"He hath a Devil," loudly cries self-love,

Who dares to censure that which we approve;

Ominous we, as writing on the wall

Smote the great king's the firmest heart appal.

Though fresh streams from the fount of science flow,

When all is learned how little do we know!

Who have, how through sensorial organ mind
Is acted on by matter e'er divined?

Who, the fine boundary-lines that lie between
Attraction and repulsion, e'er have seen?

What is the nervous system? who discerns
Its nature, who its operation learns ?

Truth in the natural world is shown by facts;

In things divine, through faith on mind she acts.

No oracles of sense may supersede

By reasoning, faith, through grace is felt her creed.

Affection, charity, are given by grace

To faith, unerringly they Truth embrace.

Thou vesper light to this our wintry day
Of ignorance, still, still on us thy ray

Emit, most glorious Truth, the time will come
When we shall view thee in thy sun-like home;

And bright'ning with thy crescent light shall know -as infinite ages onward flow.

More, more,

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WHAT IS TRUTH?

P. 135, line 7.

Truth, as great Bacon says, sought after, woo'd.

"Truth which only doth judge itself teaches that, the enquiry of Truth, which is the love-making or wooing of itthe knowledge of Truth, which is the presence of it—and the belief of Truth, which is the enjoying of it-is the sovereign good of human nature."-Bacon's Essay on Truth.

P. 136, line 13.

That mirror they must gradually unveil.

"The subjection of the soul to former usage, till roused by circumstances of more than common energy, is like the inertia that retains bodies in the state in which they happen to be, till some foreign force operate to suspend their motion or rest.

And it is well upon the whole, in the great concerns of lifethose which relate not to speculative science but to the direct happiness of nations-this intellectual inertia subsists. The difficulty of moving the multitude, though it may often be the unfortunate cause of preventing benefits which they might readily receive, still has the important advantage of allowing time for reflection before their force, which is equally irresistible for their self-destruction as for their preservation, could be turned to operate greatly to their own prejudice. The restless passions of the individual innovator, Man, thus find an adequate check in the general principles of mankind. The same power who has balanced the causes of action and repose in the material world, has mingled them with equal skill in the intellectual; and in the one as much as in the other, the very irregularities that seem at first sight to lead to the destruction of that beautiful system of which they are a part, are found to have in themselves the cause that leads them again from apparent confusion into harmony and order." -Brown's "Philosophy of the Human Mind,” vol. ii. p. 413. See also Adam Smith's " Moral Sentiments," vol. ii. p. 110.

P. 137, line 7.

Hence Turgot's wisdom, far too premature.

See Professor Smyth's " Lectures on the French Revolution," vol. i. p. 100.