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Rh means to rie in his profeion. Perhaps there cannot be a more forcible contrat than between the ervile dependent gait of a poor curate and the courtly mien of a bihop. And the repect and contempt they inpire render the dicharge of their eparate functions equally ueles.

It is of great importance to oberve that the character of every man is, in ome degree, formed by his profeion. A man of ene may only have a cat of countenance that wears off as you trace his individuality, whilt the weak, common man has carcely ever any character, but what belongs to the body; at leat, all his opinions have been o teeped in the vat conecrated by authority, that the faint pirit which the grape of his own vine yields cannot be ditinguihed.

Society, therefore, as it becomes more enlightened, hould be very careful not to etablih bodies of men who mut necearily be made foolih or vicious by the very contitution of their profeion.

In the infancy of ociety, when men were jut emerging out of barbarim, chiefs and priets, touching the mot powerful prings of avage conduct, hope and fear, mut have had unbounded way. An aritocracy, of coure, is naturally the firt form of government. But, clahing interets oon loing their equipoie, a monarchy and hierarchy break out of the confuion of ambitious truggles, and the foundation of both is ecured by feudal tenures. This appears to be the origin of monarchical and prietly power, and the dawn of civilization. But uch combutible materials cannot long be pent up; and, getting Rh