the
+scenes of the adventurous life before them; to the aged the shadows
+of departed love and hope; and, if all earthly things had grown
+distasteful, he could gladden the fireside muser with golden
+glimpses of a better world.  And, amid this varied communion with
+the human soul, how busily would the sympathizer, the deep moralist,
+the painter of magic pictures, be causing the teakettle to boil!
+
+Nor did it lessen the charm of his soft, familiar courtesy and
+helpfulness that the mighty spirit, were opportunity offered him,
+would run riot through the peaceful house, wrap its inmates in his
+terrible embrace, and leave nothing of them save their whitened
+bones.  This possibility of mad destruction only made his domestic
+kindness the more beautiful and touching.  It was so sweet of him,
+being endowed with such power, to dwell day after day, and one long
+lonesome night after another, on the dusky hearth, only now and then
+betraying his wild nature by thrusting his red tongue out of the
+chimney-top!  True, he had done much mischief in the world, and was
+pretty certain to do more; but his warm heart atoned for all.  He
+was kindly to the race of man; and they pardoned his characteristic
+imperfections.
+
+The good old clergyman, my predecessor in this mansion, was well
+acquainted with the comforts of the fireside.  His yearly allowance
+of wood, according to the terms of his settlement, was no less than
+sixty cords.  Almost an annual forest was converted from sound
+oak logs into ashes, in the kitchen, the parlor, and this little
+study, where now an unworthy successor, not in the pastoral office,
+but merely in his earthly abode, sits scribbling beside an air-tight
+stove.  I love to fancy one of those fireside days while the good
+man, a contemporary of the Revolution, was in his early prime, some
+five-and-sixty years ago.  Before sunrise, doubtless, the blaze
+hovered upon the gray skirts of night and dissolved the frostwork
+that had gathered like a curtain over the small window-panes.  There
+is something peculiar in the aspect of the morning fireside; a
+fresher, brisker glare; the absence of that mellowness which can be
+produced only by half-consumed logs, and shapeless brands with the
+white ashes on them, and mighty coals, the remnant of tree-trunks
+that the hungry, elements have gnawed for hours.  The morning
+hearth, too, is newly swept, and the brazen andirons well
+brightened, so that the cheerful fire may see its face in them.
+Surely it was happiness, when the pastor, fortified with a
+substantial breakfast, sat down in his arm-chair and slippers and
+opened the Whole Body of Divinity, or the Commentary on Job, or
+whichever of his old folios or quartos might fall within the range
+of his weekly sermons.  It must have been his own fault if the
+warmth and glow of this abundant hearth did not permeate the
+discourse and keep his audience comfortable in spite of the
+bitterest northern blast that ever wrestled with the church-steeple.
+He reads while the heat warps the stiff covers of the volume; he
+writes without numbness either in his heart or fingers; and, with
+unstinted hand, he throws fresh sticks of wood upon the fire.
+
+A parishioner comes in.  With what warmth of benevolence--how should
+he be otherwise than warm in any of his attributes?--does the
+minister bid him welcome, and set a chair for him in so close
+proximity to the hearth, that soon the guest finds it needful to rub
+his scorched shins with his great red hands!  The melted snow drips
+from his steaming boots and bubbles upon the hearth.  His puckered
+forehead unravels its entanglement of crisscross wrinkles.  We lose
+much of the enjoyment of fireside heat without such an opportunity
+of marking its genial effect upon those who have been looking the
+inclement weather in the face.  In the course of the day our
+clergyman himself strides forth, perchance to pay a round of
+pastoral visits; or, it may he, to visit his mountain of a wood-pile
+and cleave the monstrous logs into billets suitable for the fire.
+He returns with fresher life to his beloved hearth.  During the
+short afternoon the western sunshine comes into the study and
+strives to stare the ruddy blaze out of countenance but with only a
+brief triumph, soon to be succeeded by brighter glories of its
+rival.  Beautiful it is to see the strengthening gleam, the
+deepening light that gradually casts distinct shadows of the human
+figure, the table, and the high-backed chairs upon the opposite
+wall, and at length, as twilight comes on, replenishes the room with
+living radiance and makes life all rose-color.  Afar the wayfarer
+discerns the flickering flame as it dances upon the windows, and
+hails it as a beacon-light of humanity, reminding him, in his cold
+and lonely path, that the world is not all snow, and solitude, and
+desolation.  At eventide, probably, the study was peopled with the
+clergyman's wife and family, and children tumbled themselves upon
+the hearth-rug, and grave puss sat with her back to the fire, or
+gazed, with a semblance of human meditation, into its fervid depths.
+Seasonably the plenteous ashes of the day were raked over the
+mouldering brands, and from the heap came jets of flame, and an
+incense of night-long smoke creeping quietly up the chimney.
+
+Heaven forgive the old clergyman!  In his later life, when for
+almost ninety winters he had been gladdened by the firelight,--when
+it had gleamed upon him from infancy to extreme age, and never
+without brightening his spirits as well as his visage, and perhaps
+keeping him alive so long,--he had the heart to brick up his
+chimney-place and bid farewell to the face of his old friend
+forever, why did he not take an eternal leave of the sunshine too?
+His sixty cords of wood had probably dwindled to a far less ample
+supply in modern times; and it is certain that the parsonage had
+grown crazy with time and tempest and pervious to the cold; but
+still it was one of the saddest tokens of the decline and fall of
+open fireplaces that, the gray patriarch should have deigned to warm
+himself at an air-tight stove.
