From childhood up to age has this truth been perfecting and strengthening in me, and I have no more doubt that it is a truth, than I have of my own existence.

Who can look upon a child without admiring it, without loving it?
With my feelings it is impossible! When I compare the Revealed Will of God,--the Scriptures, with His other Great Book, the book of nature, which I read so early in life, and read with delight to this present hour, I see the one illustrates the other.

I see that the _best_ ground produces the _rankest weeds_--but not if cultivated.

What does not care do for all things in nature, why not then for man?
Let him run wild through neglect, and undoubtedly he produces weeds; but this, to my mind, is an argument in his favour, and shews the ground is capable of producing rich fruits.

When we study the true nature of his mind, with the same assiduity as we now do study the nature of his body, then will mankind see it in this light, begin at the right end, and cultivate from the first the beautiful faculties of his own species.