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 and readiness to help forward what he thought likely to do good.

The value of literature is becoming more appreciated throughout all ranks of society in England; and surely in one sense it is more needed by the man of business than by any other class. Nor can there be a greater mistake than to suppose that any one will be a worse man of business for cultivating the general powers of his mind and heart. And if, in any case, the highest works of the human mind should fail of their true end, and be degraded by ministering to vulgar display and self-inflation—as in this poor world of ours "noblest things find vilest using"—the blame must be laid, not on the books, but on some defect in the character or moral training of the reader. A healthy literature, well studied, should make a man modest, because it introduces him to real greatness; and it should incite him to be