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ignorance, and holding it as a slave and a captive. Shakspere and Moliere have given us a noble standard of love, as well as of education; a desire not to dwarf head or heart, but to raise each person to one's own height—just as high as one's heart. The author's grandfather—who was not one of your wise behind-time folk-was called a Jacobin be it so. When Bonaparte was stepping up the ladder with startling celerity,-his organ of vanity and ambition as large as a slop-basin,-the "Jacobin" used emphatically to remark-"Our fools are always talking about doing something; but Bonaparte does it." The former said it,-and the latter did it.

This is love and faith-carrying out the golden rule; doing to others what we would they should do unto us. It raises up the weak in the rough path, where they were before crawling in a serpentine direction against destiny, and bestows upon them equal rights, and boundless yet chastened liberty. Let no man dare to affirm he is a philanthropist, unless he rejoices in raising the distressed, with a disinterestedness that astounds and electrifies. Such weep for Lazarus; such by their actions say "Let little children come unto me." This is the way to bolster up the tottering edifice of religion. The humble stone, be it recollected, is the corner-stone of the temple, and the foundation-stone of the city. Let our monitors leave their parade and glare, ecclesiastical millinery, of which we have more than enough,—and take their seats in juxta position with the poor; or in other words, in the sunshine of the Deity let them diffuse among the young their reflex beams-the treasures of their experience, and be

the true man for all parties, the conciliating umpire to prevent lawsuits, and the physician of health to prevent most of the ills that flesh is heir to. A man whose heart is so tempered and engaged, must be preparing for the kingdom that is not of this world.

Luther, who was no reckless innovator, but a rightminded resolute reformer, is said to have committed two grand errors;―he attacked the crown of the Pope, and the bellies of the monks. Men in his era who were little better than patent digesters, used all the means in their power to arrest the rush of men's mind. Let us remember all Luther's vehemence and impetuosity was not about himself in any way, but about his cause. The greatest autocrat of modern times we are here reminded of, knows full well-"My domination ends where conscience begins." Religion, we fear, is still looked upon as a means of governing the people; selfishness and party-interest, more than the welfare of humanity, are in the ascendant: at any rate, the mass of men are not kindled, the surface of the human race has scarcely been touched. It has been truly said-Where there are to be found the germs of genuine piety, there also will be germs of reform. Good men and true-if the world will not find us support in return for our mission of love; if they will not have the word, the whole truth, and the life-let us learn to live by the help of our hands. Truth is more powerful than eloquence; victory is with truth, though it stammers-not with eloquence, when it lies. Eloquence in a bad cause has been likened to a man presenting the sweepings of a stable on vessels of gold or silver. Had the Gospel been

of a nature to be propagated and maintained by the powers of this world, GOD would not have entrusted it to fishermen. It does not belong to this world's princes and high priests to defend that Word wherein "a wayfaring man, though a fool, cannot err."

CHAPTER III.

THE IMPORTANCE OF A GOOD PHYSICAL EDUCATION.

"I would not hurt the serpent,

But to make the serpent hurtless."

THERE are six points of vastly more importance than the now obsolete People's Charter. The true objects to

which the attention of the working classes should be directed, and the only means by which they can attain political influence or political happiness, are-education, religion, virtue, industry, sobriety, and (last, though not least) frugality. The celebrated William Penn, in founding his colony, long ago inculcated nearly the same points in a more imposing way: his favourite aphorism was— Good men make good governments, and bad men bad governments. As regards the first point, we reiterateunless the body is made the substratum of all morality, the brain, the instrument of thought, must be clarified by self-denial, the first step in religion, or vain and futile will be the efforts of monitors. Make the tree good, and the fruit will be good. Don't vaccinate the body, that is of the earth earthy, inside or outside, with poison. Any luminous body will cast a good or bad light, exhale a pure or impure odour, according as the materials are good or

bad. You cannot soil the stomach, without soiling its copartner the brain. Here there is a rapid telegraphic communication. Excess is the vital principle of error; as we have in a very summary manner shewn, we trust conclusively, in a previous work.

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A late Prussian envoy in France said a rather clever thing he was asked how he liked France; with more frankness than civility he replied "Not much; superfluities can be had for asking, but the necessaries of life can't be had at any price."

Self-denial is the only toll that passion and falsehood require from truth to allow it a free passage.

Avoid the

cause, and you avoid the effects of the cause. Putridity is the product of repletion in any shape; "the life of the soul is in the blood." To educationists we humbly yet firmly and conscientiously affirm that, with few exceptions, you might as well expect to gather grapes from thistles, or figs from thorns, as to develope moral purity and simlicity of character in youth, before the fore-named preparations have been made. Benevolence, truth, justice, honesty, sympathy, all depend upon a good physical education, which is not sufficiently attended to in the present day. The axis of vision is not coincident with the axis of things; and so they appear non-transparent, but opaque. Animal Physiology, the preservation of health, the prevention of disease, is not insisted upon. We do not say a man should be his own doctor, but we contend he should not be his own destroyer.

Mental Physiology is much neglected: it is not yet fashionable. We are gravely told it is a misfit; the mil

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