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    because it had lost a battle , and being interrupted in the atrocity 3 was so violently enraged that * he fell down dead upon the spot , ' in capital letters . The implication is , that Providence put him to death as a punishment for his cruelty . The story has often been told to produce that impression . The assumption is

    unprovable . The man burst a blood-vessel in consequence of strong vicious emotion . The blood-vessel would have burst as soon from virtuous emotion equally strong . This mode of frightening people out of vice leads to a dilemma from which there is no escape , and either alternative of which is bad . Either the imposition is found out , and the discovery of the trick enfeebles all moral restraint ; or it is not detected ,, and then a false

    standard of morals is set up , or a false estimate of character , calamity being taken as evidence of guilt , as in the days of Job * s friends * A man takes a boat on Sunday , his foot 3 lips , and he is drowned . The shout is instantly raised , ' Behold a judgment on Sabbath breaking ! ' The other day , as a devout

    man was boarding one of the floating chapels in the river , to preach to the sailors , his foot slipped , and he was drowned . Is this a judgment on preaching to watermen ? This sword cuts both ways . It is a dangerous tool to be used in education . Such events have their moral , but this is not it .

    Mr . Clark generally philosophizes much more soundly than in these instances . In March there is a good paragraph on independence ; in April , a somewhat questionable one on the happiness of boyhood as compared with maturity ; May is full

    of beauty and wisdom , with the exception of old Stock ' s being unkind to young Stock , because young Stock had been unkind to his brother . June opens with a mistake about the effect of early rising upon the memory . It is the repetition over night lhat does the work . There is also another judgment story ,

    though not so bad as the former . All this vanishes , however , before the beautiful morality of the may-fly . 4 As they were walking home , well-pleased with what they had seen , they ran about collecting all the curiosities they could find , both animal and vegetable . They gathered wild roses and woodbine in abundance , and every now and then the sweetly delicate smell of a spacious beanfield , came to them upon the soft Biimmer wind , and added to their happiness . They also found several sorts of the green beetle , and examined them ; and they caught one of that very large and rare kind which is called the stag-beetle , to the great horror of all the young party ;

    for one or two nips which he gave those whose fingers came within reach of his great pincers , astonished them . They also caught one of those poor little creatures , called the May-fly , which they were informed by their father is born at sunrise , and dies at its setting . Adam said it was not worth being born , to have such a short life as that . " Do not ttuppose , Adam , " said hi& father , " that real enjoyment of life consists in living a long while . That man and that animal lives the longest , that passes through the greatest variety of scenes , and who is capable

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    150 Adam the Garden *? .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1834, page 150, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2630/page/66/