For a friend, as for a principle, he would have done or endured anything. The fitful dream is over. He rests in peace; and be his memory so cherished as to help on the time when mankind shall have learned to deal more justly -not to say generously-with those who are qualified and willing to minister to their refined enjoyment, intellectual culture, and social progress.

There are remarkable combinations of circumstances in the present day, all tending to improve the condition of the labouring classes. They are enjoying good wages, with comparative cheapness of all the necessaries of life: they have unprecedented facilities for laying out their savings; opportunities of education and mental improvement of which their fathers knew nothing; they have encouragement to temperance and virtue; literature is placed within their reach; the luxuries of correspondence and travelling open out to them new fields of improvement; and great numbers of them by working short hours, have leisure for cultivating the pleasures of study or of home. It is a verity, that ignorance is the root of crime. The parents who decline putting their children in the way of instruction, ought to be called to severe account for wilfully endangering the peace of the commonwealth.

Are our opinions formed by circumstances? Decidedly so. Our temperament is the effect of physical substance, our habits, of physical modifications; and the opinions, good or bad, which are arranged in our minds, are nothing but physical impulses received through the medium of our "The nerves are the man." How is this? asks the reader. All the solids are formed from the fluids; if

senses.

the latter are pure, the former are the same. If the digestive organs are wrong, the whole assimilating actions are depraved. Hence arise the following sequences :-Bad digestion, bad blood, bad secretions, bad bile, salivary juices, &c. &c. In addition to those resulting from excess or repletion, we have acidity, the products of acetous fermentation; and, as naturally as the shadow follows the substance, we have bad tempers; all arising primarily from eating forbidden fruit; besides endless sins of omission and commission: all of which go to prove that excess is the vital principle of error. Happiness is within the reach of every man who will stretch out his hands to grasp it: every man makes his own bed, and it is for him to will it whether it shall be a bed of thorns, or a bed of roses. As we sow, we reap; if we sow the wind, we reap the whirlwind. He that is bodily wrong from a continual infraction of nature's physical laws, cannot be, nor is he, mentally or morally right.

Thus to insist upon any man thinking 'or feeling as we do, is to insist upon his being organised as we are; upon his being modified like us in all instances; upon his having the same temperament, the same education, the same nervous system; in a word, of being ourselves. Why not go a step further, and insist on his having the same features? Pitt said he had never been able, except on one occasion, to appoint the right man to the right place. No wonder!

Do not nail your mind to one object of contemplation. Why? The only creative means available for your oneidea personages-alias mono-maniacs-whose visions are

circumscribed, objects being seen in a glare, detachment is difficult. If a multitude go mad about it, they are not to be improved or cured by the opposite multitude, who are kept from this particular insanity by an equal phrensy on another crotchet. But let one man have the comprehensive eye, that can replace this isolated prodigy in its right neighbourhood and bearings, the illusion vanishes, and the returning reason of the community thanks the reason of the monitor; let the colossal part of the brain that has been overworked, lie fallow; let the dormant and stunted fallow ground be broken up by a complete change of scene; and the cerebral equilibrium may possibly be restored. Without this re-adjustment, the sight becomes microscopic, and interferes with the just perspective, the seeing of the whole.

All geniuses are ill-assorted and sickly, from overnursing their pets. Let the lover of limits love the illimitable, extend the area of life, and multiply their relations; and man will not be seen under the dominion of one overmastering passion.

THIS movement, we are assured, will tend to foster universality-a love for the brethren; therefore the whole scheme harmonises with the deepest and best tendencies of our times, and will fall in with the general movement towards enlarging international sensibilities. Of all the fine arts, and specimens of commercial greatness, at this mighty confluence of nations, the grandest is the art of forming noble specimens of humanity. The costliest productions of our manufactures are chips, compared with a wise and good human being: man is worth more than wealth or shew. If all the high-minded souls could be converged to a focus in the Crystal Palace, what a heaving of masses of kindred minds would concentrate themselves! Every effort, and every fibre and nerve would be strained, to obtain a glimpse of such a galaxy of mental and moral

giants! And the results would be transcendently glorious; nothing would be more calculated to further the moral and religious welfare of mankind.

I may here introduce a quotation on the moral effects of the Industrial Exhibition, from Whish's prize essay :"The many friendships that will be established during the exhibition, between the members of different nations, will be so many potent motives for resisting war; so many guarantees for quiet and reasonable legislation; the breaking down of unfounded prejudices; a more accurate and enlarged knowledge of the real character of our neighbours; the right appreciation of their talents and other excellencies; the perception of those points in which we ourselves are inferior to them. All these things have the same tendency, and they may rationally be expected to follow from that close collision with foreigners which will be caused by the Great Exhibition. It is enough, therefore, to say that it will, under this aspect, promote the welfare of mankind;-we may boldly say, it will promote the moral and religious welfare."

"Most truths are but truths of periods."

Do you ask-What is the true test of a great man?— our response is, his having been in advance of his age. This it is which decides whether or not he has carried forward the grand plan of human improvement; has confirmed his views, and adapted his conduct to existing circumstances of society, or changed so as to better its condition; —has been one of the lights of the world, or only reflected borrowed rays of former luminaries, and sat in the same