to all have oi ns which they cherish with anything whereon to employ tlie natural presumption that ver stood the and f of centuries is in nature and the divine purpose is invincible i grant you says the that many things seem rather out of tune but what then is it my duty to upset what so many great and good men have left untouched and some of them have expressly commended that the world is full of ignorance and wrong crime and woe is very true but cannot help that and it wiu do no good to shed of tears over it and try to put others into mourning no let us take things as we find them relieve distress when we can afford it and float along as nearly with the current as wiu answer bad as the world is a man with good fortune which health a reasonable self control a tolerably clear conscience a well filled store house and a fair balance with his banker may extract a good deal of enjoyment from it if he will wisely improve his opportunities and not insist on making himself miserable by too deeply in the miseries of others millions live all of this who do not say more than half of it perhaps one of the most instructive spectacles is that of the impulsive young a gradual � formation or off into a staid respectable th property to care for a position to maintain and a reputation to cherish he was honest of and is honest as the world goes now but circumstances alter cases when he against the or of lands he had none of his own but he has since become seized as the ers say of a snug estate and he would not like to have any one seize it away from him it may be larger than one man absolutely needs but he wants to improve it and it wiu cut up nicely among his rather numerous children or so he liim an elegant mansion and fills it with evidences of taste and ministers to luxury and sits down to contemplate matters in general more calmly and than he did in his impulsive headlong youth and the great world without takes on a very different aspect viewed through his elegant liis velvet lawn and colored by the of generous which often gets between his eyes and the distant prospect from that it wore when viewed with naked or with only a cup of crystal water between him and and the sun yes he says slowly and languidly there is need of reform but let it be and these modem are different from those of my young days they are rash reckless destructive i can have no sympathy no fellowship with such true you can have none but did you say sir ah no of any depth will never be urged and cautiously for if their were prudent they would not be at all very likely prudence may step in at the moment and successfully between heedless and stubborn reaction but to wait for prudence to a reform is to wait for death to life � and indeed the embarrassment of headlong is one of the chief sorrows of the s lot he can never say a without some one else following with a b which he is sure does not belong to the same but this the other as confidently and the whole party backs the latter with all its force s career was perpetually made by this sort of and knew exactly from wliat to draw the most deadly shafts to against the advancing hosts of the if you assert this how will you defend your position against him who will assert that if you put the bible above the church how answer him who puts reason above the bible if you insist that every man shall be allowed to vote how resist the demand that every woman be equally if you how justify punishment at au i think it was who observed that there never yet was a reform proposed that might not have been defeated by giving adequate weight to the question if you go so far why not farther if this be right is not more equally right and where can you stop and thus many a fiery radical has been cooled down into placid or by discovering that the character of his associates the tendency of their doctrines the ends which they contemplated were such as he could never approve i presume there are not many worthy of the who ever anticipated fame or wealth as a result of their labors in the cause of humanity yet i recollect an application once made to me by a particularly green youth who wished employment as a writer or urging as an that he thought he could some forcible essay in favor of the wherein i was deeply interested my friend i felt constrained to reply i can very easily write myself quite as much in favor of those as the public will bear another such hand at the would ruin me many faults but it is a good while is out at the elbows and may toss you its purse with ever so an air but all you take by the motion is a poor worth of dried true now and then a lives to fight out his special battle and secure the hard won triumph of his well directed effort but by this time has taken the into snug house there to and cherish it as her o vn while has swept on to new efforts new struggles perhaps ultimately new triumphs so the forlorn stands shivering at the door which has his darling he cannot hope to overtake the rushing host which is now far on its eager way and indeed he has no heart for the attempt so he commonly ends by begging into the mansion and 