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Youth , in contending with its feelings , in submitting them to the influence of circumstances , has a difficult part to perform . The passions are subtle casuists , move ready to elude reflection than to conform to its dictates . Many who have taken upon themselves to legislate for human nature , and have appeared to think prudence so easy of production , have not entered on their
moral office till they have become passionless ; some of them were probably never otherwise . Infinite would be the advantage to the world if the plan of keeping moral diaries or journals was adopted ; then the sexagenarian might turn back to the record of his feelings , when he , like a son or a dependent , was but eighteen or twenty years of age : by such a review and comparison , he might be led to judge more justly , more kindly , of the young
race around him . But legislators of all sorts are ever without sympathy for those they govern ; the old make laws for the young ; the rich for the poor ; the men for the women : thus laws are not adapted to the necessities , or congenial to the nature of those obliged to obey them , but of those who dispense them ; hence law is continually only another name for tyranny ; it is the legalized will of the powerful brought into operation on the
powerless , who , by resistance , ( which as naturally arises from oppression as heat from friction , ) create an under current running against control ; from this conflict have sprung all the moral diseases which doctors , divines , and lawyers , with their poisons , prisons , and mad-houses have been called to remedy . All these professions have now been in active practice for some thousands of years , with little other result than that of maintaining their own orders at the expense of all the other orders of society .
Rapid and bright as had been the progress of Cyril ' s love , the sunshine was destined to be broken b y a cloud as dense as any that can visit human fate . Mrs . Pembroke died suddenly , leaving her child to utter orphanage , and absolute destitution . The unresisting Caroline sank beneath the blow ; but she was lifted , like a blighted lily , from her mother ' s bier to a husband ' s
bosom . Passion and pity prevailed over every suggestion of prudence ; and though Cyril had little to give beyond his tenderness and tears , those were consecrated to Caroline . The strong necessity which impelled Cyril to act , gave him a power of management which he had never before evinced . Hitherto the common and current wants of life had touched him
as little as most men ; but now he showed that a mind of hi g h powers can act to advantage in any case , provided the motive for action be sufficiently strong . Caroline was made the mistress of a home , simple enough it is true , but such as a small exertion of skill might have invested with comfort and even grace , and of which mind might have made a temple ! St . Pierre says that a fire is the brightest jewel in the poor man ' s cottage ; there is a brighter than that—the
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148 Sketches of Domestic Life .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 148, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/4/
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