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Can any one find himself more effectually rebuked miliated for his restless folly in superficially translat self into the iron harness of a learned profession tha cover too late, alas! for all his manly sensibilities—tha of ease and comfort, he is doomed to a life of drudging and competition? and that, instead of pleasant opp for personal display, every professional effort is checku exposed by the skillful dexterity and refined accompl of an unsparing and triumphant adversary?

And it is no excuse for ignorance to assume these learning upon the ground of want of means to obtain cation, any more than it is consistent to murmur at our to hold a ship or a farm for lack of capital.

Patient industry and saving will acquire one, pers and genius will accomplish the other; and he who banking, or professional responsibility, upon specula without stock, must look for bankruptcy and humiliat

Success in both is by slow and legitimate steps, which, the mind and judgment become adapted to th without which the effort is as absurd as the result is d

Napoleon is said to have aspired to a crown in earl he could have obtained it then, he would have passed tutelage of a Regent, and never gained, perhaps, the ual force for which, by a succession of desperate stru subsequently was eminent.

A citizen of the United States, who recently died, of several millions, would not have husbanded his with so much care and thrift, if, instead of its acqui slow and gradual steps, he had found it at his feet, whole stock and estate were limited to a single jar of

GENEROSITY A VIRTUE OF HEALTH.

"If it was necessary here, or there was time to re this doctrine, one might further maintain, exclusiv

the truth of which must be submitted to -namely that a disinclination and back often attended, if not produced, by an ind mal as well as rational part of us:-sor and body, as in other cases so in this, 1 prey upon each other. And, indeed, setti reasoning upon the point, I cannot concei mechanical motions which maintain life mu more equal vigor and freedom in that ma good soul perpetually inclines to show me than they can be in a poor, sordid, selfish contracted heart melts at no man's afflicti so intently over its own plots and concer nothing; and, in truth, enjoying nothing STERNE'S Sermons, vol. i. p. 80.

The foregoing remarks describe some of discomfort and happiness in the social r found that they have a wider sphere of a control over our conduct and characters, t

They are shut up in the secret recess give impulse to almost every act of our reasons may be ostensibly given for them.

The hidden source of these mental imp spiritual, rational, and immortal substance tinguishes him from brutes; by which he and reason, and is rendered a subject of It is the understanding, the intellect, th mind, the mental faculty, the seat and sou pose, design, inclination, will, desire, opin gent power, thought, affection, and grace. Man is born without innate ideas. 1 knowledge are communicated to him by s derives knowledge from observation an senses convey into the mind distinct perce heat, cold, figure, &c.; and those things qualities. The notions or ideas acquired i

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The mind does not seem to have any ideas or not those which it obtains by sensation and reflection. T the sources and first materials of all knowledge.

This may be considered as the maturity of intellect, it should be strengthened by useful knowledge and ex carefully cultivated by industrious research and habits thinking. This is true mental and moral education; it the reach of every one with moderate mental capaciti true pride of character is above his frivolous and bru tites; and from these sources alone is mental happine derived.

This course of private education opens and invigor understanding, strengthens the judgment and the controls the eccentric and vacillating excitements of refines the emotions of the heart, and settles the mi with rational and intelligible conclusions, and prepar meet without alarm the severest exigencies of life, and soul with hope and faith for death and eternity.

Without going any further into an examination of ject, it is clear, from these acknowledged metaphysic that man is born without any understanding; and tha mental powers are acquired through the medium of hi and that these ideas and notions, which finally grow to understood to be mind, are communicated to the soul tions which are acted upon by external objects, simult with the power for moral discrimination.

The notions conceived by the senses are the natural their being brought into action; for example, the idea ness would not be excited by the taste of sweetness, notion of pleasure by the sensation of pain; nor can the

sense or right or wrong.

The process of these moral and mental to, to show their simultaneous action upor also the moral responsibilities that fall up of reason.

For that which occurs before the mind h the rudiments of knowledge we are not we have obtained sufficient information t of the Creator, and to understand the dist and wrong, there is no further probati good and evil are set before us, which ar crimination as tangible objects, and we a choice.

An infant will detect the difference be and sweet and sour, before it can speak; moral discriminations are simultaneously cise of the will. It manifests design, in memory, with the first germs of reason velops the passions of joy, grief, and res speak or walk. Just to the extent that conceive these thoughts, and enact these stand that it is wrong to indulge them. ciate a good act is as strong as the abil perpetrate a bad action. This is unques is mind sufficient to know them apart. standing enough to make this discrimin is just so far human as the functions are no further.

The power of speech is no evidence of who will clutch fire, can talk; and pos and craft of some brutes, the plausible a realities of intellect.

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It is admitted, that brutes give no indications of imn Dean Sherlock says: "For though we allow them to terial, they have no natural indications of immortali have no happiness or pleasures but what result from, an on, their bodies: and therefore, however God disposes after death, as far as we can judge, they are not capable of or sensation when they are separated from this body."tality of the Soul, p. 112.

If this proposition is true, it inevitably leaves all beings, with similar mental limitations and restrictions, footing in this respect with brutes. Perhaps it is so. question could be solved by giving dumb beasts the speech, it would be found, perhaps, that some of them higher intellectual rank than some of our own race.

It will be seen, therefore, that man is much more co and managed by his own will, and much more respons his own actions, than he is willing to acknowledge. H less and inconsistent temper makes him deny his g shift it upon others. If he cannot read and write, h stubborn to learn; if he is without a trade or a profes is too obstinate to acquire them; if he is poor, he is t to earn wealth by honest industry; if he is not in the or condition of life he would aspire to, he will not p employ the means by which these preferments are of but indulges his wicked temper in abusing his parents bad fortunes, and devours his peace in murmurs, jealou bitterness. The pernicious springs of all these secret i are found with the brutal propensities.

USE OF OUR PASSIONS.

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