selves to all inclemencies in pursuits of commerce, cmiositj,
or ad venture. Perhaps a quiet domestic applauds his wisdom,
and when his self-complacency requires vouchers of a higher
order, he calls to mind that philosophers and saints, and even
monarchs and conquerors, when experience had made thea
wise, have all joined to condemn and despise the vain tumuli
of the world ; and he is perhaps not a little flattered by the
idea that pure good sense has led him to a conviction and
a choice to which many of them were not brought even by
all their vexations and disappointments till a later period of
life.
In this state of quietude the whole mechanism of the
mind will be regulated down to a slowness of movement
unknown and inconceivable to a man in an active career.
