তত্ত্ববোধিনী পত্রিক even carry with us the reputation of honest citizens: the calumnies of the conqueror pursue us without shame or, remorse, even in the miseries to which he has consigned us. We are considered by our own party as little better than unskilful or an: bitious dupes. We think that we havo sacritieed ourselves for a principle, and at last, as if by chance, an objection starts up until then unperceived. Snddenly the entire edific falls, cairying away all the fruits of our toil, all our long devotion and sacrifices, and our hearts and tour lives have no longer a resource to cling to. Genius itself las sometimes proved a fatal gift ; not alone to Columbus, who purchased glory by misfortuue, but to a legion of others, who havo perished in their labours, unknown, insulted, and triumpled under foot, and sometimes even deprived of the consolation of knowing thout own strength What resource have we against so many evil; ? {{lory P Let us not adopt this mist; hen lattery. olory follows success, and is nothing more than a time-serving courtier. It belongs to the Alex. anders and U'; sars, those crowned executioners. who would have been consigned to the gibbot l ; the police" w.f ail nations if they had exercisell their talents on the highway. With a few more battalions, Cartouche would have been a worthw associate. The empty bulble of glory is not worth feeding on by anticipation. The pleasure of being inscribed afier death in the records of memorable deeds, and of furnishing a subject for oratorical display, is a poor impensition for the mortifications and iniquities of an entire life There is but one true power, the sentiment of virtue; but where is the soul to whi.", it suffices r Such on exception is to lo met with, for the true exaltation of humanity, from age to age : but lot us not attempt. to Ineasure nem by the standard of herot's What then are we to do? To what are we to attach ourselves? To whorn are we to have recourst. when the world has failed us ; who are we to address our sighs upon the brink of the grave? In whom are we to trust when our love is repulbed, our virtue calumniated, and our honour tarnished? Towards whom are we to lift our cries against the pitile-s disilain, agaiust the closed hearts whichroject the offered sacrified? Something within inspires us to raise our eyes to leaven. and to call God to our aid. This is why so many men unacquainted with science listen eagerly to those who speak to them of the futuro. It is that they may adore and supplicate, that such a multitude of souls disinherited in this world, dream of the invisible universe, even when the lights of pliilosophy are denied to thout. If our nature is made to suffer, it is also made to pour out our suffershgs to God, and to find in that camplaint a solage and an encouragognent. Prayer softens, or rather destroys sulitude from the moment when the world abandous and lie- us, we find ourselves once more in presence of the only friend whenever deceives, of him whese name is Justice, forayer is not only a resouree under calamity, but a preservative against crime. . A man yields himself up to the influence of passion : instead of roombering the lessons he has acquired in youth, } dreams"of nothing, but pleasure and interest. the violence of the sénsations, he has stirred up. . in hjolf. rodule ಉಣ್ಣಿ ೩tnulಃ 蠶 tiggystyi etterಿಕ್ಷಿ the storeshirees. •f intelligence. 45 the o --
o * * Ω" o r նմա Wፉ . W 蠶 *f; ". . . * 受* Scm . ف، به "هٔ legatiotes. ՖՀ հ them, he dreams only of the means by which they can be revived, to be again ‘glutted with enjoyitent. In this utter subordination of his eutirc being to pleasure, and the search after pleasure, he loses his perception of what is beautiful and just his will, incessantly drawn in one direction, loses its active powers and becomes incapable of esistance. His reasoning faculty, badly cutivated, supplied through deteriorated organs, full of disgruceful sophisms, weakened, and misled, can no longer distinguish or follow truth ; all that it retains of strength is employed in the indulgence of ignoble appetites, and polhaps, at last, sinks, even below the level of animal instinct. Thus fall from day to day this noble creature, made to reign over creation and over himself, when, instead of turning towards heaven, and commencing the life of the future upou earth, he takes the world for his all, attuches to this concenta“el “ war, und glories in the ol livion of everything else. What can draw hila back from these abysses in which he revolves? Perhaps a sign alone v.is wanting which might once more recall God to his thoughts, This sin."le ided would have assisted him to conquer himself. The name brings with it an accompanying train of all that is grand and noble. It sig. mising virtue and truth. It afforts a union of all the pleasures wl.ich tie soul desires, and comparcd with which the rest are ns, nothing. It is a light which exhibits the rottenness of the evil passions under its real aspect, slow ever debased a mind may be. there is somewhere within a collection of touching and revivifying reu, mbrances which the might , i aine of God once more awakens, Every.physicial of the soul know - what the cure is possible from the moment when tise patient can be induced to pray. Thus, whether as a couselation ur a remedy, prayer occupies un important place in human life. We shall tot miguire, with the pliilos, li her's fif the sev enteen: h century, whei.ier n nation ist atheisds would possibly exist; we shall content oursels us with saying, that the ruligious sentinent is the most powerful of all social ties. It lived not be argued that the family bond is more intluential, for filial pit is is but a foru of religion It is the thought of God which complet s the sanctification of the domestie hearth, that hallowed centre of very two, der and social aftretion. 'l'ake that tlietựht entirely away from any associated people, a.nl they are nu longer united as a nation except by interest and fear, The civil law, in their estimation, is nothing but a social. contract. by which they give on the colldition of r voiving. Hul, if they give always, and receive nothing in return, they become dupes with their eyes open. That which is pompously denominated the entiment of frateri:ity, or the religion of patriotism, ceases to have any signi fication, Citizens are rri eły associates, but not brothern, Never will devotion or self-sacrifice find a place in a state so constructed ; never will this compact, founded on such a basis, be regarded as indissoluble by any one who sustains injury from it. If we wish to create one consolidated family, அin moral unity, tradition, and honour; all she "mogitors of which are to consider themselves" hodiid by mutual responsibility ; whose lows are understood and respected, evanxhan thủy pinishiit is initiopensable that the mxme:af.gountry anguld call:ur::religious ideas, ...srýðisgen skiiild believe hiiðsélr hoynd tá hiolatio, divine dispensation; that the trähästiškion of "atmostał code from father to som
