but one link in the chain of that great and
stupendous reformation that is fust com
ing over the world. The social condition
of man needs a radical and thorough
liatigc ; if honesty, justice, truth, good
will conduce lo Lie end (happiness.)
Now, as society exists even in our own
dear country, we are all of us more or les.i
subj.'ci to beer ne tho children of misery,
woe and want! 1 lie constitution of so
ciety is rotten, it is based upon wealth
and its demoralizing influences! .The
noblest feelings of man are corrupted,
subdued and brought under tlie dominion
of money ! The noblest faculty of linn
that faculty which elevates him above
the brute creation that faculty which is
his sheet anchorofienlinius when the over
whelming storms of misfortune assail him
has become contaminated with the venom
of avaricinusncss, and dies in convulsions
at the footstool of oppression!
How plastic and pliable, in yonihftil-
ncss how stubborn and ungovernable, in
, is that wonderful substance called the
brain; the impressions that are made
upon it e re it has arrived at maturity,
generalo into habits be they virtuous or
vicious and dame nature has often to bear
tha blame of a vitiated education. The
images of early thought, are difficult to bo
erased from the tablets of, memory ;
deep-rooted prejudices arc invincible, no
matter how inconsistent they be with tho
dictates of an enlightened judgment. 