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 This law of our nature, which is so often brought to bear upon intellectual progress, should be enlisted as an adjunct in moral education. Can we be too attentive to the habits that our children form 1 too assiduous that the virtues which we cherish in them, should have a deep root in correct principle? We wish them to be- come benevolent. The proper basis of their bene- volence, is sympathetic feeling, a desire for the comfort and improvement of others, in conformity to the command and example of their Heavenly Father.

That fine sentiment of Terence, "I am a man, and therefore I feel for all mankind," might be uttered with additional emphasis by our sex, whose sympathies should be ever kept in action, by our own infirmities, dependences, and sorrows. Let us therefore, in our domestic teachings, strive to extirpate selfishness, especially from the breasts of our daughters. Selfishness is not to be en- dured in woman. In the catalogue of her faults, we do not expect to have forbearance with that. It wars with the nature of her duties, and sub- verts her happiness. It will be found on a com- parative analysis of character, that those females who through life have been distinguished for true goodness, were eminently disinterested.

Forgetfulness of self, and that amiable temper which at once ensures and imparts happiness, are