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Collectanea.
Christendom from Papal oppression . Watt , and Arkwri ght , and Brindley , and Bell , have made water and iron the connecting links of nations , and have armed mechanism with super-human strength , and almost human skill . By the triple power of perseverance , wisdom , and eloquence , Clarkson , and Wilberforce , ancl Fox , have wrenched from the slave his manacles and fetters ; ancl we look forward with earnest anticipation to the advent and array of other sages who shall unshackle
conscience and reason—unlock the world ' s granaries for her starving children—carry the torchlight of education and knowledge into the dens of ignorance and vice—and with the amulet of civil and religious liberty , emancipate immortal man from the iron-grasp of superstition and misrule . "—North British Review .
" Mankind might do without physicians if they would observe the laws of health ; without lawyers if they would keep their tempers ; without soldiers if they would observe the laws of Christianity . " " The magnetic power of a compass needle will be entirel y destroyed or changed by being touched with the juice of an onion . This fact may seem trifling , but we regard it as one of the first importance ; and , investigated , it may lead to consequences as astonishing as those of the magnet . "—Magazine of Science .
" Firmness without mildness is harsh and forbidding ; mildness without firmness becomes weak and contemptible ; both united make a character respectable ancl amiable . " " The first and most important female quality is sweetness of temper . Heaven did not give to the female sex insinuation and persuasion , in order to be surly ; it did not make them weak in order to be imperious ; it did not give them a sweet voice in order to be employed in scolding ; nor did it provide them with delicate features , in order to be disfigured with anger . "
Sheridan said beautifully— " Women govern us ; let us try to render them perfect ; the more they are enlightened , so much more shall we be . On the cultivation of the minds of women depends the wisdom of man . It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men . " EDUCATION . — " In whatever light we view education , it cannot fail to appear the most important subject that can engage the attention of mankind . When ive contrast the ignorance , the rudeness ; and the helplesswith the knowled
ness of the savage , ge , the refinement , and the resources of civilized man , the difference between'them " appears so wide that they can hardly be regarded as one of the same species . Yet compare the infant of the savage with that of the most enlightened philosopher , and you will find them in all respects the ' same . The same high , capacious powers of mind lie folded up hi both ; the organs of sensation adapted to their mental powers , are exactly similar ; All the difference which is afterwards to distinguish them , depends upon their education . "
RELIGION . — " Religion is exalted reason , refined from the grossest parts of it : it is both the foundation and crown of all virtues ; it is morality improved and raised to its height by being carried nearer to Heaven , the only place where perfection resides . "
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Collectanea.
Christendom from Papal oppression . Watt , and Arkwri ght , and Brindley , and Bell , have made water and iron the connecting links of nations , and have armed mechanism with super-human strength , and almost human skill . By the triple power of perseverance , wisdom , and eloquence , Clarkson , and Wilberforce , ancl Fox , have wrenched from the slave his manacles and fetters ; ancl we look forward with earnest anticipation to the advent and array of other sages who shall unshackle
conscience and reason—unlock the world ' s granaries for her starving children—carry the torchlight of education and knowledge into the dens of ignorance and vice—and with the amulet of civil and religious liberty , emancipate immortal man from the iron-grasp of superstition and misrule . "—North British Review .
" Mankind might do without physicians if they would observe the laws of health ; without lawyers if they would keep their tempers ; without soldiers if they would observe the laws of Christianity . " " The magnetic power of a compass needle will be entirel y destroyed or changed by being touched with the juice of an onion . This fact may seem trifling , but we regard it as one of the first importance ; and , investigated , it may lead to consequences as astonishing as those of the magnet . "—Magazine of Science .
" Firmness without mildness is harsh and forbidding ; mildness without firmness becomes weak and contemptible ; both united make a character respectable ancl amiable . " " The first and most important female quality is sweetness of temper . Heaven did not give to the female sex insinuation and persuasion , in order to be surly ; it did not make them weak in order to be imperious ; it did not give them a sweet voice in order to be employed in scolding ; nor did it provide them with delicate features , in order to be disfigured with anger . "
Sheridan said beautifully— " Women govern us ; let us try to render them perfect ; the more they are enlightened , so much more shall we be . On the cultivation of the minds of women depends the wisdom of man . It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men . " EDUCATION . — " In whatever light we view education , it cannot fail to appear the most important subject that can engage the attention of mankind . When ive contrast the ignorance , the rudeness ; and the helplesswith the knowled
ness of the savage , ge , the refinement , and the resources of civilized man , the difference between'them " appears so wide that they can hardly be regarded as one of the same species . Yet compare the infant of the savage with that of the most enlightened philosopher , and you will find them in all respects the ' same . The same high , capacious powers of mind lie folded up hi both ; the organs of sensation adapted to their mental powers , are exactly similar ; All the difference which is afterwards to distinguish them , depends upon their education . "
RELIGION . — " Religion is exalted reason , refined from the grossest parts of it : it is both the foundation and crown of all virtues ; it is morality improved and raised to its height by being carried nearer to Heaven , the only place where perfection resides . "