+
+And I, likewise,--who have found a home in this ancient owl's-nest
+since its former occupant took his heavenward flight,--I, to my
+shame, have put up stoves in kitchen and parlor and chamber. Wander
+where you will about the house, not a glimpse of the earth-born,
+heaven-aspiring fiend of Etna,--him that sports in the thunder-
+storm, the idol of the Ghebers, the devourer of cities, the forest-
+rioter and prairie-sweeper, the future destroyer of our earth, the
+old chimney-corner companion who mingled himself so sociably with
+household joys and sorrows,--not a glimpse of this mighty and kindly
+one will greet your eyes.  He is now an invisible presence.  There
+is his iron cage.  Touch it, and he scorches your fingers.  He
+delights to singe a garment or perpetrate any other little unworthy
+mischief; for his temper is ruined by the ingratitude of mankind,
+for whom he cherished such warmth of feeling, and to whom he taught
+all their arts, even that of making his own prison-house.  In his
+fits of rage he puffs volumes of smoke and noisome gas through the
+crevices of the door, and shakes the iron walls of his dungeon so as
+to overthrow the ornamental urn upon its summit.  We tremble lest he
+should break forth amongst us.  Much of his time is spent in sighs,
+burdened with unutterable grief, and long drawn through the funnel.
+He amuses himself, too, with repeating all the whispers, the moans,
+and the louder utterances or tempestuous howls of the wind; so that
+the stove becomes a microcosm of the aerial world.  Occasionally
+there are strange combinations of sounds,--voices talking almost
+articulately within the hollow chest of iron,--insomuch that fancy
+beguiles me with the idea that my firewood must have grown in that
+infernal forest of lamentable trees which breathed their complaints
+to Dante.  When the listener is half asleep he may readily take
+these voices for the conversation of spirits and assign them an
+intelligible meaning.  Anon there is a pattering noise,--drip,
+drip, drip,--as if a summer shower were falling within the narrow
+circumference of the stove.
+
+These barren and tedious eccentricities are all that the air-tight
+stove can bestow in exchange for the invaluable moral influences
+which we have lost by our desertion of the open fireplace.  Alas! is
+this world so very bright that we can afford to choke up such a
+domestic fountain of gladsomeness, and sit down by its darkened
+source without being conscious of a gloom?
+
+It is my belief that social intercourse cannot long continue what it
+has been, now that we have subtracted from it so important and
+vivifying an element as firelight.  The effects will be more
+perceptible on our children and the generations that shall succeed
+them than on ourselves, the mechanism of whose life may remain
+unchanged, though its spirit be far other than it was. The sacred
+trust of the household fire has been transmitted in unbroken
+succession from the earliest ages, and faithfully cherished in spite
+of every discouragement such as the curfew law of the Norman
+conquerors, until in these evil days physical science has nearly
+succeeded in extinguishing it.  But we at least have our youthful
+recollections tinged with the glow of the hearth, and our life-long
+habits and associations arranged on the principle of a mutual bond
+in the domestic fire.  Therefore, though the sociable friend be
+forever departed, yet in a degree he will be spiritually present
+with us; and still more will the empty forms which were once full of
+his rejoicing presence continue to rule our manners.  We shall draw
+our chairs together as we and our forefathers have been wont for
+thousands of years back, and sit around some blank and empty corner
+of the room, babbling with unreal cheerfulness of topics suitable to
+the homely fireside.  A warmth from the past--from the ashes of
+bygone years and the raked-up embers of long ago--will sometimes
+thaw the ice about our hearts; but it must be otherwise with our
+successors.  On the most favorable supposition, they will be
+acquainted with the fireside in no better shape than that of the
+sullen stove; and more probably they will have grown up amid furnace
+heat in houses which might be fancied to have their foundation over
+the infernal pit, whence sulphurous steams and unbreathable
+exhalations ascend through the apertures of the floor.  There will
+be nothing to attract these poor children to one centre.  They will
+never behold one another through that peculiar medium of vision the
+ruddy gleam of blazing wood or bituminous coal---which gives the
+human spirit so deep an insight into its fellows and melts all
+humanity into one cordial heart of hearts.  Domestic life, if it may
+still be termed domestic, will seek its separate corners, and never
+gather itself into groups. The easy gossip; the merry yet
+unambitious Jest; the life-like, practical discussion of real
+matters in a casual way; the soul of truth which is so often
+incarnated in a simple fireside word,--will disappear from earth.
+Conversation will contract the air of debate, and all mortal
+intercourse be chilled with a fatal frost.
+
+In classic times, the exhortation to fight "pro axis et focis," for
+the altars and the hearths, was considered the strongest appeal that
+could be made to patriotism.  And it seemed an immortal utterance;
+for all subsequent ages and people have acknowledged its force and
+responded to it with the full portion of manhood that nature had
+assigned to each.  Wisely were the altar and the hearth conjoined in
+one mighty sentence; for the hearth, too, had its kindred sanctity.
+Religion sat down beside it, not in the priestly robes which
+decorated and perhaps disguised her at the altar, but arrayed in a
+simple matron's garb, and uttering her lessons with the tenderness
+of a mother's voice and heart.  The holy hearth!  If any earthly and
+material thing, or rather a divine idea embodied in brick and
+mortar, might be supposed to possess the permanence of moral truth,
+it was this.  All revered it.  The man who did not put off his shoes
+upon this holy ground would have deemed it pastime to trample upon
+the altar.  It has been our task to uproot the hearth.  What further
+reform is left for our children to achieve, unless they overthrow
+the altar too?  And by what appeal hereafter, when the breath of
+hostile armies may mingle with the pure, cold breezes of our
+country, shall we attempt to rouse up native valor?  Fight for your
+hearths?  There will be none throughout the land.
+
+FIGHT FOR YOUR STOVES!  Not I, in faith.  If in such a cause I
+strike a blow, it shall be on the invader's part; and Heaven grant
+that it may shatter the abomination all to pieces!
+
+
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