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LITERATURE

)L STANDARD

to for

Ir. C. Mitchell's, Red

Editor
1 be forwarded

opular favour,

which number

among its contributors several
eminent names, including Professor Nichols and
Thomas de Quincey. The most attractive paper
among the dozen which the present part contains is
apparently from the pen of George Gilfillan, of
Dundee, and is devoted to a review of the life of
Robert Burns. Mr. Gilfillan reads a terrible lesson
from the daily life of the unhappy Bard of Coils,
with which many may differ, but in which not a
few will cordially concur. From another article we

quote a pa

Ige on

SANITARY REFORM

DUCATIO

', AND TEMPERANCE

Whether they stand to one another as effects or causes ;
or sometimes the one and sometimes the other; or, at one
and the same moment, partly effect and partly cause, they
stand together in a state of indissoluble union, as the
most needed and most potent agencies fitted to work out a
more intelligent, a more moral, a healthier, and a happier
condition of social existence, Rivalry, and far less anta-
gonism, there is none. Whether the leaders in either
section may at all times see the advantages of the onward
progress of the other, may be doubted; but that in reality

each is helpful to each, and that they stand mutually aidful
in the common cause of human improvement, never can
be doubted by any enlightened and impartial observer.
That their influence is felt in our day, in a way never felt
before, is obvious to all ; and that they form the mightiest
instrument of social stability and pr

ress (subordinate

of course, to the rightful supremacy of true reiigion) can-
not be questioned. No political movement, change, or
theory ; no form of government, no action of government,
unless bearing directly or indirectly on the effective ope-
ration of these great agencies, can contend with the masses
of vice, ignorance, filth, disease, and crime which have
threatened so portentously our national strength and well
being. Sanitary, educational, and temperance reformers
are the truest patriots, the best friends of human advance-
ment, the real pioneers of the reign of virtue and peace.
'What has been done, under some aspects, may no doubt
be regarded as but the " earnest of our inheritance." We
are only on the confines of the ,land of promise. The
Anakim of rotten bones, stagnant pools, dirty puddles,
airless dwellings, of brutish ignorance, and of worse than
brutish drunkenness, possess many a stronghold, and many
a league of land. They are not be dislodged without a
vigorous and persevering onslaught. But their doom is
written in heaven; and as surely as we have faith in God,
his laws, his government, and, under God, use the reason
and the instruments his providence has furnished, so surely
may we count on the attainment of a final ejectment from
our country of the foulest evils that have tyrannised there.
The call obviously is to greater energy in the direction of
every social advance. If a pig's dwelling incommodes, let
nds forth its disease-bearing

it be removed
vapour, let it t

a gutter s

is a- cond

I and concealed ; if a ne

bourhood

genes of vice, ignor
- -

and crime, in

..et it be visited and taught; and if a
ain of sn;-=` - 410, let it

public-house tout,— .uous ruin can he a.
be done by what hands soever that are willing to aid. He
who brings more water, purer and cheaper, helps Eng-
land's sanitary salvation ; he who teaches " a beggar's
brat" some useful knowledge, from the alphabet to the
grace of immortality. aids the march of mind-power; and he
who lifts a drunkard for ever cut of the mire, or prevents
from falling thereinto, is a friend of the anti•drunkenness
movement.