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 blotting27 the picturesque28, the poetic29, and the beautiful out of human life. The domestic fire was a type of all these attributes, and seemed to bring might and majesty30, and wild nature and a spiritual essence, into our in most home, and yet to dwell with us in such friendliness31 that its mysteries and marvels32 excited no dismay. The same mild companion that smiled so placidly33 in our faces was he that comes roaring out of AEtna and rushes madly up the sky like a fiend breaking loose from torment34 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 unnatural35 idolatry; and it was he who devoured37 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 ravenous38 maw, it is said, the universe shall one day be given as a final feast. Meanwhile he is the great artisan and laborer39 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 mighty40 anchor and every lesser41 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, homely42 friend of our wintry days, and whom we have made the prisoner of this iron cage.
How kindly43 he was! and, though the tremendous agent of change, yet bearing himself with such gentleness, so rendering44 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 humility45 did this elemental spirit perform all needful offices for the household in which he was domesticated46! He was equal to the concoction47 of a grand dinner, yet scorned not to roast a potato or toast a bit of cheese. How humanely48 did he cherish the school-boy’s icy fingers, and thaw49 the old man’s joints50 with a genial2 warmth which almost equalled the glow of youth! And how carefully did he dry the cowhide boots that had trudged51 through mud and snow, and the shaggy outside garment stiff with frozen sleet52! taking heed53, 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 kindle54 a neighbor’s fire? And then, at twilight55, 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 forth56 their very thoughts. To the youthful he showed the scenes of the adventurous57 life before them; to the aged58 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 varied59 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 lessen60 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 inmates61 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 touching62. 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 mischief63 in the world, and was pretty certain to do more; but his warm heart atoned64 for all. He was kindly to the race of man; and they pardoned his characteristic imperfections.
The good old clergyman, my predecessor65 in this mansion66, 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 parlor67, and this little study, where now an unworthy successor, not in the pastoral office, but merely in his earthly abode69, sits scribbling70 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 hovered71 upon the gray skirts of night and dissolved the frostwork that had gathered like a curtain over the small window-panes. There is something peculiar72 in the aspect of the morning fireside; a fresher, brisker glare; the absence of that mellowness73 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 gnawed74 for hours. The morning hearth, too, is newly swept, and the brazen75 andirons well brightened, so that the cheerful fire may see its face in them. Surely it was happiness, when the pastor68, fortified76 with a substantial breakfast, sat down in his arm-chair and slippers77 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 permeate78 the discourse79 and keep his audience comfortable in spite of the bitterest northern blast that ever wrestled80 with the church-steeple. He reads while the heat warps81 the stiff covers of the volume; he writes without numbness82 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 benevolence83 — 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 proximity84 to the hearth, that soon the guest finds it needful to rub his scorched85 shins with his great red hands! The melted snow drips from his steaming boots and bubbles upon the hearth. His puckered86 forehead unravels87 its entanglement88 of crisscross wrinkles. We lose much of the enjoyment89 of fireside heat without such an opportunity of marking its genial effect upon those who have been looking the inclement90 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 cleave91 the monstrous92 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 countenance93 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, replenishes94 the room with living radiance and makes life all rose-color. Afar the wayfarer95 discerns the flickering96 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 solitude97, 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 semblance98 of human meditation99, into its fervid100 depths. Seasonably the plenteous ashes of the day were raked over the mouldering101 brands, and from the heap came jets of flame, and an incense102 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 infancy103 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 dwindled104 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 deigned105 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 chamber106. 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 idol36 of the Ghebers, the devourer107 of cities, the forest — rioter and prairie-sweeper, the future destroyer of our earth, the old chimney-corner companion who mingled109 himself so sociably110 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 scorches111 your fingers. He delights to singe112 a garment or perpetrate any other little unworthy mischief; for his temper is ruined by the ingratitude113 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 puffs114 volumes of smoke and noisome115 gas through the crevices116 of the door, and shakes the iron walls of his dungeon117 so as to overthrow118 the ornamental119 urn5 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 drawn120 through the funnel121. He amuses himself, too, with repeating all the whispers, the moans, and the louder utterances122 or tempestuous124 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 beguiles125 me with the idea that my firewood must have grown in that infernal forest of lamentable126 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 intelligible127 meaning. Anon there is a pattering noise — drip, drip, drip — as if a summer shower were falling within the narrow circumference128 of the stove.
These barren and tedious eccentricities129 are all that the air-tight stove can bestow130 in exchange for the invaluable131 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 intercourse132 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 mechanism133 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 conquerors134, until in these evil days physical science has nearly succeeded in extinguishing it. But we at least have our youthful recollections tinged135 with the glow of the hearth, and our life-long habits and associations arranged on the principle of a mutual136 bond in the domestic fire. Therefore, though the sociable137 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 forefathers138 have been wont for thousands of years back, and sit around some blank and empty corner of the room, babbling139 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 ascend140 through the apertures141 of the floor. There will be nothing to attract these poor children to one centre. They will never behold142 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 incarnated143 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 exhortation144 to fight “pro axis145 et focis,” for the altars and the hearths146, was considered the strongest appeal that could be made to patriotism147. And it seemed an immortal148 utterance123; 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 garb149, 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 embodied150 in brick and mortar151, might be supposed to possess the permanence of moral truth, it was this. All revered152 it. The man who did not put off his shoes upon this holy ground would have deemed it pastime to trample153 upon the altar. It has been our task to uproot154 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 mingle108 with the pure, cold breezes of our country, shall we attempt to rouse up native valor155? 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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