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 and diversion to spend an evening in mental enjoyments, where she would derive profit as well as pleasure.

"Every organ is stamped with its own particular function, which another cannot usurp, and only as each is developed according to the law that governs it, can we expect pure rational enjoyment, or advance to perfection. Affection can no more take the place of intellect, than meat can take the place of drink" The two should be considered as compliments to each other, not substitutes for each other.

"Mark how different the conversation when addressed to a lady from that to a gentleman. Even your friends this morning never thought of directing a remark to me. All that a woman is expected to be interested in or capable of appreciating is the merit or success of the last opera,—the most appropriate dress to be worn to a party, or, if seriously inclined, the prospects of the last revival. When you come to those sublime truths that underlie and uphold all this material world of ours,—the knowledge of those laws that govern the planets in their spheres, which sound the depths of the ocean, and measure the distances of the fixed stars, you club yourselves together as if God had been as narrow-minded as yourselves, and only created light enough to illuminate one-half of the world, leaving the other half in total darkness."

Ernest was both amused and puzzled by this ex-tempore speech, which he could easily see by its earnestness of tone, and the deep revealings of those eyes so intently fixed on his, into which had risen all