commanded every sea, and even their own harbours. In case of success,--the chance of anarchy and the unknown casualties attending a new organization of society; in case of failure,-exile, confiscation, the scaffold, the fate of some; to bear the opprobrious names of rebel and traitor, and to transmit them to a disgraced posterity, the fate of all.

What appeals to selfishness! what to cupidity! what to love of ease, to fear, and to pusillanimity! But our fathers took counsel of a different spirit-of the pure, ethereal spirit which glowed and burned in their own bosoms. In spite of the greatness of the temptation and the certainty of the hazard, they resisted; and the front ranks of opposition were filled, not by a needy, promiscuous, unknown, and irresponsible crowd, but by the heart, and mind, and strength, of the colony; by the calm and calculating merchant; by the cautious capitalist; by the sedate and pious divine; by the farlooking, deep read lawyer; by the laborious and intelligent mechanick. We have no need to repeat names. The entire soul, and sense, and sinew, of society were in action.

The spirit of our revolution is not to be sought in this, or that, individual; nor in this, or that, order of men. It was the mighty energy of the whole mass. It was the momentous heaving of the troubled ocean, roused, indeed, by the coming tempest, but propelled onward by the lashing of its own waters, and by the awful, irresistible impulse of deep seated passion and power.

In this movement, those, who were foremost, were not always those of most influence; nor were the exciting causes always the most obtrusive to the eye. All were pressed forward by the spirit, inherent in the community,--by the force of publick opinion and sense of duty, which never fell behind, but was often in advance of those, who were called leaders.

The event has shown that our fathers judged rightly in this movement; that their conception was just concerning their means and their duties; that they were equal to the crisis, in which Providence had placed them; that, daring to be free, their power was equal to their daring. They vindicated liberty for themselves. They transmitted it to us, their posterity. There is no truer glory, no higher fame, known, or to be acquired among men.

How different would have been our lot, at this day, both as men and citizens, had the revolution failed of success, or had the great principle of liberty, on which it turned, been yielded! Instead of a people, free, enlightened, rejoicing in their

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strength, possessing a just consciousness of being the authors and arbiters of their own and their country's destinies, we should have been a multitude, without pride of independence, without sense of state or national sovereignty; looking across the ocean for our rulers; watching the Atlantick sky, as the cloud of court locusts, tempted by our greenness, came, 'warping on the eastern wind;" waiting on the strand to catch the first glimpse of our descending master; some transatlantick chieftain; some royal favourite; some court sycophant; sent to govern a country, without knowing its interests; without sympathy in its prospects; resting, in another hemisphere, the hopes of his fame and fortune. Our judges coming from afar. Our merchants denied all commerce, except with the parent state. Our clergy sent us, like our clothes, ready made; and cut in the newest court fashion. None but conformists allowed to vote. None but churchmen eligible. Our civil rights subject to crown officers. Our religious, to a foreign hierarchy, cold, selfish, vindictive, distant, solicitous about glebes and tithes, but reckless, among us, of the spread of the light of learning, or the influence of the Gospel.

LESSON CI.

Extract from an Eulogy on the late Professor Fisher of Yale College.-KINGSLEY.

How frail are our hopes!-how limited our views!-how imperfect our apprehensions of the ways of Omnipotence, and how vainly do we prescribe to infinite wisdom and goodness, the rules of his government! We confidently trusted, that fruit so fair, would be preserved to maturity,--that a morning so clear and serene, would be followed by a day of unclouded brightness; but the fruit is nipt and blasted,— the day, long before it reached its meridian splendour, is shrouded in darkness, and our fond expectations have perished forever. We are now apprized of the melancholy event, that the Albion was dismasted in a gale on the coast of Ireland, and driven upon the rocks; where, with a single exception, all the passengers, and among them, Professor Fisher, were lost in the waves.

If the bare recital of this fact fills us with deep distress, if we shrink from approaching the final scene, and check our imaginations, which would paint in too vivid colours, the last sufferings of our departed friend; what must have been the horrour, the agony, which rent his bosom, in actual view of a death so sudden, so unexpected, so awful! But here let us not indulge too far, our gloomy surmises. Others may have been distracted with fear, and wild with apprehension; but he, no doubt, was calm and collected. Others, frantick with grief, and mad, with alarm and terrour, amidst the rage of contending elements, may have abandoned themselves to despair;--but he, no doubt, was undismayed, and knew where to place his confidence.

We may, indeed, suppose that the thought of his parents and his home, the friends he had left behind, and the institution so much the object of his affection,--the idea of the sudden extinction of his earthly prospects, and the loss of whatever his heart held dear, now rushed upon his recollection, and filled him with unutterable anguish,--yet those who best knew him will most easily believe, that the last feeling of his heart, as the billows closed around him, that the last aspiration as he sunk into the opening gulph was,--“ Father, not my will, but thine, be done.”

