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We are not what we have been; and to deem
We are not what we should be; and to steel
The heart against itself; and to conceal,
With a proud caution, love, or hate, or aught-
Passion or feeling-purpose, grief, or zeal;
Which is the tyrant spirit of our thought,
Is a stern task of soul-no matter-it is taught.
BYRON.

How many of the genuine feelings of human nature have been repressed and spoiled by the coldness of those outward forms which constitute so great a proportion of our education!

We enter into the world with buoyant feelings, fresh and "thick-coming fancies," enthusiastic anticipation-with hearts and hands open to the impression and impulses of love, friendship, and generosity, and with a multitude of senses and passions, all promising pleasure in their pursuit and their gratification.

We feel the genuine tears of sympathy spring into our eyes at a tale of distress; and while

The world to our unpractised hearts

A flattering prospect shows ;

Our fancy forms a thousand schemes
Of gay delights and golden dreams,
And undisturb'd repose:

we find our young pulses bounding with delight at the sight of beauty, and experience a thousand sensations which impel us to an intimate intercourse of hearts with our fellow-crea tures; and the first thing we are taught in life, is to unlearn