the immediate dictation and inspiration of God. Heaven and its delights, hell and its torments, were his, and he was commissioned to dispense them among friend and foe. In Christendom, powers and principalities, garlands and crowns, the kingship of heavenly hierarchies, were the rewards of those who would subscribe to the creed, and promulgate the dogma, and maintain the apostolic succession, and fight the battles of the Church. In Mohammedan lands, bowers of Paradise, an elysium for every sense, balm and redolence and splendor, with houris daily renewing their beauty and virgin youth, these ever-returning miracles of joy were the rewards of the faithful. But tortures, inextinguishable, inexhaustible, and without end; purgatories to meet all cases, from a simple hot-bath to a centillion of fiery years; caldrons of all temperatures, to fry, or roast, or boil; of all sizes also, large enough to hold an entire nation or race of heathen or heretic, small enough to simmer the stillborn babe that had come into the world without ante-natal baptism; papal bulls, excommunications, anathemas, vomited from the craters of such tophets as the gods alone could make, and falling in a storm of fire and hail upon unbelievers; these were the enginery, these were the arsenal and maga

zine of weapons, with which the priest conquered the soldiery and bound them in alliance with him for the subjugation of the world.

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PRIESTCRAFT.

wonder the dominion of the priest has been, and, in many parts of the earth, still is, the most dreadful the world has ever known. Founded upon divine authority, being the only acknowledged medium of communication between God and men, with power to call down angels from above, and to call up demons from below, drawing subsidies from all the realms which superstition has peopled, with command over earthquake, and storm, and eclipse, and all the fiery portents of the sky, the priesthood governed the world as it never had been governed before, and they made its strength minister to their aggrandizement, and its beauty to their pleasure. This intelligence wedded and made one with the pure and unperverted religion of Jesus Christ, the world waits for a glorious atonement at their hands./

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SELF-CONFIDENCE OF IGNORANCE.

N ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded

which do not require a response with qualifications, with discrimination, with proportion.

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prepare fabrics as some teachers are to watch the growth of juvenile minds, and what havoc would be made of the raw material!

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EVILS OF BAD TEACHING.

SIOLOGISTS tell us that pairs of nerves go out from the brain to every part of the body. Experiments have been tried upon animals, demonstrating that if the nerves which go from the brain to the stomach be cut and separated, digestion instantaneously ceases. Bring the severed ends of the nerves together again, the processes of life are renewed. Think how many of these nerves a harsh, cruel, ignorant teacher may cut in a day!

COMPENSATION.

AILS and state prisons are the complement

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of schools: so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

N dress, seek the middle between foppery and

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shabbiness.

WHY IS EDUCATION IN DISREPUTE?

T is the cultivation of the intellect to the neglect

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of the moral powers that has brought education

into disrepute.

APPLICATION OF PRINCIPLES.

E want principles, not only developed, - the

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work of the closet, but applied; which is the work of life. Between the recluse, who never emerges from his study, however well he may reason on human nature, and the active man, who prepares the machinery and puts it in operation, there is the same difference as between one who describes a wolf and one who tames the animal.

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DUTY OF THE TEACHER.

HEN the teacher fails to meet the intellectual

wants of a child, it is the case of asking for bread and receiving a stone; but when he fails to meet its moral wants, it is giving a serpent.

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FOLLOW NATURE.

E never work alone: Nature works with us; sometimes to aid, sometimes to defeat, according as we coincide with or contradict her laws. Every branch of study pertaining to the useful arts,

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or to the natural sciences, therefore, demands this constant reference to the laws and processes of nature. We never make progress without a recognition of them. But not so in works of imagination. When

we give reins to the fancy, we can have everything our own way. Absurdity does not shock us. Impossibility ceases to be an obstacle.

RELATIONS OF THINGS.

N the works of Nature nothing stands alone. Nature is full of connections. No one subject can ever be understood alone. We must know something of its collaterals. There must be a perpetual reference to related objects. It is true there is every variety in nature. Still no one of its departments stands alone. There is as distinct a connection as between the different parts of an extensive machine. A perfect knowledge of all the different parts of a machine is no knowledge of the machine itself. To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is. In the study of nature this truth is forever and ever enforced upon one's mind. This makes discernment, comparison, discrimination, necessary at every step.