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Show 44 rirrhts, shonld be comprehended and made our e~d. Statesmen ~ork in the dark, until the idea of Ri•dlt towers above expediency or wealth. Wo to tha~ people which would found its prosperity in wrong! Jt is time that the 1ow maxims of policy, which have rnled for ages, shoulrl fall. It is time that Pnblic Interest should no longer hallow injustice, and fonif)' go\·ernment in making the weak their prey. In this discussion, I have used the phrase, Public or General Good, in its common aeceptation, as signif)·ing the safety and prosperity of a state. Why can it not be used in a larger sense? Why can it not be made to comprehend inward and moral, as well as outward good ? And why cannot the fonner be understuorl to be incomparably the most inq>ortant element of the public weal? Then, indeerl, I should assent to the proposition, that the General Good is tl1e supreme law. So construed, it would support the great truths whie!J 1 have maintained. It would condemn the itlfliction of wrong on tile humulest individual, as a national calamity. It would plead \\"ith us to extend to e1·ery individual the tneans of improving his chan.Jcter and lot. If the remarks under this head be jnsl, it will follow that the good of the Individual is more important than the outward prosperity of the State. The former is not vague and unsettled, like the latter, and it belongs to a higher order of interests. 45 It consists of the free exertion and expansion of the individual's powers, especially of his higher faculties; in the energy of his intellect, conscience, and good afFections; in sound jurlgment; in the acquisition of truth; in laboring honestly for hi1~self and his family; in loving his Creator, and suhjectini" T \1is own will to the Divine; in Iovin _~ his fellowcr~ atures, and making cheerful sacrifices to their happiness; in friendship; in sensibility to the beautiful, whether in nature or art; in loplty to his principles; in moral courage; in self-respe~t; in understanding and asserting bis rights; nnd 111 the Christian hope of immortality. Such is the good of the Individual; a more sacred, exalted, enduring interest, than any accessions of \Vealth or power to the State. Let it not be sacrificed to these. He should find, in hi3 connexions with the community, aids to the accomplishment of these pmposes of his bein~:, and not ue chained and subdued by it to the inferior interests of any fellow-creature. In all a"es the Individual has in one form or another be:n trodden iu the dust. In monarchies and aristocracies he has been sacrificed to One or to the Few; who, regarding government as an heirloom in their families, and thinking of the people as made only to live and die for their glory, have not dreamed that the sovereign power was designed to shield every man, without exception, from wrong. In the ancient Republics, the Glory of the |