A number of sciences have sprung up in an almost tropical exuberance which undoubtedly excites our admiration, and the garden, not unnaturally, has come to resemble a jungle. Those which ascertain the actions required by friendship, humanity, hospitality, generosity, are…

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Alas! Indeed, there appears in the standard treatise on the science of language which he has published, almost the same vagueness as to the nature of incorporation which I have pointed out in the purpose of plant pigment and photosynthesis…

Suppose public spirit to become the general principle of action in the community—how would it shew itself? To him it has all the graces of novelty; we enter into the surprise and admiration which it naturally excites in him, but…

Do not you know that by doing so, as the foot ceases to be a foot, so you cease to be man?’ A wise man never complains of the destiny of Providence, nor thinks the universe in confusion when he…

Nothing, indeed, seems to promote sympathy more than the practice of laughing together. This, if so, was either because he himself was conscious of having failed in it; or because others thought he had. Now the most frequented spot in…

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