LESSON CII.

Physical Education.--HUMPHREY.

Ir what I choose to call the physical part of education, has not been wholly overlooked, (as it certainly has not,) in. the most popular systems, still, it may well be questioned, whether it has yet received that degree of attention, which its immense importance demands.

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Such, in our present condition, is the mysterious connexion between body and mind, that the one cannot act, except on a very limited scale, without the assistance of the other. The immortal agent must have an earthly house" to dwell in; and it is essential to vigorous and healthful mental operations, that this house should be well built, and that it should be kept in good repair. Now, it is the province of physical education, to erect the building, and in carrying it up, to have special reference to its firmness and durability; so that

the unseen tenant, who is sent down to occupy it, may enjoy every convenience, and be enabled to work to the very best advantage.

That is undoubtedly the wisest and best regimen, which takes the infant from the cradle, and conducts him along through childhood and youth, up to high maturity, in such a manner, as to give strength to his arm, swiftness to his feet, solidity and amplitude to his muscles, symmetry to his frame, and expansion to all his vital energies. It is obvious, that this branch of education, comprehends not only food and clothing; but air, exercise, lodging, early rising, and whatever else is requisite to the full development of the physical constitution.

If, then, you would see the son of your prayers and hopes, blooming with health, and rejoicing daily in the full and sparkling tide of youthful buoyancy; if you wish him to be strong and athletick and careless of fatigue; if you would fit him for hard labour and safe exposure to winter and summer; or if you would prepare him to sit down twelve hours in a day with Euclid, Enfield and Newton, and still preserve his health, you must lay the foundation accordingly. You must begin with him early, must teach him self-denial, and gradually subject him to such hardships, as will help to consolidate his frame and give increasing energy to all his physical powers. His diet must be simple, his apparel must not be too warm, nor his bed too soft. As good soil is commonly so much cheaper and better for children than medicine, beware of too much restriction in the management of your darling boy. Let him, in choosing his play, follow the suggestions of nature.

Be not discomposed at the sight of his sand-hills in the road, his snows-forts in February, and his mud-dams in April; nor when you chance to look out in the midst of an August shower, and see him wading and sailing and sporting along with the water-fowl. If you would make him hardy and fearless, let him go abroad as often as he pleases, in his early boyhood, and amuse himself by the hour together, in smoothing and twirling the hoary locks of winter. Instead of keeping him shut up all day with a stove, and graduating his sleeping room by Fahrenheit, let him face the keen edge of the north wind, when the mercury is below cypher, and instead of minding a little shivering and complaining when he returns, cheer up his spirits and send him out again. In this way, you will teach him that he was not born to live in

the nursery, nor to brood over the kitchen fire; but to range abroad as free as the snow and the air, and to gain warmth from exercise. I love and admire the youth, who turns not back from the howling wintry blast, nor withers under the blaze of summer : who never magnifies "mole-hills into mountains," but whose daring eye, exulting, scales the eagle's airy crag, and who is ready to undertake any thing, that is prudent and lawful, within the range of possibility.

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Who would think of planting the mountain oak in a greenhouse, or of rearing the cedar of Lebanon in a lady's flower pot ? Who does not know that in order to attain their mighty strength and majestick forms, they must freely enjoy the rain and the sunshine, and must feel the rocking of the tempest? Who would think of raising up a band of Indian warriours, upon cakes and jellies and beds of down, and amid all the luxuries and ease of wealth and carefulness? attempt would be highly preposterous, not to say utterly ridiculous. Very different is the course, which nature points out. It is the plain and scanty fare of these sons of the forest, their hard and cold lodging, their long marches and fastings, and their constant exposure to all the hardships of the wilderness, which give them such Herculean limbs and stature; such prodigious might in the deadly fray, and such swiftness of foot in pursuing the vanquished.

I am far, however, from saying, that such training, would ensure to every child the arm of Achilles, or the courage of Logan, or the constitution and daring of Martin Luther. Some would doubtless sink under a vigorous early discipline; but not near so many, as is generally supposed. The truth is, there is a mistaken tenderness, which daily interferes with the health-giving economy of heaven. Too many parents, instead of building upon the foundation, which God has laid, first subvert that foundation by misplaced indulgencies, and then vainly attempt to build among the ruins. They cross and perplex nature so much, in her efforts to make their children strong and healthy, that she at length refuses to do any thing, and the doating parents are left to patch up the shattered and puny constitution as well as they can, with tonicks and essences.

In this way, not a few young men of good talents, are rendered physically incapable of pursuing their studies to any advantage. They can never bear the fatigue of close and long continued application. The mind would gladly work, but the earthly tabernacle is so extremely frail, that