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32 for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered. They are surrounded not only by luxuries, but by pleasures, which, at all events to the young, must have the zest of novelty. It seems to me the veriest fallacy to say that the lots in life are weighed out in equal balances: the difference is very great—to the examiner, sad: and to the sufferer, bitter! Before we talk of equality of pain, which is, in nine cases out often, only a selfish and indolent excuse for neglect, let us contrast a high and a low position together. On one side is protection, instruction, and pleasure; on the other is neglect, ignorance and hardship. Here, wants are invented to become luxuries; there, "hunger swallows all in one low want." Among the rich, body and mind are cultivated with equal watchfulness; among the poor, the body is left to disease and to decrepitude, and the mind to void and destruction. I grant that I speak of the two extremes; but it is the worst ill of social existence that there should be such extremes. The child of the rich man sleeps in the