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produce what they were meant to be- and which leaves us neither sleep nor rest, till in one way or another, without us or on us, that same have been produced. You, my dear niece, have, it may be, chosen the better part; you have striven to bring your moral being, your earnest lovely nature into accordance with itself and with the Highest; but neither ought we to be blamed, when we strive to get acquainted with the sentient man in all his comprehensiveness, and to bring about an active harmony among his powers. Goethe.

Je suis les conduites ordinaires de la bonne petite prudence humaine, croyant meme que c'est par elle qu'on arrive aux ordres de la Providence. Sévigné.

"Though thinking," said Stanton, "was the best work. open to me, we all have a consciousness that 'to do is nobler than to think."

On the other hand, 66 we ought to stand still and see what God will do for us." Oakfield.

Then said his Lordship, "Well, God mend all!" “ Nay, Donald, we must help him to mend it, "said the other. Quoted by Carlyle.

One evening after a weary march through the desert, as Mohammed was camping with his followers, he overheard one of them saying, "I will loose my camel, and

commit it to God." On which he took him up: "Friend, tie thy camel, and commit it to God."

Liberty? The true liberty of a man, you would say, consisted in his finding out, or being forced to find out the right path, and to walk therein. To learn or be taught what work he actually was able for, and then by permission, persuasion and even compulsion, to set about doing of the same! That is his true blessedness, honor, liberty, and maximum of well-being: if liberty be not that, I, for one, have small care about liberty. You do not allow a palpable madman to leap over precipices; you violate his liberty, you that are wise; and keep him, were it in strait-waistcoats, away from the precipices! Every stupid, every cowardly and foolish man is but a less palpable madman; his true liberty were that a wiser man, that any and every wiser man, could by brass collars, or in whatever milder or sharper way, lay hold of him when he was going wrong, and order and compel him to go a little righter. O, if thou really art my Senior, Seigneur, my Elder, Presbyter or Priest - if thou art in very deed my Wiser, may a beneficent instinct lead and impel thee to 'conquer' me, to command me! If thou do know better than I what is good and right, I conjure thee in the name of God, force me to do it; were it by never such brasscollars, whips and handcuffs, leave me not to walk over precipices! Carlyle.

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ings to prejudices to shadows. Better be the slave of the meanest circumstance than "feel the weight of chance desires." Undisciplined men must be under some

master.

The law of transmissive qualities and proclivities is essential to the permanence and the very existence of society. Unless the peculiar genius and dispositions of parents were produced anew in their descendants through successive generations, what would humanity present but a mass of heterogeneous and discordant atoms? Societies, states, and nations could not be formed out of them and perpetuated.

But suppose the law of descent were abolished. Let the fathers have no guarantee that they shall live again in their children. Let every man come into being with the thread of history cut from behind him, commencing an existence original and de novo, without the peculiar loves and aptitudes of his ancestry or his tribe, and society at once is resolved into a wretched individualism, with which all progress must stop forever; and all the accumulations of past wisdom and experience must be lost in a hopeless and endless chaos. Suppose, for instance, the transmitted tastes and tendencies of the Pilgrim were to cease with the present generation in New England, and the next generation were to come upon the stage, not with the inborn conatus of ancestry, but each individual with his own original proclivities, like Frenchmen, Chinamen, or promiscuously what you please. The past two hundred

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years would be lost to the future, and the land would sink as by a stroke into primitive barbarism. Laws would only be formed for the exigencies of the present hour. Or rather, since laws are the collective will of a homogeneous population, law and statesmenship would alike cease forever. Edmund H. Sears.

EVERY PART OF THE NATURE OF USE.

NO GIFTS OF GOD CONTRADICTORY.

No gift of God does or can contradict any other gift, except by misuse or misdirection. Coleridge.

There is no war between the parts of the human mind; and (other things being equal) he who best loves God will with most untiring energy and singleness of purpose pursue whatever good work his genius has fitted him for.

Newman.

As Reason is a rebel unto faith, so passion unto reason. As the propositions of faith seem absurd unto reason, so the theorems of reason unto passion. Yet a moderate and peaceable discretion may so state and order the matter, that they may all be kings, and yet make but one monarchy, every one exercising his sovereignty and prerogative in a due time and place, according to the restraint and limit of circumstance. There is, as in philosophy, so in divinity, sturdy doubts and boisterous ob