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 Acts xiii.—36. requires but little reflection clearly to perceive, that the benevolent Author of our existence has sent us into the world to be active: active in the discharge of all those duties that conduce to our own individual happiness, and the happiness of those around and about us. The chain of mutual dependence that connects the one family of man together; the progressive improvement in moral and intellectual