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Show 1. Nature isa discipline of the understanding in intellectual truths. Our dealing wit sensibl is a constan object i exercis the necessary lessons of difference, of likeness of order of bein an o seeming; progressive arrangement; of ascent fro particular to general; of combination t one end of manifold forces. Proportioned t the importance of the organ to be formed is the extreme care with which its tuition i provided,-a care pretermitted inno singl case. What tedious training, day after day year after year, never ending, to form th common sense; what continual reproduction of annoyances, inconveniences, di lemmas; what rejoicing over us of littl men; what disputing of prices, what reck oning o interest,-an all t th for Hand of the mind;-to instruct us tha «good thoughts are no better than goo dreams, unless they be executed! Th sam goo offic i performe b Property and its filial systems of debt an credit » Debt, grinding debt, whose iro face the widow, the orphan, and the son of genius fear and hate;-debt, which con sumes so much time, which so cripple and disheartens a great spirit with care 4 |