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Rh his head than his heart, could produce nothing great, and his undertanding, prepared for this world, would not, by its noble flights, prove that it had a title to a better.

Beides, it is not poible to give a young peron a jut view of life; he mut have truggled with his own paions before he can etimate the force of the temptation which betrayed his brother into vice. Thoe who are entering life, and thoe who are departing, ee the world from uch very different points of view, that they can eldom think alike, unles the unfledged reaon of the former never attempted a olitary flight.

When we hear of ome daring crime, it comes full on us in the deepet hade of turpitude, and raies indignation; but the eye that gradually aw the darknes thicken, mut oberve it with more compaionate forbearance. The world cannot be een by an unmoved pectator, we mut mix in the throng, and feel as men feel before we can judge of their feelings. If we mean, in hort, to live in the world to grow wier and better, and not merely to enjoy the good things of life, we mut attain a knowledge of others at the ame time that we become acquainted with ourelves—knowledge acquired any other way only hardens the heart and perplexes the undertanding.

I may be told, that the knowledge thus acquired, is ometimes purchaed at too dear a rate. I can only anwer that I very much doubt whether any knowledge can be attained without labour and orrow; and thoe who wih to pare their children both, hould not complain, if they are neither wie nor virtuous. They only aimed Rh