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Rh Whilt reaon raies man above the brutal herd, and death is big with promies, they alone are ubject to blind authority who have no reliance on their own trength. 'They are free—who will be free !'—

The being who can govern itelf has nothing to fear in life; but if any thing is dearer than its own repect, the price mut be paid to the lat farthing. Virtue, like every thing valuable, mut be loved for herelf alone; or he will not take up her abode with us. She will not impart that peace, 'which paeth undertanding, ' when he is merely made the tilts of reputation; and repected, with phariaical exactnes, becaue 'honety is the bet policy.'

That the plan of life which enables us to carry ome knowledge and virtue into another world, is the one bet calculated to enure content in this, cannot be denied; yet few people act according to this principle, though it be univerally allowed that it admit not of dipute. Preent pleaure, or preent power, carry before it thee ober convictions; and it is for the day, not for life, that man bargains with happines. How few!—how very few! have ufficient foreight, or reolution, to endure a mall evil at the moment, to avoid a greater hereafter.

Woman in particular, whoe virtue is built on mutual prejudices, eldom attains to this greatnes of mind; o that, becoming the lave of her own feelings, he is eaily ubjugated by thoe of Rh