They condescend, and they adopt: they know the time of their repose; and the qualities which are worthy of being admitted into their service--of being their inmates, their companions, or their substitutes.

I shall strive to shew that these principles and movements of wisdom--so far from towering above the support of prudence, or rejecting the rules of experience, for the better conduct of those multifarious actions which are alike necessary to the attainment of ends good or bad--do instinctively prompt the sole prudence which cannot fail.

The higher mode of being does not exclude, but necessarily includes, the lower; the intellectual does not exclude, but necessarily includes, the sentient; the sentient, the animal; and the animal, the vital--to its lowest degrees.

Wisdom is the hidden root which thrusts forth the stalk of prudence; and these uniting feed and uphold 'the bright consummate flower'-- National Happiness--the end, the conspicuous crown, and ornament of the whole.
I have announced the feelings of those who hope: yet one word more to those who despond.

And first; _he_ stands upon a hideous precipice (and it will be the same with all who may succeed to him and his iron sceptre)--he who has outlawed himself from society by proclaiming, with act and deed, that he acknowledges no mastery but power.