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Wbore ' er the path q * life may lead me , Ae thing sure—I ^ wmna mane If I meet wi' hands an' hearts Like those o' cantie Ochtergaen . Chortis . —Happy , happy be their dwallin's * By the born and in the glen ; Cheerie lasses , cantie callan ' s ,
Are they a * in Ochtergaen . ' If our readers have enjoyed these , they may find plenty more in the volume as good or better ; and some which we could hardly abstain from quoting . And , when they have been moved to
laughter , or touched even to tears , or elevated and animated by some stirring strain , or calmed by solemn thought , they may shut the book and depart , as we must , to their proper , and we trust honourable and usefiil , avocations , with this good moral ringing in their ears : * But true hearts a —gae work awa , We'll make the warld better , yet /
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To legislate for the human race is one of the highest offices on which the human mind can enter , and , at the same time , the most difficult . So far are legislators from being born , that the study of a long life , acting upon a suitable organization , scarcely makes an individual , in any great degree , eligible to the duties of government .
The man who would govern others must know how to govern himself . He must not be possessed with the tame equanimity of the passionless , he must be imbued with the tempered fire of the impassioned . He must have feelings and passions in common with his kind , or he will not sympathize with them—he will not
understand them ; his theories will be partial and his practice absurd . Like the crane in the fable , he will put his provision for human happiness into narrow-necked bottles , forg ettin g that , though the long and narrow beak can avail itself of such a medicine , to the broad-muzzled animal , nothing short of breaking the form can admit him to the food which the form encloses . A
parallel is thus presented to the laws and institutions of such as are , b y peculiarity of training , distinct from their fellow creatures , and who yet regard themselves as the standard of the species . But , while the legislator has the feelings and passions which are so common , he must have that command of them which is so uncommon . His nature must be , like the Arabian steed , full of force and fire , as really to endure as to dare ; but he must bestride that nature , as the Arab does his horse , with pride and lovepride , which deprecates defalcation from the high course he has
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UNIVERSAL CO-OPERATION ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 770, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/14/
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