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    The universal philosophy is the good ship chartered to carry forward the whole human & 4 * & ^~ it * stifen fill its sails , and speed its way ! But , from the captain to the cabin-boy , individual zeal BW ^^ Hl ^^^ W ?! ^ ge ?«^ : W 1 4 > H ^ fid ,. » ¥ E-- -M * T 8 JWP 9 A& * | WW ^ Y-r-. u ? JiVEiiiSAL , love , —these ^ jre the * fountains iwhieh ^ a ^^ ation must feed ;^ -either left to play alone make humanity vicious or visionary ; both acting together vr ill make it all th ' & $ huxtoamity can attain to ; what that may yet be is a » much be ^ & x $ fcofc 6 e ' ptk > n as is the cause which set this progressive particle—humanity—in action ! When the first canoe was scooped , whaUthou ^ ht its maker of an English man ^ of-war or a steam - boat ? When the first arrow was launched , what dreamed the archer of steam-guns or infernal machines ?

    But amid the brightest hopes , the grandest views * let us remember that outf * tarting-post is self-improvement , and the first stages of action are home and country . It has been observed that the sun never sets on the standard of England ; before his evening rays have left the shores df Ireland , his morning beams have gilded the spires 6 f Quebec : it B light on the blue hilts of Australia before darkness lias clpsed op Lake Ontario ; and tli $ rev ^ illeo has sounded at Csilcuijti befpre the retreat has beaten ! at Sidney . ' Would that , in like manner , moral light might everywhere attend the presence of the Jjngjwh ! I do not the less desire that they should give the ftw foaflfc hand of fraternity to all , that I desire that it should be the unexceptionable hand of high personal and national character .

    What I ^ wofcild particularly enforce is , that so finite a creature as the human being must have definite aims , and decided Actions : —the eye , according to its powers of vision , may survey a wide field , but the hand <; an only serve a small portion of that fieldand surveyance without service is theory without practice . . I would willingly work for the world , but the limits of my powers and my position confine me to my country , and to ; a very

    small portion of that ; put by an ardent devotion to this small circle I conceiy ^ ^ bat I mor e profitably employ the / talent' that has been intruj ^ t ^ l U > r # e , than if , allured by the ambition of universal utility , X , 4 o&k a wider range . Gifted with commensurate power , g ladly wotold I lead the vanguard of the universe ; endowed but as 1 am , I put mv hajfid to the plough in England . Since writing the above 1 have read Professor Hamilt 6 ii ' s

    eloquent address to ih ^ Bmi ^ S Association , recently met in" Dublin , and which Association h ^ ffrtfelv ' stales' t ! he Parliament of Science . His remarks ort ^ ttd ^ W ali ^ ^ hi ^ allusion to the standard of England , are coinciie ^ c ^ gi p f . ^ r ^ x ^^^ i ^ H ^^^< ^^ tti ^ 1 ?^^ ^^^ oniatlly and on principle ; but CjQj ^ Byj W ^^ ufe $ m ^^ feti ^ W ^ 88 for the able and am ^ pie ^^ gW ^^ W ^ ^* Pl ( !^^( 9 ^«^ 9 EP ^ ation , which I , iB&hjtyttpgfifaM 9 m

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    604 Self-Dependence .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1835, page 604, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2649/page/40/