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 The noble minded Morven seemed much pleased and affected, and spoke as follows, but in a voice so subdued as if he almost wished not to be heard:

"There are difficulties in the way of what you propose so warmly.—The project your honest zeal has suggested might kindle a new war throughout our whole world, which might, in the end, be destructive of the happiness and freedom you justly hold so sacred.—There are many desirable objects of policy that are not within our immediate reach, and which we must wait Heaven's own time to see accomplished; but the principle should be consecrated, and the occasion closely watched for its earliest application."

"Not a moment," I answered, "should ever be lost in any thing we have to do, when we are sure we are in the right; there is no time but the present for the performance of a practicable moral duty:, in such a cause, would set